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Smiffy the Lab Assistant (1+9)*5-(5+4)+1=42 Posted Oct 4, 2002
a yawn of insomniacs
Karen
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Ineffable, <Boing>-King!!! Posted Oct 7, 2002
A Patch of Pirates!!!
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pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Oct 7, 2002
Nuts of the Wall aka WallNuts
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Sea Change Posted Oct 7, 2002
A twoscore of napping Dads. (forty winks, natch)
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pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Oct 7, 2002
a collective of dots
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Sea Change Posted Oct 8, 2002
I am sorry to hear of your nation's loss, pheloxi*.
I don't understand your dots group.
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pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Oct 8, 2002
a collective of dots is a drawing by computer.
a selection of pixels
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Geggs Posted Oct 9, 2002
Pixels? Hmmmm.
How about a screen of pixels?
A corel of computer art?
An excelling of spreadsheets?
A roundness of smileys?
A thread of postings?
A weaving of threads?
Geggs
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pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Oct 9, 2002
why all the "?"?
inscure bags of water
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Geggs Posted Oct 9, 2002
I put all the ?'s on because I'm offering these suggestions, instead of stating them as fact.
How many bags of water do you regularly carry about pheloxi*?
Geggs
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Ineffable, <Boing>-King!!! Posted Oct 9, 2002
fill of volumes
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Sea Change Posted Oct 9, 2002
I remember CalcStar, back on the CPM operating system. Excel and 1-2-3 spreadsheets remind me a lot of that program way back then, so perhaps:
a calcostellation of spreadsheets?
Sometimes in any particular h2g2 Conversation, postings weave back and forth and around each other in a way that is not as even and neat in my mind as a (literal) thread. How about:
a braid of postings?
a coiffure of Conversations?
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Simon the Silly Sausage (Gone AWOL from h2g2) Posted Oct 10, 2002
A Crow or Murderers.
(See my user space if you don't get that one)
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Is mise Duncan Posted Oct 10, 2002
oops - that should be "a Dudley of earthquakes"...
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caper_plip Posted Oct 10, 2002
Does the phrase 'a murder of crows' exist? I heard it somewhere...
Or perhaps even 'a stone of crows'
Caper Plip
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pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Oct 10, 2002
the markers of the questions
the questioners of the quest
the questioner of the marked
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Geggs Posted Oct 10, 2002
Yep, a murder of crows is a real collective term.
As is a parliament of owls, a laughter of hyenas, and an ostentation of peacocks.
Geggs
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Oct 10, 2002
An indecission of Brummie Researchers
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- 81: Smiffy the Lab Assistant (1+9)*5-(5+4)+1=42 (Oct 4, 2002)
- 82: Ineffable, <Boing>-King!!! (Oct 7, 2002)
- 83: pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | (Oct 7, 2002)
- 84: Sea Change (Oct 7, 2002)
- 85: pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | (Oct 7, 2002)
- 86: Sea Change (Oct 8, 2002)
- 87: pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | (Oct 8, 2002)
- 88: Geggs (Oct 9, 2002)
- 89: pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | (Oct 9, 2002)
- 90: caper_plip (Oct 9, 2002)
- 91: Geggs (Oct 9, 2002)
- 92: Ineffable, <Boing>-King!!! (Oct 9, 2002)
- 93: Sea Change (Oct 9, 2002)
- 94: Simon the Silly Sausage (Gone AWOL from h2g2) (Oct 10, 2002)
- 95: Is mise Duncan (Oct 10, 2002)
- 96: Is mise Duncan (Oct 10, 2002)
- 97: caper_plip (Oct 10, 2002)
- 98: pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | (Oct 10, 2002)
- 99: Geggs (Oct 10, 2002)
- 100: IctoanAWEWawi (Oct 10, 2002)
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