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Zag
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 Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 3:11 pm Post subject: 41 |
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14.1 is perhaps just a typo, but not correct.
14.6 is not it
The rest have been solved. |
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ralphmerridew
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:20 pm Post subject: 42 |
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| 14.1 is men+ace |
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Loki
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:34 pm Post subject: 43 |
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| 14.6 to-wing |
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Zag
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:18 pm Post subject: 44 |
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| Those are it. Anyone else have an original riddle to post? Go ahead! |
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Zag
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:35 pm Post subject: 45 |
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15. (also original -- I just made it up)
A long dense snake that makes me boil,
The denser it is, the worse for all.
It has no skin, nor scales, nor coil.
But it moves along, speed down to a crawl.
It has many voices.
A rhythm, but no heart.
You'll know when you see one;
You might even take part.
Escape from its clutches
can bring you some ease.
Now you'll get where you're going
as fast as you please.
What is it? |
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Gomez
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:00 am Post subject: 46 |
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| Is it a traffic jam? |
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Zag
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 7:41 pm Post subject: 47 |
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| That's what I had intended, yes. I'm a little disappointed (in the riddle, not in you) that you didn't feel sure. IMO, the best riddles take some thinking to get, but once you get it you are quite sure it is right. |
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Scurra
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:31 pm Post subject: 48 |
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Well I was pretty certain that was the intended answer once I got it (and it took a little thought.) So it worked for me.
I wrote this one, but I couldn't seem to get a good metre for it. Here it is anyway.
When I have no bottom
You can often score;
When I have no top
You can always store;
When I have no middle
You can be quite sure;
And when I have no sides
You can request more.
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still Quiz Olympiad champion. Must get a life.
New definitions: COFFEE - someone who is coughed upon
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kaich
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:48 am Post subject: 49 |
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| I think Scurra's is basket: basketball basket/regular basket/bet/ask |
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kaich
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:18 am Post subject: 50 |
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I might be the way you came
If you traveled on water or sat in a train
Write three answers or tell me one
This riddle's sort of like a pun |
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Zag
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:19 am Post subject: 51 |
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| Nice one! Road, rowed, rode |
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kaich
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:31 am Post subject: 52 |
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| Correct! |
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Zag
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| Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:03 pm Post subject: 53 |
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Identify these stories from their headlines as they appeared in that famous newspaper, the Mother Goose Tribune. (These are pretty easy, so don't any one person take any more than two of them.)
18-1. Juvenile Female Violates Regulations of Educational System. Introduces Woolly Quadruped. ( Death Mage )
18-2. Major River-crossing in London is Collapsing. ( Gomez )
18-3. Dangerous Youth Assaults Girls, Escapes Justice. ( Gomez )
18-4. Bovine Breaks World Record for High Jump ( Scurra )
18-5. Tiny Arachnid Shows Persistence in the Face of Adversity ( Death Mage )
18-6. Conflagration at Beetle's Home, All but one Child is Missing ( Scurra )
18-7. Man holds Spouse in Giant Squash ( ralphmerridew )
18-8. Famous Bird Assassinated by Archer. Insect Witnesses All ( ralphmerridew )
Last edited by Zag on Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:18 pm; edited 3 times in total |
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ralphmerridew
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:25 am Post subject: 54 |
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7) Peter peter pumpkin eater
8) Death & Burial of Cock Robin |
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Scurra
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:26 pm Post subject: 55 |
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18-4 Hey Diddle Diddle
18-6: Ladybird, Ladybird, Fly away home
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New definitions: COFFEE - someone who is coughed upon
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Gomez*
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:34 pm Post subject: 56 |
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18.2 - London Bridge is Falling Down.
18.3 - Georgie Porgie pudding and pie, kissed the girls and made them cry. |
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Death Mage
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:41 pm Post subject: 57 |
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18.1) Mary had a little lamb.
18.5) Itsy-Bitsy Spider
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Zag
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| Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:30 pm Post subject: 58 |
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19.
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| The fact that this riddle is based on is not original to me. (I'm pretty sure I read it here on GL, some years ago -- sorry, I couldn't find it to give credit, in my one try at searching.) However, the presentation as a riddle is original. |
Each of the two sentences below can be rephrased to include all three forms of a triple homophone. The two sentences have nothing to do with each other -- they each represent a different homophone triplet.
For example (though this is only a double homophone): "The ceremony was the correct one." can be rephrased as "It was the right rite."
1. Yes, Cap'n, my ocular organ was lost some time ago.
2. I was familiar with the recently-acquired wildebeest.
Bonus question: What is unusual about these two homophone triplets? |
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Icarus
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| Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:50 pm Post subject: 59 |
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19 - 1)
Aye I Eye, so rephrased as "Aye, Cap'n I lost my eye some time ago" |
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Jack_Ian
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| Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:56 pm Post subject: 60 |
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19-2 Knew, New, Gnu -
I Knew the new gnu. |
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Zag
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| Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:30 pm Post subject: 61 |
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| Both correct. Does anyone know the bonus question? |
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Zag
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| Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:00 pm Post subject: 62 |
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20. (I think this one is a bit harder than some of the others.)
You might scratch a piece of wood to break it free.
Or on me there is music you can see.
You could wait two decades to find me.
Or watch a game and right there I will be!
What am I? |
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Silverfire
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| Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:36 am Post subject: 63 |
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| Bonus: The three words each start with a different letter? (As opposed to, say, road rowed rode.) |
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Zag
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| Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:27 am Post subject: 64 |
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| Silverfire wrote: |
| Bonus: The three words each start with a different letter? (As opposed to, say, road rowed rode.) |
That's it. And I'm pretty sure that those are the only two such triplets. |
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PuzzleScot
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| Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:48 am Post subject: 65 |
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These don't appear to have been solved:
18-7: Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater ( Had a wife but couldn't keep her. He put her in a pumpkin shell, And there he kept her very well. )
18-8: Who killed Cock Robin? ("I", said the sparrow, "with my bow and arrow")
Alan
[edit: woops, didn't see Raph's post! Doh.] |
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Oscar
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| Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:08 pm Post subject: 66 |
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19. a score
20. On a theme related to a previous one.
Decipher:
Because a bogie at a short hole after a warning is smaller than an island that a crew devoured. |
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PuzzleScot
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| Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject: 67 |
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| 20. "4<8" - For a four after a 'fore!' is less than an ait that an eight ate. |
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PuzzleScot
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| Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:28 pm Post subject: 68 |
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| Zag wrote: |
| Silverfire wrote: |
| Bonus: The three words each start with a different letter? (As opposed to, say, road rowed rode.) |
That's it. And I'm pretty sure that those are the only two such triplets. |
If you're allowing 'gnu' as a homophone of the others, then there is another triplet with that property:
21. I dislike those that consumed my post-dinner mint! |
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Zag
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| Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:42 pm Post subject: 69 |
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Correct, Oscar, except that that was riddle #20. 
PuzzleScot, I'm not sure why you object to gnu being a homophone of new
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gnu {noo, nyoo}
new {noo, nyoo}
knew {noo, nyoo}
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Oscar
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| Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:38 pm Post subject: 70 |
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| Zag wrote: |
| Correct, Oscar, except that that was riddle #20. |
Which makes the answer very appropriate!
(PS For me, like Puzzlescot and almost every Brit, 'gnu' and 'new' wouldn't be homophones) |
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Zag
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| Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:33 pm Post subject: 71 |
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| Oscar wrote: |
| Zag wrote: |
| Correct, Oscar, except that that was riddle #20. |
Which makes the answer very appropriate!
(PS For me, like Puzzlescot and almost every Brit, 'gnu' and 'new' wouldn't be homophones) |
Although it was a coincidence, I had noticed it when I posted the puzzle. I came up with it when trying to solve someone else's riddle on Braingle. That riddle had something about music and a ball game, so I had thought for a bit that score might be the answer. Since it wasn't, I don't feel I am misappropriating some other riddle, I was merely inspired by it incorrectly. I don't recall what the actual riddle, nor its answer was, but I remember being somewhat unsatisfied by it.
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Really? How do you Brits pronounce "gnu"? (I'm tempted to be a typical American and say that you guys are pronouncing it incorrectly, but the blasted language IS named after your country, after all. Dang!  ) |
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PuzzleScot
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| Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:45 am Post subject: 72 |
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I have the 2-volume 'shorter OED'. It lists 4 ways of pronouncing 'gnu': noo/nyoo/g'noo/g'nyoo
Until today, I had only ever heard of the g'noo version. It is the version used by the BBC, and all wildlife programme makers.
I just had a check on youtube to hear anyone saying gnu as noo, but all references (including Americans and language guru Stephen Fry) say g'noo. Admittedly most were in reference to GNU software licencing, but that shouldn't matter...
By the way, in the UK, we pronounce new and knew as nyoo - Only the American dialect says noo. |
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Zag
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| Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 2:40 pm Post subject: 73 |
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| PuzzleScot wrote: |
| I just had a check on youtube to hear anyone saying gnu as noo, but all references (including Americans and language guru Stephen Fry) say g'noo. Admittedly most were in reference to GNU software licencing, but that shouldn't matter. |
No, it totally matters. I also say g'noo when referring to the Open Source agency. |
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kaich
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| Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:19 am Post subject: 74 |
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I fly over Ireland with two of my brothers
I fly over France alongside two others
I fly over Italy surrounded by friends
I only fly solo when my master's fight ends |
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Oscar
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| Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:35 am Post subject: 75 |
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| A white flag Nice one, kaich! |
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Zag
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 3:11 pm Post subject: 76 |
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22. Find the Fool
Another in my "Rhyming Word Ladder" series. The doggerel is pretty bad in places.
Find all ten words described below.
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The first word you'll need
is a tool used to snare.
Reverse and add one:
a dwelling filled with fresh air.
Append the letter H
to find a metric sort of part.
Now change N to E to get
a smile, at its heart.
Tack on an 'I N G'
to make a baby's cross to bear.
Remove the center two
and find a golfer's action there.
Add an S and drop the E's:
A painful bite you'll see.
Add one to the end: you will make
penny-pinching, miserly.
First 2 and last 2 out the door,
What's left is really cool.
Only keep first half of that
And now you find the fool.
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23. Custom Diction
Here's a "Group" puzzle that I wrote. I'm not sure why I wrote it, because I hate these puzzles. (Mostly because I NEVER get them.)
These words share a common trait:
bound, custom, diction, gloss, second, vision
Which of the following words also belongs in that group?
actual, comment, portion, statue
Mild hint: The words illusion and rudiment also fit the group.
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Oscar
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:16 pm Post subject: 77 |
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23. comment (-ary)
And I'm not going to grab 22 as well, since I refuse to admit to the final answer  |
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Zag
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:39 pm Post subject: 78 |
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| Oscar wrote: |
| And I'm not going to grab 22 as well, since I refuse to admit to the final answer |
 Correct on both! |
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Zag
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 6:23 pm Post subject: 79 |
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24. A Vile Beverage?
Yet another rhyming word ladder.
Find all ten words referenced in this bit of verse.
The first one is a giant ship
though it never saw a port.
Prepend one letter on to that
to make a covering, of a sort.
Replace the final letter:
a place that beasts might bed.
Swap middle two, insert an I
to find what's in your head!
Change B to G and then you'll make
something from a farm.
Move first to last, insert a K:
a workout for your arm.
Add C and C, and then you'll see
what walnuts fear from you.
Drop A-C-K and add an E:
what a fearful one might do.
Dump outer two, move last to first,
and have a little smile.
Delete the R and then you'll make
a beverage some find vile. |
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ralphmerridew
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| Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:14 am Post subject: 80 |
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| 24 ark, bark, barn, brain, grain, raking, cracking, cringe, grin, gin |
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