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tsuwm
Are you sure you are allowed out this late?
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It’s prize time folks and I have great pleasure in announcing that the winner, by a considerable margin, is Jackie. Congratulations Jackie. I have had a number of suggestions for prizes, some of which are printable. I will be setting up a special thread in praise of the winner, where A Word A Day-ers can post messages of congratulation, eulogies, limericks, poems or anything else that comes to mind! We would also like to offer this small token of our appreciation: http://www.austmus.gov.au/fish/fish62.htmFor Max who gets the prize for the fastest response by a Kiwi. Here is a little something we thought that you might like: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/a/0/8/doc/a08420.htmWe hope it doesn’t take too much polishing!
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OHMIGAWD!
This is...this is...there must be something worng here.
(Yes, I saw it but am leaving it as an indication of
my state of mind.)
I, um...I, um...er...GEEZ!
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>Are you sure you are allowed out this late?
evidently not... [
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evidently not... [Is that markup for a half-smile? 
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I was interested to note that no comments were passed on the nature of these prizes - AnnaStrophic suggested their relevance to this group, I see she's keeping very quiet!
(The second "prize" may be strictly the fore-runner of what was intended, if you wish to be pedantic.)
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While I'm not sure if Steinem had a pennyfarthing in mind, there is no denying that it is, unquestionably a bicycyle, if that is of any comfort to you. Perhaps someone should juxtapose the two images to see if a fish with a bicycle is a more complete entity.
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Words fail me, and in this, of all places 
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Here is a message for Max, who is clearly having problems sleeping. If I had known that receiving a prize would have caused you so much distress we should have made it smaller. Perhaps : http://home.swipnet.se/photo/engelsk/other/mouse/mouse2.htmThere really isn't a problem. All the words used were carefully chosen. You didn't receive any plaudits at all for winning the competition as originally stated. As a New Zealander you were clearly outside the rules of the original competition, so as long as you put in an entry, based on the fact that it wasn't entering the competition that was fine and dandy. You were given “the prize for the fastest response by a Kiwi”. This was a completely separate competition and not only were you the winner but you were also the only competitor. The prize was suggested for two reasons (i) It was a very elegant paragraph, (ii) What is a fish meant to do without a bicycle?
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