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  1. A #rebus is a #wordplay #puzzle combining images and letters to represent a word or phrase.

    Words are represented by combinations of pictures and letters; for instance, "apex" might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X.

    Moving left to right "say" the images in English and mix in the letters to complete the answer.

  2. A #rebus is a #wordplay #puzzle combining images and letters to represent a word or phrase.

    Words are represented by combinations of pictures and letters; for instance, "apex" might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X.

    Moving left to right "say" the images in English and mix in the letters to complete the answer.

  3. A #rebus is a #wordplay #puzzle combining images and letters to represent a word or phrase.

    Words are represented by combinations of pictures and letters; for instance, "apex" might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X.

    Moving left to right "say" the images in English and mix in the letters to complete the answer.

  4. A #rebus is a #wordplay #puzzle combining images and letters to represent a word or phrase.

    Words are represented by combinations of pictures and letters; for instance, "apex" might be represented by a picture of an ape followed by a letter X.

    Moving left to right "say" the images in English and mix in the letters to complete the answer.

  5. Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once.

    Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search!

    Starting with one of the letters in a
    gray square, find the longest word.
    Next letter horizontal or vertical from
    the first. No diagonals.
    No square may be used again.
    Minimum 7 letters

  6. Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once.

    Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search!

    Starting with one of the letters in a
    gray square, find the longest word.
    Next letter horizontal or vertical from
    the first. No diagonals.
    No square may be used again.
    Minimum 7 letters

  7. Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once.

    Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search!

    Starting with one of the letters in a
    gray square, find the longest word.
    Next letter horizontal or vertical from
    the first. No diagonals.
    No square may be used again.
    Minimum 7 letters

  8. Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once.

    Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search!

    Starting with one of the letters in a
    gray square, find the longest word.
    Next letter horizontal or vertical from
    the first. No diagonals.
    No square may be used again.
    Minimum 7 letters

  9. #SundaySillies
    Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom

    Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans!

    Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.

    Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.

    Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess.

    Hint: less difficult

    Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape

  10. #SundaySillies
    Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom

    Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans!

    Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.

    Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.

    Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess.

    Hint: less difficult

    Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape

  11. #SundaySillies
    Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom

    Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans!

    Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.

    Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.

    Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess.

    Hint: less difficult

    Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape

  12. #SundaySillies
    Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom

    Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans!

    Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.

    Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.

    Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess.

    Hint: less difficult

    Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape

  13. Bytemology of Retronym, OCTADE. Yinzer phonics. Butterfly Perfume.

    OCTADE or OCTAD is a retro word that means either an octal digit of three bits, or an octal octet or an eight-bit byte. Thus an octade, depending on its historical use, is either 3 bits or 8 bits.

    OCTADE was used to specify eight bits, as opposed to BYTE which is not necessarily eight bits as the word BYTE could signify any of several numbers of bits.

    This yields the retro 1337 numbers of 38 and 83. The number 38 is one more than 37 so a bit more elite a bit cooler. Thus it owns cardinally shorter byterz.

    83 mod 38 equals 7, the highest octal digit. 838 mod 383 equals 72 or 9 times 8 which is 8 squared plus 8.

    8338 mod 3883 equals 572 which is 72 times 8 minus 4 or 71.5 times 8.

    8383 mod 3838 equals 707 which is 88 times 8 plus 3.

    I prefer the old word OCTADE to the word BYTE. OCTADE sports a Euro-peon dignity and gravitas like an Internet serf ready to surf the worknet like pwnd peons. This is very true when pronouncing OCTADE with a thick Pennsyltucky Dutch or Yinzer accent. The Bostonian pronunciation sounds like bad beginner German or muffled mumbling of 'lactate.'

    OCTADE or OCTAD was also used to describe a poem of eight stanzas.

    OCTADE was also used to describe a period of eight years, or two leap years.

    OCTADECANAL is a pheromone found in butterflies. It is butterfly perfume. I would not wear butterfly cologne. But I would sell it. Who would buy and wear my snobby smell? With wordplay we can call it OCTADE CHANNEL No. 8 . All rights reserved, ye French odor snooties.

    Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':

    • Burroughs B5500 Information Processing Systems REFERENCE MANUAL *

    https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/burroughs/LargeSystems/B5000_5500_5700/1021326_B5500_RefMan_196705.pdf

    • Philips Data Systems Product Range - April 1971 *

    https://www.vintage-calculators.nl/Philips%20productoverzicht%201971.pdf

    • Is there another name for octet that means 8 bits? *

    https://www.quora.com/Is-there-another-name-for-octet-that-means-8-bits

    #octade #octad #binary #byte #jargon #etymology #bytemology #wordplay #wordgames #wordcrimes #history #retro #retronym #retronymous #yinzer #pennsyltucky #humor

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    OCTADE | news://alt.flashback | https://soc.octade.net

  14. Female gaze mails male gays, baits male gaze; female gays' gaze gates no way. youtube.com/watch?v=BrDML1ZaNaM
    Idk, there's something in there. OH!

    Hey! Hays hates, hazes gays; Hays gates gays' gaze. Gays train blame game (fame), gain grace. Hays laid hate-bait, days say "Nay, ain't great," and rein place shame.
    Came they late, the lay debate brays same: Gay gaze may stay!

    reddit.com/r/whatstheword/comm

    Omfgggg Ouran High School Host Club but Uranian -> Ouranian.
    lgbtqandall.com/lgbtq-terms-to

    #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBTQIA2S #LGBTI #LGBTIQ #queer #gay #lesbian #sapphic #achillean #uranian #ouranian #broic #neptunic #alexic #alexandric #eres #eresian #WordSalad #HashtagGames #rhyming #assonance #alliteration #nonsense #wtf #fun #funny #creative #literary #WordPlay