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Split from 'General Natter Room'.

A puzzle. Don't tell your answer. Don't search for the answer using Google.

What has 4 letters, sometimes 9 letters, but never has 5 letters.

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I'm afraid the answer was obvious to me immediately, but I won't give it away.
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I agree with you, Anita. The answer is obvious. :D
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Yes, I agree with both Anita and Eddie. It's obvious the minute you've read the board. :)

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Yes, got it as well! :)
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Quite clever though - I've never seen that before. :-)
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Yes, no need to Google that one - really obvious. And I usually take ages to solve anything!
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Reminds me a bit of the 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' - can you spell it? thing we used to ask at school!
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious came long after my schooldays but, in the distant past, we asked the following question:

"Constantinople is a very long word, can you spell it?"

Same idea; different word. :lol:
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I remember hearing both those jokes at school! :lol:
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We used to say "Constantinople is a very long word. If you can't spell it, you're a very big fool."
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Anita Bensoussane wrote:I remember hearing both those jokes at school! :lol:
me too! I'd forgotten the other one. :-)

Also 'Adam and Eve and Pinch-me went down to the river to bathe,
Adam and Eve were drowned, who do you think were saved?'

Daft or what?! ;-)
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
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Yes, that's another one I remember well!
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I remember the teacher writing 'CONSTANTINOPLE' on the board and asking us to find as many words as we could from it! :-D At the time I remember thinking what a long word it was, but it doesn't seem so long now somehow!
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I also remember the "Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me" joke from my schooldays. It often got changed to "Kick-Me" or "Punch-Me".

Daft indeed! :roll:
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