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Haha... the word I thought I caught was "complicated"... which is why I voted for Q-firn, because it's the only (fake) definition that seem complicated enough...

HOWEVER, I actually mistook "compacted" for "complicated"...

"partially compacted granular snow that is the intermediate stage between snow and glacial ice. Firn is found under the snow that accumulates at the head of a glacier. It is formed under the pressure of overlying snow by the processes of compaction, recrystallization, localized melting, and the crushing of individual snowflakes. This process is..."

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wiping up the compacted rear. Oh, dear...

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TEd (TP) Remington came in third, wiping up the rear.




Unless your system of numbering is different to that used elsewhere, your three points is significantly more than yhe zero your caprice left me with. That would me mean that it was I left wiping up the rear, not you.

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I meant the rear of the win, place, show series, Max; at the time I typed that I wondered who'd be the first to catch it.

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And it weren't caprice--it were whimself.

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And it weren't caprice--it were whimself.




Indeed. Thanks for teaching me not waste time and effort trying to make a genuine gesture of appreciation. It's like they said of the exquisitely polite assassins who killed James.

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Man, you mean I askually got the correct definition for once! Eee-gads!

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