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Darned right! And you deserve to! Cake! Ice cream! Strawberries dipped in chocolate!
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"Avast!" cried the skipper at the scupper, "what's the scuttlebutt? - any end in sight to this doldrums? - and have ye got a bonanza of cargo?" when a sudden groundswell threatened to capsize both crafts.
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On learning of the groundswell of opinion, the CEO appealed to staff to disregard the scuttlebutt permeating the company and warning that, far from a bonanza in the near future, the current doldrums threatened to scupper their business.
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Spoken like a true CEO. Bravo!
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I'm afraid I never made it to CEO  Best I did was the Engineering Innovations Executive Inspecting Officer - a title too long for the plate on my door, which just said E..I..E..I..O
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McDonald's Farms, Inc. or (LTD.)?
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I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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All's well that groundswell.
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In that small scuttlebutt village the perpetual groundswell of gossip scuppered the county fair bonanza, leaving summer festivities in the doldrums.
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Congrats, Branny - that is so economical with words!
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Amen Rhubarb, not to mention neat, concise, and coherent. I guess it takes knowing two languages to master one if that one happens to be English. Good show, Branny. 
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Thanks >< I love concise, but mainly focussed on the non nautical use of the words. It just worked.
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Thank you, it looks like this week's words will provide even more angles.
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His date, a paragon of virtue, could hardly countenance his conduct, though he tried to gloze his tendency to tarry and bluff his way out of having arrived an hour late.
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I hope you will countenance my delay as I tarry to bluff you out of your good performance; I do not gloze the fact that you are the paragon of weekly phrases.
( Does this look like glozing? it ìs! )
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It was his greatest foible, as well as his forte, that he handled with masterful élan every conversational riposte, yet felt himself immeasurably wounded by each touché of his interlocutor.
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Matching forte to forte and foible to foible their conversation admitted neither victory nor surrender until her last riposte, tossed over her shoulder with consummate élan as she paused in the open door, struck him with the force of a physical blow, leaving him only the breath to sigh "Touché."
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Applause for your bold first post bethann, and eversosuccinct blitherer! Two conversational pieces. I still think: 'foible forte riposte élan touché... what stew to cook from this porridge?'.
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En garde! Very nice, bethann!
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A rather liberal use of the words and open to critisism but:
With foible fingers he had tried to play forte on the grand piano, but where was the élan which used to gain him that warm riposte of applause; had he really lost his touché?
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This tickles me ... bravo, BranShea!
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He received counsel wise from his mentor,
Nestor gave love advice -- brave inventor!
"Neither hector nor bully
Your Tartary filly,
Young satyr, seize what heaven sent her!"
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Sorry blitherer. Besides them being impossible words I've had no time to get it together this weekend. I hope I will catch up in coming days and still try to understand the exacts from your brave sentence(s):~)
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Young satyr, beware of choosing a nestor for your mentor; like a true hector he'll bully you the tartar off your teeth. Midweek brilliance 
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Bon mots, BranShea! Terrific image there!
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At first his position seemed tenable through the casuistry of his advisors, but the emergence of discrepant views rendered all his consuetudinary bonhomie unavailing.
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Yeh, that's a nice crispy phrase, blither. No clue yet how to match or even come close to this one.
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I must admit my incapacity here. A different angle of approach seems impossible to me. Very Good!
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But on Greece and Europe?
No tenable arguments will change the discrepant measurements after frenetic casuistry has made them decide that consuetudinary attitudes can no longer be availing.
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As their captain attempted to triangulate a course, the first mate, normally a man of foursquare habit, was seen to swing on a makeshift trapeze slung between the fore and main topgallants, while the rest of the crew pursued one another in a vicious circle, performing actions entirely orthogonal to their duties.
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Very nice mis en scene, Blither :~)
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Thanks, BranShea, I really had fun with that one! The other scenario that sprang to mind was a high school geometry class ... perhaps that will inspire you?
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Aye! Maybe.. something may spring to mind coming days.
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When Renaissance painters discovered orthogonal projection they made a foursquare reverence to it and swung the perspective trapeze obsessively, ending in the vicious circle of a triagulate position between reality and deception.
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So obsessed was he with his copperplate hand, he became a virtual tin god, forever grasping for the brass ring of approval, with an iron curtain visage enlivened by the faint silver lining of a derisory smirk.
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The faint silver lining of a derisory smirk??? Hajhaahah! Clark Gable's moustache in 'Gone with the Wind'. Good, good..... I really like this set of words so I think I'll stretch the deadline till I get something out of them. If ever.
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