The Last Post Game!!!!

[Black Bart]

Are ye going to answer the charges of Desertion laid at yer feet by The Scurvy Fleet Disciplinary Board?

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PS If I were ye...I'd steer clear matey...they exiled me to Australia!!!!!!!

[beagle]

Aarrrgh terrible place  .

Thanks fer drawing that to me attention. I thinks I've cleared me name over there now.

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[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Christmas shopping? I don't think so.

In fact, based on Bluenose's tempting recipe, I'm seriously thinking about giving'em all homemade fruitcake this year.

That way, I can make one-per-family and they can share.  (but I won't mention it was made with rum-- many are teetotalers with a fierce vengance )

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[Griffin NoName]

You may PM the new LPWB to me Beagle.

I finished my Christmas shopping, except for all the ones I am returning to get my money back that were going to people that Santa has told me he has struck off his list for bad behaviour.

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[Sibling Chatty]

HA!!

We don't do Christmas shopping anymore, so I was through before I started! Much less tiring, much less expense.

[Swatopluk]

Beagle got most of the clues right.
Steve McQueen is on the river gun_boat San Pablo in the movie Sand Pebbles (aka Gun_boat on the Yangtse-kiang).

Kerry commanded a modern equivalent in Vietnam (and indeed JFK a MTB in WW2)

The more obscure clue: Bush could mistake a gun_boat for a (helicopter) gunship (ringing=Bell, snake=Cobra, Boondocks=Huey)

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[beagle]

Ah right, My degenerate lifestyle means I associate Bell with whisky rather than helicopters. Now it makes sense.

All my Christmas shopping gets done by computer. Depending which environmentalist you talk to this means I'm either saving the world by not travelling, and substituting a cold warehouse for a big heated shop, or killing the High Street in favour of evil multiples.

Have sent a new word to NoName as requested, but it won't be in place yet. Early clues:

One word made up of two non-hyphenated subwords that can stand alone.
Noun or adjective.
Not a particularly serious word, but one that's been fought over.

Think I'll stop there as I usually make them too easy.


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[Swatopluk]

An egg-opener?
I feel so reminded of Swift.
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[beagle]

Nope (and don't forget the subwords are non-hyphenated). In fact very few people would describe Swift himself as <<the word>>, though it's the sort of term bandied about around here for certain politicians. If we were talking about sportsmen/women then it's an accurate description rather than a derogatory term, at least in some cases.


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[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Maybe southpaw, though I don't see how it would be derogatory in any context (other than the archaic "left handed = sinister" viewpoint).

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[beagle]

Nope, but hands form a key component of one sport where the term is used so you're in the right arena.

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[Swatopluk]

steroid-driven girlie-men?
sorry, no idea
but
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[beagle]

Hmm. Didn't think this one would be massively difficult, but they always seem easy to the setter.

Anyone for rowing or boxing? How shalll we draw up the entry categories?

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P.S. the experimental testing of General Relativity might give you a clue if you think laterally.

P.P.S.  You're still putting hyphens in Swato...

[Swatopluk]

Do you believe that I believed that the tdgm was the right word?
Btw, you just said that the sub-words are unhyphenated but nothing about the combosite.
Any strongarming involved? anything attractive lightbending in that?
Or are we more about wrestling?
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[beagle]

You have one of the words there.

Models are often accused of being too <<theword>>  in two different senses.

Wrestlers and boxers and (usually women) rowers can fall into the category of <<the word>>.

Threads in computing can be <<the word>>.

A (layman's) synonym for the second of the two subwords plays a critical role in General Relativity.

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