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  1. 08-05-2005 05:14 AM #1221
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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert Smith

    Splendour
    Congenitally angry Welsh leader of a revolt against English rule in the early 15th century. His efforts were overshadowed and obscured by the more successful revolt of the similarly named Owain Glendower ( q.v. ). He is now remembered only for the fact that he is buried "in the Grass".

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  2. 08-05-2005 05:40 AM #1222
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    Quote Originally Posted by Inquartata
    Snaffle
    A half-successful effort to stifle a sneeze.

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    Why sabre? Because you don't take heads with the point.
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  3. 08-05-2005 08:12 AM #1223
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    Quote Originally Posted by sabreur
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    A person who was born in the small, remote republic of Hairdresserland.

    Remote.
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    Quote Originally Posted by D'Art
    Remote.
    When the castle contractor doesn't get the job right the first time.

    Contumely
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  5. 08-05-2005 03:43 PM #1225
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    Quote Originally Posted by Inquartata
    Contumely
    Sharing a burial place (works better with an american accent)

    Barrow
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  6. 08-05-2005 03:47 PM #1226
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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert Smith
    Barrow
    Argument, possibly leading to fisticuffs, in a gin joint

    Ecclesiastical
    But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Goofy
    Ecclesiastical
    Those who devote their lives to the pastries of lancashire.

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    Quote Originally Posted by keith
    ribald
    Obviously, the process of losing one's hair a second time.

    eliminate
    Why sabre? Because you don't take heads with the point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sabreur

    eliminate
    to tear up laminate flooring.

    repatriate
    au revoir
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    Quote Originally Posted by keith
    repatriate
    To repair laminate flooring

    expatriate
    But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Goofy
    expatriate
    to speed ones inheritance by judicious use of a brick.

    reprehensible
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  12. 08-05-2005 08:48 PM #1232
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    Quote Originally Posted by keith
    reprehensible
    Capable of opposing ones thumbs. Again.

    Redolent.
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  13. 08-06-2005 04:29 PM #1233
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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert Smith

    Redolent.
    The assertion that Bob Dole is not a Commie.

    Palimpsest
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  14. 08-07-2005 06:56 AM #1234
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    Quote Originally Posted by Inquartata
    Palimpsest
    A practice well-known in the Ozarks and other isolated communities. "Shucks, ma wife ain't only ma best friend, she's ma sister too!"

    Absinthe
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  15. 08-07-2005 07:17 AM #1235
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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert Smith
    Absinthe
    Makths the heart grow sthronger.

    Lisp
    Why sabre? Because you don't take heads with the point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sabreur

    Lisp
    A famous Hungarian pianist-composer's lesser-known gay second cousin.

    Tumult
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  17. 08-07-2005 05:57 PM #1237
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    Quote Originally Posted by Inquartata
    A famous Hungarian pianist-composer's lesser-known gay second cousin.

    Tumult
    A perjorative term originating in Latin America referring to people of mixed race and lower social standing.

    Octoroon
    If you see my little red rooster, please drag him home
    If you see my little red rooster, please drag him home
    There ain't no peace in the barnyard,
    Since the little red rooster been gone
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  18. 08-07-2005 06:40 PM #1238
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    Quote Originally Posted by mollusk
    Octoroon
    The eighth time your shipmates strand you on a desert island. A measure of extreme unpopularity but also of great personal luck, since (a) obviously you escaped seven times previously, and (b) they didn't simply kill you and have done. Also, a cookie topped with squid meat ( archaic ).

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  19. 08-07-2005 06:46 PM #1239
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    Quote Originally Posted by Inquartata
    The eighth time your shipmates strand you on a desert island. A measure of extreme unpopularity but also of great personal luck, since (a) obviously you escaped seven times previously, and (b) they didn't simply kill you and have done. Also, a cookie topped with squid meat ( archaic ).

    Homunculus
    A gay incubus.

    OK, now have at this one :

    Incubus
    If you see my little red rooster, please drag him home
    If you see my little red rooster, please drag him home
    There ain't no peace in the barnyard,
    Since the little red rooster been gone
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    Quote Originally Posted by mollusk
    A gay incubus.

    OK, now have at this one :

    Incubus

    I'm sensing a pattern here.

    Anyway...

    The means by which a certain f.net curmudgeon got to school as a child.

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