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Sorry it's late
Casual farewell before a dog attacked the gourd. (8)
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Cucumber?
Total guess, and I know it's wrong ... but it's the only gourd I can think of with eight letters ...
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A good start... think generic.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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List<Cucumber> ?
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Solution:
C U casual farewell
CUR BIT dog attacked
definition - Gourd
Guess I'll have to think up another one tomorrow.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Got the word (with google help), but I couldn't get the solution. Although I only spent a couple mins on it.
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Curbit is not 8 letters
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... but CUCURBIT is.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Take the word for "good or bad luck, viewed as resulting from one's actions" for example.
It's spelt as "K-A-R-M-A", but pronounced as " "
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You mean: 💩 happens!!?
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I have heard it described as a mixture between latin languages, where all vowels and consonents are pronounced in a consistent manner, and character based languages like Mandarin.
So - trough, bough, though, thought are essentially character based words as the pronunciation of the "ough" is different in each.
Which leads to fish being spelt ghoti.
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― Christopher Hitchens
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Even stranger is that this is closely connected to the concept of 'Schadenfreude', wich you don't have a word for.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That's because we would never delight in another's misfortune, no matter how deserved it was.
(And I managed to type that with a straight face, as well!)
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Big mistake. Rub it in, otherwise they will never learn.
Wer den Schaden hat, spottet jeder Beschreibung.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I suppose most readers know English is tough stuff[^]. If not, it is worth a try at reading out loud!
(The refererence to Nato at the top is BS - the poem was first published in 1929 or 1930, fifteen years before Nato was established. There is a longer version of the poem, but this one - which is one commonly presented - is bad enough...)
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My wife, who is a USian, managed about 99% of that. Curiously, she didn't know what a "granary" was.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Dogs of C-Kennel: Monopoly 2020 Edition[^]
Yeah, they nailed those rules.
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@Peter-in-2780
Where's the CCC?
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Yes I was late with it, but IIRC you're early. I thought it was due at 0900 GMT, not BST.
(I have noticed some setters going early by my reckoning.)
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It's really funny
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