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-r


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G ---- > C

a certain number of Gables; sent to me from HQ in Europe; it was encrypted, and


CABLED

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CABLED

after the explosion there was

C-->M

BEDLAM

(Well, I figured that was better than whitewashing the whole affair with BLEACH)


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..revealed, and certainly never whitewashed(!), they'll nonetheless live on in legend and lore among the cognoscenti (in Dos Equis commercials if nowhere else) as ..

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FABLED


They should be

TABLED

because you all apparently miss my point.
I'll be more direct...

"Her doctor bill was one thousand dollars and I only had nine hundred and ninty-nine."

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D ---- > T

.. and if she paid this she'll get to call us in the AM after taking one


TABLET

Stay thirsty, my friends

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+D


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..but where were their horses

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stabledgabled, fabled, cabled whatevers


+F


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...I'm (T-->A) AFRAID I do! Tomorrow is

T-->Y

FRIDAY !

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... I don't know how we headed to either word from the flatcars carrying all those past participles ...the effect on me is that it

DEFLATES

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DEFLATES

L-->N

Oops. I must not have seen that there was a Next Page with several additional entries already on it when I Fridayd. I'll have to make sure my attention is more carefully FASTENED on the thread to its very end, next time.

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OK now I got her, as I do that frequently.
It's a good thing it is Friday.(I had a post which I deleted
-hope it did not confuse.)

FASTENED

f > H

HASTENED

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+ C

...having been deflated, I'm now


CHASTENED .... (and two mea culpas followed by mea max-- was the lead-in to the Confiteor's Ideo precor ... back in my halcyon days)

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Remember them well...understood what you meant.

CHASTENED

-E

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- H

..is he who

DECANTS

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T > N

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N ---- > O

..were ordinary, but also a couple of arch-

DEACONS

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+ D

...

SECONDED (or, as the old song goes, it's that Emotion)

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S > C

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N-->T

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Decocted

C > K


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D ---- > P


...where the bailiff went to jail, because of funds he'd


POCKETED

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K > M

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+ L

..but in the end most are

COMPLETED

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...You really made me do it...

COMPLETED

T-->L

COMPELLED

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Completed


T > L


COMPELLED


wofa, you beet me by 23 seconds, lucky you

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c > M


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D ---- > R

..would be a

POMMELLER

(After a day of trying to solve this one, I can come up with only this..nice, Luke!)

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POMMELLER

I think we can go forward after taking a half-step back to M-->C

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thanks, endy.
good one wofa.
I worked a couple hours, then got interrupted.
Nice to have a new viewpoint

COMPELLER

L > T

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...to swap the R for a S, to get


COMPLETES ... which, I'm sorry to say, is the best I can come up with

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Completes

s > d

COMPLETED


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-D


COMPLETE


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-L

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P ---- > L

...TimeWarner, I continue to be amazed at the developing world of


TELECOM Nice, Luke ..thanks for your diligence...

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...without breaking a few eggs

TELECOM

drop the C

OMELET

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O > D


MELTED

thanks endy, did not want to totally give up, but don't like
doing it that way, does not give you guys a chance
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T ---- > D

..game was

MELDED

Speaking of chance, I was in two NCAA pools last year, required to use a nickname, so I went as Slim Chance and Evan 'Les' Chance; seemed appropriate ...

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