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endymion6 #216768 05/22/2014 12:30 AM
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MARIMBA

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RAMBAM

Moses Maimonides I think he was, a thousand years ago (give or take)

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RAMBAM

- R

A snake in the grass, or a snake up a tree?


MAMBA

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MAMBA

drop an M

'BAMA

(When Harvard beat Yale 29-29 in 1968, was that another "CRIMSON TIDE" ? )

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M > B

BABA WAWA


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BABA

..Great god of bubbling cups and chirping mirth ...

who no doubt inspired Baba au rhum, and maybe even my fave's ABBA ('tho' I didn't care for all of their rhyme schemes! ) ...but for other pursuits we'll pursue B --> L

BAAL ..and, as for the other BABA, she'll be ba-a-a-a-ck ...

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BA'ALS

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BA'ALS

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...wasn't their altar a mere

SLAB

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BALSA


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BALLS

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BALLS

not SMALL

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SMALL

M ---- > H

We

SHALL

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SHALL

L -> U

HAULS

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HAULS

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...I shall, until stooped over with shoulders wrapped in a


SHAWL

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SHAWL

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...the WHALES

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... is one definition of

WEALTH

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HEALTH

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HEALTH

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LETHAL

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LATHE


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..down at the gas station? I think her name is

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Now she works as a call-in maid at the Blue Moon

HOTEL

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LOATHE


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..life-long loafer suddenly becomes a

ZEALOT

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OBLATE


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OBLATE

B ----- > G

..and the priests at St Joseph's Oblate Sem. in Pittston,PA ...the world's best treat is an ice cream cone from a place on the Ile de-la-Cite' in Paris, heavenly


GELATO

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GELATO

o>e

As a self-elected

LEGATE

of this board I am duty bound not to.

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T > B

BEAGLE


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BEAGLE

E ---- > D

...was seven-times

GABLED

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BEAGLE

E -> U

BELUGA

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G ---- > B

for some, the cachet that for others exudes from a

BAUBLE

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I can't do that !

BAUBLE

B > N

UNABLE

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NEBULAE


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U -> T

TENABLE

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TENABLE

T ---- > D

..is that I could have gone from BELUGA to BAUBLE or BANGLE ...a few panels back;

I'd been unwittingly Kismet-

ENABLED

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BALEEN

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LEADEN


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L ---- >N

..among others

ENNEAD

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...Towers of Ilium, Arma virumque cano and all that

ENNEAD

N -> I

AENEID

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BEANED

B ---- > M

..should not be done to it, in hortatory or any other subjunctive...and that's my peroration...so do not hector this tongue, or it otherwise

DEMEAN I mean, Quae cum ita sint, Catilinae ...

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DEMEAN

drop E

AMEND

I'll be AFK for the next few days- my wife has a 50th College Reunion and I'm going to play second fiddle and carry the bags...

Have a quiet and a safe Memorial Day remembrance, all, and a good week.

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