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Missed Leaped since it was not bold. So tried to rescue it
from Palled to Called.
My times are different from yours. But maybe we need
less chit-chat and go to caps or bolds or something to find
the word. Maybe use of < > or + - or some way to distinguish
just the word we are playing with, as we used to do.

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D > S

PLEASES


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E ---- > I

...I'm all shook up when I have


PALSIES

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+Y


PAISLEYS


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PAISLEYS

+ V

...for living


PASSIVELY

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P > M


MASSIVELY


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MASSIVELY

V-->T

SEMI-SALTY

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...d'ya think ?

MEDALISTS

drop the T

MISLEADS

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IDEALISMS


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you won't find your glamorous buys here

IDEALISMS (...didn't think it had a plural ! )

take out an S

MIDAISLE

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Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

you won't find your glamorous buys here

IDEALISMS (...didn't think it had a plural ! )

take out an S

MIDAISLE







Motherhood, baseball, applepie?

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I > A


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MALADIES

A ---- > V

...are especially harsh in the

MALDIVES

(I thought about calling you SOCHI Kidder, and reverting to 'but one of your recently cited crowd --- i.e., MEDALIST,' but we'll leave that for another)

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MIDLIVES add the p

MID-PELVIS

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D ---- > U


... and was deemed

IMPULSIVE ...so he left the building

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IMPLUSIVE, Elvis? Never. Maybe exciting and
IMPLOSIVE but it was all just an act. When alone he was just a jerk.

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IMPLOSIVE

L -->R

IMPROVISE

(and one who drops the second I makes it even better.. )

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IMPROVISE. But my dropping-the-I improvisation hardly

IMPROVES the high nature of this intellectual discourse.

So I won't.

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IMPROVES

M ---- > D

... and even some Women ... but God

PROVIDES

(A feeble attempt at improving the high-quality nature of this discourse!)

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S > A

OVERPAID


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If someone taped Aida, would that qualify as an
OPERA-VID ?

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OVERPAID

A ---- > S

DISPROVE

If Oprah did that taping, mightn't it be a DIVA OPUS???? Ouch

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DISPROVE

D-->A

VAPORISE

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P ---- C


VARICOSE

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VARICOSE

V-->T

SCORIATE

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Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

If someone taped Aida, would that qualify as an
OPERA-VID ?



I think it would
qualify as piracy?


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A > B


BISECTOR


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BISECTOR
c->x

Snails mostly are, flatworms sorta are, and I even know a homo sapien who is a bona fide

BISEXTOR

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...does this mean he's also one who from time to time EXORBITS? And does he have a sibling of his mom or dad who is perhaps an EXORBIT-ANT?

But, enough ... I am reminded of my, alas, late acquaintance Jason Miller, who played
on the screen IN William Peter Blatty's The

EXORCIST (B ---- > C )

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t > e

EXORCISE


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Just do what? Are we possessed?
EXORCISE the O and play an E

EXERCISE -- yesterday's work; today's pretend.



Luke, if you would post the word you are changing in CAPS above the word you change we could catch you easily if you err without rolling back up. smile

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What? Me Err?
I can do that since I don't engage in all the chit chat
like you all. But if there were none of that no one would
have to. But all seem so determined to do so, for whatever
reason, which totally escapes me, I can do that.

Since I have to leave to volunteer in VA hospital
I can simply add S

EXERCISE
EXERCISES

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EXCERCISES. But now I must go to a voguish class where I teach
c>x
SEXERCISES.

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S ---- > V

...things people can do; one day, I may avail of the assistance of someone like you (I'm a V-N era vet) ...and I'll try to be as thankful verbally as I can, as it's commendable work ... as is the work done by counselors attending to former married folk, who may also say they work in

EX-SERVICES (I'd hoped for a 'mot precis' for this, mais helas...non!)

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-x

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- S


RECEIVES

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+p


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PERCEIVES. But what matters is what your
c>w
PEERVIEWS.

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