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endymion6 #211784 07/17/2013 3:24 PM
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We would probab;y all benignly ignore the addition o an S as well as the declared D - but smuggling in two extra S's is a bit cheeky! laugh


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CLASSED

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DECLASSÈ


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The È should, of course, be an Ë - sorry, I hit the wrong keys.


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Sorry about the extra "S". It even looked
OK when I previewed it.



A > U

SECLUDES

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Being perfect
SECLUDES
our kind from becoming one of the
L -> T
SEDUCERS



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SEDUCERS

drop one S, and lo, we are

RESCUED !

(or, to rephrase, re-skewed)

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R > F


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'cus these are

E-->F

SCUFFED

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SUFFICED


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Nice, Luke!

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Thanks, you do some pretty fine work yourself.
I really like this thread.


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...in six letters:

drop the C

"...But if I flit
the benefit
that I DIFFUSE
the Town would lose
Now every man
To save his clan
Must plot and plan
As best he can."

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I > N


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SNUFFED

No.
We duly changed N to T and

STUFFED Prince Albert in

but he got out.

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U > I


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STIFFED

D-->I

FIFTIES

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FIFTIES

Ah yes, fish were jumping and cotton was high.

Then came the New York minute and life became a blur.
But the invention of the nanosecond was the
add J
JIFFIEST

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JIFFIEST

...the NY-minute blur makes virtually everything, no matter how trivial, at its

- J

IFFIEST

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IFFIEST you young folks would grow a
i to r
STIFFER spine one day you too might stand with heros.

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I > A

RESTAFF


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RESTAFF

A-->O

EFFORTS

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EFFORTS?

Hey Wolf, it doesn't take but "one" effort.

Watch. I get rid of the extra "F" and if

REFORTS is a legitimate word we are...uh,

reforted. whistle

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REFORTS

How 'bout another E?

Not only God can make a tree.

FORESTER

(Could have taken out the second R instead. We'd still have a FOREST.)

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Let's remove the F and put it back to what it sould be

RESTORE


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R > K


RESTOKE


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There's something fishy about that change, and if there isn't, there should be.

RESTOKE

E-->C

RESTOCK

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RESTOCK your restock, make T an H


SHOCKER

not exactly, but that is exactly what it spells.

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H --- > D

DOCKERS


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R > T


DOCKETS


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DOCKETS

C-->P

DESKTOP

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What an I looking at right now? Well, I can't see my
DESKTOP because my computer, moniter, speakers, etc. are on it.

So I've changed a K to a P and
STOPPED trying.

Now I stare at my navel. ()

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STOPPED

- P (would enable something to be POSTED)

... but, I'd prefer to stick with the navel-gazer and

P ---- > O

be STOOPED over ...

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DESPOT


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DESPOT frown

But Saddam is so dead and yesterday.
Can't we trade a S for R and

DEPORT one of our own? smile

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READOPT


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READOPT

O-->I


"Aargh, me hearty, so ye want Frederick back? He'd be all o' 38 by now!" said the PIRATE King.

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I was once a Wall Street
PIRATE
I would trick and I -> N
ENTRAP innocent investors (if there is such a thing)
They would become - P
IRATE

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IRATE

+ T


ATTIRE

(or its past participle if we READOPT the 'D' that disappeared)

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-A

TRITE


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