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Avoiding “e” gave the company here plenty of fun, but another button will give a challenge that may provide jovial entertainment and make people look quite deep into their brain-box and employ great zeal in order to avoid touching it. I have avoided it in the paragraph above, although every other alphabetic character will be found therein. Can you emulate my cunning? 
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Not at all facile, my dear Rhubarb. Writing in the grammatical current time period won't be a walk in the park.
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perfectly true - and I can't write your moniker, either 
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Cunning? I imagine we can write without utilizing (Ha! An American touch can be handy now and then apparently.) the letter you have in mind. But of what will we write, dear Liza, dear Liza, dear Liza of what will we write?
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of what will we write?
That query didn't bother anyone in the thread without e.
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- or in any other thread, for that matter! 
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... and I can't write your moniker, either ... Call me Anna, for the time being. 
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RE: Call me Anna
Call me by any name, but don't call me late for dinner!
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Hard, but not that hard, nor that awkward. Now for a difficult job, try it without _both_! Not a crowning glory, but not many could do it, I think. (Not for long, anyway...)
Didn't J. Thurbr print that Wondrful O?
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Hoolibut halibut
Truncating alphabut
Thwarting and foiling my
Ability.
Fancy “that Bard” or a
Pundit of long ago
Working and crafting that
Chaotically!
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Well done, Coffeebean! I want to have your talent for poetry.
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Way back when, I received a "legal citation" (from an *original member (a name with litigatable reference)) for that "pundit of long ago" line in context, for it ain't one word...
... other than that, well done, Coffeebean!!!
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punditoflongago that better?  Pundito Flongago should be a character in a book...
formerly known as etaoin...
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Well, we need to avoid the plural for certain.
There would appear, however, to be extra room for the practice of my bugbear (a favourite) regarding the application of "their", all politically correct, when we really do not mean the plural. Under the current verbal regimen, that application will be unavoidable, but I have to (have to, have to, have to, thumping my feet upon the floor, jumping up and down like the well-known dwarf in the grimm tale) animadvert, howl at, vomit up my bile at, the inappropriate and ugly and inelegant (to my mind) appearance of "their" where no plural could be meant.
Let him or her therefore beware of "their", for if "they" practice it, I vow to dance upon "their" grave!!!
cheer
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In reply to:
Way back when, I received a "legal citation" (from an *original member (a name with litigatable reference)) for that "pundit of long ago" line in context, for it ain't one word...
Huh?
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..."legal citation" (from an *original member (a name with litigatable reference))... for that "pundit of long ago" line...
...meaning you get yelled at for violating the rule that the antepenultimate line of the DD poem - by definition - need be a one-word Double-dactyl. (Oh yeah, and Line No. 2 ought to be a double-dactylic name or identifier, too.)
The "legal" part? Hinting obliquely at the identity of the original Yeller without naming him/her, without writing our here-Forbidden Character. And, in a way, hiding behind the unuttered taunt "Let it be a challenge to you!"
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Thank you, wofa and muzick! I am hereby enlightened. But you have a point, the double dactylz were not perfect; however, I endeavored to play by the roolz of the thread. Would have gone clear off my proverbial rocker if I'd tried to do more!! Ha ha! CB
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Roolz! We don'need no roolz of bad odour!
- and I thought that you achieved great brilliance with your pome, coffeebean. I congratulate you.
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Rhuby, Rhuby, I've been thinkin' . . .
No one took you up on your challenge to omit 19th letter and utilize the other 25!
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Optimal, poptimal!
Java-art-rhythmical
Crafting a ditty
Both-icon without.
What a coup that you did
Double-dactylically
Bring it ici with a
Grin, not a pout!
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Hot Dogg'r'll!!
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In reply to:
I have avoided it in the paragraph above, although every other alphabetic character will be found therein. Can you emulate my cunning?
Hexiban zexiban
Catherine of Aragon
Married King Henry in
1509.
Henry departed from
Conventionality;
Judged her and vowed: “Thou art
No Queen of mine!”
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Ha! Very good. May I call you Blue Mountain in the future?
While I'm not fond of poetry - except for the odd clever dirty limerick, which prolly won't qualify anyway - I do like the double dactyl game. Only no one will play it for very long.
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Now that jazzy piece of double-dactyllic poetry quite exceeded my ideal. Thank you for a very good reply to the challenge!
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Great stuff, CoffeeBean. You are my dactylic Queen.
tabooz schmabooz!
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Naughty Anna!! the taboo button hath been fingered twice! Once in white You have incurred a multiple penalty!
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My darling Rhuby, Anna did violate the roolz thrice and by replying to her, you did it too! [whip>>>whip>>>] Look at the title you have both utilized! 
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Ha! Connie, truth, indeed, fell from your mouth with that comment. Mea culpa, unwittingly, but an offence, without doubt. Lay on with the whip, dear lady. (In future, I need to look more minutely at the title before I reply!)
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