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- From: u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Damien Saunders)
- Subject: A challenge for all 4 word storytellers.
- Message-ID: <u906451.722514499@bruny>
- Sender: news@newsroom.utas.edu.au
- Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:28:19 GMT
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- Now a challenge for the storytellers among us. These should be done
- by this saturday, when my exams will be finished, then I will stop
- being a lurker who occasionally posts things.
-
- (Trumpet fanfare)
-
- "Gentlemen and Ladies, Here are your four words.
-
- BASTINADO
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- DEFENESTRATE
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- MACERATE
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- SUGGILATE
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- On your marks, get set GO!!!!"
-
- Damien.
-
- BTW The four words actually exist! They were lifted from _the superior
- person's little book of words_ by Peter Bowler. Publisher Mandarin Australia
- ISBN 1-86330-015-5. The book is abecedarian. Meaning later with the four words
- as well as an abecerian insult.
- --
- "The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off."
- British Army Journal 1949
- Damien Saunders (Gunnar Njalsson SCA) Email:u906451@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au
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