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Baird Stafford

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Jul 16, 2008, 7:40:47 PM7/16/08
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Trin posted this one down on urp, and I couldn't resist it....

http://www.helloquizzy.com/tests/the-commonly-confused-words-test

Blessed be,
Baird
whose result was the same as Trin's

Yowie

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Jul 17, 2008, 4:11:09 AM7/17/08
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93% overall, with 100% in beginner and intermediate; and 87% in 'expert'.

I wish the quiz told you which ones you got wrong and what the correct
answer was.

Yowie
--
If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many
pancakes can you fit in a doghouse? None, icecream doesn't have bones.

Jani

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Jul 17, 2008, 5:31:22 AM7/17/08
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"Yowie" <yowie9644....@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:6e8c1fF...@mid.individual.net...

> Baird Stafford wrote:
>> Trin posted this one down on urp, and I couldn't resist it....
>>
>> http://www.helloquizzy.com/tests/the-commonly-confused-words-test
>>
>> Blessed be,
>> Baird
>> whose result was the same as Trin's
>
> 93% overall, with 100% in beginner and intermediate; and 87% in 'expert'.
>
> I wish the quiz told you which ones you got wrong and what the correct
> answer was.

There's a link towards the bottom of the results page:

http://shortredhead78.blogspot.com/

Jani
(100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 87% Expert)

storm

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Jul 17, 2008, 9:47:44 AM7/17/08
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I couldn't find an overall score, but it was all 100 except for the
"expert" which was 87. Made me want to go over to the website and
argue what they had gotten wrong.

-storm

Everything happens exactly when it is supposed to
Plus or minus a lifetime or two.

Gale

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Jul 17, 2008, 1:43:25 PM7/17/08
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storm wrote:
<snip>

>
> I couldn't find an overall score, but it was all 100 except for the
> "expert" which was 87. Made me want to go over to the website and
> argue what they had gotten wrong.

The composer snuck in an "all of the above" which is probably the one
you got wrong (same score and the cause of my error).

--
Blessed Be,
Gale

original fiction, poetry, reviews http://www.capjewels.com

"Progress which pursues only the next invention, progress which pulls
thought out of the mind and replaces it with idle slogans, is not
progress at all. It is a beckoning mirage in a desert over which stagger
the generations of men." -- Loren Eisley, _The Firmament of Time_

Ginger-lyn

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Jul 19, 2008, 4:47:12 PM7/19/08
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I have been depressed as hell lately, but boy, taking that test made me
feel much better.

100% 100% 100% 80%

Woo-hoo!!!

Ginger-lyn


======================================= MODERATOR'S COMMENT:
Hey, Ginger-lynn! Good to see you. Merry meet and all that. -Baird

Ginger-lyn

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Jul 29, 2008, 8:45:15 PM7/29/08
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Thank you, Baird. The Gods have been wreaking terrible vengeances on me
lately in the form of financial stress, separation, surgery, medical
problems, and on and on. Ever try to plant anything with a sprained
left ankle and a screwed-up right rotator cuff? Tricky, that.

Hope you are well.

Ginger-lyn

e-mail: glsummer AT moonsummer DOT com

Gale

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Jul 29, 2008, 9:44:10 PM7/29/08
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Ginger-lyn wrote:
<snip> The Gods have been wreaking terrible vengeances on me

> lately in the form of financial stress, separation, surgery, medical
> problems, and on and on. Ever try to plant anything with a sprained
> left ankle and a screwed-up right rotator cuff? Tricky, that.

Ouch, Ouch! and OUCH!

Hang in there!

Baird Stafford

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Jul 30, 2008, 7:35:07 AM7/30/08
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In article <7rOjk.15726$xZ....@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com>,
Ginger-lyn <Sabr...@planetoid.net> wrote:

> Thank you, Baird. The Gods have been wreaking terrible vengeances on
> me lately in the form of financial stress, separation, surgery,
> medical problems, and on and on. Ever try to plant anything with a
> sprained left ankle and a screwed-up right rotator cuff? Tricky,
> that.

No, I can't say as how I've ever tried that. I *can* say I'd prefer
never to have to! I'm sorry to hear that you've had such a bad time,
although IIRC there were rumblings on the horizon in your last posts
before The Silence. I hope that much if not all of the trouble is being
healed, by now.

> Hope you are well.

As well as can be expected under this Administration....

Blessed be,
Baird

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