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Message 1366336 - Posted: 10 May 2013, 14:00:24 UTC

villian, not as a baddie the modern meaning, but as in the old medieval meaning, as a farm worker at a villa.
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Message 1366525 - Posted: 10 May 2013, 22:15:31 UTC

lover -> ???
If I told you I'd have to kill you :)

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Message 1367427 - Posted: 13 May 2013, 10:10:18 UTC

Wisdom -> Kings

Both are books in the Septuagint

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Message 1367547 - Posted: 13 May 2013, 16:32:58 UTC

Edwards, Illinois

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Message 1367819 - Posted: 14 May 2013, 11:37:45 UTC

Kiss -> Twenty Google is your friend.

Or you can go straight to the (family friendly) hard stuff

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Message 1367899 - Posted: 14 May 2013, 15:31:40 UTC

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Message 1368321 - Posted: 16 May 2013, 2:10:21 UTC

Let's see who really knows their Adams.
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Message 1368332 - Posted: 16 May 2013, 3:06:20 UTC - in response to Message 1368321.  

Let's see who really knows their Adams.

WinterKnight does.

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Message 1368361 - Posted: 16 May 2013, 5:55:48 UTC
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Someday...somehow...hmmm...makes me think of a song but I don't remember it anymore...

[edit] It was a Tom Waits song...
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Message 1368455 - Posted: 16 May 2013, 14:29:58 UTC

disturbance > Force

As in, Obi Wan sensed one in the other.

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Message 1368482 - Posted: 16 May 2013, 16:27:25 UTC - in response to Message 1368361.  

Someday...somehow...hmmm...makes me think of a song but I don't remember it anymore...

[edit] It was a Tom Waits song...



Which is called somewhere... :))
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Message 1368556 - Posted: 16 May 2013, 18:24:04 UTC

I'll start a new Word Link in the morning, guys. This one is getting long again...
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Message 1368653 - Posted: 16 May 2013, 21:35:35 UTC
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...marked Beware of the Panther...

[obviously] another Adams reference

UK members might like to scan this page for Panther

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Message 1368679 - Posted: 16 May 2013, 23:58:41 UTC - in response to Message 1368653.  

...marked Beware of the Panther...

[obviously] another Adams reference

UK members might like to scan this page for Panther

...marked Beware of the Leopard... was the quote, if I am not mistaken.
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Message 1368683 - Posted: 17 May 2013, 0:07:21 UTC - in response to Message 1368679.  

...marked Beware of the Panther...

[obviously] another Adams reference

UK members might like to scan this page for Panther

...marked Beware of the Leopard... was the quote, if I am not mistaken.

You are correct. (Probably why I didn't get the reference.)

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Message 1368696 - Posted: 17 May 2013, 1:55:16 UTC - in response to Message 1368683.  

...marked Beware of the Panther...

[obviously] another Adams reference

UK members might like to scan this page for Panther

...marked Beware of the Leopard... was the quote, if I am not mistaken.

You are correct. (Probably why I didn't get the reference.)


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Message 1368823 - Posted: 17 May 2013, 9:50:51 UTC
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Re the rules recently reprised - surely no double posts?

(speaking as a retired consultant bureaucrat)

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Message 1368834 - Posted: 17 May 2013, 10:28:45 UTC - in response to Message 1368823.  

Re the rules recently reprised - surely no double posts?

(speaking as a retired consultant bureaucrat)

I always thought that was implicit, as you have to link to the previous poster.
Not much fun word linking to yourself - I mean even if disturbance -> force is a classic, somebody might pick something different :D

Up to Julie to explicitly add that rule.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. (Mark Twain)
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Message 1368859 - Posted: 17 May 2013, 11:24:58 UTC - in response to Message 1368834.  

Re the rules recently reprised - surely no double posts?

(speaking as a retired consultant bureaucrat)

I always thought that was implicit, as you have to link to the previous poster.
Not much fun word linking to yourself - I mean even if disturbance -> force is a classic, somebody might pick something different :D

Up to Julie to explicitly add that rule.



I think that rule is quite obvious but I'll add it in the next Word Link
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Message 1368950 - Posted: 17 May 2013, 15:19:06 UTC

In case there is any discussion.....a most wonderful song.
Avalon by the band Roxy Music.
"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

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