Ha! I happily cede the Weird Word Wit of the Week, Al! I had missed your earlier post!Al Sisti wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 12:37 amYeah, one of my favorites too. (I mentioned omphaloskepsis in post #368). I remember wondering if that's where the "om" chant came from.Kas wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 10:12 am I just want to share (for whomever peruses the Metathread this late after the puzzle and solution): One of my all-time favorite words is utterly useless, but still pretty excellent: "Omphaloskepsis." I was really tempted to post that as my answer to Gaffney & Co. this week, but my desire for a mug overrode the urge. (And yet...no winner alert--so yeah, I should've gone with the first inclination, lol.)
"Just Look at Yourself" - January 28, 2022
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Only one (glancing) polecat event with either of these two--but I've experienced it with prior pooches. That requires a bit more than "vigorous toweling," lol. These two guys are pretty good about not rolling in truly vile stuff, but they'll go off on swamp/estuary-hopping escapades if unattended. Messy...but not Skunk Messy.Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 4:51 pm@Kas Skunks?Kas wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 4:03 pmVigorous toweling, Bob. The dogs enjoy it, and we keep a supply of old towels handy, year round. (If it’s not snow, it’s rain, or mud, or…whatever else those two monsters get into…)Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 11:13 am
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Kas - the snow looks frozen on the dogs. What did you do? 1) leave them out hoping for a January thaw, 2) put them in the garage until the snow melted, 3) sequester them in a bathroom while they thawed and you mopped up the water?
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Love the word too, but for some reason it always makes me picture some weird Seuss creature. Something along these lines?Kas wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 8:23 amHa! I happily cede the Weird Word Wit of the Week, Al! I had missed your earlier post!Al Sisti wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 12:37 amYeah, one of my favorites too. (I mentioned omphaloskepsis in post #368). I remember wondering if that's where the "om" chant came from.Kas wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 10:12 am I just want to share (for whomever peruses the Metathread this late after the puzzle and solution): One of my all-time favorite words is utterly useless, but still pretty excellent: "Omphaloskepsis." I was really tempted to post that as my answer to Gaffney & Co. this week, but my desire for a mug overrode the urge. (And yet...no winner alert--so yeah, I should've gone with the first inclination, lol.)
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Still no winner? Well, as a graduate of the US Navel Academy, I think the mug should be awarded to me . True story, the Class of 1990 received diplomas which spelled Naval as Navel. Ah, sweet memories.
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Please look the other way if you don't want to see (my) solution to Puzzle # ??? from the wordle archive. (At this point there are over 200 of them.)
I just wanted to show that navel-gazing can be quite helpful.
I just wanted to show that navel-gazing can be quite helpful.
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@Nlobb -
https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/?228
Thank @C=64 for posting it (#227) on the wordle thread!
https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/?228
Thank @C=64 for posting it (#227) on the wordle thread!
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I'm declaring myself "A" mug-winner, even if not "THE" mug-winner.
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When I owned a UPS Store, I had the license plate on my car as "ship4u". A fellow once asked me, "Are you a Navy man?" In retrospect, I should have responded, "No, just a navel man."
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We are always happy to get to know other muggles and help in any way! PM's are always welcome. The next best thing to winning a mug is helping a fellow muggle win a mug!
We are always happy to get to know other muggles and help in any way! PM's are always welcome. The next best thing to winning a mug is helping a fellow muggle win a mug!
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I like a challenge and start Wordle with a different 5-letter word every day. I haven't failed yet (not trying to humble brag). From what I understand, I really play in hard mode, because I always use all of the correctly guessed letters in my subsequent guesses.