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This is my first, and likely my last, attempt at running a round (though I do seem to do a lot of circling, come to think of it). I am worried that it may be too well-known to qualify, so be warned now that the round may have to be cancelled. But, here goes: the term is
Gong farmer
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I'm not sure, but somehow the word rings a bell...
PM is on its way.
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somehow the word rings a bell Groan!  Okay--I've already gotten quite a handful of def.'s--thanks, you-all; what say I give it a couple more days to let the folks who pretty much go on-line only from work have a shot, then post them?
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You're going to post the people "who pretty much go on-line only from work"? How, exactly, do you do that, Wonder Woman?
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How, exactly, do you do that, Wonder Woman?
How she does it is by using the logical choice for the antecedent of the pronoun rather than just blindly picking the one that happens to be closest to the pronoun.
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How, exactly, do you do that, Wonder Woman?
How she does it is by using the logical choice for the antecedent of the pronoun rather than just blindly picking the one that happens to be closest to the pronoun.
One for the dog that bit you, eh?
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Ahem--there's no law against having two Stephen Martyrs, that I know of.
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The other one's feast day (and presumed date of death) is not until 26 December, so I gots time to get your present before being dispatched, eh?
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Unless somebody PM's me that they need more time, I'd like to present the def's. I have about 12 hours from the time of this post; that will be an hour and a half from the end of my Tuesday.
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Unless somebody PM's me that they need more time, I'd like to present the def's. I have about 12 hours from the time of this post; that will be an hour and a half from the end of my Tuesday.
Hilda! You are like the antealarmclockarians of Turkey who woke their visitors several times on the night before travel, because they didn't know when the sun would rise.
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