Balog
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What if we tried more?
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Rules: Your word must start with the last letter of the last word posted and contain at least two letters of that same word. (In other words, the last letter plus at least one other letter.)
So if we start with "lamp", the next word might be "plural".
Please do not repeat words that have been used before. You can check if a word has been used before at the bottom of the page using the keyword search. That function will locate every post in this thread containing the specified word.
To make it more challenging, you can try to incorporate as many letters of the preceeding word as you can into the new word.
It would be best to avoid proper nouns (names of people or places) unless that name has been incorporated into or converted into and used as a common noun such as Chrysler, Dodge, Philbrick, Phillips, Salchow, and so forth.
Avoid words ending in Y or X because words that start with the letters Y or X are in rather short supply in the English language. Exacerbating the problem is the fact the words ending in Y are very easy to make in English. Early on in the game some of us thought that we would be clever by using lots of words ending in Y, thus making it difficult on the others, but then we realized that if we kept it up for very long we would rapidly choke the game out of existence. So now we avoid words ending in X and Y.
Words should be ones that can be found in an English dictionary. (Not an encyclopedia or Wikipedia.) It's fine if it's an esoteric word from a 600,000 word dictionary but it should appear in an English dictionary somewhere. Scrabble dictionary words are okay too.
I'll start: Puzzle.
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I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun. If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question. |
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Ex-MA Hole
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« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2009, 02:29:26 PM » |
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Employ?
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One day at a time.
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« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2009, 02:41:14 PM » |
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Hey, a question mark is cheating!  Yellow? Or does it have to make sense in some sort of context? |
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"This observation, also, I have laid to heart, that they, who in matters of war seek in all ways to save their lives, are just they who, as a rule, die dishonorably; whereas they who, recognizing that death is the common lot and destiny of all men, strive hard to die nobly: these more frequently, as I observe, do after all attain to old age, or, at any rate, while life lasts, they spend their days more happily." Xenophon
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Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas
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All I got is a fistful of shekels
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« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2009, 02:44:24 PM » |
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Weltanschauung?
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Amy Schumer
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I spent a week in that town one night....
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« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2009, 02:49:54 PM » |
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Gemutlicht (Wow! It didn't long for this thread to spin out of control.....  ) |
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Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.
Bring me my Broadsword and a clear understanding.
Get up to the roundhouse on the cliff-top standing.
Take women and children and bed them down.
Bless with a hard heart those that stand with me.
Bless the women and children who firm our hands.
Put our backs to the north wind.
Hold fast by the river.
Sweet memories to drive us on for the motherland.
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« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2009, 02:50:14 PM » |
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Regolith
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« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2009, 02:50:33 PM » |
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telephone
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. - Thomas Jefferson
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt the Younger
Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything. - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
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Yub yub Commander
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« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2009, 02:52:26 PM » |
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Excelsior!
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Look, tiny text!
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« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2009, 02:52:32 PM » |
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Epinephrine.
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"Providence can be comprehended and found in the wounds of Christ - and nowhere else."
Johannes von Staupitz
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In short, most intelligence is false.
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« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2009, 03:22:32 PM » |
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Epiphany.
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Impressed yet befogged, they grasped at his vivid leading phrases, seeing only their surface meaning, and missing the deeper current of his thought.
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Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas
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« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2009, 03:23:29 PM » |
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Yankee.
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Balog
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What if we tried more?
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« Reply #11 on: May 14, 2009, 03:37:37 PM » |
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Endoscopic
Remember not to use words ending in X or Y.
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I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun. If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question. |
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« Reply #12 on: May 14, 2009, 03:41:26 PM » |
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Colonic
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RaspberrySurprise
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« Reply #13 on: May 14, 2009, 03:46:16 PM » |
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Chronic
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Look, tiny text!
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Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas
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« Reply #14 on: May 14, 2009, 03:47:01 PM » |
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Cadiz
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« Reply #15 on: May 14, 2009, 03:49:16 PM » |
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Balog
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« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2009, 03:49:47 PM » |
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Cadiz
No proper names unless it's entered the lexicon. |
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I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun. If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question. |
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Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas
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« Reply #17 on: May 14, 2009, 03:51:23 PM » |
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No proper names unless it's entered the lexicon.
How else do we get Zardoz into this thread?  |
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« Reply #18 on: May 14, 2009, 04:41:27 PM » |
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. - Thomas Jefferson
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt the Younger
Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything. - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
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« Reply #19 on: May 14, 2009, 04:57:57 PM » |
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One day at a time.
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« Reply #20 on: May 14, 2009, 05:23:33 PM » |
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"Providence can be comprehended and found in the wounds of Christ - and nowhere else."
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Balog
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« Reply #21 on: May 14, 2009, 05:24:41 PM » |
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Needs 2 letters fisty.
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I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun. If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question. |
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Regolith
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« Reply #22 on: May 14, 2009, 05:26:40 PM » |
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Tetraacetylethylenediamine (that one fits both fistful's AND Ex-MA Hole's ) |
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. - Thomas Jefferson
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt the Younger
Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything. - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
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« Reply #23 on: May 14, 2009, 05:28:07 PM » |
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Destroy The Enemy in Hand-to-Hand Combat. "...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty. " ~ William Graham Sumner
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« Reply #24 on: May 14, 2009, 05:29:22 PM » |
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. - Thomas Jefferson
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt the Younger
Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything. - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
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