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Sunday, December 21, 2008
Wordle Challenge #1
Wordle Challenge #1, Easy Level: Identify the novel that begins --
The entire household was several kilometers away from The Manor, admiring the Captain's new installation of Paisley-Butted Guinea Baboons... when the clarion call went out: Someone had solved a Wordle Challenge.
We were not surprised to find the winner to be the one and only Ms. fresca!
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Ulysses.
ReplyDeleteThe entire household was several kilometers away from The Manor, admiring the Captain's new installation of Paisley-Butted Guinea Baboons... when the clarion call went out: Someone had solved a Wordle Challenge.
ReplyDeleteWe were not surprised to find the winner to be the one and only Ms. fresca!
Félicitations, chère fresca.
De rien, chère Bianca!
ReplyDeleteAn odd-toed ungulate could have solved it!
(So it goes, as our friend Mr. Vonnegut says.)