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  • Originally Posted by snookersfun
    well, every word in that sentence finishes with the letter that the word in front of it starts with. Plus it looks rather symmetric to have a 'couple of each', so while 'help' was a first answer the couple of words looks rather superior.
    Congratulations, snookersfun! Not sure I understand the "couple of each" bit - it is just a string of words - but have the imaginary point!
    "If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
    David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.

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    • Originally Posted by davis_greatest
      How do you get from perseverance to also, or also to skill?
      But mine also works in the sense that each pair of words begins and ends with the same letter.

      I'm imaginarily pointless

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      • Originally Posted by rambon
        But mine also works in the sense that each pair of words begins and ends with the same letter.
        I know - yours almost worked. It works if we pair words like this:

        1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10

        but the answer had to work with every adjacent pair, so with

        1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5 5-6 6-7 7-8 8-9 9-10

        Originally Posted by rambon
        I'm imaginarily pointless
        You can have an imaginary half-point!
        "If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
        David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.

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        • but the answer had to work with every adjacent pair, so with

          1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5 5-6 6-7 7-8 8-9 9-10
          except, that would have been too easy, so it should be rather
          1-2 3-1 4-3 5-4 6-5 7-6 8-7 9-8 10-9

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          • Originally Posted by snookersfun
            except, that would have been too easy, so it should be rather
            1-2 3-1 4-3 5-4 6-5 7-6 8-7 9-8 10-9
            My 1-2 was supposed to represent words 1 and 2; 2-3 was supposed to represent words 2 and 3 etc.

            Yours of course is expressed in a different (better ) way, where you have used 1-2 to represent a single word beginnnig with letter 1 and ending in letter 2; etc.
            "If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
            David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.

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            • ROUND 50

              Does anyone remember what round we are on? Round 50 next?

              And does anyone remember whether there is still a scoreboard on this thread? I think The Statman ditched it, but can't remember for sure....

              So, this morning I finally received a Memory Course that Barry The Baboon ordered me for Christmas, to help me remember things like this. I don't know why it took so long to arrive - I guess they had forgotten to post it. It being a nice morning, I took the course outside to read, while eating a banana for breakfast, and sat on the grass (and then noticed that I was about 6 feet from some rather unpleasant doggie mess). I gazed up at the sky and guess what I saw? A flying pig! So, to get me out of the very deep hole that I am in, remind me please what I was trying to remember?
              "If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
              David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.

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              • MC BTB
                *cough* this is to get that annoying thing that tells me I haven't posted in ages to go away *cough*
                Boris for PM!

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                • a naïve answer ... you don't remember (for sure) whether The Statman ditched the scoreboard of this thread (independently of the fact it existed or not!). Must be too easy
                  Proud winner of the 2008 Bahrain Championship Lucky Dip
                  http://ronnieosullivan.tv/forum/index.php

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                  • No answers yet. It will be obvious to the person who gets it that he / she has got it...
                    "If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
                    David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.

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                    • Originally Posted by davis_greatest
                      No answers yet. It will be obvious to the person who gets it that he / she has got it...
                      Is that supposed to be a clue?

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                      • Where you trying to remember to use 50 'o's in celebration of the 50th round? Because if so, you succeeded!

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                        • Originally Posted by snookersfun
                          Where you trying to remember to use 50 'o's in celebration of the 50th round? Because if so, you succeeded!
                          Hahahahaha... true! But no, I wasn't! Much more obvious than that...
                          "If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
                          David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.

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                          • OK, let's move ahead on this one:
                            so several other things you might have wanted to remember:
                            -to start sentences with the letters in 'Davis' only (except that Round 50 business...
                            -pigs don't fly
                            -to scoop up the doggy mess
                            -to actually continue reading
                            -which round we are on... 51 next
                            -that the bananas are for the apes

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                            • Originally Posted by snookersfun
                              OK, let's move ahead on this one:
                              so several other things you might have wanted to remember:
                              -to start sentences with the letters in 'Davis' only (except that Round 50 business...
                              -pigs don't fly
                              -to scoop up the doggy mess
                              -to actually continue reading
                              -which round we are on... 51 next
                              -that the bananas are for the apes
                              LOL
                              No, no, no, no, no and, um,... no!
                              "If anybody can knock these three balls in, this man can."
                              David Taylor, 11 January 1982, as Steve Davis prepared to pot the blue, in making the first 147 break on television.

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                              • I know the answer to this one!

                                It is the order of the colours in snooker!

                                Banana = yellow
                                grass = green
                                dogpoo = brown
                                sky = blue
                                pig = pink
                                hole = black

                                If it took too long to remember, being out there in the sun you would have been the shade of 15 reds – but they come before the colours!

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