A THURSDAY CONTEST
CORRECTED
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Hello Bruce
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I haven't thrown a contest in your faces for many months. So I'm making up for it today. Here is a list of things. One of them does not fit on the list. Which one, in your expert opinion, does not belong on the list, and why.
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PIN Number
Opening Gambit
ATM Machine
VCR Recorder
Opuses
Sum Total
Rapid Transit
Close Proximity
ICBM Missile
He Exits
NATO Organization
Unexpected Surprise
Philharmonic Orchestra
False Pretenses
UFO Object
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The decision of the ornery, biased judge is final.
Good luck.
DB
3 comments:
Hmmm. This is a poser. I'm torn between two items: "ICBM Missal" contains Missile in its intials and Missal --a book for Catholic Mass-- as a redundant homonym; All entries in list are nouns except "He Exits" which contains a verb. Altho the Pope might be firing missiles armed with liturgical texts, I think I'll go with "He Exits".
I'm thinking Close Encounters of the Third Kind and that "raid transit" doesn't belong simply because I don't know what it is.
Contest corrected? --must consult revised script. Hamlet (sotto voce):
Ah, where lately "raid" to "rapid" hath sped,
I was, by "missal" to "missile", misled!
Still lean toward "He Exits" because unredundant. But like the word "Opuses" because it doesn't exist. Plural of opus is opera.
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