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Tim S Roberts

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Nov 14, 2006, 5:31:05 AM11/14/06
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Herein my own puzzle. If my basic rule is enforced, all of the words that
one may see, or maybe how all the words may fit closely in a sentence,
follow a rule; a specific but general dictum.

So, here is your task: you have to find the logical, yet basic, very basic,
truly basic, rule, so that you and others (if needed) may construct a very
long reply, as long as you can do, which follows the basic rule, this rule
that is maybe not clear to all....

I suspect a very apt rejoinder may need much time, and be hard to very
difficult - so, a hint: use of little words may help!

Good luck!

Tim


Richard Sabey

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Nov 14, 2006, 9:07:12 AM11/14/06
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Tim S Roberts wrote:

> Herein my own puzzle. If my basic rule is enforced, all of the words that
> one may see, or maybe how all the words may fit closely in a sentence,
> follow a rule; a specific but general dictum.

I reckon that I have found a rule which your text follows, and thus
mine too.
Are my words that I put here, as I've thought, as you need so they
follow this rule?

rthe...@hotmail.com

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Nov 14, 2006, 9:38:03 AM11/14/06
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Tim S Roberts wrote:
> Herein my own puzzle.

Much too easy. I solved it before I could even blurt "Jack Robinson".
Why not give us a more difficult one, Tim?

Roy

Tim S Roberts

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Nov 14, 2006, 4:33:22 PM11/14/06
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<rthe...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Ah, very good, yes Richard, yes, good sentences, Roy! But very long is
hard, yes?

Tim


Ed Murphy

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Nov 15, 2006, 12:43:32 AM11/15/06
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Tim S Roberts wrote:

I'm lost again. Will this do?

Tim S Roberts

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Nov 15, 2006, 1:16:58 AM11/15/06
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"Ed Murphy" <emur...@socal.rr.com> wrote in message
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Alas, no, Ed, sorry....

Tim


James Dow Allen

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Nov 15, 2006, 10:01:11 PM11/15/06
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Mating puzzles I
Partook success attaining
Some haiku crossposts!

Bluffingly (?),
James

James Dow Allen

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Nov 15, 2006, 10:04:41 PM11/15/06
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Spoiler?

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> ... [and] so, a hint: use of little words may help!
> ... But very long is hard, yes?
> Tim

Why? counterclaimed J. Dow Allen, words that exceed
your length may nevertheless iambic poetry build:

Crackerjack fistfights,
Bankrolled fistfights,
Execrable jiujitsus
and fistfights,
Coldblooded punishings,
Memorable gunfights,
Dockworker fistfights,
Unpronounceable fistfights
Bamboozled uninspiring
Mollycoddled antiquarians.

(Gobbledygook, I guffaw:
comprehensibility dud, eh?)

Drawback: fulfillment awkward.

Unconvincingly,
James Dow Allen

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