# Let's tell a story four words at a time (Part 2)

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**Created:** [August 19, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289 "2025-08-19T21:31:55Z")\
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ferret and named it

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**Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/962 "2026-07-01T02:09:43Z")

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weasel the stoat, since

> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> (That makes no sense to me, but OK)

Not in play. In Dungeons and Dragons, 20th level is the most powerful level (in newer rules, that is). So in other words- _extremely powerful wizard._

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[I think it was the incorrect grammar in question, not the content per se; you likely needed some parentheses there]

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that species propels itself

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with mighty strokes of

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**Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/965 "2026-07-01T03:31:28Z")

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erotic pleasures!

Deep within

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**Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/966 "2026-07-01T12:26:53Z")

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every one of us

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**Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/967 "2026-07-01T12:59:38Z")

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lies a _Mickelson_, urging

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extreme caution while stoats

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are devouring the rutabaga

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**Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/970 "2026-07-01T21:20:23Z")

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hotdish and weasels are

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scoring miraculous holes in

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**Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/972 "2026-07-02T03:02:22Z")

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one, just like POTUS!

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**Post date:** [July 2, 2026, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/973 "2026-07-02T19:36:47Z")

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One stoat in particular

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(named Bartholomew, I think)

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wasn’t, shall we say,

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a particularly good “putter”:

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taking but not putting

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**Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-tell-a-story-four-words-at-a-time-part-2/1022289/978 "2026-07-04T01:30:26Z")

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, laughing but not happy.

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They thus nicknamed him

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“Jolly Bart,” but he

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