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Well, if the answer is FORTY TWO, the clue should have been (5,3) or (5-3), shouldn't it?
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Depends on who edits the crosswords you're used to seeing. The two people who edit the crosswords I write use the style which ignores hyphens (the purpose of which, after all, is to make it a single word) so I'm just used to doing it that way. Some publications use (5-3), others (8 hyphenated).
I somehow think it unlikely that anyone thought the answer was 42 but changed their mind on looking at the enumeration however but I'll happily yield the floor if someone can claim that in total honesty!
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Well, the truth is you are up again and by the rules[^], if you set a difficult one tomorrow as well, then...
And you get my vote for this one. It was a difficult one (at least for me), I must admit.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
modified 27-May-15 14:12pm.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Whatever female-driven, emotion-based dilemma you may be dealing with right now, you have my sympathy. But for the sake of time and sanity, let's break this down into a little male-driven fact-based logic. One simple phone call saves your dad's life.
Which movie?
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Sharknado!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Witty, very witty
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Fast and Furious.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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arachnids[^] and their hangouts[^]... erh... pun intended
(yes|no|maybe)*
"Fortunately, we don't need details - because we can't solve it for you." - OriginalGriff
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Accident, Maryland[^]
What other odd place names have you guys (and gals) seen?
List on wiki[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
modified 26-May-15 19:38pm.
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There are a lot of odd place names in Germany.. a small selection:
"Sommerloch" - summer slump / silly season
"Drogen" - drugs
"Oberkaka" - major poop
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Not just places. Person names are even worse.
I got very intrigued when I realized there existed people with the surnames Knoblauch and Rindfleich, which translates to Garlic and Beef respectively.
And there really exists people with the surnames Titte, Fickbaum, Feuchtenbeiner, Muschi, Breitscheid or Luderfinger.
(use a translation program, it probably just turns into a load of stars if I write it out)
But it doesn't stop there, some parents are really mean. If your surname is Schweiss, a fairly common surname, you don't name your kid Axel. (Arm pit sweat)
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Axel Schweiss LOL
I used to work with a Knoblauch in Denmark several decades ago... Luckily he didn't smell of garlic...
I could wish for a female colleague named Titte or Feuchtenbeiner (are you serious, is somebody actually called that?) - just think of the fun you could have with that...
In Denmark, as well as Sweden, Pitt is a slang word for penis, and Stiv means "stiff", so I have a long standing joke (no pun intended) about Brad Pitt having an unknown brother called Steve. Normally, it takes people a short while to connect Steve with Pitt and realise what it could also mean. But then they normally break out laughing...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: are you serious, is somebody actually called that?)
Yes seriously, check the phone directory.
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LOL, I didn't even notice it was you I replied to Jörgen...
So you obviously know the Steve Pitt joke?!?!?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Classic fifth grade joke.
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I knew a guy whose given name was Charles. He went by "Chuck". His older brother, Robert, went by "Bob". Last name? Bobinchuck.
cat fud heer
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USA seems to be the home a odd names.
Hell,_Michigan[^]
Intercourse,_Pennsylvania[^]
And I'm sure there plenty of others..
Locally we we have Eureka Waikato NZ and
Near Porangahau in Hawke’s Bay is an unassuming hill known as "Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu", which translates into English as "the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as 'landeater’, played his flute to his loved one." Locals simply call it Taumata Hill.
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I was going to put Hell. Always wanted to do the bike ride to Hell and Back. I do not know if they are still doing it as that was forty years ago.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Newfoundland. Everywhere there (or at least enough that it's their main advertising campaign):
Happy Valley, Heart's Desire, Come By Chance, Mistaken Point, Jerrys Nose (no apostrophe), and of course, Dildo. And many others I'm probably forgetting.
Oh, not Newfoundland, but there is a Climax, Saskatchewan[^].
TTFN - Kent
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I live about an hour and half from Hell[^].
Yes, every year, Hell does freeze over.
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