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08-20-2008, 11:42 PM
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Laura...
I live outside Wichita. I lived in KC for a while. It seemed like a big city to me.
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08-19-2008, 07:30 PM
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car keys...
Dear bansai.... i like your map... one question: are the keys in the car, or somewhere else? :confused:
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08-19-2008, 05:40 AM
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competition
I wasn't planning on spending too much time here in August, but the competition bug bites. Right now I am trying to get my time down into the top twenty. I hit a three early on that took me over...
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08-15-2008, 01:45 AM
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ernests
If ferrym85 won't take over for me, I will turn it over to ernests, who looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger, is an editor of Vogue magazine, and invented the hovercraft, among many other things. This...
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08-14-2008, 04:31 AM
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No bed....
I haven't been to bed for two years. But, I have corrected a lot of errors posted by a lot of idiots and numbskulls on various posts. Also corrected a lot of their stupid opinions. :mad: I am...
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08-06-2008, 07:40 PM
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07-31-2008, 12:02 AM
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Occassionally....
On the rare occassions I come across ones I have the record on, I usually solve it slower the second time around. I can't ever remember solving it the first time. I hit one the other day. I solved...
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07-27-2008, 12:23 AM
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Off...
Dear Maradnu... you are off by one year, alhtough I'm not saying which way... not that it really matters! ;)
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07-23-2008, 04:56 AM
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Roger Miller
I loved Roger Miller when I was young. "Two hours of pushing broom buys a 4 by 8 two bit room" - seemed pretty poor pay at the time. "He knows every lock that ain't locked when no one's around -...
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07-17-2008, 12:54 AM
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avatar
I thought the avatar was Jackie Du Pre, but this proved to be wrong. Digirl used to have her photo posted on this site. So did I, before the Big Black Out. Now, I posted a picture of the cat I...
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07-16-2008, 03:48 AM
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competition
I was determined to stay in the top three or four, so I put up about 60,000 a day for 6 days... then I got a terrible pain in my elbow and shoulder from sitting in one position so long... so I may...
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07-13-2008, 03:14 AM
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Senior member....
Back before the "Big Wipe Out" in February, I was a senior member. It used to be based on the number of posts. I used to write a lot on this site, and I was almost immediately a senior member. ...
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07-07-2008, 04:46 PM
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Replies: 6
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Increasing competition....
Back in March and April 2007, I won the High Score challenge. My strategy was to put up about 60,000 the first few days, then about 30,000 thereafter. Now, the competition has increased...
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07-03-2008, 01:01 AM
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autofill...
On re-do puzzles, autofill has never worked for me, so I have to go back and put all the letters in one at a time. On the last day of the June competition, I noticed I had lost my 100%, and there...
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06-30-2008, 06:19 AM
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fastest solving time....
I hit a couple where I had the record... maybe 30 seconds.... and it took me 45 or 60 seconds to solve it again.... well duh! I must be getting dumber. I can't even recall solving them. I just...
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06-15-2008, 12:48 AM
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puzzle
a few months ago ... I hit one that I couldn't figure out... maybe Sandburg... "A poem is an echo waiting to dance"... something like that... I messed around with it for 20 minutes then went to...
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06-14-2008, 01:31 AM
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scores
I've solved a few in 19 seconds and have gotten 446. Same thing for 20-25 seconds ... 446. I have been watching, and I think it changes over to 444 at about 30 seconds. Some of the difficult...
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04-07-2008, 12:05 AM
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This is from Paradise Lost....
This is from Paradise Lost... sometimes a partial fragment can be googled, but in this case, only the last part comes up... the first part doesn't seem to register.
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04-06-2008, 10:50 PM
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I'm not having ....
I'm not having any luck solving the crypto you put up there.... Milton used the contraction th' for the quit a bit.... digirl28 has most of these recorded.... maybe she has this one... :confused:
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04-06-2008, 09:02 PM
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String....
Thanks for the suggestion about the string on the keyboard.... I hadn't thought of that... I removed it.... but he is still fascinated with the computer... (He also plays the piano.... he is using...
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04-06-2008, 03:29 AM
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04-05-2008, 05:23 AM
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How....
How do you keep a cat off the keyboard? I am a dog person, and I inherited this cat from my 87 year old uncle who died last summer. The cat seems to be drawn to my keboard like a magnet. I tell...
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04-02-2008, 03:25 AM
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Same thing...
I've had the same problem.... also I've had a new game pop up... giving me two to solve.... the other day, my cat walked across the keyboard... and suddenly I had 9 unsolved games.... that was a real...
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03-27-2008, 06:13 PM
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I got ...
I got the same quote last week, and due to all the attention, I solved it in about 20 seconds.... so .... some good has come of all the banter! :)
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03-23-2008, 01:34 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 5,586
novels....
I think the context of a quote is irrelevant here. If a totally offensive remark is made in a novel, that is the writer's license. The author may be reflecting a real attitude in fictionalized...
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