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ha! finally, everyone's secret is exposed!!
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ha! finally, everyone's secret is exposed!!
-ron o. This was a secret? How could it be? It's part of this server, for heaven's sake! Notice the URL: www.WORDSMITH.ORG/anagram. When I first saw this game, I thought it was a tie-in to the anagram page. This has been a nice chuckle for me.... 
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drat, I should have used the irony icon..
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RECONSTRAINS
S --> T
RECONSTRAINT
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working towards reduction..
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working towards reduction..
CONSTRAINER Sorry, tsuwm, but this is particularly egregious, as this was used just a few posts ago! No free pass on this one, we're back to my (didn't I just use a bunch of...) CONSTRAINT
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I looked back and saw 'constrain' - is that considered the same word, or didn't I look far enough?
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containers
add R
CONSTRAINER If I'm not sure, I use the search function, which orders the results from latest to earliest...
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well, I think that this: Sorry, tsuwm, but this is particularly egregious, as this was used just a few posts ago! was a bit precipitous if I need to use the search function to find it! 
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It is only 13 posts back from yours (and only 2 word changes), and I only mentioned what I do to avoid repeats in case someone might find it useful.
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thought it might be 'cheating' Me too--that's why I noted that I used it. Above about seven letters I'm really no good at anagrams. all the prime time intelligence Ha! I love it!
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ha! finally, everyone's secret is exposed!!
-ron o. Don't not generalize Ironic One, just a few ain't Everyone. "Let us not bow our heads, and it's no use constraining, Life has been good to us all, even if that sky is raining, To take it with a grain of salt, is all I can do it's no one's fault, makes no diff'rence if we fade away. It's just as it was, it's much too cold for me to stay.." (paraphrasing The Band)
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>It is only 13 posts back from yours
oops.. another secret exposed: I have Luke on ignore; I read his entries here as I go along, but they don't show up on a page scroll.
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Well, aren't you just full of oop these days... he he
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Love your new pic, Bran! Is it a swallow? It looks big, but you can't tell from an isolated sky shot, so I'm thinking it might not be so big. :0)
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I have found it useful, since I was first told about it months
ago. Appreciate it.
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Here it would appear to be of the swallow family. Very nice.
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>It is only 13 posts back from yours
oops.. another secret exposed: I have Luke on ignore; I read his entries here as I go along, but they don't show up on a page scroll. Thank you so much. That makes my day. Would that more would ignore me. By the way, sentences still begin by capitalizing the first letter of the first word.
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...ignoring anyone! I say: Bring on the posts! I will read them ALL!!! mua ha ha ha ha ha...
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gosh, I wonder what Luke and twos are posting about‽ - joe ( ing in the dark) friday
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gosh, I wonder what Luke and twos are posting about‽ - joe (ing in the dark) friday For someone who is ignoring me, I sure have your attention.
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...my last post about the word we are moving from was wrong. It's not CONSTRAINT, but RECONSTRAINT. Rather than simply add an S, I have chosen to remove an N, which scrambles up to what I've done in the plural form:
RETRACTIONS
Now, let's take it from there! :0)
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RETRACTIONS
I hesitate to change A to I, perhaps removing another
RESTRICTION, because I'm really not sure it gets us anywhere...
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You're back! Didja have a good time?
Unfortunately, our other main keeper-upper of this thread, Branshea, is now on vacation...over here! So the rest of you-all who can, please keep it goin'...
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Bran listed a new state to the ones she has visited.
Says it reminds her of the Netherlands.
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But never left a footprint there. Grounded for three hours at Grand Rapids Airport, due to a thunderstorm over O'Hare. Two scary interrupted approaches makes me fear thunderstorms more now than N to R TERRORISTIC threats.
Still I add Michigan to my list.
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Safely back on home ground I make the little change from C to E to TERRITORIES
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To get out of the 3 R's (hopeless) in order to get rid of one , it needs a stepping stone. Via (legal) (S to D) TERRITORIED to (R to Y) DETERIORITY ( which it may possibly be, dunno). It needs cutting down the number of letters. (?)who.
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Nice to see you are trying. I've got nothing.
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If only this organism would devour one of these organic letters. Y to V > > DETRITIVORE wasn't there once someone called wofaholicodoc?This was started on 10/23/08 by coffeebean with the word 'brain'.
Could we in a last combined effort bring it back to a five letter word before or on the 23 and blow it to kingdom come?
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Ooh, that would be...fitting. A thread that lasted exactly a year! Amazing.
Ok--I won't even try to put which, or how many, letters were saved/lost/changed, but I'll go with
RETRIEVED.
It's gotta be shorter!
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We call it wielding a blunt ax, but your action seems to be....fitting.
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I shall hasten the cause. If we all swim down we can escape this net.
Drop an E--> DIVERTER
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It's been a while since I contributed but now that we've come so far my attention is
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...and perhaps we might DIVERT it?
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At least I TRIED.
It's getting ahead of ourselves, since the 23rd isn't until eleven days from now, but it would be fitting to come back to BRAIN at one year, with Coffeebean doing the honors. (Can we refrain from doing it immediately?!)
And unless people are truly getting tired of this, there's no reason to end it at one year. We might however learn a lesson: too many letters gives too few choices, and too little room to maneuver, and can spoil the game.
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We could keep it in the fridge on five for a while: F to A AIRED
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