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TEd,
Sounds like the theme for a new novel by your own good self.
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Look at 3043 and the six words following it! I'm having a hard time accepting this as more or less random!
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Sites that require Flash *normally tell you they need Flash.
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Yeah, but I don't see any relevance. There's a tacit statement that the words are just in the order of use.
I guess a seven letter sentence that sort of makes sense is probably just an anomaly, but......
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well, I guess I was thinking about this paragraph: Observing closely ranked words tells us a great deal about our culture. For instance, �God� is one word from �began�, two words from �start�, and six words from �war�. Another sequence is "america ensure oil opportunity". Conspiracists unite! As ever, the more one explores, the more is revealed.
perhaps words that go together, stay together... 
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...*normally...
Finally, someone actually® uses an asterisk as it's *supposed.
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Finally, someone actually� uses an asterisk as it's *supposed.
I've never quite figured out what this board's unique usage of the asterisk is. I've seen it used in olden times gone by as a marker of footnotes; in linguistics it first marked hypothetical reconstructions and second ungrammatical sentences; after finding onlinehood asterisks delimited some sort of emphasis. But now here I see a single asterisk, prepended to a word, and I gotta wonder. Is there a locus classicus for this usage?
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It's either tsuwm's or musick's way of italicizing for emphasis, I believe. But let us await a pronouncement from the horse's mouth, as if it was. PS onlinehood 
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It's either tsuwm's or musick's way of italicizing for emphasis, I believe. But let us await a pronouncement from the horse's mouth, as if it was.
Thanks, AnnaStrophic, I remember underlines for _italics_ and asterisks for *bold*, but I guess things are different hereabouts.
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