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-- "Kripke" catches my attention because I went to school with a young man by that name. What connection did you have in mind?

-- ROOFING has a pretty segue into FOREIGN

--
I'm sorry to mess up the segue into foreign.

Initially, Barry Kripke from TBBT. However, Saul Kripke fits nicely as well.
WOOFING

I -->E

FORGONE (as in "did without")

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P ---- > U

..that we didn't evolve (a few ago, when we were WOOFING and sniffing between OREGON and where the corn is as high as an elephant's eye, to a veritable midpoint) to Lake WOBEGON, where all is diurnally

ONEROUS .. by definition, and subject to verification, at Ralph's pretty good grocery, among other institutions

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ENORMOUS

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..in fact, pretty much un-ENORMOUS

DORMOUSE ..Alice, you're goin' to da moon!

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..her mither & father before; the Malones of Dublin were

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of World War II fame...

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..would have had everyone in their path living in MANGERS, if at all

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..admitted to the compound, he had a reaction; they sent him for analysis, and he became an analyst..but not a double-agent

REAGENT

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GREEN (It's OK to drop the tea - better for your Coumadin, too.)

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..in management courses

ANGER .. attracting more 'students' than Peter Drucker

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...and you can't go back on that

RENEGE

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(To smooth or clean feathers...)

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..enough time left to

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Y ---> O

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N ---- > A

..gives a speech, she

ORATES

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T ---> N

SEÑORA (you can ignore the tilde)

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SEÑORA

add I

ARSENIO

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..there's a lot of potential for this in those Hall-ways

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TREASON (= SENATOR, he said Lokishly))

A --> T (sounds like a DNA mutation)

STENTOR (he said resoundingly)

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..FROM THE STEPS OF THE STATE CAPITOL

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..inebriation -- walking wobbly

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TOTTER

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..my quick answer is 'yes,please'

RETORT

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I haven't decided yet whether or not I
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add a B

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..behind the scenes, when no one's looking

PLOTTER .. or with a compass & a map

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