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Old 02-18-2008, 01:08 PM
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It's the Dada Feud!

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A) You may describe it.
B) A volkswagon was left in the driveway, Do you agree?
C) Try not to eat the rabbit before noon.
D) abcdefhijklmnoprstuvwxyz
E) This is not a hat.
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1. What is the circumference of a question mark?
2. Name an animal that didn't drop the bowling ball.
3. Jell-O pudding pops
4. Name something.
5. If the dog was furry, where did the gun deposit it's quarter.
6. Night is green and so it went.
7. You must time the chair public down the tribal instinct.
8. 3+3= "stella!!!!'
9. Name the wandering vision.
10. Where is the end of a robot bridge?
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Old 02-18-2008, 01:13 PM
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1. All the way around
2. George
3. Cosby
4. Lawnmower
5. Overnight bank slot
6. Reptilian
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8. Star physics.
9. Bruja
10. On the other side.
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Old 02-18-2008, 01:14 PM
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Joker... Joker... wombat.
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Old 02-18-2008, 01:28 PM
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Old 02-18-2008, 03:17 PM
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1. What is the circumference of a question mark?
2. Name an animal that didn't drop the bowling ball.
3. Jell-O pudding pops
4. Name something.
5. If the dog was furry, where did the gun deposit it's quarter.
6. Night is green and so it went.
7. You must time the chair public down the tribal instinct.
8. 3+3= "stella!!!!'
9. Name the wandering vision.
10. Where is the end of a robot bridge?
1. Depends on the period
5. Octopussy never drop things with so many arms to take up against those that want to stifle bowling freedom
3. Bill, no... KAAAAAAAHN!!!!!!!
4. Why, did you?
5. Dude, green fur isn't a good thing. Too many cooks spoil the rod and spare children.
gorilla. But Tennessee Williams didn't get to read Vonnegut.
Q. Just a quarter? Is it latin?
!. knew those math guys were lying
~$. The whole industry is all about the benjamins. Damn you, Walt! We need more Campbells soup
10x. it just crosses the uncanny valley, or it gets the hose again
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Old 02-18-2008, 04:12 PM
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[quote=Gangster Octopus]Rules:

QUOTE]

1.Just once.
2.Penis ensues
3.Hi Opal
4.1920's style death ray.
5.Gotcha ya
6.Hal Briston
7.in the 1960's.
8.Chuck Norris
9.Duran Duran
10.for 20 minutes.
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Old 02-18-2008, 04:22 PM
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1. What is the circumference of a question mark?
Pi times its diameter.

2. Name an animal that didn't drop the bowling ball.
Quagga

3. Jell-O pudding pops
"What did Bill Cosby shill, Alex?"

4. Name something.
I'll name your computer Fred.

5. If the dog was furry, where did the gun deposit it's quarter.
Nitpick: you meant to type its instead of the italicized word.

6. Night is green and so it went.
Where did it go?

7. You must time the chair public down the tribal instinct.
Make me.

8. 3+3= "stella!!!!'
But have you ever seen A Streetcar Named Desire ON WEED?

9. Name the wandering vision.
I'll name it Fred as well.

10. Where is the end of a robot bridge?
Who do I look like, Isaac Asimov?
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Old 02-18-2008, 04:23 PM
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This is a pipe.
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Old 02-18-2008, 04:33 PM
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Here she comes now say foony moony.
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Old 02-18-2008, 04:37 PM
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Old 02-18-2008, 04:45 PM
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[quote=Gangster Octopus]Rules:

A) You may describe it.
B) A volkswagon was left in the driveway, Do you agree?
C) Try not to eat the rabbit before noon.
D) abcdefhijklmnoprstuvwxyz
E) This is not a hat.
F) Purple Monkey Dishwasher


1. What is the circumference of a question mark? about (.75)(pi)(question radius)^2
2. Name an animal that didn't drop the bowling ball. Penguin
3. Jell-O pudding pops True
4. Name something. This is getting silly
5. If the dog was furry, where did the gun deposit it's quarter. I quit.
6. Night is green and so it went.
7. You must time the chair public down the tribal instinct.
8. 3+3= "stella!!!!'
9. Name the wandering vision.
10. Where is the end of a robot bridge?
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Old 02-18-2008, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Gangster Octopus
1. What is the circumference of a question mark?
2. Name an animal that didn't drop the bowling ball.
3. Jell-O pudding pops
4. Name something.
5. If the dog was furry, where did the gun deposit it's quarter.
6. Night is green and so it went.
7. You must time the chair public down the tribal instinct.
8. 3+3= "stella!!!!'
9. Name the wandering vision.
10. Where is the end of a robot bridge?
1. Omega
2. The donkey with a feather in its hat
3. Butterscotch!
4. I will hug it and squeeze it and name it George.
5. False
6. The fog comes on little cat feet.
7. No, the seat must be left up!
8. 8+10 = "Wilma!!!!"
9. If the wandering vision could be named, it would not be the eternal Tao.
10. Not underwater, or else it would rust.
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Old 02-18-2008, 05:12 PM
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1. What is the circumference of a question mark?
2. Name an animal that didn't drop the bowling ball.
3. Jell-O pudding pops
4. Name something.
5. If the dog was furry, where did the gun deposit it's quarter.
6. Night is green and so it went.
7. You must time the chair public down the tribal instinct.
8. 3+3= "stella!!!!'
9. Name the wandering vision.
10. Where is the end of a robot bridge?

1. 42
2. 42
3. 42
4. 42
5. 42
6. 42
7. 42
8. 42+3+3 = Rosebud
9. 42
10. 42

What do I win?
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Old 02-18-2008, 05:24 PM
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1. 3.14 dived by R
2. dog
3. Nasty
4. bill
5. direct deposit
6. Into the mist
7. Blue
8. To the moon
9. Vison Quest
10. On the other side
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Old 02-18-2008, 05:48 PM
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1. Wyoming
2. I don't drop dime for anyone.
3. It's what's for dinner.
4. No, and you can't make me.
5. Taking a wild guess, I'd say in its hindquarters.
6. Green is a sound, all of a sudden?
7. I'd look at my watch, but now is not the time for it.
8. "stella!!!!" / streetcar = ripped t-shirt
9. See 4
10. Approx 4.5 m west of luggage.[/quote]
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Old 02-18-2008, 06:46 PM
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A) You may describe it.
It's yellow and squishy
B) A volkswagon was left in the driveway, Do you agree?
This is not a disagreement
C) Try not to eat the rabbit before noon.
Gremlins
D) abcdefhijklmnoprstuvwxyz
1234567890
E) This is not a hat.
There is no rule #6
F) Purple Monkey Dishwasher
Clean

1. What is the circumference of a question mark?
3/4
2. Name an animal that didn't drop the bowling ball.
Bactrian Camel
3. Jell-O pudding pops
Chocolate
4. Name something.
Turkey
5. If the dog was furry, where did the gun deposit it's quarter.
Yes
6. Night is green and so it went.
Cut. Paste.
7. You must time the chair public down the tribal instinct.
Seven Men Shorter
8. 3+3= "stella!!!!'
Charlie Wilson
9. Name the wandering vision.
J.R.R. Tolkien
10. Where is the end of a robot bridge?
Man-hattan

I have won!
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Old 02-18-2008, 07:08 PM
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27b. Lontoon suuri palo oli tulipalo, joka hävitti Lontoon keskustaa vuoden 1666 syyskuun toisen ja viidennen päivän välillä. Palo tuhosi Lontoon keskiaikaiset osat roomalaisaikaisen muurin sisäpuolella, mutta ei ylettänyt Westminsterin aristokraattiseen osaan (nykyiseen West Endiin), eikä esikaupunkien slummeihin.
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Old 02-18-2008, 07:32 PM
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1. ?
2. The volkswagon is right in the driveway, da da da.
3. When the sun is over the yard8arm.
4. Spooky tomato, it's Dan Quayles' fault.
5. This is not a post.
6. What is rule# 1?

A. The 8 is silent.
B. The persistence of memory loss is...wait, I forget.
C. Green flying fuzzy money.
D. E.
F. The wandering vision is only a mirage.
G. Blanche + Stanley = the purple monkey got choked.
H. Zoom Zoom Zoom.
I. Name dis!!!
J. Farfignugen.
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Old 02-18-2008, 07:32 PM
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I swear I read the title as 'Dada Freud'. Everything and ANYTHING is about your mother!
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Old 02-18-2008, 07:40 PM
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I am the one who has these ramen.

Mwa-ha-ha-ha

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Old 02-18-2008, 08:04 PM
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1. L
2. John Belushi
3. Brooklyn
4. Fred
5. Last Thursday, 3:00pm CST
6. But mama said no.
7. Three. One to change the bulb and two to...
8. Peacock
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Old 02-18-2008, 08:11 PM
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1. jolifanto bamblo ô failli bamba.
2. grossiga m'pfa hobla horem
3. égiga goramem
4. higo blioko russula huju
5. hollaka hollala
6. anlogo bung
7. blago bung
8. blago bung
9. bosso fataka
10. ü üü ü
11. schampa wullu wussa óllobo
12. hej tatta gôrem
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14. wulubu ssubudu uluu ssubudu
15. tumba ba- umf
16. kusagauma
17. ba - umf
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Old 02-18-2008, 08:11 PM
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1. As much as it needs to be.
2. Lowell Weicker
3. Destroyed the south side of Milwaukee this afternoon.
4. What if I don't?
5. In a nearby parking meter. Everyone knows that.
6. And isn't it a pity.
7. Can't I delegate the job?
8. Marlon, you aren't a 6.
9. Herbert T. Zigenhamer.
10. I think I accidentally left it in the washing machine again.
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Old 02-18-2008, 08:13 PM
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you just know someone is going to complain about this feud requiring the specialized knowledge of the world of the absurdist and surrealist arts.

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Old 02-18-2008, 09:24 PM
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Personally, I can't wait to see the scoring on this thing.
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Old 02-18-2008, 09:50 PM
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Old 02-18-2008, 09:52 PM
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1. What is the circumference of a question mark?
-- "We'll find out after these important messages."

2. Name an animal that didn't drop the bowling ball.
-- Sir Stanley Krenzwinkle III, the champion show turtle.

3. Jell-O pudding pops
-- But Jiffy-Pop pops faster and bigger

4. Name something.
-- I will name the pebble Dare.

5. If the dog was furry, where did the gun deposit it's quarter.
-- Incorrect countersign. You're not the agent I was sent to meet.

6. Night is green and so it went.
-- E-I-E-I-O

7. You must time the chair public down the tribal instinct.
-- While Bob does that, let's go check on what's happening in the attic.

8. 3+3= "stella!!!!'
-- Well, anybody who's ever had a colorless green idea sleep furiously knows that.

9. Name the wandering vision.
-- I dub thee "Casper."

10. Where is the end of a robot bridge?
-- When the robot player completes the robot rubber on the robot bridge table.
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Old 02-18-2008, 10:00 PM
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1. 80 cubits
2. The Russian Bear. Because in Soviet Russia, bowling ball drops you!
3. Kid-tested, Huxtable-approved.
4. Beetlejuice!
5. No deposit. It shot off its mouth, then gave up the whole thing when it realized the idea was half-cocked anyway.
6. Day is blue, so let's get bent!
7. So keep your bankroll lottery -- eat your salad day deathbed motorcade!
8. Theorem: 3 / -i = "Rosebud." Unable to prove; couldn't find my sled rule.
9. It's a pink elephant, asshole. Get off my back, I got a hangover.
10. At the pot of molten lead, of course.

Last edited by Asimovian; 02-18-2008 at 10:04 PM. Reason: Grammar might have counted.
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Old 02-18-2008, 10:02 PM
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10. Where is the end of a robot bridge?
Who do I look like, Isaac Asimov?
Well, YOU may not...
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Old 02-18-2008, 10:33 PM
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1. UNKNOWN BANKER BUYS ATLANTIC
2. Daily except Sundays, November through May.
3. BEATRIX IS DEAD
4. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948).
5. ON A VOLANT UN COLLIER DE 5 MILLIONS
6. Cribbage.
7. No, Anna May Wong's tits were made of aluminum.
8. fmsbwtözäü
9. pggiv – mü
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Old 02-19-2008, 12:21 AM
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1. This thread is the Warp or Woof of the Weave of the Universe.
2. Zut alörs!
3. The second Tuesday after Lent.
4. I don't know, I was very drunk at the time. (see: Pink Floyd.)
5. The harder they come, the harder they fall.
6. Caffeine and Ytterbium.
7. I do not recall. Mistakes were made. A blowjob is not "sex".
8. You're solid gold, and I'll see you in Hell.
9. Joey Ramone.
10. Spoon!!!
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Old 02-19-2008, 01:04 AM
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1. What is the circumference of a question mark?
Depends on the Bagel

2. Name an animal that didn't drop the bowling ball.
Sellotape

3. Jell-O pudding pops
Concrete Mixer

4. Name something.
Know, that I know nothing

5. If the dog was furry, where did the gun deposit it's quarter.
The Boston Red Sox won last night

6. Night is green and so it went.
The Horse jumped the fence

7. You must time the chair public down the tribal instinct.
Purple

8. 3+3= "stella!!!!'
Tempus Fugit

9. Name the wandering vision.
Left hanging on the telephone

10. Where is the end of a robot bridge?
Somewhere over the rainbow
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Old 02-19-2008, 01:51 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by anyrose
you just know someone is going to complain about this feud requiring the specialized knowledge of the world of the absurdist and surrealist arts.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Spoons
6. Night is green and so it went.
-- E-I-E-I-O
Quote:
Originally Posted by Asimovian
8. Theorem: 3 / -i = "Rosebud." Unable to prove; couldn't find my sled rule.

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Old 02-19-2008, 03:43 AM
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4. Violent sex
5. Tokyo
6. Furiously
7. The right to a speedy trial
8. Watts riot
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Old 02-19-2008, 03:48 AM
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Magic Cheese Con

No, wait, that's a Dada Fraud
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Old 02-19-2008, 07:59 AM
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Old 02-19-2008, 09:28 AM
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1. What is the circumference of a question mark?
2. Name an animal that didn't drop the bowling ball.
3. Jell-O pudding pops
4. Name something.
5. If the dog was furry, where did the gun deposit it's quarter.
6. Night is green and so it went.
7. You must time the chair public down the tribal instinct.
8. 3+3= "stella!!!!'
9. Name the wandering vision.
10. Where is the end of a robot bridge?

1. High Ball!
2. Number 3, The Larch. The Larch.
3. Overrated. Thin Mints 4tehwin!
4. I dub thee Sir Percival.
5. In the night deposit slot.
6. In Soviet Russia, night greens YOU!
7. Geronimo!
8. What is, 'What is the recipe to get a Groove back?'
9. Bob.
10. The last verse of 'Domo Arigato, Mr. Robotto.'
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Old 02-19-2008, 09:35 AM
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1. What is the circumference of a question mark?
Key Lime Pi

2. Name an animal that didn't drop the bowling ball.

I'll never give up that copper.

3. Jell-O pudding pops

[Bill Cosby] Umm BOY scrumpple umm yeah [/Bill Cosby]

4. Name something.

I will call him George and love him and pet him and squeeze him.

5. If the dog was furry, where did the gun deposit it's quarter.

At the Second National Bank

6. Night is green and so it went.

But we decide which is right and which is an illusion

7. You must time the chair public down the tribal instinct.

Yes, and?

8. 3+3= "stella!!!!'

(3+3) - 3 = 'Stella!!!!' - 3

3 = 'Stella!'


9. Name the wandering vision.

I will call him George and love him and pet him and squeeze him.


10. Where is the end of a robot bridge?

When you're out of slits, you're out of pier.
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Old 02-19-2008, 11:52 AM
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8. 42+3+3 = Rosebud
Quote:
Originally Posted by Asimovian
8. Theorem: 3 / -i = "Rosebud." Unable to prove; couldn't find my sled rule.
Different formulae, same result. Creepy math.
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Old 02-19-2008, 12:32 PM
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1. What is the circumference of a question mark?
2. Name an animal that didn't drop the bowling ball.
3. Jell-O pudding pops
4. Name something.
5. If the dog was furry, where did the gun deposit it's quarter.
6. Night is green and so it went.
7. You must time the chair public down the tribal instinct.
8. 3+3= "stella!!!!'
9. Name the wandering vision.
10. Where is the end of a robot bridge?
1. Depends on how many angels can tap dance on it
2. Giraffe
3. Koo Koo katchoo
4. something
5. no soap, radio
6. so it goes
7. 7:30 pm
8. e=mc^"NI!"
9. Fred
10. the length of a robot bridge away from the other end
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Old 02-19-2008, 01:08 PM
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Old 02-19-2008, 01:28 PM
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1. 7*22/7
2. Don’t juggle bowling balls
3. kings of the freezer section
4. Master, Savior,
5. Jesus the seven dog groups – and their furry member breeds!
6. Easter Eve's full moon
7. men think they need more than one woman
8. LML for the genuine scooter company
9. Name: wandering visitor
10. Kent, UK

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Old 02-19-2008, 02:07 PM
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I'm glad I'm not scoring this game.
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Old 02-19-2008, 02:11 PM
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I'm glad I'm not scoring this game.
I dunno how I'll do. Judging by some of the other answers, I'll be lucky if I get a score of 6.3Q.
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Old 02-19-2008, 02:49 PM
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Memorandum

To: Balloon Animals, Dancing Cigarettes, Headache Powders, and Mrs. Moncrieff on the eve of her trepanation

I have been informed that my answers were not in fact dada, but surrealism (which is usually understood to be commercial grade dada, with tenpenny nails in place of the key signature change to G in the third verse, and not warranteed against wet weather or electrical storms).

Many a Cuban sandwich having passed under the bridge since then, I am ready to try again. What follows is the following.

1. What is the circumference of a question mark?
12 to 18 decibels, unless the sordine mute is in place, in which case the thing may just leak kerosene and have to be put in the side yard.

2. Name an animal that didn't drop the bowling ball.
The serrated skint.

3. Jell-O pudding pops
[Bill Cosby] Umm BOY scrumpple umm yeah [/Bill Cosby]

Scrumpple is seldom made of boys, the traditional recipe calling for a broiler chicken and thirteen dozen art gum erasers.

4. Name something.
DeLendrecie's Parameter (defined as the number of jelly babies necessary to fully absorb the impact of a 4-8-4 locomotive).

5. If the dog was furry, where did the gun deposit it's quarter.
Oh, its the damn dog again?

(Pardon me, the pneumatic tubes are backing up. I'll return to this post later.)
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Memorandum (cont'd.)

The pneumatic tubes have been fed their Dots, the ambergris cufflinks have been extricated from the crankcase, and here we go again.

6. Night is green and so it went.
"So it went," mused Leila, watching herself set slowly over the far western hills, "and so it always goes. But something—" she paused, choking back a half-drowned hermit crab she'd mistaken for a sigh and breathed in—"something about this Kellogg-Briand Pact just smells of hazelnuts."

7. You must time the chair public down the tribal instinct.
Don't we, though? Don't we all, when sneer comes to exfoliate?

8. 3+3= "stella!!!!'
True, for values of "8." roughly equal to seven. (If "8." is taken as an absolute value, "stella!!!!" is therefore flat, and so, by the Theorem of Cross Purposes, is Mongolia, which makes you wonder what all those explorers have been climbing up and getting frostbite all these years.)

9. Name the wandering vision.
"Harkavy's Carpathian-American Tea Room. Dumplings Our Specialty. Telephone RHeumatoid 426."

10. Where is the end of a robot bridge?
Always, but not usually, after the beginning.
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I reject this thread. Despite its absurdist pretense, this thread follows the same artificial framing paradigm as more bourgeois threads and threatens to desensitize readers to the inanity and purposelessness of the modern Zeitgeist.

I also reject my own post in this thread. To agree with my post is to oppose my post. Adad dada dada dada
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Old 02-19-2008, 07:52 PM
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1. Halfway 'round the soul, cross-ways
2. Impossible to say; the ball is always dropping, dropping endlessly, endlessly into the future
3. Yes. Yes it does.
4. White Lily
5. In the yard at night when all were asleep
6. Down the street, but no-one saw it go, singing Ave Maria to all it met
7. Handwritten Vagina
8. How. Droll.
9. Scrawled against my eyelids, on the far side, even when I'm asleep
10. At the source

Capybara, you forget "i zimbra," third iteration against the T.
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Dada Feud.

The only way to win is to not play.
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This may be the most frangible thread in the history of this Board.
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