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STRUTTING

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...aaa-aaat's all, Folks!


STUTTERING

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STUTTERING

Do I hear

T --> M

MUTTERINGS of discontent?

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PUTTERING


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PUTTERING

drop T

ERUPTING

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P ---- > F

..that completely around

REFUTING

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REPUTING


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G ---- > R

..to the base

PRURIENT

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PRURIENT

add another T

I have to INTERRUPT

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U ---- > E


..know how to read your remarks

INTERPRET

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INTERPRET

...after they were published again

T --> D

REPRINTED

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I ---- > A

..came out when those big newspapers

PARTNERED

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BARTENDER


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T ---- > D

..have done better after updating products or their images

REBRANDED

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REBRAIDED


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..had to undergo additional procedures to be

REDRAINED

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REDRAINED

A church's bell-ringer passed away.

The position was advertised, and a man with no arms applied for the job. The priest gently suggested that with no arms, he couldn't do the job, but the man convinced him give him at least a try-out.

They climbed the bell tower...and he ran toward the bell, and struck it with his head. The peal resounded over the countryside, and they gave him the job.

The next day he went to ring the bell, tripped, bounced off, and fell to the ground hundreds of feet below.

A man waking below saw this and was horrified. He ran to tell the priest what had happened. "Father, do you know this man?" he asked.

"No," said the priest, "but his face rings a bell."


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REDRAINED

The position of bell-ringer was again vacant, and was duly advertised again.

Another man without arms came to apply. "That man who fell yesterday -- he was my twin brother. You MUST give me the same chance to do the job that you gave him!"

They led him up to the bell tower. He ran at the bell.. and he, too, tripped and fell to the ground hundreds of feet below.

The same man was again walking down below, saw it all, looked at the man, looked at the priest, and said, "Father, do you know THIS man?'

"No," said the priest again, "but he's a..."

add G

"...DEAD RINGER for his brother."

(sorry)

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sick


They don't have a smilie for SCROAN
- A combination of
GROAN AND SCREECH


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It doesn't have much cleverness, but

REDRAINED

with D --> T

RETRAINED

could take us to new ways

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..but not quickly enough, I guess...

I'd seen this earlier, but couldn't CHIME IN ..
wanted to re-echo DEAD RINGER with a reference, nay a paean, to Jerry Garcia, no doubt a DEAD SINGER ...who's now being ..with an eXtra S ..

RESTRAINED .. & for whom at least one bell tolls ..When my daughter & friends followed them, I'd joke that I'd be grateful when they were dead, but I was truly sorry when he was
PS: I enjoyed the jokes ..truly SCROANers but good'un's!

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... but does it take us anywhere?

RESTRAINED

R --> P

PEDESTRIAN

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PEDESTRIAN

N ---- > L

..and it may put us up on the roof, as some chimneys easier for Santa to see are

PILASTERED

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E --> O

DEPILATORS

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DEPILATORS

- S

..Their quartet,called The Depilators, just became a solo act

DEPILATOR

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L ---- > H

..for the quartet's demise was that local interest simply

ATROPHIED

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ATROPHIED

is

APHRODITE

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We could take APHRODITE and change H to Z and make

TRAPEZOID

but I don't think I want to, 'cuz it takes away too many options for nextwording.

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Next, I wanted to make THERAPOD. There ought to be a dinosaur of that description. Only it turns out that's spelled "therOpod.

How about

ATROPHIED/APHRODITE

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ATHEROID
Obscure, but real.

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..than an

ASTEROID

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A ---- > P

..these are within your powers

DIOPTERS

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DIOPTERS

O --> I

SPIRITED rejoinder!

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SPIRITED

- I

..told me that I SPRINTED to the opera house to see the bass; you said he'd be in the costume that was

STRIPED

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STRIPED

R --> O

Great-Recession joke:
What's the difference between a pigeon and a stock-broker?
A pigeon can still make a DEPOSIT on a BMW

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DEPOSIT ...I like the BMW joke ..good one!

E ---- > R

..have many cameras need many

TRIPODS ...How many feet are in a yard? That depends on how many were invited to your party ..BTW: Our Germany-trained mechanic who fixes our VW's & now an Audi POSITED that we should never buy a used Jag or BMW (aka Break My Wallet)..FYI (aCRONYMSrUs!)

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DISTORT

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T II> E

STEROID

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EDITOR


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EDITOR

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..when knights were bold ... the heroes & events are now all

STORIED ..some, even, by EDITORS (in abridged versions,no doubt)

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S --> T

DETRIOT

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