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They do accept alternate answers, Mr. I Don't Mind Chopping Down The Walls To Burn In The Wood Stove, if you can support them with references.
And Mr. Lush Bimbaugh and Liane Hansen/Will Shortz probably tape at a different times. No reason you can't do both.
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OK, OK, Mr. I-Need-A-Laugh-At-Milum's-Expence, I'll send an alternate answer to the promoters of alternate lifestyles on National Party Radio and support it with refrences. Which do you like best? RET ROCA R STA RTE R - the guy with the gun at an antique car race.or... ROA RING REFO RME R - a person who overreacts with misguided zeal to a slight of society by assuming paternal control of those slighted.
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OK, Mr. I'd Rather Spend Money On Worthless Products Supporting Radio I'd Never Listen To In A Thousand Years, but I prefer RefRied RepoRteR, Someone who repeats someone else's lies rather than coming up with his own.
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Good catch. I didn't notice the inaccuracy in their numbering instruction(s).
Nice answers... I am less thrilled by puzzles that have a multitude of possible answers, preferring puzzles with unique or at least limited answers (crossword puzzles come to mind). A puzzle with a myriad of answers can make for good posting material, but somehow seems inelegant.
Refrigerator Air (5190 google hits)
Refrigerator War (9 google hits....similar to the cola war)
How about RewRite RepoRteR? It garners 29 hits on a Google search. Of course it pales in comparison to the 3990 for "refrigerator car"
I'm sure we could come up with some definitions for such beauties as RefRain RecoRdeR and RegRet pReseRveR also...
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... RefRied RepoRteR, Someone who repeats someone else's lies rather than coming up with his own. ~ faldageVery good Mr. Faldage, very good. But, you know, if you weren't caught up in the blinding moment of inspiration I bet you would have realized that you came dangerously close to name calling. I know better. You obviously know that I only listen to NPR and haven't listened to Rush in four or five years. I drink my morning coffee from a NPR mug, especially when I feel a bit lofty. I gave $50.00 to public radio this past spring. I guess you could say that I have bought my right to criticize the people who bring us Beethoven, Click and Clack, and Garrison Keillor. And I will... By the nature of the all-inclusiveness of their politically correct assembly of unrefried reporters they have rendered the information that they broadcast skewed toward social agendas rather than the transfer of proper semantic content. This, my friend, is the lie inadvertent, the lie that insults the minds of free thinking men. But then again, few listen, so its not a real big deal.
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Name a variety of tree. Rearrange the letters, and you'll name the kind of tree it is plus something this tree produces. What tree is it?
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...and a "NO" VOTE is a VETO, NO?
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Times up! The variety of the tree is bord lames which is french for "edge blades" for the serrated leaves of elm trees and the american elms (Ulmus americana L.) are commonly called " broad elms" and the products of these stately tree are, of course, elm boards which are perfect for making furniture.
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elm makes boards? elm is a good wood for furnature?
really? on which planet? the american elm, is a beautiful tree, with its V shape, but the grain of the elm is twisted and its almost impossible to cut, and harder still to plane or sand smooth.. (and no one can split it!, it just can't be done!) Elms remained after all the woods were cut down, since there was no reason to cut them.. they didn't make good firewood or furniture, or anything.. but they gave a nice soft, dappled shade, and they sure looked pretty...
it works as a words.. broad can become board... but elm boards are available the same place that stocks hen's teeth!
(even elm that have been killed off by dutch elm disease aren't cut down.. since they are even hard to cut with a chain saw- says a woman who once spent a fortune getting a elm that was cracking her house foundation cut down.)
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