|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 11,613
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 11,613 |
DESTRESS; the one-thousandth post!!! Amazing!
Last edited by Jackie; 06/23/2009 2:45 AM.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 |
DE-STRESS
D-->L
The natives are getting RESTLESS
Actually I'm surprised that no one has advocated that we re-start the thread so it won't take as long to load. Does that mean we have all graduated to broadband connections and no one is using a modem any more?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 |
----please, draw me a sheep----
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 13
stranger
|
|
stranger
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 13 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
Aunt Gertrud's W to U STREUSEL or drop S SWELTER
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 |
W to H
SHELTER
Last edited by LukeJavan8; 06/27/2009 3:19 PM.
----please, draw me a sheep----
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 |
SHELTER
H -->I
STERILE
(trying to steer us away from the path we traveled last month)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
Add N-- the deepseadized final FRONTIER
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 |
That is to say, stand at the
FRONTIER
then change F to E and
RE-ORIENT [hyphen is optional]
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 956
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 956 |
Or you could add an E and become an ORIENTEER
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 |
ORIENTEER
I'd change an O to an A if I wanted to
INTERFERE
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
drop one E and shuffle----> FRENETIR
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 |
FRENETIR
I dunno, kinda looks like a French verb to me. Must have really taken some
FERRETING out to find it!
(Even without the G: E-->I -- there's an iron-carrying protein in our blood called FERRITIN)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
Ay, I'm no too happy with it too, but the 1 hit(s)does not present it as a verb. Well who ferrets the way out of ferreting?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 |
(I do have one, but it's not my turn.)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
Oh well, anything- one that delivers us from double eeee-s and double arrrrrrr-s.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 |
T-->O
Dunno how much relief it offers, as the EEs and the RRs RREEmain.
(The title is a hint, too!)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 11,613
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 11,613 |
Gah! I looked up the summary on Wikipedia, and all I could find was Federation and Fosterites.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 956
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 956 |
Well, lets not sit here FESTERING
What was your option Wofa?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
Yep, FOREIGNER (I was off track) Good point of departure but olly has made his move so we'll stick to that?
FESTERING >> G to A FRATERNISE
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 |
Can't do it that way - the second R is gone !
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
I see. A smugglers R. Shame on me! I'm sure by now you have the follow up for FESTERING ready.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 |
FESTERING
drop the F
INTEGERS
(This is starting to sound very familiar)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 13
stranger
|
|
stranger
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 13 |
Predictably, you were STEERING us here all along.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 |
...with my banjo on my knee
except it looks as though I'll have to RESTRING it
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 |
STRINGER
-----fishing instrument.
----please, draw me a sheep----
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 |
STINGER - insect-borne fishing impediment
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210 |
formerly known as etaoin...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 |
#181974 - 01/22/09 11:06 PM
Re: Raising the Question [Re: doc_comfort]
BEARINGS
change B to T and get
TANGIERS or ANGRIEST or GANTRIES or GRANITES or INGRATES or GASTRINE or ASTRINGE or... (fades off into the night) That's the magic set of letters that Martin Gardiner a long time ago alleged in Scientific American has no fewer than 65 different anagrams. Now we have nine. edit: Ten: RANGIEST.
Last edited by wofahulicodoc; 07/05/2009 1:54 PM.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
Woooff! Are you after all 65? Are they not just to be found already together? BTW, I still count 9. ('Bearings' does not count) Unless you count East ring in.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 |
You're right, it's nine. EAST RING doesn't count, unless perhaps you're a circus afficionado.
I'd love to see the entire list, though I'm sure I wouldn't recognize the vast majority of the offerings. My recollection is that they were all to be eight-letter words.
The Mathematical Games column that Gardiner wrote that in is from the Sixties, I think, give or take ten years. He gave a reference identifying the individual who made the assertion and I suppose I could look it up but I haven't the initiative.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
I've done some looking, there are lists, but after about a number of words they all end up in split words like East ring. I got one more though, swimmers. NEGRITAS
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 |
ANGRIEST
ASTRINGE
GANTRIES
GANISTER
GASTRINE
GRANITES
INGRATES
NEGRITAS
RANGIEST
TANGIERS
TEARINGS ?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 956
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 956 |
ANGRIEST ASTRINGE GANTRIES GANISTER GASTRINE GRANITES INGRATES NEGRITAS RANGIEST TANGIERS TEARINGS RESTINGA Veering off the beaten track but a welcome diversion
Last edited by olly; 07/08/2009 8:04 AM.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,295 |
ANGRIEST
ASTRINGE
GANTRIES
GANISTER
GASTRINE
GRANITES
INGRATES
NEGRITAS
RANGIEST
TANGIERS
TEARINGS
RESTINGA
GRATINES or keep in shape reading recipes that don't appeal.
|
|
|
|
|
