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How about some riddles?
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 12, 2003
Apologies for the delay; something was screwing up my connection and I couldn't reach HooToo. 
It's working at the moment, so I can reveal that the answer is...
The letter "S".
Now, who wants to explain why? Winner is the person who first posts an explaination for the complete thing... 
How about some riddles?
Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted Posted Jun 12, 2003
A country with pain, turns laughter to killing.
With glib speech, splashes and spots,
with one pure note, really rocks, filters the flying scotsman.
Struggled with treasure and promotes the theft of dark blue-green items.
A country with [S]pain, turns [S]laughter to killing.
With glib speech, splashes and spots,
with one pure note, really rocks, filters the flying scotsman.
Struggled with treasure and promotes the theft of dark blue-green items.
How about some riddles?
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 12, 2003
How about some riddles?
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 13, 2003
Oh, come on, people! It isn't that hard!
How about some riddles?
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 13, 2003
Oh, 
this; the thread has stalled. If nobody's posted a solution by the end of "A touch of Frost" (10:30pm BST) I'll post it myself. 
How about some riddles?
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 13, 2003
A country with pain (pain -> Spain)
Turns laughter to killing (laughter -> Slaughter)
With glib speech, splashes and spots (patter -> Spatter)
With one pure note, really rocks (tone -> Stone)
Filters the Flying Scotsman (train -> Strain)
Struggled with treasure (trove -> Strove)
Promotes the theft of dark blue-green items (teal -> Steal)
How about some riddles?
Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted Posted Jun 13, 2003
bah humbug.
You know the annoying thing was i had worked out a country with pain was Spain but couldn't figure it was S!
Hate losing! 
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- 101: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jun 12, 2003)
- 102: Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted (Jun 12, 2003)
- 103: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jun 12, 2003)
- 104: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jun 13, 2003)
- 105: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jun 13, 2003)
- 106: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jun 13, 2003)
- 107: Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted (Jun 13, 2003)
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