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Created on 2001-07-19 22:20:10 (#260114), last updated 2009-03-23
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| Name: | these labels don't stick |
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| Birthdate: | 1983-07-05 |
| Location: | Austin, Texas, United States |

J'adoube: In chess, a term meaning "I adjust". Spoken when touching a piece to adjust it on its square when the player has no intention of moving it.

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Black showed his teeth and made a restless gesture. "Taking a single letter from the alphabet," he said, "should make life simpler."
"I don't see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It's adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking a letter from hoarder makes it harder." With a small shrug and a little leer, Hyde turned on his heel and walked away.
Black watched him go and scowled. "He's much too smart," he said aloud, "for his own good and for mine."
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"The map is not their heart's desire; it is jewels," said Andrea. "And there is something in the book about a vast frustrating forest."
"How goes that part?" asked Andreus.
"It was written all in O, or nearly so, and all the O's are gone," said Andrea. "When coat is cat, and boat is bat, and goatherd looks like gathered, and booth is both, since both are bth, the reader's eye is bothered."
"And power is pwer, and zero is zer, and, worst of all, a hero's her." The old man sighed as he said it.
"Anon is ann, and moan is man." Andrea smiled as she said it.
"And shoe," Andreus said, "Is she."
"Ah, woe," the old man said, "is we."
--from The Wonderful O by James Thurber.
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