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A ---- > S

... but all I can come up with


TARGETS

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TARGETS here are often the
G>T
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...and so it

A-->O

TOTTERS


(Close together, now: STRETTO !)

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... were monitored by


SPOTTERS

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POTTERS do. And busy as beavers so do

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OTTERS Who dispatch
SPOTTERS to dispel (t>r)
SPORTERS

(whew)

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Speaking of things being done ... Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it... Courageous kangaroos do it ... Argentines without means do it ...

- S

...and you'll need help with your luggage; I'll call Linda & Cole, a k a the

PORTERS

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apply the R-->H Factor:and wax poetic

STROPHE

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Is it Hellas, or just merely alas?
Is it an earthquake, or simply a shock?
Your 'strophe stroke' is so well done ...

for that, you take home all the


TROPHIES

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... as do a lot of our pilgrim welcome-ees; why they seek a


HOSPITALER

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HOSPITALER

but I don't see a way at short notice.

T-->I gives PALEO-IRISH but I'm not at all sure that's a word.

A-->F works, giving SHOPLIFTER.

But I think we'll run aground pretty quickly if we don't knock out a letter or two soon. Even PHILOSOFER doesn't cut down the length at all.

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A SHOPLIFTER with proper jailhouse weight-training programs can then become one of the jailhouse
h>r
PRO-LIFTERS.
Then after he bails, he can go beat the hell out of poor shopkeepers.

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PRO-LIFTERS

L ---- > E

... to turn themselves in (?) to


PROFITEERS

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PORTIERES


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I ---- > R



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REPORTERS don't report they sing paeans to their leaders.
We need r>d
DEPORTERS to deport our harpy reporters.

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...dammit!

R-->O

TORPEDOES

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REBOOTED means restarted
b>f
REFOOTED means new shoes smile

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T-->B

FOREBODE

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B > M


FEEDROOM

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Luke, please tell grandpa to let the stock into the
FEEDROOM to feed.

All God's creatures like
(minus o)
FREEDOM except those who want us enslaved.

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F > H


HOMERED


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Sammy Sosa did this so often because he was so well

MOTHERED

PS: I just tuned in, first since yesterday, and wonder what happened to the 'S' in TORPEDOES

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...nice words like
MOTHERED.
Now I will put the S back that we have so sneakedily
SMOTHERED

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M > I


THEORIZED


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I'll put your Z back to British S

and now go

I-->N

SHORTENED

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of us find it unmanageable to drop letters because we know a lot of long words but we don't know but a smattering of short words so you must understand that we experience a degree of discombobulation when you say that our words should be
SHORTENED without the aid of a mechanical
d>r
SHORTENER frown

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drop R

HORTENSE, that's who !

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...says the

drop E

SENATOR

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N--->T

ROTATES


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SENATOR

...but maybe a few minutes late ...

Any SENATOR that "doesn't" make a "change" for the better can be cited for

TREASON

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...politics hasn't often been much

O-->I

NASTIER

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ATTIRES


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today's
ATTIRES don't necessarily identify the social occasion but often
t>s
SATIRES a society gone self-indulgent.

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SALTIER


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See, the sea is getting
SALTIER but the sea is not what

i > f

FALTERS it is we who eat less salt.

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