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Martyrdom ain't fun unless you are dead
And being dead is something we dread
Be not afraid, young nova
The masquerade is over
Atheists are dead before they are dead  BRAID - BRANCHING
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Hey! Two for the price of one!! And two really good uns - can't be bad. Thanks, A.C. and jj, for making me laugh. (again)
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piggybacking on Rhub,
you two really gave me a chuckle as well. Thanks for the effort.
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In the forest the fair young maid
Walked alone, quite unafraid
That the trees’ branching angle
Would her fair hair entangle
For she’d tied it up with a braid
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You are Rube, a thoughtful man as exemplified by your concern for fair unbraided hair entangled in a tree. The men I know are brutes. 
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As many people on this board know, my given name is Hilary.
This may, or may not, be relevant.
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So where and when, Sir Hilery, does sex distinction determine relevancy? Not in Mississippi. 
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Nor anywhere else in the civilised world, jj! I merely comment on the fact that, given the distribution of my given name beteen the sexes, there is something like a 25:1 chance that I am a woman, not a man!
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Ah ha! Rhubarb, you believe in "odds" therefor you are a mere man. Let's play a game that had a curious run a few years back... Ready? Ok; I've put 24 unsightly men and one breathtakingly beautiful woman (with a slight flaw} in 25 boxes marked #1 through #25. I ask you to pick the woman and you - being somewhat predictable- pick number 7. Now I order all the men to climb out of their stupid box and go home except box #7 and box #8, this leaves one woman and one man in boxes # 7 and box #8. "Do you wish to change your choice from 7 to 8?" I ask politely. Should you?
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If you ask me (which you didn't), I should say a lot depends on the nature of that "slight flaw" you mentioned. And there are few other assumptions you've left undenied but unverified...
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As a gambler, I work on hunches (unless playing blackjack!) so I would probably stick to my first choice - my hunch, which was good enough for me at 25:1, must be even better at evens! Now, I only have one chance of being wrong.
And you still cannot be sure of my sex - of the eleven people attending my local GA group, five are women.
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There was a 4% chance that your choice (box #7) was right. You haven't changed your choice, and the people in boxes #7 and #8 haven't moved, so there is still only a 4% chance that your choice is right. Since the woman is either in box #7 or box #8, there must therefore be a 96% chance that she is in box #8. So you should definitely change to box #8!
Here is another way of looking at it. You chose box #7 at random. However, if you were wrong (which you almost certainly were), the gameshow host chose box #8 knowing that it was right. So box #8 is almost certainly right.
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*** I had written some long winded silly (as usual) reasoning, which was all wrong. I am deleting it. I am sorry about this. ***
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No need to apologize, Ivy, this discussion is only an interlude until someone can make a rhyme. AC, I say "yes". Always switch your one in twenty-five to your fifty-fifty choice. EXCEPT: Ask yourself what are the odds of the right box being directly on either side of your #7 ? One in twelve, right? Pretty high odds so your boxmaster might (if he thinks you are bright) try to trick you into a switch from your #7 by placing a man's box next to the woman's number. [Maybe that's what you said but I am confused by your math]  And Wofahulic, you are right, the beautiful woman with a flaw is Hillary Clinton who insisted she be called "beautiful" and lied when she said she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. Nice trick. Hillary Rodam Clinton was born in 1947 and Sir Edmund climbed Everest in 1953. Which brings us to our Hilary. Either me, or Rubarb, is trying to find his or her sex nitch. Ok, Rube, answer this question: Are you a woman?  You show me yours and I'll show you mine. 
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How to say this and still be discreet?
The words that you offer repeat
The ones that you chose
Only six months ago,
So: Disclaimer: Does not mean I cheat!
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A restaurant topped its gelato
With a small heart-shaped slice of tomato*.
It called its creation
"The Love Generation",
And served it with sparkling rosato.
*British pronunciation.
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She tended to turn up her nose
At fashions that failed to disclose.
She elected to dress
In sheer nothingness,
Despite the fact bits of her froze.
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Well, that sets the imagination running. Just a second while I take my tablets ..................
Nice one, Trombo!
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Thanks, Rhuby. Suddenly realized I started us rolling with nothing in the subject line. By the time I tried to fix it it was too late. Something like…"She's Way Cool!"
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All good here...of course. Anu might make them into a book And Peter...you could edit your work and add 'She's Way Cool' as title...if you wanted too.
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"She's way cool" is an awesome title .... 
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OCTUPLET – OFF
“Bit off more than can be chewed?
Most certainly not,” the cat mewed.
She was totally smitten
With each furry kitten
That made up her octuplet brood!
BLASÉ - BLENDE
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Vich sulfide vould I recommend?
Not galena! Gads! Heaven forfend!
Its leaden bouquet
Leaves me bored and blasé.
I zinc zat I much prefer blende!
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What do you think....a nice wall hanging! 
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Great illustration of Rhuby's limerick.
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That's real fun, Candy - thank you!
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Glad you liked it
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COMPLAIN – COMPOSITE
A portmanteau's a composite word,
Of which many types can be heard,
Such as 'cheeseburger', 'smog',
'Transceiver' and 'blog' –
To complain that they're fake is absurd.
IDEAL – IDIOT
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no...not fake. Nicely put together AC.
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To piggyback above: great composition AC
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" Idiot" is a most useful word A useful word that's seldom heard A word apt and idealBanned by the commonweal Hence our idiots go undeterred. ONSLAUGHT - ONSTAGE
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In the War, “The Windmill” never closed,
Each night, classic tableaux were posed
‘Neath the onslaught of Fritz
As he kept up the Blitz,
(And the showgirls onstage never clothed)
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Rhuby, I was inspired by your "octuplet brood"to try a tesselation design based on cats. A more difficult task than I'd imagined.  Edit: right click to view large.
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That is a superb concoction, Trombo! I raise my flat cap to you.
And, whilst I am here, I'll give you all the next two words, as I ommitted to do so earlier.
TARLATAN - TASSEL
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The maid wore a tarlatan gown,
Single layer from shoulders on down.
Here and there a shy tassel
Caused mayhem in vassal,
Squire, knight, and the heir to the crown.
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Very good limerick, Tromboniator. I'm going to continue it:
"I personally", said the Jester
(Who she loved, and would shamelessly pester),
"Think your dress a disgrace",
But she purred: "Let's embrace".
He answered "Don't make me laugh, Esther!"
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