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2013/07/02 - 2:31pm
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Here comes a beribboned caravan.
 
It can be either bright festivities or macabre carnivores' procession, no?  Are there many words like that ?
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2013/07/02 - 3:51pm
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I could not immediately think of a word like that but I know I have seen many.   They show up a lot in cryptic crossword puzzles.

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2013/07/04 - 4:49am
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Where and how does  beribboned  mean anything but "adorned with ribbons"?

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2013/07/04 - 5:55am
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from a different angle it could be someone who is adorned with rib bones.   Like I said, it is something you would only see in a cryptic crossword.   I think that is what Robert was getting at.

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2013/07/04 - 1:02pm
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[Blush] Dick, your original comment about cryptic puzzles should have triggered recognition. I'm actually reasonably good at such puzzles, just haven't done one in a while.  

   Feathers show how old fruit is.

Peter

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2013/07/06 - 9:21am
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From a horror movie: an ocean ship arrives covered with rats, and soon the entires city is berated.

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2013/07/06 - 9:33am
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I'm sorry to be a stickler about spelling but covered with rats would have a double "t" - "beratted". Maybe something about a special education class for or about rats.   "Our new class to help teach rats to get through their mazes will be rat ed."

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2013/07/06 - 2:28pm
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Ok, but here's another one:

From some legend or another: A multi-head serpent presents a knight with a conundrum: from each neck cut off many more heads sprout, so as the knight endeavors to behead the serpent, the beheaded beheaded monster becomes more beheaded the more it is beheaded.

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2013/07/07 - 2:04pm
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Maybe people were berating the city because they let it become beratted ?

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2013/07/07 - 9:29pm
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Misled by the crank weather forecast, they watched helplessly as the entire landing site was misled with radiations and micro projectiles.
 
I have never seen 'to misle' used though. Has anyone?
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2013/07/07 - 10:33pm
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You mean  missile?  Nope, never seen it as a verb.

   Feathers show how old fruit is…  plumage.

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2013/07/07 - 11:01pm
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There is this definition of misle as rain.

There is this misle as dupe:

Your Honor, my client was misled at every turn, and failing that, misled !

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2013/07/07 - 11:13pm
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The plum's age is told by the plum's plumage !

Yea. But is that a biological fact ?

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2013/07/09 - 9:25am
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During the NBA Finals, Kobe Bryant could have scored his twenty-second point at the twenty second point of the first half.

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2013/07/09 - 3:47pm
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RobertB said
The plum's age is told by the plum's plumage !
Yea. But is that a biological fact ?

With this kind of word play, facts are irrelevant.   Besides, we have already learned that facts may not be truth.

 

 

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