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It may just be my career history (Journalist/Sub-Editor), and the rest of you may find this stupefyingly boring, but I think this is clever.
It's the business card for a freelance journalist/copywriter.
Gary.jpeg
The blue line is a sub-editor's correction mark signifying "transpose these letters".
The blokes name is GARY GRAY. :P
Geddit? :lol:
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I godit!!
Like Glenelg? (sorry I can't do the blue wiggle line!!!)
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Nearly, Bruce,

"GLENELG" is a palindrome: spells the same forwards & backwards...

Like, "Able was I ere I saw Elba"
(attributed to Napoleon when he was exiled to the island of Elba, but probably apocryphal) :P
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Greynomad wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 6:48 pm Nearly, Bruce,

"GLENELG" is a palindrome: spells the same forwards & backwards...

Like, "Able was I ere I saw Elba"
(attributed to Napoleon when he was exiled to the island of Elba, but probably apocryphal) :P
The attribution to Napoleon could only be true if he wrote it in English. Being an Italian born French Statesman who hated the British, what are the chances he would have written such a piece in English?
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Being an Italian born French Statesman who hated the British, what are the chances he would have written such a piece in English?
My thoughts exactly, T1!

Unlikely that he would have even spoken English (even if he knew the language), hence my statement of doubt.

:? I also doubt that, upon seeing Eve, Adam would have said (in English), "Madam, I'm Adam."
Another palindrome... inventing such word games was a popular pastime in Victorian England. Like having children was. ;)
Obviously one did not affect or relate to the other. Just sayin'...
Queen Vicki had eleven! (children, not palindromes :lol: )
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Ever watched toddler kids who haven't mastered a language except their own gobbldy-goop? In no time at all two or more can develop a level of understanding between each other than no adult can follow, yet once they master the language their parents speak, they can no longer interpret what another toddler is saying, just make educated guesses the same as an adult.
They say babies can be seen dreaming while still in the womb, but what are they dreaming about if they have not yet experienced life outside the womb? Are they also born with a universal language? Was this how the early tribes communicated before they developed their own tribal language?
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T1,
I think the answer to that theory is,
“Greeblefarb gulkisosh”
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AGE may be a great healer,
But it is a terrible beautician!!
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Greynomad wrote: Tue Apr 02, 2019 9:29 pm T1,
I think the answer to that theory is,
“Greeblefarb gulkisosh”
😝
Was the edit because you spelt it wrong Ray? :lol:
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Yep. Can’t tell my greeblefarbs from my garglefreebs. :lol:
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