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#102812 05/08/03 11:49 AM
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Vauxhall, Bedford, Auburn, Ford


#102813 05/08/03 12:05 PM
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Vauxhall, Bedford, Auburn, Ford

I don't think Bedford is a car.

Ford isn't a place name?

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Ford is the only one that was an American president. Let's not go there!

I think you are right about Bedford. Never heard of a car maker named Auburn though, but it is a colour - the others are not, but they do all make vehicles.

Ford is a village in Shropshire, UK.


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OK, thanks. I *have heard of the Duesenberg!


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This one is like of troy’s original. Seven sets of four, all mixed up between different lines, and each with an odd one out.


split-tin, gold, toe, silver

White, carbon, Siamese, narrow

mulberry, Coburg, Red, diamond

Rhine, Vienna, finger, Persian

fishing, tabby, cotton, platinum

sailing, Green, foot, sandwich

rice, Manx, flying, hand



#102818 05/08/03 02:28 PM
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Bedford made vans and trucks. The Bedford J3 truck was an icon in New Zealand right through the 1950s and 1960s. Close enough, but.


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I'm still not sure I understand what we're trying to produce. Something like "a collection of four words, such that any subset of three has something in common not shared by the fourth" ?

Along the lines of

"red, orange, bell, conquerer"
-- conquerer is not a kind of pepper
-- bell is not the appellation of a figure in Middle Ages European history (Eric the Red, William of Orange, William the Conquerer)
-- orange is not... (but red, bell, and conquerer are - racehorces, maybe?)
-- red is not ...

(Wits and time fail me at this moment.)

Is that what we're looking for?



#102820 05/08/03 03:09 PM
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>Is that what we're looking for?

I thought so, but I was thrown for a loop by dxb's "all mixed up between different lines" (I thought of troy presented a "set" which were independent of each other)...


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Is that what we're looking for?

Helen started us off with, I believe, a fousome that could have either of two odd balls, I challenged us to come up with a foursome any one of which could be considered an odd ball. So, yes, that's what we're looking for, although twos and threes should still be welcome. I'd suggest that any list posted explicitly state the number of odd balls desired.


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