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Title: The 3rd Annual Christmas I-Spy Thread
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 21 December, 2005, 03:34:15 PM
Starting slightly earlier this year, but this is my last working day. So...

I spy with my little eye something beginning with...

B
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Post by: Funt Solo on 21 December, 2005, 03:36:46 PM
bollocks?
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Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 21 December, 2005, 03:37:32 PM
Nope.
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Post by: Thursday on 21 December, 2005, 03:39:03 PM
Board?
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Post by: Matt Timson on 21 December, 2005, 03:39:22 PM
Botato?
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Post by: Mr C on 21 December, 2005, 03:43:25 PM
Bastard
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Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 21 December, 2005, 03:46:13 PM
Board it is. Thursday's go.
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Post by: Thursday on 21 December, 2005, 04:21:11 PM
Cool.  I spy with my little eye... er... something beginning with F.
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Post by: Floyd-the-k on 21 December, 2005, 04:35:49 PM
frangipani?
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Post by: Thursday on 21 December, 2005, 04:38:28 PM
Nope.  

What is a frangipani?  Is it a really posh frying pan?
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Post by: Floyd-the-k on 21 December, 2005, 04:47:07 PM
it's a kind of plant.

Festive cheer?
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Post by: Thursday on 21 December, 2005, 04:51:38 PM
Nope.  Getting closer though, conceptually speaking.
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Post by: Matt Timson on 21 December, 2005, 04:52:32 PM
Food?
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Post by: Thursday on 21 December, 2005, 04:58:16 PM
Nope.
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Post by: Dudley on 21 December, 2005, 05:34:36 PM
Felipe Christobalero, Mexican messageboard troll extraordinary?
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Post by: Thursday on 21 December, 2005, 05:38:57 PM
No, but I wish it was.  Now I have an image of a troll in a Mexican wrestling mask leaping through the office and scratching his initials into the filing cabinets, Zorro-stylee.
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Post by: Dan Kelly on 21 December, 2005, 05:47:37 PM
Fairylights?
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Post by: Thursday on 21 December, 2005, 05:52:06 PM
Very close.  But no.
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Post by: Bolt-01 on 21 December, 2005, 05:55:34 PM
Father Christmas?

Bolt-01
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Post by: Thursday on 21 December, 2005, 06:00:02 PM
Nope, getting colder.
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Post by: Dudley on 21 December, 2005, 06:02:19 PM
Fairy Liquid?
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Post by: Thursday on 21 December, 2005, 06:05:10 PM
Again, very close, but not quite.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 21 December, 2005, 06:59:41 PM
Fairy on top of the tree?
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Post by: Thursday on 21 December, 2005, 07:03:05 PM
Bingo!  Give that silhouette a cigar!  I would also have accepted 'fairy' with no extra contextual information.

FATC's turn.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 21 December, 2005, 07:11:17 PM
I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with 'W'.
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Post by: Thursday on 21 December, 2005, 07:33:52 PM
Werewolf Santa?  (Santa Claws?)
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Post by: Mr C on 21 December, 2005, 07:35:11 PM
Window
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Post by: Oddboy on 21 December, 2005, 07:36:11 PM
Window?
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Post by: Satanist on 21 December, 2005, 07:58:56 PM
Wudolph?

I am Jonathon Woss and I claim my 5 pounds.
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Post by: Bhuna on 21 December, 2005, 08:01:47 PM
Winter?
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Post by: Funt Solo on 21 December, 2005, 08:22:52 PM
Well, window is the closest, but no banana.  And as far as clues go, it's not a window with glass that makes it close.
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Post by: Oddboy on 21 December, 2005, 08:45:42 PM
Wall?

Or Wing-mirror? (Stop driving while internetting!)
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Post by: Banners on 21 December, 2005, 08:52:21 PM
"Windows", as in the Operating System?

M@
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Post by: Funt Solo on 21 December, 2005, 09:06:31 PM
Something in a window, on Windows...
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Post by: Bolt-01 on 21 December, 2005, 09:11:49 PM
Website?

Bolt-01
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Post by: Bhuna on 21 December, 2005, 09:18:38 PM
winternet?? (sorry!)
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Post by: Funt Solo on 21 December, 2005, 09:21:50 PM
Bolt-01 wins!!!

Eddy Guardo loses!!!
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Post by: Bolt-01 on 21 December, 2005, 09:35:27 PM
Righty-ho!

I spy with my little eye, something beginning with...

C.

Bolt-01
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Post by: Thursday on 21 December, 2005, 09:39:59 PM
CyberSanta, the Doctor's deadly yet innocuously jolly nemesis?
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Post by: Mr C on 21 December, 2005, 09:42:51 PM
CRT monitor
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Post by: Dudley on 21 December, 2005, 09:54:52 PM
Clubs and chains?  Or are you logging in from work?
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Post by: Noisybast on 21 December, 2005, 09:56:57 PM
Canon DeskJet I455 Bubble Jet Printer?
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Post by: Bolt-01 on 21 December, 2005, 09:58:47 PM
No so far punters.

I AM logging in from work, thanks James.

Bolt-01
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Post by: Dudley on 21 December, 2005, 10:00:20 PM
Ah.

Is it "Cute nurses"?
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Post by: Noisybast on 21 December, 2005, 10:01:03 PM
Colostomy bag?
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Post by: Funt Solo on 21 December, 2005, 10:20:59 PM
Cure?

As in "Ahahaha - the cure!  I've discovered the cure!"
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Post by: Bolt-01 on 21 December, 2005, 10:27:06 PM
Still a big 'NO'

I'm on till 6, when would it be fair to put up a clue?

Bolt-01
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Post by: Mr C on 21 December, 2005, 10:32:52 PM
Calendar?
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Post by: Bolt-01 on 21 December, 2005, 10:36:27 PM
Mr C takes the baton.

Run, Chris, RUN!

Bolt-01
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Post by: Mr C on 22 December, 2005, 02:56:09 PM
I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with....

P
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Post by: Bhuna on 22 December, 2005, 03:27:31 PM
Presents!
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Post by: ming on 22 December, 2005, 03:30:23 PM
Prog (2006?)
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Post by: Thursday on 22 December, 2005, 03:37:22 PM
Penguin?
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Post by: Dudley on 22 December, 2005, 03:48:30 PM
Pirate?
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Post by: Oddboy on 22 December, 2005, 04:11:41 PM
Portishead?
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Post by: Mr C on 22 December, 2005, 04:15:33 PM
None of you are any where near close.
Keep going! Clue at lunch time if no one can getit by then.
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Post by: the3rdman on 22 December, 2005, 04:15:46 PM
people queuing in argos ? probably for AA batteries ?
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Post by: Oddboy on 22 December, 2005, 04:26:07 PM
*starts getting worried*

P*n*s?
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Post by: Dudley on 22 December, 2005, 04:30:37 PM
Hey, no fair!  Do you mean panes, penis, pints or pants?
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Post by: Thursday on 22 December, 2005, 04:39:57 PM
Partially-clothed Ninja Pixies?
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Post by: Oddboy on 22 December, 2005, 04:54:40 PM
Dud - whichever one is right!

;)
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Post by: Funt Solo on 22 December, 2005, 05:23:43 PM
Perambulating pandemonious pensioners poking puzzled passersby pointedly?
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Post by: Thursday on 22 December, 2005, 05:35:44 PM
Plague-Ridden Peasants?
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Post by: Mudcrab on 22 December, 2005, 06:22:57 PM
Portcullis?
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Post by: Mr C on 22 December, 2005, 07:11:03 PM
Clue 1- Green
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Post by: ming on 22 December, 2005, 07:24:28 PM
Pine tree?
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Post by: Thursday on 22 December, 2005, 07:34:33 PM
Particularly Plague-Ridden Peasants?
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Post by: Oddboy on 22 December, 2005, 08:53:14 PM
Plant
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Post by: Mr C on 22 December, 2005, 09:01:38 PM
Huzzah for Oddboy!
Go Oddboy, go!
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Post by: Oddboy on 22 December, 2005, 09:09:20 PM
Yes, I do rule don't I?

Okay then... I spy with my slightly imparred "lunch time in the pub" vision... something beginning with...


....


C
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Post by: Mudcrab on 22 December, 2005, 09:21:45 PM
Champagne?
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Post by: Thursday on 22 December, 2005, 09:30:16 PM
Crazed Reindeer?
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Post by: Oddboy on 22 December, 2005, 09:37:40 PM
Much more mundane then crazed reindeer or champers, I'm afraid.
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Post by: Thursday on 22 December, 2005, 09:40:16 PM
Card de la Christmas?
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Post by: Mudcrab on 22 December, 2005, 09:46:04 PM
Cup?
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Post by: Oddboy on 22 December, 2005, 09:46:15 PM
Well I can spy some of those... but that's not what I had in mind. Still more mundane. REALLY mundane.
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Post by: Thursday on 22 December, 2005, 09:50:07 PM
Captain Mundane and his sidekick, the Mundane Munchkin?
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Post by: feridian on 22 December, 2005, 09:56:14 PM
Computer?
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Post by: House of Usher on 22 December, 2005, 10:08:40 PM
cuffs
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Post by: Oddboy on 22 December, 2005, 10:20:35 PM
Similar to a computer in certain ways, but more at cuff level....

(...extra clue is available to anyone who knows what I do at work)
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Post by: Thursday on 22 December, 2005, 10:22:27 PM
Calculator?
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Post by: Oddboy on 22 December, 2005, 10:26:21 PM
Discoth?que!


Over to you, Thurs!
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Post by: Thursday on 22 December, 2005, 10:29:02 PM
Coolness.

I spy with my little eye, something beginning with T.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 22 December, 2005, 10:32:01 PM
trampoline

(they're all the rage, these days)
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Post by: Thursday on 22 December, 2005, 10:37:30 PM
Sadly not, though I've often thought the office could do with a few.
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Post by: Oddboy on 22 December, 2005, 10:39:13 PM
Tea
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Post by: Oddboy on 22 December, 2005, 10:41:16 PM
(By the way, I was just musing... and this seems like the sort of thread that off topic musings wouldn't upset too many apple carts on (which reminds me of the KLF, but that's besides the point)...anyway: Imagine "Alex Zane Lowe" - the ultimate in hybrid ultracool celebrity presenters!)
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Post by: Thursday on 22 December, 2005, 10:42:01 PM
Nope.  

Guess faster, people, I'm off at five...
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Post by: Oddboy on 22 December, 2005, 10:49:47 PM
Television?

Topless supermodels? (or indeed topless anyones?)

Tiger!

Transvision Vamp!

Transformers, robots in disguise?

The Terminator? (also a robot in disguise)

Tutu?

Traffic jam?

Tourists?

Trains?
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Post by: Thursday on 22 December, 2005, 10:55:19 PM
Nope, sadly.
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Post by: Thursday on 22 December, 2005, 11:01:02 PM
'Twas Tinsel.  No idea whose turn it is now...

Anywho, I'm off and won't be able to check the board until the new year, so hope you all have a merry christmas and a cracking new year.

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Post by: DavidXBrunt on 23 December, 2005, 01:20:00 AM
Is it Tinsel?

I spy with my little eye something begining with S.

I'm off now so the first person to guess 'Snowglobe' gets the next turn.
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Post by: SamuelAWilkinson on 23 December, 2005, 03:22:24 AM
Is it Simon Fanshaw?
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Post by: Oddboy on 23 December, 2005, 04:17:31 PM
Snowglobe?


I spy with my little eye something beginning with... M.

This could be tricky, so I'll answer any questions asked with a Yes or No response.
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Post by: Mudcrab on 23 December, 2005, 04:28:39 PM
Is it a vegetable?
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Post by: Oddboy on 23 December, 2005, 04:35:08 PM
No.
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Post by: Mudcrab on 23 December, 2005, 04:39:37 PM
Mince Pie?
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Post by: Oddboy on 23 December, 2005, 04:41:36 PM
Nope.
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Post by: Mudcrab on 23 December, 2005, 04:54:14 PM
Bit obvious I suppose...

Marvel Superhero cards? :o)
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Post by: Oddboy on 23 December, 2005, 04:57:10 PM
No
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Post by: Mr C on 23 December, 2005, 04:57:42 PM
Mike Hunt?
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Post by: Oddboy on 23 December, 2005, 05:02:53 PM
Nuh-uh.
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Post by: Mudcrab on 23 December, 2005, 05:08:49 PM
Miscellaneous debris?

Monster Munch? (Pickled Onion, and an old packet too, before they shrunk, when tooth was printed on newspaper, and wagon wheels were bigger an, an, and kids these days, etc...)
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Post by: Oddboy on 23 December, 2005, 05:11:32 PM
Think bigger!
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Post by: Mudcrab on 23 December, 2005, 05:31:48 PM
Monster Truck?

Market Garden?

Military Base?

Moon?
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Post by: Oddboy on 23 December, 2005, 05:34:42 PM
Smaller than the moon.

Possibly the size of a Military base, depending on how large they are.
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Post by: Funt Solo on 23 December, 2005, 05:35:36 PM
Meteorites
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Post by: Mudcrab on 23 December, 2005, 05:36:36 PM
Motorway?
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Post by: Oddboy on 23 December, 2005, 05:39:14 PM
More stationary than meteroites,

Shorter & fatter than motorways,

(Similar to Military bases in some respects -i.e. contains uniformed men with guns)
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Post by: Mudcrab on 23 December, 2005, 05:45:42 PM
Ummm, that 'should' narrow it down!

Does it have a 'name' in front of it, e.g. "something" Airport?
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Post by: Oddboy on 23 December, 2005, 05:47:01 PM
One word, seven letters.
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Post by: Mudcrab on 23 December, 2005, 06:04:39 PM
Mansion?
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Post by: Oddboy on 23 December, 2005, 06:05:35 PM
Bigger.

Contains several mansions though.
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Post by: Mudcrab on 23 December, 2005, 06:16:02 PM
Aaargh.

It's not the name of a town is it? Hmm, but that wouldn't contain armed men. Hmm...

Bah, I dunno, I'm off to see King Kong. I shall return to see if anyone's got it later on.

S'later.
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Post by: Oddboy on 23 December, 2005, 06:18:56 PM
Well I'm off in a few minutes myself... I think this year's work is done... so I'll tell ye.

'twas Mayfair - which contains many armed police standing guard around the US embassy.
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Post by: Dudley on 23 December, 2005, 09:24:37 PM
Only cos the chance to do this doesn't come up every day...


I Spy With My Little Eye Something Beginning With "X".

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Post by: Max Kon on 23 December, 2005, 09:42:31 PM
Xerox?
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Post by: SamuelAWilkinson on 23 December, 2005, 10:25:37 PM
Xanten, the sword thereof.
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Post by: Mudcrab on 23 December, 2005, 11:22:40 PM
Gaaaah, I thought it must be a place, just missed the answer. Good one.
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Post by: Dudley on 24 December, 2005, 12:25:09 AM
Neither Xanten nor Xerox, I'm afraid.
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Post by: Max Kon on 24 December, 2005, 12:54:10 AM
xenophobe?
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Post by: Carlsborg Expert on 24 December, 2005, 01:09:47 AM
Xmas.
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Post by: Dudley on 24 December, 2005, 01:15:58 AM
Carlsborg, you're up!
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Post by: Max Kon on 24 December, 2005, 01:20:35 AM
how can you spy an xmas?
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Post by: Carlsborg Expert on 24 December, 2005, 01:22:13 AM
Yeehaa!

Okay I spy with my little eye something beginning with E.

Because its so popular, yet everyone hates it.
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Post by: Carlsborg Expert on 24 December, 2005, 08:08:07 PM
just my luck....
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Post by: Carlsborg Expert on 24 December, 2005, 10:16:43 PM
The End.
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Post by: Carlsborg Expert on 24 December, 2005, 10:16:43 PM
The End.
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Post by: Max Kon on 24 December, 2005, 10:27:56 PM
eastenders?
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Post by: Carlsborg Expert on 25 December, 2005, 06:41:01 AM
Nope.
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Post by: Max Kon on 25 December, 2005, 10:38:32 AM
eggnog
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Post by: Carlsborg Expert on 25 December, 2005, 09:03:28 PM
Yess. Merry Christmas Max.
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Post by: Max Kon on 25 December, 2005, 09:48:52 PM
thanks, to you too.

no one's about so i'll wait to spy something
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Post by: Max Kon on 26 December, 2005, 06:23:34 AM
o p
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