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| Good morning, dear cottagers. We are having actual spring right now in northern Michigan. Finally. Yee-ha! Hope you are having it too.
Here is a vocabulary question for you. What eight letter word means a device that keeps a mechanical part from sliding off a shaft and also means a crucial person? Will I stump you today? ThinMan |
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- Posted by midnightsmum 4b ON (My Page) on Sat, Apr 9, 11 at 10:01
| Spring here too, TM. Love it. Rain tomorrow and Monday (my days off!) but very mild. I know this one, but would have failed the spelling bee, cause I would have made it two words. Not stumped today like I was last weekend!! Nancy. |
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- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Sat, Apr 9, 11 at 10:20
| Hmmmmmmmmmmm, have to think about this one. Annette |
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| You bring up a good point, Nancy, and you aren't wrong. Sometimes this is spelled as two words. Also, it can be spelled with a y. TM |
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| Oh, yippee-glad Spring has sprung for you! Also, yippee-I know this one! Well, I think I do. Didn't know it could be spelled with a 'y', though. |
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- Posted by midnightsmum 4b ON (My Page) on Sat, Apr 9, 11 at 18:58
| I have always spelled it with a 'y' - I wonder if that is another one of those Canadian/American things?? Like TV directors, Annette?? Nancy. |
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- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Sat, Apr 9, 11 at 20:43
| Uurrgghhhh!!! I just can't get in the groove today. I know, I know, when the answer is revealed I'm going give myself a slap on the head. Annette |
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- Posted by greylady-gardener 6/5 (My Page) on Sat, Apr 9, 11 at 20:52
| so I have been pondering this all day and came back hoping for a really obvious clue :) hmm is the "Canadian thing/TV directors" a clue? If it is I still don't get it. *sigh* :( |
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| Nancy, I am not sure, could be. Annette, I think there is a clue there, although his stuff is a little creepy-did you ever watch Twin Peaks? I am thrilled that I was able to pin it down today after my abysmal showing last weekend. |
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- Posted by midnightsmum 4b ON (My Page) on Sat, Apr 9, 11 at 22:22
| lol - Cyn. GL - not Cdn., but TV directors, though. Annette, your DH would know this in a heartbeat(not a clue, an out and out give).. Nancy. |
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| Like Annette, I am sure I should know this one but it escapes me tonight. I'm pretty sure I know the last part of it but can't think of the first part. I can see one in my mind. I watched all of Twin Peaks but all I remember is the dwarf and think the director's first name was... David? Ha, ha, I just remembered and now I've got it all. I don't recognize it with the y. Annette, think old westerns. |
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- Posted by greylady-gardener 6/5 (My Page) on Sat, Apr 9, 11 at 22:51
| oh! haha I finally pinned it down also! :) |
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 Yes, the word is linchpin or lynchpin. Modern ones have a clever circular part that snaps up or down. When it's down, it goes around the end of a shaft to hold the pin in place. I looked all over trying to find a good picture of one in use, but no luck. It's raining today or I'd run out and get a picture of one on my tractor.
TM |
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- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Sun, Apr 10, 11 at 11:02
| Well you can't win them all LOL. Even with all the hints, thanks guys, I wouldn't have got it. Linchpin is a new one on me. Now on to today's trivia maybe I'll have better luck. Annette |
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