Eager Study Buddy 2016-08-30

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PS- Further reinforcement that Scarlett is Fox-based, ie: 'Vulpine'
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TazManiac wrote:
Dave wrote:She mentioned speaking Sumerian. She's obviously hoping that Timothy will immediately think of Ashurbanipal, and then think of ...
OK, toss another hint on the Barbie (sic), I'm drawing to an inside 'Blonde Moment' here...
The meta-topic here being the female anatomy... pronounce the name of the king I mentioned in the obvious way (per its traditional spelling in American English), and the last two syllables would be the subliminal hook. :twisted:
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jwhouk wrote:
chicgeek wrote:He looks like a young Alan to me.
I was about to post the same thing.

Is Scarlet the Shelly to Castela's Lakshmi?
I think you both mean "Owen" not "Alan".
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Dave wrote:
TazManiac wrote:
Dave wrote:She mentioned speaking Sumerian. She's obviously hoping that Timothy will immediately think of Ashurbanipal, and then think of ...
OK, toss another hint on the Barbie (sic), I'm drawing to an inside 'Blonde Moment' here...
The meta-topic here being the female anatomy... pronounce the name of the king I mentioned in the obvious way (per its traditional spelling in American English), and the last two syllables would be the subliminal hook. :twisted:
Hah hah hah, and what I'm laughing at is myself; it took a few times through the filter to get you were talking about that place in the Himalayas- Nepal. (...home to eight of the world's ten tallest mountains). ahem.
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Second look, Hammer Bunny is correct - OWEN is the one that our Timmy is channeling.
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TazManiac wrote:Hah hah hah, and what I'm laughing at is myself; it took a few times through the filter to get you were talking about that place in the Himalayas- Nepal. (...home to eight of the world's ten tallest mountains). ahem.
Well, that wasn't exactly what I was thinking of :lol: but it certainly works! After all, we're talking about Twin Peaks, where the vowels are not what they seem.
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Dave wrote:She's obviously hoping that Timothy will immediately think of Ashurbanipal, and then think of ...
I think the lesser-known Assyrian prince, Ibalbashanipal, is more relevant.

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Dave wrote:
TazManiac wrote:Hah hah hah, and what I'm laughing at is myself; it took a few times through the filter to get you were talking about that place in the Himalayas- Nepal. (...home to eight of the world's ten tallest mountains). ahem.
Well, that wasn't exactly what I was thinking of :lol: but it certainly works! After all, we're talking about Twin Peaks, where the vowels are not what they seem.
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