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Postby El_Skwidd » Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:47 am

I think the answer to the first one is language.
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Postby Pie » Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:48 am

HEY!!! YOU CHEETED!!! YOU SERCHED FOR THE ANSWER ON THE INTERNET!!!
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Postby kronos » Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:58 am

This passage from Gatsby is unusal, can you figure out why?


Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping crowds. Gatsby, walking towards that group, saw a young girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration ... "
The above passage is taken from the book "Gatsby" written by Ernest Vincent Wright in the late 1930's
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Postby Sho » Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:58 am

Well, since you suggested it . . . Google reveals that there is no known solution to the second puzzle.

Kronos's passage is nifty because it doesn't use the letter E - quite hard to do, and adds a certain flavor to the writing. I've read another such book: "A Void," the English translation of "La Disparition" by Georges Perec.
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Postby Stan » Sat Nov 12, 2005 2:02 pm

Please explain how language ends in -GRY. I'm missing something.
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Postby SekoETC » Sat Nov 12, 2005 2:26 pm

Hahaha, omg, it's a pun. What is the third word in "The English Language"?
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Postby Stan » Sat Nov 12, 2005 2:35 pm

That's a pretty good one. If I say it out loud I get it. It's hard to read a pun, I guess.
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Postby Pie » Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:10 pm

alright.... I WIN!! I WANT A SANDWICH!!!!
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Postby Stan » Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:12 pm

Talk to Schme.
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Postby Pie » Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:27 pm

*Looks at scheme*

*sees scheme eating a sandwich*

*Snaches the sandwich out of his hands*

*Eats the sandwich*

*smiles*
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Postby Schme » Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:48 pm

I had no sandwhich, foul heretic! Now be off with you, devil talker! Away! We don't take kindly to people who write in between stars around these parts.
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Postby Pie » Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:48 pm

Well, if you didn't have a sandwich, than why is there mayonais on your hands?
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Postby Schme » Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:29 pm

Mayonaise? Oh, that....
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Postby Pie » Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:56 pm

Scheme.... If what you have on your hands, isn't mayonase, Than Shake your head.
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Postby El_Skwidd » Sat Nov 12, 2005 9:13 pm

That may be the first legitimate BURN ever to come from Pie.

Ever.
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