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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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