Well I was doing head-injured armadillo. I was expecting better critical review but I guess that will have to do ... 'affected Thespian sniff' ...
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What's brown and black and looks good on a lawyer? A Doberman.
Ah we had Tom some years ago, a lovely 50kg Dobey but he looked like a hell hound. Rippling muscles. Short tail. Kerberos Incarnate. Knocked a burglar to ground in our front yard and then sat on him. Stared into the guy's eyes. The perp submitted ever so willingly to custardy on police attendance. Not a mark on him. But change of trousers ....
The police wondered if we would lease him out for night work. We mainly fed him raw [strike]children[/strike] chicken until the [strike]kindergarten[/strike] poultry farm down the street caught on.
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
It was the only thing I could come up with... you know... as a suggestion...
Oh. I see we already have some...
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choof the MaryJane.
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lie about it.
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Take it from me.
Oh that last one is reeARLY good Mike... Yes. My mystifying promotion from "perfect stump" - yes einsteinians! *smile proudly* apparently I was the right height and everything :) *preen* (and I could do the "just stand there and don't move till the ball hits you" bit really well too) to shortest batsman on the planet just as a VERY large window sprung a hole didn't go entirely unnoticed by me... and being half of the twins given the job of "carrying the dining room chair" cross country to "get some kumquats" only to watch the mastermind leg it to the horizon faster than it took us to work out precisely which direction to run in so that we could both fall over the chair without even leaving the base of the tree, was a salutory lesson in crime in itself.
But that's enough dravel. Would have been back MUCH earlier :) but working out which is the business end of a tranquiliser dart is a lot harder than I thought. Giving up and putting it down only to then sit on it is MUCH easier :)
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(Nods nervously in Annies direction)
Would that be towards the East ? or, perhaps the (Long Path)
towards the West or over the poles )
Mike mentioned something about the Aurora ... I'll look for that :)
How nice! :) The painful viewing that was TLPTP12's exercise in navigation has paid a small dividend I see. Stay put and just move the eyes around the planet... Excellent! :) without a compass too *nod graciousLY at Phil and Bill to mark the occasion and... gbhndftcesxla*
How interesting. A QWERTY-nose measurement. NOT my first :)
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Can I guess Anne Bronte please?
*air of distraction brought on by schnozz annielyticals* Erm... why yes of course you can Chris, of course. Short of digging her up, I can't think of any other way to do so really... doubt she spans S to L though... no wonder I have problems with champagne flutes.
Interesting area of the country she lived in. I've heard of people going there and even coming back - and others that deliberately stay :) Did you know her dad was a clergyman? Well, her dad was a clergyman. And now that we all do you're very very welcome :) Our person's dad was too... :) but after that the similarities kind of fall apart quite a bit of a lot. There's a farm labourer for a start... He just turned up in my head from Ireland... No idea where he came from *lengthy scowl* so I suggest you leave him out of your search for the moment. He might confuse you. He has me.
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...a rather arbitrary statistic...
Why thank you David. You know... for pinpointing that. Meanwhile... Skipping to your next mini-paragraph...
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Depends whether he's learning to be an EMD or a GE. If he's a GE, he'll start off with a kind of ruhruhruhruhruhruhrufff, whereas an EMD just goes right into a dissonant howl.
...which set Mike off on a lolloping BAAAWAAAAWAAAA to plunge his head into a plate of waffles (if his miniscule scribblings are anything to go by) - I fail to see anything wrong with it at all :) No. I don't. Perhaps there is something arbitrary in the quantity and quality of his drovelling that we can pick up on next? :)
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My next guess is Peter Reesor. Dec. 25, 1775, although two Monday Christmases hence was only 11 years.
It may also be noted, for no reason whatsoever, that on Monday, Dec. 25, 1741, Anders Celsius developed his scale for thermometers.
Yes... I have noted it's lack of reason... and I have also noted it's wrongness... :)
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( edit ) Now there is always the fuss regarding Julian & Gregorian dates which were in simultaneous use in some countries for certain periods. Complex.
I considered that and decided it wasn't important. I do continue to bear it in mind, in case it becomes important.
Oh I do hope it doesn't ... *anxiety attack* ... I'm having enough problems trying to work out how my person died twice in the same month...
It's got so bad in fact, that I think you might wish to retract this bit...
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I don't think Annie really is scatterbrained enough to have made that error. (That ought to keep her from clobbering me with a frying pan, or Julie's or Uli's rolling pin.)
...and not worry about getting clobbered by anything other than a wall once you start banging your head on it.
I will say that my malapropphobia means there are not enough barge poles on the planet for me to get even remotely mixed up with one John Fitzgerald, let alone two. It started with an exam essay question requiring significant mentionings of Douglas Macarthur *wibbly wobbly monitor fade out back to the dark ages* and it would have been a very good one if Arthur Macdouglas hadn't shown up in the first sentence.
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I already have tomorrow's wrong guess planned.
If only everyone was so prepared :) I'm confident I will have found something equally erroneous too by tomorrow...
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...doth thou require a boon?
*Blink* Oh... heh heh heh ... :) sorry... eyes just rebooted. Blinks are handy like that! Thought I was going to look stupid there for a minute and have to ask what a hoon was. No :) I'd rather not thanks... :) too many things can go wrong with a boom as you well know... *dark stare into space* ... a boon would be nice though *sigh* although Snuffy's lawyer joke was a start :) and I like your scuttle :)
Hi TL :)
As to clues... well... letsnotworrytoomuch :) Something's bound to come along soon.
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Oh that last one is reeARLY good Mike... Yes. My mystifying promotion from "perfect stump" - yes einsteinians! *smile proudly* apparently I was the right height and everything :) *preen* (and I could do the "just stand there and don't move till the ball hits you" bit really well too) to shortest batsman on the planet just as a VERY large window sprung a hole didn't go entirely unnoticed by me... and being half of the twins given the job of "carrying the dining room chair" cross country to "get some kumquats" only to watch the mastermind leg it to the horizon faster than it took us to work out precisely which direction to run in so that we could both fall over the chair without even leaving the base of the tree, was a salutory lesson in crime in itself.
I gave up on trying to make sense of this paragraph after reading it three times. I concluded that further readings would not prove any more enlightening, and remembered the popular definition of insanity.
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But that's enough dravel. Would have been back MUCH earlier :) but working out which is the business end of a tranquiliser dart is a lot harder than I thought. Giving up and putting it down only to then sit on it is MUCH easier :)
That sounds like a good story.
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...a rather arbitrary statistic...
Why thank you David. You know... for pinpointing that. Meanwhile... Skipping to your next mini-paragraph...
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Depends whether he's learning to be an EMD or a GE. If he's a GE, he'll start off with a kind of ruhruhruhruhruhruhrufff, whereas an EMD just goes right into a dissonant howl.
...which set Mike off on a lolloping BAAAWAAAAWAAAA to plunge his head into a plate of waffles (if his miniscule scribblings are anything to go by) - I fail to see anything wrong with it at all :) No. I don't. Perhaps there is something arbitrary in the quantity and quality of his drovelling that we can pick up on next? :)
Above included in quote just because that was where I started giggling as I read it.
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My next guess is Peter Reesor. Dec. 25, 1775, although two Monday Christmases hence was only 11 years.
It may also be noted, for no reason whatsoever, that on Monday, Dec. 25, 1741, Anders Celsius developed his scale for thermometers.
Yes... I have noted it's lack of reason... and I have also noted it's wrongness... :)
As have I noted your aggravatingly inappropriate and incorrect apostrophes.
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( edit ) Now there is always the fuss regarding Julian & Gregorian dates which were in simultaneous use in some countries for certain periods. Complex.
I considered that and decided it wasn't important. I do continue to bear it in mind, in case it becomes important.
Oh I do hope it doesn't ... *anxiety attack* ... I'm having enough problems trying to work out how my person died twice in the same month...
Yes, I can see how that would be a problem.
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It's got so bad in fact, that I think you might wish to retract this bit...
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I don't think Annie really is scatterbrained enough to have made that error. (That ought to keep her from clobbering me with a frying pan, or Julie's or Uli's rolling pin.)
...and not worry about getting clobbered by anything other than a wall once you start banging your head on it.
I'm thinking that means the person is not nearly as obscure as the guesses I've been making.
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I will say that my malapropphobia means there are not enough barge poles on the planet for me to get even remotely mixed up with one John Fitzgerald, let alone two. It started with an exam essay question requiring significant mentionings of Douglas Macarthur *wibbly wobbly monitor fade out back to the dark ages* and it would have been a very good one if Arthur Macdouglas hadn't shown up in the first sentence.
That sounds like it might involve some timey-wimey.
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I already have tomorrow's wrong guess planned.
If only everyone was so prepared :) I'm confident I will have found something equally erroneous too by tomorrow...
As to clues... well... letsnotworrytoomuch :) Something's bound to come along soon.
And without further ado (possible Ado Annie jokes not intended), the preplanned guess of the day is Evangeline Booth. She fits the Christmas Monday and 2nd such day hence on 17th birthday parameters.
As that is sure to be wrong as well, I will try to get a head start on tomorrow's.
(Actually, no I won't. I don't have the time. Or the timey-wimey.)
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
I think you will have NO problems there at all. And thank you so much for letting us know formally... particularly so early on in your post
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I gave up on trying to make sense...
Yes you did... most effectively... and completely undermined what might otherwise have been a most notable following note from you :)
Let's see now...
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As have I noted your aggravatingly inappropriate and incorrect apostrophes.
Yes... there we go :) And quite rightly too if I may say so! I don't know where they're coming from!! I used to be a perfect apostrophiser and then along came keyboards and computers and stuff and I blame mobile phones. Yes I do. It's since I started texting and discovered that they'd made apostrophes such a chore to use that I couldn't be bothered AND keep a sunny disposition all at the same time. *cast dark scowl into corner*
Before you know it you've built up an apostrophe debt, which is a bit like a sleep debt except you have to pay it back with your eyes open otherwise the debt snowballs, but all the time it's your fingers that are in control of absolutelyeverything*glare*
EVERYTHINGITELLYOUandthere'snobrainANYWHEREtobeFOUNDEVERAGAINAND...
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uh oh ...
*HURL mad staring eyes into space*
*silence* *attempt to drop pin so everyone can hear it and, drop the lot in excellent demonstration that gravity is not always just about down but can also involve quite a lot of everywhere else as well* So ye's :) I noted them too :) and however aggravating they may be to you, David, there even more aggravating to me... so I will be adding them to my report on your behalf as you're report would ju'st be binned straight after youd use'd the word "sense" :)
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Evangeline Booth
Well! You think you know someone, then you pop them in a search engine. Oh... Congratulations by the way! :) You're absolutely right! Evangeline Booth IS wrong, but doesn't she fit our mystery person search criteria so well and yet so badly all at the same time! I don't know how you managed it. Very impressive, and a very interesting woman too :) Mind you - out of all the things they could have popped into the little blurb about her achievements etc... you know... *wave hands at monitor* ... under each hyperlink chucked at you by a search engine - only two in the first ten didn't blast straight out with her vow of celibacy. I almost didn't know that I knew who she was at all.
I will attempt to tie some of my frayed clue-ends together with all your accidental coincidentallies for you in my next post because... *deep, important breath* ... I think that is going to REALLY help you all :)
I'd do it now but I've lost my VIPoP. That was the bad news everyone :) Having narrowed my search area down significantly to it still being on the planet is the good news, and it having had some stuff on it about rules that were flagrantly breached because I put them on a rectnangle inste-... - Oh. *long stare - complete with twitch*
There you go David :) A balls-up. How marvellous. Will give you something to note in your next post... :) *sniff elongitudinally* is sort of neutral news... oh look ... and an orphan clause - better and better still - a veritable field day for you :) Awwww.... You're so WELCOME! :)
Hi TL :) Hi Bill :)
Off to find a magnet for those pins now... :) Oh and a stump *flap eyelids* when it's not what's left after an unfortunate limb incident :( *kiss better I would if I could* is a stick that I believe... *drawl* ... you balance some very small sticks on top of and then have to protect without your legs whilst also being in your crease and whacking at a ball that can kill you before then running away from the very sticks you're supposed to be looking after and leaving them unprotected. It's called cricket, and this... *wave airily at this and my last post* is my revenge for your baseball :) Oh and a kumquat is a small African fruit :) and we didn't have any. We had LOADS of everything else you could hope to pull off a tree and eat, but not them...
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RE: RE: Good morning
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Well I was doing head-injured armadillo. I was expecting better critical review but I guess that will have to do ... 'affected Thespian sniff' ...
Ah we had Tom some years ago, a lovely 50kg Dobey but he looked like a hell hound. Rippling muscles. Short tail. Kerberos Incarnate. Knocked a burglar to ground in our front yard and then sat on him. Stared into the guy's eyes. The perp submitted ever so willingly to custardy on police attendance. Not a mark on him. But change of trousers ....
The police wondered if we would lease him out for night work. We mainly fed him raw [strike]children[/strike] chicken until the [strike]kindergarten[/strike] poultry farm down the street caught on.
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
Back at the top, and
)
Back at the top, and WINNING!!!!! :-)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
*fling open thread
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*fling open thread door...
...thespianically*
*dodge incendiary paper plane*
If anyone asks *puff* ...
you haven't seen this...
*long wheeeeeeeze*
*kick door shut traditionally - with foot*
It was the only thing I could come up with... you know... as a suggestion...
Oh. I see we already have some...
Oh that last one is reeARLY good Mike... Yes. My mystifying promotion from "perfect stump" - yes einsteinians! *smile proudly* apparently I was the right height and everything :) *preen* (and I could do the "just stand there and don't move till the ball hits you" bit really well too) to shortest batsman on the planet just as a VERY large window sprung a hole didn't go entirely unnoticed by me... and being half of the twins given the job of "carrying the dining room chair" cross country to "get some kumquats" only to watch the mastermind leg it to the horizon faster than it took us to work out precisely which direction to run in so that we could both fall over the chair without even leaving the base of the tree, was a salutory lesson in crime in itself.
But that's enough dravel. Would have been back MUCH earlier :) but working out which is the business end of a tranquiliser dart is a lot harder than I thought. Giving up and putting it down only to then sit on it is MUCH easier :)
How nice! :) The painful viewing that was TLPTP12's exercise in navigation has paid a small dividend I see. Stay put and just move the eyes around the planet... Excellent! :) without a compass too *nod graciousLY at Phil and Bill to mark the occasion and... gbhndftcesxla*
How interesting. A QWERTY-nose measurement. NOT my first :)
*air of distraction brought on by schnozz annielyticals* Erm... why yes of course you can Chris, of course. Short of digging her up, I can't think of any other way to do so really... doubt she spans S to L though... no wonder I have problems with champagne flutes.
Interesting area of the country she lived in. I've heard of people going there and even coming back - and others that deliberately stay :) Did you know her dad was a clergyman? Well, her dad was a clergyman. And now that we all do you're very very welcome :) Our person's dad was too... :) but after that the similarities kind of fall apart quite a bit of a lot. There's a farm labourer for a start... He just turned up in my head from Ireland... No idea where he came from *lengthy scowl* so I suggest you leave him out of your search for the moment. He might confuse you. He has me.
Why thank you David. You know... for pinpointing that. Meanwhile... Skipping to your next mini-paragraph...
...which set Mike off on a lolloping BAAAWAAAAWAAAA to plunge his head into a plate of waffles (if his miniscule scribblings are anything to go by) - I fail to see anything wrong with it at all :) No. I don't. Perhaps there is something arbitrary in the quantity and quality of his drovelling that we can pick up on next? :)
Yes... I have noted it's lack of reason... and I have also noted it's wrongness... :)
Oh I do hope it doesn't ... *anxiety attack* ... I'm having enough problems trying to work out how my person died twice in the same month...
It's got so bad in fact, that I think you might wish to retract this bit...
...and not worry about getting clobbered by anything other than a wall once you start banging your head on it.
I will say that my malapropphobia means there are not enough barge poles on the planet for me to get even remotely mixed up with one John Fitzgerald, let alone two. It started with an exam essay question requiring significant mentionings of Douglas Macarthur *wibbly wobbly monitor fade out back to the dark ages* and it would have been a very good one if Arthur Macdouglas hadn't shown up in the first sentence.
If only everyone was so prepared :) I'm confident I will have found something equally erroneous too by tomorrow...
*Blink* Oh... heh heh heh ... :) sorry... eyes just rebooted. Blinks are handy like that! Thought I was going to look stupid there for a minute and have to ask what a hoon was. No :) I'd rather not thanks... :) too many things can go wrong with a boom as you well know... *dark stare into space* ... a boon would be nice though *sigh* although Snuffy's lawyer joke was a start :) and I like your scuttle :)
Hi TL :)
As to clues... well... letsnotworrytoomuch :) Something's bound to come along soon.
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Good morning everyone.
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Good morning everyone. :-)
I got up before 6 AM - PDT this morning. :-O Just finished catching up.
Hi Annie. :-)
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Mornin Scott ! Bill
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Mornin Scott !
Bill
RE: Oh that last one is
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I gave up on trying to make sense of this paragraph after reading it three times. I concluded that further readings would not prove any more enlightening, and remembered the popular definition of insanity.
That sounds like a good story.
Above included in quote just because that was where I started giggling as I read it.
As have I noted your aggravatingly inappropriate and incorrect apostrophes.
Yes, I can see how that would be a problem.
I'm thinking that means the person is not nearly as obscure as the guesses I've been making.
That sounds like it might involve some timey-wimey.
And without further ado (possible Ado Annie jokes not intended), the preplanned guess of the day is Evangeline Booth. She fits the Christmas Monday and 2nd such day hence on 17th birthday parameters.
As that is sure to be wrong as well, I will try to get a head start on tomorrow's.
(Actually, no I won't. I don't have the time. Or the timey-wimey.)
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Back at the top, and
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Back at the top, and WINNING!!!!! :-)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
Outta here! (Yes, I
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Outta here!
(Yes, I normally say that at Seti, but I haven't been there yet today and now it's time to leave, so I won't get to.)
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Back at the top, and
)
Back at the top, and WINNING!!!!! :-)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
I heard you've given up
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I heard you've given up making sense, David.
*quirk eyebrow - ingeniously*
Well done.
I think you will have NO problems there at all. And thank you so much for letting us know formally... particularly so early on in your post
Yes you did... most effectively... and completely undermined what might otherwise have been a most notable following note from you :)
Let's see now...
Yes... there we go :) And quite rightly too if I may say so! I don't know where they're coming from!! I used to be a perfect apostrophiser and then along came keyboards and computers and stuff and I blame mobile phones. Yes I do. It's since I started texting and discovered that they'd made apostrophes such a chore to use that I couldn't be bothered AND keep a sunny disposition all at the same time. *cast dark scowl into corner*
Before you know it you've built up an apostrophe debt, which is a bit like a sleep debt except you have to pay it back with your eyes open otherwise the debt snowballs, but all the time it's your fingers that are in control of absolutelyeverything*glare*
EVERYTHINGITELLYOUandthere'snobrainANYWHEREtobeFOUNDEVERAGAINAND...
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((@))'y'((@))
uh oh ...
*HURL mad staring eyes into space*
*silence* *attempt to drop pin so everyone can hear it and, drop the lot in excellent demonstration that gravity is not always just about down but can also involve quite a lot of everywhere else as well* So ye's :) I noted them too :) and however aggravating they may be to you, David, there even more aggravating to me... so I will be adding them to my report on your behalf as you're report would ju'st be binned straight after youd use'd the word "sense" :)
Well! You think you know someone, then you pop them in a search engine. Oh... Congratulations by the way! :) You're absolutely right! Evangeline Booth IS wrong, but doesn't she fit our mystery person search criteria so well and yet so badly all at the same time! I don't know how you managed it. Very impressive, and a very interesting woman too :) Mind you - out of all the things they could have popped into the little blurb about her achievements etc... you know... *wave hands at monitor* ... under each hyperlink chucked at you by a search engine - only two in the first ten didn't blast straight out with her vow of celibacy. I almost didn't know that I knew who she was at all.
I will attempt to tie some of my frayed clue-ends together with all your accidental coincidentallies for you in my next post because... *deep, important breath* ... I think that is going to REALLY help you all :)
I'd do it now but I've lost my VIPoP. That was the bad news everyone :) Having narrowed my search area down significantly to it still being on the planet is the good news, and it having had some stuff on it about rules that were flagrantly breached because I put them on a rectnangle inste-... - Oh. *long stare - complete with twitch*
There you go David :) A balls-up. How marvellous. Will give you something to note in your next post... :) *sniff elongitudinally* is sort of neutral news... oh look ... and an orphan clause - better and better still - a veritable field day for you :) Awwww.... You're so WELCOME! :)
Hi TL :) Hi Bill :)
Off to find a magnet for those pins now... :) Oh and a stump *flap eyelids* when it's not what's left after an unfortunate limb incident :( *kiss better I would if I could* is a stick that I believe... *drawl* ... you balance some very small sticks on top of and then have to protect without your legs whilst also being in your crease and whacking at a ball that can kill you before then running away from the very sticks you're supposed to be looking after and leaving them unprotected. It's called cricket, and this... *wave airily at this and my last post* is my revenge for your baseball :) Oh and a kumquat is a small African fruit :) and we didn't have any. We had LOADS of everything else you could hope to pull off a tree and eat, but not them...
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