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Message 1357777 - Posted: 17 Apr 2013, 13:32:20 UTC - in response to Message 1357745.  

Legacy.com is the leading provider of online obituaries for the newspaper industry

That's fine, but how did we get from obituary to puzzle?

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Message 1357799 - Posted: 17 Apr 2013, 15:18:06 UTC - in response to Message 1357777.  

Legacy.com is the leading provider of online obituaries for the newspaper industry

That's fine, but how did we get from obituary to puzzle?


Hmmm....beats me...
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Message 1357811 - Posted: 17 Apr 2013, 15:46:03 UTC - in response to Message 1357777.  

Legacy.com is the leading provider of online obituaries for the newspaper industry

That's fine, but how did we get from obituary to puzzle?

Newspaper features :)
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Message 1357814 - Posted: 17 Apr 2013, 15:52:55 UTC

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I knew someone was going to write this:))
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Message 1357825 - Posted: 17 Apr 2013, 16:20:31 UTC - in response to Message 1357814.  

side


I knew someone was going to write this:))

Well it was the nest logical word!
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Message 1357835 - Posted: 17 Apr 2013, 16:46:22 UTC

before we end up with bottom again I thought we proceed straight to quarks (top bottom, up, down, strange, charm) I guess the phycisist who named those was having an affair with a developmental biologist (they go for really strange gene names)
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Message 1358337 - Posted: 19 Apr 2013, 2:02:19 UTC
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Message 1358492 - Posted: 19 Apr 2013, 9:29:34 UTC

how did we get from iceberg to hindenburg?

some historical event I'm not familiar with?
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Message 1358495 - Posted: 19 Apr 2013, 9:33:33 UTC

Maybe they served iceberg salad at the Hindenburg...;)
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Message 1358555 - Posted: 19 Apr 2013, 13:48:33 UTC - in response to Message 1358492.  

how did we get from iceberg to hindenburg?

some historical event I'm not familiar with?

The homonyms berg and burg are a good enough connection for me.

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Message 1358560 - Posted: 19 Apr 2013, 14:07:04 UTC

My relationships from whereeve I am to wherevere you are are sometimes a little unobservable.

I suspect most of you might respect them nonetheless.

What started out as a word game became a war of words.

One I do not wish to continue.

Because I could continue sublime. Cuz I love slime.
Connect to the earlier, now removed connection to the Lehrer song.

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Message 1358617 - Posted: 19 Apr 2013, 17:54:57 UTC

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Message 1359868 - Posted: 22 Apr 2013, 15:24:52 UTC

avocado > attorney

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Message 1359888 - Posted: 22 Apr 2013, 15:57:01 UTC
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The poster is French. In french the word for Lawyer and avocado are the same

avocat

I believe.
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Message 1359899 - Posted: 22 Apr 2013, 16:31:33 UTC - in response to Message 1359888.  

The poster is French. In french the word for Lawyer and avocado are the same

avocat

I believe.

my online dictionary agrees with you.
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Message 1360017 - Posted: 22 Apr 2013, 20:45:12 UTC - in response to Message 1359888.  

The poster is French. In french the word for Lawyer and avocado are the same

avocat

I believe.

Eau.
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Message 1360236 - Posted: 23 Apr 2013, 6:39:53 UTC - in response to Message 1360017.  

The poster is French. In french the word for Lawyer and avocado are the same

avocat

I believe.

Eau.



And what did water have to do with it? ;)
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Message 1360355 - Posted: 23 Apr 2013, 15:51:46 UTC
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bsng

that's either missing a vowel or is a pretty obscure acronym...
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Message 1360368 - Posted: 23 Apr 2013, 21:20:47 UTC

Or a finger straying...
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