Re: Re : Irritating word puzzle.
From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
Date: | Saturday, October 23, 1999, 4:36 |
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Charles wrote:
>>From
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>> Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 22/10/99 23:04:09 , Padraic a =E9crit :
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>> > Gryingly yours,
>> > Padraic.
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>> degree ?
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>Cool answer, using spoken rather than written language.
Passed right over my head! :(
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>Another is: if you are a poet, how will you rhyme "month"?
>(From John Barth, "The Sot-Weed Factor".)
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>Another bad one is "orange". We solved that one in
What was so hard about it? I can think of grange, range, arrange,
derange, mange; cringe, syringe, singe, hinge etc. right off hand.
Padraic.
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>Defying an ultra-secret spy network believed to be scanning
>overseas e-mails for subversive messages, Internet protesters
>tried to overwhelm U.S. government eavesdroppers by flooding the
>system with fabricated messages about terrorist plots and bombs.
Radio shows were awash with the supposed "list" this week, including
Ruby Ridge, whatever the heck that is, anthrax (Wasn't she one of nuns
or whatever in Monty Pythons HG?), the Unabomber, etc. Well if one of
Uncle Sam's thugs happens to read this (in contravention of the
Constitution), he can jolly well tell me why it's supposed to be so
hard to rhyme "orange".=20