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Post by Little Jack Horner on Feb 12, 2021 21:12:05 GMT
On a digital display today’s date is a palindrome and an ambigram
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 12, 2021 21:33:56 GMT
On a digital display today’s date is a palindrome and an ambigram 12022021 Well, so it was! (It's already mid-morning on the 13th in Oz as I write this.)
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Feb 12, 2021 22:29:00 GMT
Sorry, Vv. Of course. I was only told by a friend a moment before I posted it. I’m amazed I hadn’t known. It’s the sort of thing I usually know about weeks in advance and gear myself up to telling people about.
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 14, 2021 22:18:16 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 20, 2021 11:43:55 GMT
Found on the New South Wales road rules webpage: Do not park “On or within 20 metres before and 10 metres after a children’s’ crossing or pedestrian crossing”. Those children’s’ are a worry.
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Feb 20, 2021 13:09:45 GMT
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Post by Dave Miller on Feb 20, 2021 13:09:45 GMT
Found on the New South Wales road rules webpage: Do not park “On or within 20 metres before and 10 metres after a children’s’ crossing or pedestrian crossing”. Those children’s’ are a worry. Mmm. A crossing for several children’s?
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 24, 2021 21:52:33 GMT
Cowabunga! More on Aussie slang I've posted about Australian slang previously, though not for a while. Here's an article from Australia's Macquarie Dictionary.
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Post by Dave Miller on Feb 24, 2021 22:48:28 GMT
Cowabunga! More on Aussie slang I've posted about Australian slang previously, though not for a while. Here's an article from Australia's Macquarie Dictionary. I was intrigued at the mention there of “spunk” as so recent. It’s certainly been known to me since I was a child, as meaning “courage, spirit” or, in more vulgar use, seminal fluid. Checking just now, I find the former attested from 1773, and the latter from 1888.
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 24, 2021 23:16:33 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 25, 2021 4:11:32 GMT
I was inventing (simple) clues to my former newspaper's crossword when I discovered an error in both the answer and the cryptic clue (2-speed x-word).
The cryptic was Luxury car inspires amoral hope (5,5), and the answer was Alpha Romeo. Problem: The car is an Alfa Romeo.
As the primary cruciverbalist is dead, and because I could find no substitute answer to fit the grid and interlocking answers, I had to invent both clues.
For want of something better, I came up with: Cryptic – Juliet’s first suitor (alpha being first; romeo being lover/suitor) – not particularly cryptic; and Simple – first lover. Neither is ideal, but what else to do? I can't raise the dead to ask him. Oh well, the paper goes to press soon, so it is what it is.
(As a car geek I also had difficulty accepting Alfa Romeo as a "luxury" car; it's an Italian car of sporty heritage, with terrible electricals and endemic rust – but that's by the by.)
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Post by Dave Miller on Feb 25, 2021 7:56:15 GMT
Hee hee, Vv! As I read your second paragraph - and even before I’d realised “Alpha” was the wrong spelling - I’d mentally shouted “that’s not a luxury car”!
Luxury includes actually working when required ...
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 25, 2021 9:27:43 GMT
[…] Luxury includes actually working when required ... Indeed, Dave. Italians might make sexy cars, but those frequently suffer from erectile dysfunction.
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Feb 25, 2021 12:03:11 GMT
You can always use “sounds like” if there is a problem with spelling.
My all time favourite crossword clue was “HIJKLMNO” — 5 letters.
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Feb 25, 2021 12:49:47 GMT
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Post by Dave Miller on Feb 25, 2021 12:49:47 GMT
You can always use “sounds like” if there is a problem with spelling.
My all time favourite crossword clue was “HIJKLMNO” — 5 letters.
And - closely related - mine is “Die of cold - 3,4” 😀
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 26, 2021 20:15:20 GMT
Oh dear – even royals are descending to low-brow language! Mr Harry Mountbatten-Windsor-Sussex is quoted as saying: "I was like, 'This is toxic'.
"So I did what any husband, and what any father would do, is like, 'I need to get my family out of here'."Is this just a generational thing, or is it part of Harry's Americanisation? Despite his claims to be "stepping back rather than stepping down", his language use is definitely a step down. I cannot imagine HMQEII saying "we were like not amused". If she were to stoop to such language I just might have to become pro-republic, in the Oz context. (And why, fergawdsake, if one is trying to avoid the media would one move to LA? If one is a royal, the media are likely always to be "toxic", whether critical – British style, or fawning – Oprah Winfrey style. But that's another matter entirely.)
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