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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Back from the Dead....

26 comments:

FreeThinke said...

Are you trying to turn Halloween into HELLoween?

Or maybe Hello, Weed?

In either case you've succeeded admirably.

}}}}}}}}}} GHOSTLY is GHASTLY {{{{{{{{{

~ FT

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Thanks FT. :O Boo!

Always On Watch said...

I much prefer "Thriller."

Thersites said...

Then perhaps you'd enjoy Lindsey... ;)

nicrap said...

One in a dozen old family lines (13)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Stirling?

nicrap said...

Nah. 13 letters. Actually 5-2-6.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Sorry, you are speaking WAY over my head.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

a dozen, a gross, and a score,
plus three times the square root of four,
divided by seven,
plus five times eleven,
equals nine squared plus zero, no more.

nicrap said...

But i thought you liked crosswords. It's a crossword clue.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

I love crosswords... only I'm terrible at them. Were it not for the "Clear all Errors" button on my IPad Ap, I'd never complete one....

Okay, the old family line... the 12 tribes of Israel? (Of which Levi made 13 ... + 2 independent tribes unmentioned)... but the 5-2-6 as letters would be e-b-f...? but backward and subtract one would be Gad?

nicrap said...

Twelve tribes of Israel: hence the answer: tribe-of-israel (5-2-6)

nicrap said...

no, no, 13 were the number of letters in the answer. Just that.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

I would have gone for 17, "Dan"...

See here. ;)

nicrap said...

It was from yesterday's crossword in TOI (Times of India) here. There were three such similar clues.

One in a dozen difficult jobs (15) (labourofhercules);
One in a dozen constellations (15)(signofthezodiac); and the one above.

nicrap said...

lol.

nicrap said...

Not labour, labor.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...and the poem I enclosed "above" represents the overarching "theme" of the crossword that you just described. ;)

that's gross!


twelve dozen is a gross, and twelve gross are called a great gross.
(from the LA Times)

nicrap said...

lol. Yes. But the i liked best was this (from the same puzzle): "Nothing is stopping us" (4)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

I give up.

nicrap said...

Yes! ;)

Answer is: lets.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

I was anticipating something a little more "physical"...

like some obscure Latin or Greek synonym for "perpetual motion"

nicrap said...

You are incorrigible. ;)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

I try! ;)

Brooke said...

I think the most important question here is: Why does a skeleton need socks and shoes to moonwalk?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Product placement royalties? ;)