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  1. minstrel

    minstrel Leader of the Insquirrelgency Supporter Contributor

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    If you believe the Bible (I don't), everyone alive today (including Republicans and even Charles Manson) is a descendant of Adam. So nobody cares. :wtf:
     
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    Seriously?!
    I'm 1/200th Mongol?!
    I know which empty throne I'll be keeping my eye on :3
     
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    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    Good luck! :D I know you can do it!
     
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    cutecat22 The Strange One Contributor

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    chocolate and hazelnut spread.

    Kids (and some adults) love it spread on toast or bread. Or even just straight off the spoon! Last year, I made a birthday cake for my daughter's friend who was 15, she requested I cover the cake in Nutella and M&M's
     
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    cutecat22 The Strange One Contributor

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    You would have to be "the one" out of 200 people ...
     
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    Well, it would explain my devilish good looks and how no one can resist my charms.
    So, yes, I am that 200th person.
     
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    Strengths is the longest one syllable word.

    *Disclaimer: Not sure if it's actually true. Read it in some novel.
     
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    Are you also good at rampaging?
     
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    Here's a fact: Spreading nutella on toads is illegal in twelve states.
     
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    1862 was one of the best years ever for the New York Stock Exchange. Apparently there is nothing like the possibility of governmental and economic collapse to inspire risky speculative trading?
     
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    A lecturer once told me the "facetious" is the only word with all five vowels in their correct order. So I got home, told my father, and he said "what about abstemious?" I can only assume the lecturer wasn't familiar with abstention.
     
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    Reading is Awesome! :agreed:
     
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    There is also arsenious, acheilous, anemious, caesious, and annelidous

    EDIT TO ADD: ADVENTIOUS, AFFECTIOUS, ALEIKOUM, ALPESTRIOUS, ANEMIOUS, ANNELIDOUS, ARTERIOSUM, ARTERIOSUS, ARTERIOUS, AVENIOUS, BACTERIOUS, CAMELIOUS, CARNELIOUS, FRACEDINOUS, GAREISOUN, GRAVEDINOUS, MAJESTIOUS, MATERIOUS, PARECIOUS, PLACENTIOUS, TRAGEDIOUS
     
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  14. EdFromNY

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    Vocab wars. Vicious.
     
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    Toads??

    :rofl::rofl::rofl:
     
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    You said it, not me.
     
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    Why would anyone want to spread nutella on a toad?
     
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    This thread is procrastination elevated to an art form...
     
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  19. Megalith

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    Maybe she meant toast?
     
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    Clearly. I was messing about.
     
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    cutecat22 The Strange One Contributor

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    TOAST! TOAST!

    Damn fingers pressing the wrong keys!
    :rofl::rofl::rofl:
     
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    cutecat22 The Strange One Contributor

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    I never even realized I'd miskeyed the word! :oops:
     
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  23. Megalith

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    I like the following fact....

    A task takes as much time as their is to complete it.
     
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  24. Lemex

    Lemex That's Lord Lemex to you. Contributor

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    The Chinese have two main languages but one writing system. Meaning when films are played and needed to be translated they have a uniform script they use - but viewers read it completely separate languages

    Also, like hieroglyphs, the Chinese letters represent words, not phonetic sounds like in English's Latin alphabet.
     
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  25. Link the Writer

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    Cabin fever makes you a sluggish zombie.

    Also, 1,971 years ago yesterday, Julius Caesar was killed on the floor of the Roman Senate because a few prissy senators developed a mass hysteria that he was gonna declare himself Emperor for Life and decided that, of course, the best solution to this problem was to stab him to death with knives.

    Really, guys? You couldn't have just talked to him about it? Or, better yet, remove him from power and appoint a new ruler in his stead?
     
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