I just got one from the Australian Human Rights Commission saying I have a US$2.5 million account at the Word Bank. (I've been told I have a good vocabulary, but this is ridiculous.)
Other names mentioned in the spam are Chief Justice Roberts (supposedly the contact, @outlook.com), Secretary of State Kerry, UN "President General" Ban Ki-moon, and Prime Minister Abbott.
I've always wanted to make a withdrawal from the Word Bank, as long as it isn't in Microsoft Word®.
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Re: Word Bank
I am a fan of the NPR quiz show "Says You"; and among my favorite parts of the show comes when one of the team is given an obscure word, such as "frass". One of the three team members is given a card with the correct definition; and the other two are given cards which read something like "please fake a definition". It's a lot of fun to try to guess whose definition is correct -- and it's also difficult, because the panelists are all intelligent enough to come up with some excellent bluffs.
Maybe if I could make some withdrawals from the Word Bank, I could increase my percentage of correct guesses -- although the kind of words appearing in "Says You" are probably fairly expensive....![thinking :thinking:](./images/smilies/eusa_think.gif)
Maybe if I could make some withdrawals from the Word Bank, I could increase my percentage of correct guesses -- although the kind of words appearing in "Says You" are probably fairly expensive....
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Re: Word Bank
I'm curious, does the bank pay interest in vowels or consonants?
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Re: Word Bank
both, and sometimes y.I'm curious, does the bank pay interest in vowels or consonants?
i hear there's a lot of rappers that use the word bank yo!
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Re: Word Bank
What do you call an interbank transfer from the Word Bank?
A vowel movement.
A vowel movement.
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Re: Word Bank
You are hereby fined five Quatloos for really bad punnery.davids wrote:What do you call an interbank transfer from the Word Bank?
A vowel movement.
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Re: Word Bank
Can I pay that using awful money?Judge Roy Bean wrote:You are hereby fined five Quatloos for really bad punnery.davids wrote:What do you call an interbank transfer from the Word Bank?
A vowel movement.
Pay the clerk on the way out.[sound of gavel]
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Re: Word Bank
Sorry.davids wrote:Can I pay that using awful money?Judge Roy Bean wrote:You are hereby fined five Quatloos for really bad punnery.davids wrote:What do you call an interbank transfer from the Word Bank?
A vowel movement.
Pay the clerk on the way out.[sound of gavel]
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