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28 Oct 2005, 14:47
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Has Soup On His Head
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Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
Using only consecutive letters on a standard keyboard, what is the longest word you can make IE G can be followed by RTYFHVBN but X can only be followed by ZASDC.
GO!
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28 Oct 2005, 14:50
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Henry Kelly
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
I don't see how the **** this works at all
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28 Oct 2005, 14:52
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
referee
And your initial post should state 'Immediate neighbours' or 'surrounding characters' instead of 'consecutive', as consecutive would infer you could move from a to s then to e then r.
Yeah?
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28 Oct 2005, 14:52
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
are you autistic
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28 Oct 2005, 14:53
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
You mean adjacent, not consecutive.
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"Referees", skiddy.
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28 Oct 2005, 14:55
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wild one
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
You can't have referees as s isn't attached to any character which hits f and is in the word.
edit - yeah, sorry, i was using r as base, if you use e it works.
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28 Oct 2005, 14:56
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
G HJKLMNBVCXZAQWERTYUIOPLMNBVCXZASDFGHJKLPOIUYTREWQAXSDCVFGBNHJMKLOPLKIUYTREWQAZXSWEDCVFRTGBNHYUJMKIOL POLIKUJYH
Sorry, got bored.
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28 Oct 2005, 15:01
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Aardvark is a funny word
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
polio
freed
sewer
5 letters
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28 Oct 2005, 15:08
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wild one
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
assessees
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28 Oct 2005, 15:08
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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Originally Posted by skiddy
referee
And your initial post should state 'Immediate neighbours' or 'surrounding characters' instead of 'consecutive', as consecutive would infer you could move from a to s then to e then r.
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Consecutive does mean you can move from S to E to R , and thats the game.
So for instance , SERF is viable , as is DREW , and just for arguments sake , ill allow multiple use (so DRESS is viable).
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And the Banker, inspired with a courage so new
It was matter for general remark,
Rushed madly ahead and was lost to their view
In his zeal to discover the Snark
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28 Oct 2005, 15:09
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Has Soup On His Head
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
Anyone using textspeak is disqualified.
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And the Banker, inspired with a courage so new
It was matter for general remark,
Rushed madly ahead and was lost to their view
In his zeal to discover the Snark
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28 Oct 2005, 15:12
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wild one
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
I think you must agree, especially since our resident Stephen Hawkings agreed, that your initial post wasn't as clear as it could be.
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28 Oct 2005, 15:15
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
lolololololol
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28 Oct 2005, 15:38
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
Well Q wont be of much use, now will it.
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28 Oct 2005, 15:41
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
DESERT FREED WERE FRED
This game sucks.
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28 Oct 2005, 15:42
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share the <3
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
qwerty
/obvious
sawder redsaw
all the vowels are far apart you can't do much
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28 Oct 2005, 16:19
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
referrer
redressed/redresses
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28 Oct 2005, 16:42
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Heh, Leeds !
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
Quote:
Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
G HJKLMNBVCXZAQWERTYUIOPLMNBVCXZASDFGHJKLPOIUYTREWQAXSDCVFGBNHJMKLOPLKIUYTREWQAZXSWEDCVFRTGBNHYUJMKIOL POLIKUJYH
Sorry, got bored.
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and you spelt it wrong
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28 Oct 2005, 16:55
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You love me really
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
What do they call it when someone refereed something again?
Rerefereed
10 letters!
I win.
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28 Oct 2005, 17:36
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
rereferred is like rerefereed but has the advantage of actually being a word. But yeah, if rerefereed is valid then you could also have rerererererererererererererererefereed.
assessees is the best so far even if it isnt the longest
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28 Oct 2005, 18:04
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share the <3
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
ass
ferret
desecrated
desecrated ferret ass
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28 Oct 2005, 18:09
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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Originally Posted by Nusselt
e-> c
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you cant wrap around
what
I'm trying to work out what you think the rules are given those are the longest words you can find, but nothing makes sense
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28 Oct 2005, 18:15
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Has Soup On His Head
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
Nusselt used E -> C (Not Allowed) and R - > A (not allowed). Desecrated is not a valid word in this challenge.
You must use consecutive letters.
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It was matter for general remark,
Rushed madly ahead and was lost to their view
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28 Oct 2005, 18:38
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
treeweeds
sewerfeeds
swedefree
desertgreed
desertdeeds
pff
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28 Oct 2005, 18:47
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
oops wow sorry did not see that
my bad
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28 Oct 2005, 18:58
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share the <3
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
i didn't actually read the rules
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28 Oct 2005, 19:02
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
The whole point of the qwerty keyboard is that you can't form long words using consecutive letters dudes
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28 Oct 2005, 19:04
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
The whole point of the qwerty keyboard is that you can't form long words using consecutive letters dudes
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I'm not sure if youre being serious but this is wrong (although qwerty was designed to promote inefficiency). However if you look at a dvorak layout, youd struggle to make a word over 5 letters long from consecutive keys.
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28 Oct 2005, 19:05
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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Originally Posted by Arachnidman
10 letters!
I win.
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I'm really sorry (as I really love you) but I got 11.
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28 Oct 2005, 19:08
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
I really think keyboard layout is irrellevant to efficiency. As long as they keys are all in one small space and I don't have to reach around my back to find a letter or the letters don't randomly switch places after a few minutes it's all good.
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28 Oct 2005, 19:09
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
Wasn't the qwerty keyboard the same set-up as the old type-writers? I could be completely out to lunch, but I think that the qwerty set-up was to prevent fast typers from getting keys/mechanics all jammed up. Looking at my keyboard, apart from that "sder" section, you wouldn't really put many of them together one after another in most common words {J,K M,N I,U}
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28 Oct 2005, 19:10
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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Originally Posted by Nodrog
I'm not sure if youre being serious but this is wrong (although qwerty was designed to promote inefficiency). However if you look at a dvorak layout, youd struggle to make a word over 5 letters long from consecutive keys.
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A wizzle wozzle? I'm pretty sure an inefficient layout would tend towards letters most commonly used in succession being widely separated.
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28 Oct 2005, 19:13
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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Originally Posted by Squidly
Wasn't the qwerty keyboard the same set-up as the old type-writers? I could be completely out to lunch, but I think that the qwerty set-up was to prevent fast typers from getting keys/mechanics all jammed up.
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Yeah, commonly used pairs of letters were split up to stop the typewriter jamming. But that doesnt mean you shouldnt be able to find long words that grouped together. Again, you'll do better on a qwerty keyboard than a dvorak one for this challenge; when I read kurashimas post I almost immediately googled for a dvorak layout so I could use a word from that to be 'clever', but its insanely hard to find anything
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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
A wizzle wozzle? I'm pretty sure an inefficient layout would tend towards letters most commonly used in succession being widely separated.
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Yeah I know, I just dont think this has anything to do with this challenge
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28 Oct 2005, 19:15
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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Yeah, commonly used pairs of letters were split up to stop the typewriter jamming. But that doesnt mean you shouldnt be able to find long words that grouped together.
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Yeah but it means it's more difficult than you might initially think. Reading over what I initially wrote I did fail to specify exactly what I meant. How terrible
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28 Oct 2005, 19:50
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
screwed crews see red (base letter d)
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28 Oct 2005, 19:57
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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screwed crews see red (base letter d)
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Nay, you're not following the rules.
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28 Oct 2005, 21:33
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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s->c doesnt work
next
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c -> r doesn't either.
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28 Oct 2005, 21:56
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
s -> c does work the nod modification requirement of 1809 states wrap arounds are not valid. C -> therefore is wrong.
I humbly submit zaqwsx as the quick junkemail password of choice (no it isn't mine to the nusselt account before you try)
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28 Oct 2005, 22:02
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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I'm really sorry (as I really love you) but I got 11.
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man, is desertgreed even a word though!?
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28 Oct 2005, 22:54
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
Maybe not but I like really care.
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28 Oct 2005, 23:50
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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You must use consecutive letters.
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Adjacent you numpty. Consecutive letters gives you things like ghjkl or cvbnm, not referees.
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28 Oct 2005, 23:52
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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s->c doesnt work
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Yes it does, it's implicitly allowed by a comparison with the list of viable letters Kura gave for "x" to be adjacent to.
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29 Oct 2005, 00:10
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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Originally Posted by Flavius
so it's basically a 3x3 circle around the chosen letter
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Yeah, it's probably the only way you can do that given that keyboards differ in relative placement of keys.
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I see how this is quick, but the nasty bit is not clear.
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The arguments, they're the nasty part.
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29 Oct 2005, 12:34
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
The sheer volume of arguments and pedantry, THATS the nasty part.
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Rushed madly ahead and was lost to their view
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29 Oct 2005, 12:37
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
That's a quantification of the nasty part, not the definition of the nasty part which is merely the presence of arguments and pedantry.
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29 Oct 2005, 13:00
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
Am I the only one with a keyboard on which the e and the f are not adjacent keys? Or can you use keys that would on a straight grid be adjacent, even though on the keyboard they don't actually make any contact?
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29 Oct 2005, 14:23
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
well they arent actually touching; but i think we are assuming that they are on a straight grid, numpad style.
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29 Oct 2005, 14:55
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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(infact i hope i'm so right that i suck away all your powers. like in that film)
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Some sort of superhero porn flick? "Blowjob girl" sucks away superheros powers by seducing them into bed and sucking out their specialiaties through their cocks?
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29 Oct 2005, 17:09
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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could the quantification not be a part of the definition ?
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No.
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30 Oct 2005, 05:18
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Re: Quick and Nasty - A GD Challenge
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Another blow to the already-not-so-huge-e-selfimage of horn. What will his next move be, in order to obtain MrL_JaKiri's superpowers? Will he bake a special cake to get his superpowers? Or are there more sinister plans going around in his mind.....*
*time will tell
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