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#160289 06/07/06 04:00 PM
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speight, choose one:

a) a long handled gaff used in sport fishing

b) German mythological bird resembling a yellow-bellied sapsucker

c) a channel sewn into a corset to hold a whalebone (baleen) stiffening strip

d) a bridge which requires payment of a toll at both ends

e) to make clear or clarify; elucidate

f) the green woodpecker (obs.)

g) foul-mouthed

h) prediction, prophecy; augury, omen (rare)

i) a drying rack for turves

j) a display window magic trick: An unhooked spigot is suspended from a height of about two feet by a single fishing line. Once turned on water rushes out from the spigot into a wash pan night and day for about a week.

k) hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed

l) a collection, meeting, or assemblage, esp. one to elect a military officer from the ranks of enlisted men (archaic)

m) (Scot.) late; lateness

n) a small wooden sluice for draining water from an overflow tank

o) a slew; a myriad; a vast quantity

#160290 06/07/06 05:54 PM
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As one fascinated with the ivory-bill, I'll take F

#160291 06/07/06 06:07 PM
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gimme a.


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#160292 06/07/06 06:13 PM
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I'm going to yield to the temptation of C .

#160293 06/07/06 06:55 PM
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The L with it.

#160294 06/07/06 08:40 PM
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I like C too.

#160295 06/07/06 10:19 PM
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I like I just for its audacity.

Eagerly awaiting the ArmilŪ Report.

#160296 06/07/06 11:47 PM
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N sounds right to me.


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>H<


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H for me, too.

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