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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 4 1 2 3 4 Re: prior lipograms? #149004 10/18/05 12:56 AM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean Sounds familiar to me, too, but I, too, am lazy -The Hammock Queen Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: prior lipograms? #149005 10/18/05 01:04 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,893 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,893 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA Only thing I find so far is this http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=wordplay&Number=127749 with additional posts most probably archival Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: prior lipograms? #149006 10/18/05 02:11 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh One of the earliest lipogrammatical works I know of was written by Lucius Septimius Nestor. It was a retelling of the Iliad wherein the first book lacked an alpha, the second a beta, and so on through the alphabet. Unfortunately, it is lost, along with the tiny Iliad in a nutshell mentioned by Pliny. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: prior lipograms? #149007 10/18/05 04:49 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass here is the lipogrammatic thread which was executed(!) here. In looking for this I discovered that internal links from the old board no longer work. (d'oh!) I'd wager that this bug doesn't get fixed anytime soon.. edit - one of our irregulars wrote a *scathing review of Ella Minnow Pea (yCliu). although it is by no means heavyweight literature, it's not all that bad. lipogrammatically speaking. Last edited by tsuwm; 10/18/05 05:03 PM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: prior lipograms? #149008 10/19/05 02:17 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,893 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,893 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA That's it! You got it ! I was sartin it could be found. Yup, it ran in Spring 2001 and was "born again" in March 2004. Y'all all did a lot of good thinking -- such lipogram-rich days ! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: prior lipograms? #149009 10/20/05 11:31 AM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean Looks like we'll be testing the 98 posts to a thread on the new board. See if it does the same here as it did there. Or maybe someone will start a new thread? That was a fun thread. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: prior lipograms? #149010 10/20/05 07:12 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Quote: Looks like we'll be testing the 98 posts to a thread on the new board. See if it does the same here as it did there. Or maybe someone will start a new thread? That was a fun thread. I think the proof is in the pudding. there were two main reasons for the 98-post sanction; to wit: a) slow-loading for users with dial-up connections -- on the old board you had to wait for page 1 to load before you could get to page 2. does this still apply for some of you? b) the long-term factor; after some unknown period of time the boards aging process gave subsequent pages the wanderlust. that is, instead of the page 2 you wanted you would instead link into some other thread! maybe this has been OBE; maybe not. (I think I'll try to find one of those threads in the archives..) edit: come to think of it, that thread, which I linked to above and is now active again, should qualify--it dates back to 2001. re-edit: but then again, all of the page 2 posts are new... Last edited by tsuwm; 10/20/05 07:54 PM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: lipograms #149011 10/21/05 03:03 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Quote: welcome Ellen and Pat! I think it's supposed to be written "one hundred one"? like counting seconds. I think it's a transpond issue. One side favours including 'and' (one hundred and one etc.), the other side favors the version without 'and'. Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: lipograms #149012 10/21/05 11:36 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Oh, my! So many lipogram posts, so little hours! [ -e] Welcome, Ellen. What letter did the Russian translator leave out? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: lipograms #149013 10/21/05 12:50 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky I think it's a transpond issue. One side favours including 'and' (one hundred and one etc.), the other side favors the version without 'and'. Here, Bingley: let's say I write you a check for one hundred and one dollars; you wouldn't get the money. (Assuming, of course, that the bank employee who processes it is not asleep on the job.) 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