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CAYMAN


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for work done, in measure known as


MAN-DAY

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MONDAY


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...and today belongs to he who seizes it.
And I hereby seize it.
Now all of you are in my seized
y -> i DOMAIN so behave. smirk

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MANIOC

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I seem to recall that Margery Allingham wrote a bunch of mysteries featuring

detective Albert CAMPION

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CAMPION

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Well, even if not, he was certainly a


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They bang around in the stall
a>g
CHOMPING at the bit.

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PHONEMIC


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PHONEMIC

P-->W: CHOW-MEIN
Nah. Twenty minutes later you're just hungry for words again.

Delete E: M. CHOPIN (M. = "Monsieur." French was the language of the Arts, oui?)
Nah. We'll do better closer to home.

M-->T: PINOCHET

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rearrange


PHONETIC if not phonemic


-P +A

INCHOATE


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INCHOATE (that means I go to a prep school, right?)

add L

CHELATION

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SECTIONAL


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SELECTION

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ELECTIONS

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MILESTONE

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MILESTONE

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MISTLETOE

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LOTTERIES


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Leona Helmsley & her husband were

HOTELIERS

...and the pooch got all the loot

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HOTELIERS

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SHORTLINE

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Even tho' I thought we'd be looking at HOSTELRIES ...

I'm sure there'll be other places along the ...

SHORELINE


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INNERSOLE


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INNERSOLE

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PENSIONER

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PRETENSION

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To cure PRETENSION
requires but an ounce of
PREVENTION

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VENERATION


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VENERATION

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RENOVATION

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Dan Quayle didn't say it, but it seems like something he might've ...

Vitality is a terrible thing to lose ...

ENERVATION

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Which is using the same letters as
VENERATION three posts up.
So which word do you want to use in the two posts you've made?
RENOVATION or are you backing up to my VENERATION?

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This happens from time to time and we generally just move on.

There's no hard and fast rule we don't occasionally

I-->C

CONTRAVENE

in the interests of progress and harmony.

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CONVERSANT


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V-->I

CONTAINERS

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CONTAINERS

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What a perfect allusion to what's just been a classic ...


"FOR INSTANCE"

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That's two words. We usually only find one.


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Quote:
This happens from time to time and we generally just move on.
There's no hard and fast rule we don't occasionally
CONTRAVENE
in the interests of progress and harmony.


FORINSTANCE

Drop the second N

FORNICATES

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A CISTERN OF

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drop the F

REACTIONS

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crossthreading: change one letter, anagram, and make up a fanciful definition:

FORINSTANCE

C-->G

FOREIGN-STAN - any generic former Soviet Socialist Republic (or perhaps Baltic or Middle-Eastern state)

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Among the possible REACTIONS ...

(to foreplay?!) ... + N



SANCTIONER (I hope that's a word)






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