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When I grow up, I want to be
I think this classic story involves
"I'm sick of looking like a fish", says the first one. "I want to be a ladder!
"At least you don't have to put up with this stupid ponytail", ... second, "I ...
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Caught splinging at work
"What kind of trouble am I in?" You're... having a small stroke? :P But seriously:
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What's wrong with this line in a baking recipe book?
The cookbook should have read: "Reduce the recipe temperature by 36°F." (Or perhaps 35 or 40, for a "round" amount—"36" implies an unwarranted degree of precision.)
The original source that the ...
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The Late Queen Gives in to Remorse - Reverse Hangman
The answer is:
Add a "C", I am what has been,
Add a "G", I might be a queen,
Add a "P", I'll turn away from sin
Add an "L" and I may just give in.
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10 + 1 − 2 = 9 X
I think we can use:
Where
and it is also a single digit number from Super Hint #1 (or Super 'add criteria' #1)
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What crime have we committed?
Following on from NudgeNudge who got halfway with
This can be shortened to
Adding where we initiated
Whats inbetween and the two lower rated
this combination leads straight to a street
we keep ...
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Geography at the pixel level
Looks like
Once all of the places are found,
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What crime have we committed?
Partial:
We start in a city that rhymes with angina,
the masculine form,
add in what's drunk in China,
then take phylum's first six,
of the minor kind,
components will make what in our hand we ...
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Prove that 11111=0
I'll follow the suggestion given by the OP.
So:
Therefore we have
which comes from
and of course
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My little sister & I
You are in
Reasoning:
We are not twins:
I love her very much:
Another possibility would be:
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A word pronounced like letters
Two five-letter ones:
and three 4s:
In general, these are called "grammagrams". There are several lists available online, including this one and this questionable one.
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When I grow up, I want to be
A quick addition to Tom's otherwise excellent answer (answer not comment to preserve spoilers):
The first part of the sixth one's statement, ...
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Real life puzzle: Unknown alphabet or shorthand
This appears to be Elian Script. I'm not sure I can read the writer's handwriting entirely (and they seem to have added some nonstandard things like a zigzag for T), but the first few lines read:
PAR?...
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Difficult in the language of banana
The name is
Starts with ein affirmation, ends with a metal.
Middle is a vulgar intensifier
Edit:
I am intrigued by the last clue, but figuring anything out is difficult since
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What is my clock telling me to do?
If a 2 year old played with your clock, it could have
With your hints given
Then let us pick a name
Pick a place of work
Pick something you don't wanna do
And bonus, your wife's name
And why ...
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curious inflection of English words
The trick here lies in
The agent-noun form of
The past-tense form of
The present-participle form of
The past-participle form of
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