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olly #180931 12/15/2008 12:27 PM
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Branshea:

...highlight the space between the ellipses, if you like, and all will be revealed...

PS Jackie: when did USER HAS EXCEEDED PM LIMIT get activated?

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Whoa, a quota of 20,000, dats a lodda messages.

RATTLES delete a T

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Add an N for SLATTERN

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Add an N for SLATTERN


T-->N

LANTERNS

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N to P...
PLANTERS

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change N to M

TRAMPLES

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Change P to M

TRAMMELS

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Add an O

MAELSTROM

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I know it's spelt wrong but it's too enticing to resist -

change M to S and jump to SOMERSALT.


(A two-step change L->H and M->G gives us HOGMASTER!)

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One could almost, but not quite make immortalise from maelstrom. You can make IMMORTALS though.

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You folks are funny!!!


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IMMORTALS

change T to F and get

FORMALISM

(or M to F and get FORMALIST, for that matter)

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Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

FORMALISM


MORALISM

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M --> U

SOLARIUM

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add a T

SIMULATOR

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remove the O

ALTRUISM

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Blow away the U,

MISTRAL

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add an I,

MISTRIAL


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Change I to A and Presto, you're an

ALARMIST !
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Add an E and make MATERIALS
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R-->F

FATALISM

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You always come up with a Fiendish challenge

F -> N

TALISMAN

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a to i
LATINISM

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TASMANIAN


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...Umm, I think that may have to be disqualified - to get from LATINISM to TASMANIAN you need to change an I to an N, change the L to a second A, and add yet another A. Only one change allowed!

Try again?

LATINISM

Add S and get STALINISM

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S -> A

ANIMALIST

Another A and you get TALISMANIA laugh

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Originally Posted By: olly



ANIMALIST



Drop the T

MAINSAIL

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drop an I

ANIMALS

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drop the N

SALAMI

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Now I know where to find this link: under scrabble.
Are there rules, or is it too far gone to make sense of it???


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MALAISE

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The Roolz are:

You may
1) add a letter OR
2) remove a letter OR
3) change a letter

AND THEN
4) scramble the new set of letters into a new word.

Thus:
MALAISE
drop the E
MISSAL

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Thus:
MALAISE
drop the E
MISSAL


bzzzz!
where'd that second 's' come from? (or, that's two changes!)

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Quite right. Sorry 'bout that. Couldn't see straight; too much snow. Will the Chair permit me to amend the motion?

MALAISE
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MESIAL (at least, that's what my dentist says)

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Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

MESIAL (at least, that's what my dentist says)


I --> M

LEMMAS

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Add --> A

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Change A to I and you can sing it:

MELISMA

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Really a song I do not know? Melisma?

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Melisma is a musical term for singing many notes on one syllable. An example would be chant or "Amen".

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MELISMA - think of the word "purify" in "And He Shall Purify" from Handel's Messiah, or the word "born" from "For Unto Us a Child is Born," or "easy" in "His Yoke is Easy," or "turned" from "All We, Like Sheep."

MELISMA
change an M to an R and get
REALISM

wofahulicodoc #181064 12/20/2008 3:37 PM
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Never knew this music term existed. Looked up the Dutch word.
Quite SIMULAR (E change to U); melisme. (from Greek)

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