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What's the word ?

Post 1

Not-so-bald-eagle


1936, U.S. slang for a woman paid to encourage customers at a bar to buy her drinks.



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Post 2

Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune

'plant'?

Barfly? (I'm at the blindfolded and grasping at straws game again!)


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Post 3

Not-so-bald-eagle


Nope.

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Post 4

Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune

clever?


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Post 5

Not-so-bald-eagle


I suppose she'd have to be but that's not the answer

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Post 6

Queeglesproggit - Keeper of the evil Thingite Avon Lady Army and Mary Poppins's bag of darkness..

Bird.



Hasn't everybody heard?


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Post 7

Xanatic

No, grease is the word.


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Post 8

Not-so-bald-eagle


Nope and nope.

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Post 9

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

Shrill. No, shill.
But that is perhaps too generic and not specific to the enticement of alcohol consumption.


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Post 10

Not-so-bald-eagle


Nope, not what I'm looking for...

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Post 11

Christopher

B-Girl.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/B-girl


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Post 12

Christopher

The shape made in the sky by recordings of the position of the sun at the same time every day over the course of a year.


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Post 13

Xanatic

A figure eight?


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Post 14

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

Her name's 'Marleane' Well that is waht she told me smiley - erm


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Post 15

Not-so-bald-eagle


[well done Christopher smiley - cheers]

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Post 16

Christopher

It is a figure-eight, but it has a specific name.


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Post 17

Rudest Elf


Perhaps this is what you're looking for:

Analemma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma

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Post 18

Christopher

That's the one.


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Post 19

Rudest Elf


Thought so. smiley - tongueout


Casting no aspersions - well, perhaps a few smiley - bigeyes :

A bludger who wastes their own and their workmates' time by chatting.

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Post 20

Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune

bludger?

Oh and in my workshop they are known as 'lazy sh*ts' or timewasters...


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