--- In [email protected], "ChD" <chrndrnj@...> wrote:
Odin's beard!" ;-).
meaning 'to trample' but I actually stole the whole curse from Dick
Dastardly, a character in a 70's Hannah Barbera cartoon called "Wacky
Races".
scores 5 or more in Scrabble.
M
>I'll add that to my list of Norse curses (previously I had only "By
> "Herregökarimej, tre på tafsen!"
Odin's beard!" ;-).
> By the way: I have heard (Alas! read only) "Z'ounds", but where theNo, but it's almost Latin. It is originally from Old French
> bell does "foiled again" come from? No Latin there, huh? ;)
meaning 'to trample' but I actually stole the whole curse from Dick
Dastardly, a character in a 70's Hannah Barbera cartoon called "Wacky
Races".
> I prefer the simpler Carroll version. Rearranging, if allowed,should
> be obligatory. Just for fun, one could turn a few knobs:* ...Every intermediate word must have at least one letter that
> * Rearrangement is obligatory
> * All letters are to be rearranged (or changed?) in every turn
> * All letters are to be changed (Even "A" in TANK-...-FLAG must
> change))
> * All letters must have occupied all positions (an equal number of
> times?) before chain ends
scores 5 or more in Scrabble.
> Exactly - we are following LT rules.I was just checking...
> (The passage on Carroll keeping score was of mere interest, not
> relevant. For Mr. Dodgson, there was no doubt pure problem-solving
> delight in fashioning a reciprocal method of counting.)
> There is a cookie left. Split?Of course. Coo for you, kie for me :-)
M