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Say Hello / Re: Just introducing myself
« on: April 10, 2007, 10:21:25 PM »
 Hello Col!   I only discovered Chi recently myself, and now I'm hooked ! It makes a nice change to know that you're pitting your wits and vocabulary against real people, I think.  Everyone is very friendly.........even the high fliers who regularly top the list treat the rest of us kindly!!

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Words / Re: Youse? Youse is really acceptable?
« on: April 06, 2007, 02:37:30 PM »
I don't disagree at all......I just haven't read the rules properly! In fact I think it's very useful to differentiate between singular and plural. Youse'll have to forgive me if I just slag off and rabbit on about all kinds of thingies and doodahs .....ok?

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Words / Youse? Youse is really acceptable?
« on: April 06, 2007, 01:43:10 PM »
Well I'll be............sorry, words fail me. There I was , scouring the furthest reaches of my literate and grammatical knowledge in a random puzzle. Failing to reach the dizziest of heights, I looked at the solution. "Youse" is apparently a recognized word. If only I'd known sooner.....I'm sure I could have had far higher scores, throwing in dozens of examples of my gutter slang. Ah well, I shall now go and remove the loess from my furniture instead. I'm sure you all know that's a buff-to-grey, windblown deposit of fine-grained calcareous silt or clay. To think I've been calling it dust all these years !   ::)

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Whatever / Re: I am humbled !
« on: April 02, 2007, 08:18:56 PM »
Thank you for those kind and supportive words, Technomc and Lulu!  Actually I don't mind at all being bested by better minds.......I just wish that I'd found Chihuahua a long time ago. I must have played every other online game that there is.....Word Mojo, Boggle, Bookworm, Texttwist,Flipwords etc etc. I think the real difference is that in those games you simply try to beat your own score, and have no idea how other people might fare. That's why I got such a shake-up when I found you all! It's really put me on my mettle.......out have come the ancient dictionaries....(would you believe a 20kg, 1927 Websters? My pride and joy ) and on has gone the thinking cap. I am trying hard to resist killing off more of my grey cells with a few glasses of wine.....white in my case!    :D  :D

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Whatever / Re: I am humbled !
« on: April 02, 2007, 12:58:55 PM »
Oh, that makes me feel SO much better!        ;D

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Whatever / I am humbled !
« on: April 02, 2007, 11:46:11 AM »
For years I have prided myself on my vocabulary. I considered it to be extensive, exhaustive, eclectic and erudite. After less than a week of playing Chi (playing ? sweating various bodily fluids more like ) I have been toppled from my smug, self-satisfied and decidedly crumbly pedestal. I grovel before all you wordsmiths. I make a solemn promise that I shall do better. I am about to write 100 lines....."Pride comes before a fall."      :'(

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Say Hello / Re: Just to say hello!
« on: April 01, 2007, 07:19:09 AM »
Thankyou for the welcoming messages........it's comforting to know that I'm not the only word fanatic on the planet. Apologies for not replying sooner, but I was distracted by a word game that I discovered................. :D

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Say Hello / Just to say hello!
« on: March 31, 2007, 07:43:50 PM »
 My life has changed forever since finding Chihuahua. Whyever didn't I come across it before? It's my favourite kind of word game. I'm astounded at some of your scores, which means that I have to spend even longer trying to catch up. Oh well, who needs a tidy house or clean clothes anyhow? I'm another Aussie by the way!

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