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07-29-2009, 05:31 PM
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Done
Thank you, Angie. ;)
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07-29-2009, 08:22 AM
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How do you put...
a rating on this thread?
[Oh, let me guess... hold down Ctrl F7 for 10 seconds while hopping and bopping on one foot and whistlin' Dixie to the Crocodile Rock cause your feet just can't keep...
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07-17-2009, 07:08 PM
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Yes, ma'am...
You've got it... a contented cat.
Purring, playing, chirping (those little chirps I miss the most...).
Feline vs. canine = no contest! (apologies to dog lovers but not really)
Pootie --
Looks...
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07-16-2009, 11:13 PM
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Chasing dental floss...
that's a great sign.
I live with a dog at the moment... so have nothing to do with used floss but throw it away. The hunting instinct in cats, coupled with inherent grace and agility, makes their...
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07-15-2009, 01:49 AM
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P.S.
Single letter words will be "a" or "i" (with rare exceptions... e.g., the poetic "o").
"ing" is easy to recognize at the end of words.
Trial and error (hit or miss): "tion" at the end of a long...
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07-15-2009, 01:40 AM
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Pattern Recognition
Hi there,
It's all about recognizing the patterns of letters that form English words.
We all start with "that," "the," "there," "then or they or them"...
"and" (especially after a comma)
"-ess"...
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07-15-2009, 01:15 AM
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Kat
I have owned several cats. Loved them all.
A sick pet is like a small child who cannot talk and does not understand. Scary and sad. But as a rule, animals do better than humans at living with...
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07-03-2009, 07:52 AM
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Views: 642
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03-03-2009, 10:46 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,346
A patch for every purpose...
(shrugs)
How long have birth control patches been approved for use (by prescription)? For three weeks female hormones are efficiently absorbed through one's skin directly into the blood stream --...
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02-28-2009, 07:17 PM
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End of Month (February) congrats to the Kat
Hello, Kat --
fyi... I always keep a semi-obsessive focus on scores and rankings -- eyes on the prize (mostly to see how far short I have fallen this month).
It does not escape my notice that of...
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02-28-2009, 07:06 PM
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P.S. Most informative article (1998 revisited)
Please note Bansai's link above: a short [fascinating] bio of Will Shortz, NYT crossword puzzle editor.
The double solution for Election Day, 1996, was absolutely awesome. How ingenious. What...
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02-28-2009, 06:16 PM
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Committed Puzzleheads
That's how Bret Fetzer at amazon.com describes the target audience for Wordplay, a documentary for crossword solvers as well as curious observers of said species.
Thanks, Bansai, for the heads up...
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02-28-2009, 05:49 PM
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That's OK, Pootie...
More often than not...
I do not begin to understand my own posts after I write them!
Life has been... shall we say... stressful. Understatement. One doesn't want to work retail in the present...
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02-23-2009, 08:24 AM
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Showing My Age
Interesting, Bansai, that you edited your post -- correctly -- but not the way I had in mind. Shows how open-ended the writing process can be.
Do you suppose someone might design a crypto-puzzle...
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02-23-2009, 08:00 AM
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Fun with Numbers
Agree, Maradnu... and was thinking "Law of Large Numbers," so I google'd that and found this enlightening dissertation:
wwwrsphysse.anu.edu.au/~tas110/Teaching/Lectures/L4/Lecture4.pdf
which...
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02-23-2009, 06:57 AM
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Hi, Kat...
Maybe one or two.
I happen to work at a drug store chain... not however in Rx.
It's fairly amazing, though, how much a registered pharmacist can help you. An R.Ph. will refer you back to an M.D.,...
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02-21-2009, 07:07 PM
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Nope...
Sorry. I neglected the thumbnail.
But who knows... what or who I am... really.
Boy, girl, young, old, serial (fill in the blank). Suppose I put up an avatar pic... even then...
How would you...
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02-21-2009, 06:44 PM
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Agree, mostly, except...
Hmmm. What's wrong with the sentence above? I posit this problem may be solved (edited) by its author with the addition of three letters, appropriately placed, so its meaning becomes congruent with...
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02-14-2009, 05:58 PM
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Views: 940
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02-14-2009, 05:53 PM
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Whew...
Nice to know, Bansai, that the aforementioned IDIOT was someone else --
(a thief in the night?) -- and not yours truly.
That's gotta be a little boy sitting by the blackboard wearing a dunce cap......
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02-14-2009, 06:37 AM
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Guess what? I used the new "comment...
Guess what? I used the new "comment box" to flag an incomplete quotation by Anatole France.
"Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God..."
Leave out the first three words and you lose a lot! Have...
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02-12-2009, 06:21 AM
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Oh m'gawd...
Looks like a horror flick from the 1940s or 50s...
when prefrontal lobotomies were all the rage.
Thanks... but no thanks. I'll take a long pass on that operation.
Oh, dear. Would that you were...
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02-12-2009, 01:06 AM
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Fare thee well, Internet Explorer...
and RIP.
Downloaded Firefox in 2 minutes -- another two to install -- now we be cooking!
Woo hoo.
(re Firefox's built-in spell check... it don't like that "hoo" above, not one bit. Gosh golly...
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02-11-2009, 06:15 AM
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Hi, Stephen...
I just returned and am delighted to see your response.
Firefox definitely rocks... not only here. But the resident electronics geek has been restoring an old Micron that was wiped by a virus, and...
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02-10-2009, 08:24 PM
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Views: 1,567
Technica Glitches: Can anyone HELP???
Hello, everyone --
I spent a month moving (January) and what a cold, miserable month it was.
But it had to be done... and at present I am well situated.
My computer went through major changes:...
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