European politics -- formerly Jumbled word #7

Chris S
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Must need a B surely?

Must need a B surely?

Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)

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You'd think they'd have got it right by now

anniet
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You're doing so well, David

You're doing so well, David I'm tempted to throw away the letters you have left and declare this -> SU--ERMAT---YP-I-S and you the winner, I really am! Why, because I don't think we see enough resting places in the middle of words, I really don't, and that one has so many you couldn't possibly be tired at the end of saying it. And anyway... I'm not entirely sure I was allowed to add an s on the end of it either :) It's how can I put it...? eeerm... a grey area that you may want to discuss heatedly at some point in the near future... but I have some correspondence to deal with now.

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Well I can see a spider


Oh can you? Can you really! *swoop nose into owl's flightpath* Where may I ask are its other legs and eyes?

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and a millipede...

A miLlipede!! Those are clouds but with a little glimpse of sunshine :) They *sweep arm majestically across top of glyph picture* represent the realm of air and these... *sweep arm majestically across bottom of glyph picture* the realm of water - apart from that bit of the orange thing sticking out of it which was meant to be a periscope... which is why I said this:

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the orange part of it, should help you with the first three letters... but only if you drop the watery bit.


Tell me you saw a fish in it...

And yes... I accept the bird wasn't brilliant, but it was a lot more in proportion to the submarine than a spider would have been...

@soapbox: I can't see it happening. Sorry :) Not that I mean I'm sorry you won't get a life sentence... of course :) I just doubt you'd get to see poachers if you did go. It's your dropdead at a close-up with a benign British spider that seems the first insurmountable problem. Poachers don't let you just drive over them you see. No. You'd have to wander about being obliging to hitching locusts and other whatnots, whilst giving way to scorpions and cobra's and such at ground level - or at rear end level should you happen to pop it on a handy rock or log for a rest... not to mention providing a top-to-toe collision surface for some very large, slow-reflexed flying beetles and ooooh... dragonflies... have I ever told you how much I LOVE dragonflies!!!? :) And then you'd have to keep alert for a strange rustling noise over the din of dementedly chirping crickets, in case you're in the path of foraging columns of army ants. They don't swerve - and whilst they're marching up and over and all the way back down you again, they really don't like being slapped away or interfered with. No... not even in the teeniest of tiniest ways :) And they're not too keen on high pitched squealing or being transported off at a greater speed than they're used to by something on two legs that should have kept out of their way to begin with. Those are just the small things you can't make a racket about encountering. But if you think you can cope with them and armed poachers who may have warmed up their guns on a game warden or two just beforehand and you go to prison for doing them a mischief, I will definitely write to my MP* :)

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I'm quite a dab hand at rescuing ladybirds actually. And been known to rescue cats dinners and put them outside. Most died or fright anyway within 10 minutes but a few scuttled away.


Is that 10 minutes of you chasing after them? Or are 9 of them waiting for a health and safety assessment of the situation to be conducted first? :)

*edit:... and the Spanish Embassy.

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David S
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RE: You're doing so well,

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You're doing so well, David I'm tempted to throw away the letters you have left and declare this -> SU--ERMAT---YP-I-S and you the winner, I really am!


I certainly hope you're not telling me that every other letter I put in is wrong, including the B after I went to all the trouble of figuring out that you were rather blatantly telling me it went there.

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Why, because I don't think we see enough resting places in the middle of words, I really don't, and that one has so many you couldn't possibly be tired at the end of saying it. And anyway... I'm not entirely sure I was allowed to add an s on the end of it either :) It's how can I put it...? eeerm... a grey area that you may want to discuss heatedly at some point in the near future... but I have some correspondence to deal with now.


I had wondered if the S was necessary, but didn't ask.

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Well I can see a spider


So did I, but I chose to ignore it.

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Oh can you? Can you really! *swoop nose into owl's flightpath* Where may I ask are its other legs and eyes?

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and a millipede...


Didn't see that.

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A miLlipede!! Those are clouds but with a little glimpse of sunshine :) They *sweep arm majestically across top of glyph picture* represent the realm of air and these... *sweep arm majestically across bottom of glyph picture* the realm of water - apart from that bit of the orange thing sticking out of it which was meant to be a periscope... which is why I said this:

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the orange part of it, should help you with the first three letters... but only if you drop the watery bit.

Tell me you saw a fish in it...


That was hard to miss, but I still didn't contemplate its importance.

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And yes... I accept the bird wasn't brilliant, but it was a lot more in proportion to the submarine than a spider would have been...


I can see a bird, now that you mention it.

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in case you're in the path of foraging columns of army ants. They don't swerve - and whilst they're marching up and over and all the way back down you again, they really don't like being slapped away or interfered with. No... not even in the teeniest of tiniest ways :) And they're not too keen on high pitched squealing or being transported off at a greater speed than they're used to by something on two legs that should have kept out of their way to begin with.


The mere thought of that has me slightly quivering.

David

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Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.

Mike Hewson
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I quite like that spot of BBcode ! :-)

At first I thought it might have been a scene from The Hunt For Red October as @ looks slightly like Sean Connery.

Cheers, Mike.

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anniet
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RE: RE: You're doing so

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You're doing so well, David I'm tempted to throw away the letters you have left and declare this -> SU--ERMAT---YP-I-S and you the winner, I really am!

I certainly hope you're not telling me that every other letter I put in is wrong, including the B after I went to all the trouble of figuring out that you were rather blatantly telling me it went there.


If any of the other letters had been wrong, David, I would have pointed at them, and then at you, or possibly the other way round - we'll never know now, and told you precisely how wrong you and they were. And yes, the B was correctly placed where you placed it, but the HO... well... they were dismally wrong. I didn't think it worth mentioning at the time, as I knew I was going to mention the tailend arrangement twice under millipede :) Which I did.

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@ looks slightly like Sean Connery.


Ohhhhh yes! So he does :) Poor fish :(

*:)))))))) till Chris yells Oi*

^ that's ^ not a millipede either...

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Chris S
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Ok, that is still a spider!!

Ok, that is still a spider!! The view is head on looking horizontally, so the other 2 pairs of legs are directly in line behind the front pair, so they can't be seen!! As for the millipede, I'll alter that to a crayfish or a lobster.

I think Annie is carrying out secret Rorschach tests on us experimental subjects, yes I do!

Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)

Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now

David S
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RE: *sweep arm majestically

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*sweep arm majestically across top of glyph picture* ... *sweep arm majestically across bottom of glyph picture*


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I knew I was going to mention the tailend arrangement twice under millipede :) Which I did.


subdermatoglyphics

For the record, this particular computer/browser combination's spell checker does not recognize that, with or without the trailing S. But that is not conclusive evidence of anything.

Also for the record, when I prominently mentioned HO, what was in my head was the scale in which I model trains, not the ghetto term for a street walker.

David

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Mike Hewson
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RE: subdermatoglyphics

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subdermatoglyphics


Oh. One of those. Sort of a deep atomic level tattoo what ?? :-)

Cheers. Mike.

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Sir Rodney Ffing
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Try dermatoglyphics. I have a

Try dermatoglyphics. I have a mate who is a fingerprint man. It's an isogram. The sub was added and the last s dropped in order to lengthen it. Outside of isogram enthusiasts it's generally unknown - but it would refer to the area beneath the area of the skin that creates the ridging.

And hello everyone.

Mike Hewson
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Welcome Sir Ffing. I note

Welcome Sir Ffing. I note that you are from Gibraltar ! Chris apparently has a problem with that place, so let's not tell him .... because we might lose a week ! :-)

[ Hmmmmm ..... random guess .... I suspect Chris will have a fit if I also mention the Suez Crisis of 1956 ? ]

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

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