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jenny jenny #211508 06/24/2013 12:18 AM
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L > H

FATHERS


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- H sounds like the SAFEST reply here.

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Here the
SAFEST reply
is rarely the
f > n
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FATHERS

+ E

... our nests ... don't know whether it's safe or sane ...but when I noticed the 'R' disappear, I'd like to go back to our (FORE) FATHERS ...

and display our FEATHERS ... Hope I'm not dyslexic, nor offensive ...

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FEATHERS (Yes, I know)

F-->N

HASTENER

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HASTENER

H ---- > F

...I've got something to tie down;I'm supposed to be the

FASTENER

PS: Thanks!

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Oh horsefeathers, I'm going as fast as I can.
Even if I was
HASTENER
I'd still be the
h > l
LASTENER because my fast is everyone else's slow.

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LASTENER

- S

The "lastener" shall be first (did you hear that?) if the wait is long enough ...


ETERNAL

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If the existance of the worthy can be
ETERNAL
can the lives of those who are
(make a Greek cross)
EXTERNAL also live lives that are ETERNAL?

jenny jenny #211530 06/27/2013 2:03 PM
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EXTERNAL

...if, while they're spending so much time outside, they each pick the right deity to which each becomes an

- N

EXALTER

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EXALTER: Big Bad John was quite a rounder. He could drink dry every beer joint in Walker County and then go home and down a gallon jug of gutrot whiskey as a nightcap and
t > r
RELAXER

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X ---- > T

Thank you for being that tall tale's


RELATER

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I've been called a lot of things but never a
RELATER
But once I kicked my wimpy husband and he called me a son-of-a-beeching...
l > b
BERATER

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E-->I

Sounds as if you needed an ARBITER. Or were you arguing about how to spell Welsh RAREBIT ?

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ARBITER

...have no fear. You thought there'd be a REBATER in that bunch,

but the only payback will be to an

A ---- > O

ORBITER ... so keep going 'round in circles

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You are not "Harry" not a bit.
Your code name is
ORBITER
We subtract "i". See! your real name is
ROBERT
Now Roberto, we change zee o to zee h. See?
Zee Roberto is under arrest. Roberto is a
BIRTHER

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...never mind ...
BIRTHER

That was classic, J-J ...Have to wonder ...if a BIRTHER might consider
a connection to REBIRTH (born ag'in?)

...but, while he or she does (or even doesn't), and knowing as we all do there's no I in Team, we make that I an O ... and call that person a

BROTHER

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B > N

NORTHER



bad storm last Monday, power out until now: lots of good
words, I see, in my interim


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NORTHER

H ---- > T

...can be a real

TORRENT

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T > S


SNORTER


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So I'll swap n for h and make
SNORTER
SHORTER

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H E

RESTORE

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What's that you say, Doc?
RESTORE the (e -> r)
TERRORS of our past?

That was not our collective aim in our revolutionary revolting. shocked

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TERRORS

Agonizing over whether to make an 'R' either O or S

could put a ROOSTER into our various

ROSTERS ... now that's terrorizing

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R > P


POSTERS


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R-->S

...and it all goes into PRESORT mail.

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PRESORT

R ---- > P

A good relief pitcher is a


STOPPER

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-S


TOPPER


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TOPPER

... with Anne Jeffries, Robert Sterling, and Leo G Carroll. On TV, anyway.

And always extremely T-->R PROPER he was, too. You could almost see him as Mr Banks, from Mary Poppins.

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PROPER

R ---- > P

...only too well (alas!) ... anyway, You're right, that was a great show (esp. Anne Jeffreys, I thought) ... I like the Cary Grant film, but she&Sterling and Leo G were something! Anyway, whenever one might be able to see either ... it'd be good to have access to a popcorn

POPPER

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POPPER

P ---> R

PROPER


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PROPER is not a proper term for a HIP
(r > h}
HOPPER

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BOPPER


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let go the P

PROBE

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+D


PROBED


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PROBED
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Before Be-Bop Lionel Hampton, Louis Prima, Count Basie, etc. sang

RE-BOP A word that chants more than means.

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RE-BOP

B-->A

OPERA

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OPRAH


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add P

ORPHAN

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+O

HARPOON


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