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TerrySlekar
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IMG 1972

I got 10…


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Zeeky Banutski
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David Green
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That’s about right. Certainly some obscure ones.



   
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I come up with 8.


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I was blessed and cursed, at the same time, with a good memory for most things. I was surprised to learn (because of it) that I recognized most of these. They mostly flow from old Great Britain English. The few I haven't heard are pretty funny!



   
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I got 14. I particularly love using kerfuffle. Some of these I learned from Moira Rose's character on Schitt's Creek (which is fantastic). "The room is bombulating with excitement...."


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John Napoli
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Well I could only relate to 4.  I guess my English is not that good.



   
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I am discombobulated to realize that I am a bit of an ultracrepidarian.  I did manage 12 of these though, which is IMHO a reflection of my Grade 7 Attendance Certificate.....which I am proud of obviously, but had I only known at the time I would have stayed another year and been certified as an academic zeuzizenzizenzic. 



   
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Did you know that showing someone how to throw something (or someone) out a window is a defenestration demonstration?



   
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Seven was the best I could do.



   
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@paul-rouffa And if you do that when the window is closed you create a defenestration demonstration expensification.  George Bush Jr. said this is a fact....and he would know!



   
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Posted by: @jack-dodds

@paul-rouffa And if you do that when the window is closed you create a defenestration demonstration expensification.  George Bush Jr. said this is a fact....and he would know!

And when he said that, it was a defenestration demonstration expensification clarification declaration explanation.

 



   
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@paul-rouffa Exactly!



   
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About 10 was the number I got to. Envy Silly Roll  



   
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You might bumfuzzle someone or cause a hullabaloo if you layed one of these down playing Scabble.  If you don’t get defenestrated,  you may have to skedaddle.. 🥴


Frank Reed
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Posted by: @frank

You might bumfuzzle someone or cause a hullabaloo if you layed one of these down playing Scabble.  If you don’t get defenestrated,  you may have to skedaddle.. 🥴

YEAH!  What HE said!

 



   
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