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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 26, 2011
oh and DGI +1
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 26, 2011
Tinning was a Napoleoninc invention that's true, but that's not it
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 26, 2011
Not elastic - but I can see where you might be going with that, but no.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 26, 2011
Not Frenchcuffs.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 26, 2011
Actually it was me all along! 
- I was in a disguise! 
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Geggs Posted Nov 26, 2011
There should probably have a 'h' in there. And I'm not sure I've got the ending right.
It's the wheel on the end of a stick thing, where the circumference of the wheel is a meter, and it clicks once every revolution.
Geggs
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Geggs Posted Nov 26, 2011
No, it's not tachograph, cus that's the 'spy in the cab', isn't it? Tachometer?
Geggs
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 26, 2011
Not any of those but you might use one of these if you also had one of those! 
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 26, 2011
Probably. 
But nothing so abstract this time - more to a point.
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fluffykerfuffle Posted Nov 26, 2011
hmmm i was going to say from the onset of this whole thing "a plumb"
which IS pointy
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 26, 2011
Not a plumb, but it does start with a "p"
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 26, 2011
have a DGI +1 for "stationary"
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fluffykerfuffle Posted Nov 26, 2011
does anyone know what we have so far? 
these are for you
oh and clive... 
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fluffykerfuffle Posted Nov 26, 2011
what do you mean 
"stationary"
actually i was thinking of a compass
but that doesnt start with a p
a "pencil" does
and you use it on stationary
and its pointy
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 26, 2011
a "pencil" does
and you use it on stationary
and its pointy
Indeed it does.
Fluffy +3
So vase (dropped) string, A PENCIL and a feather.
Go.
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