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[Jo Zebedee]

We could do Culchiepunk. Worry not.

 

[alchemist]

A world ruled by whoever has the largest tractor...

Oh wait, maybe I can do zummerpunk!

 

[HareBrain]

The west country is on the brink of disaster. In a burst of vanity, all the farmers have upgraded to tractors twenty feet wide, before remembering that most of the roads are only half that. As all the land between the Tamar and the Avon slides into starvation and chaos, scientists at the Taunton Institute of Time and Space struggle to solve the dimensional conundrum before it's too late ...

 

[Jo Zebedee]

The west country is on the brink of disaster. In a burst of vanity, all the farmers have upgraded to tractors twenty feet wide, before remembering that most of the roads are only half that. As all the land between the Tamar and the Avon slides into starvation and chaos, scientists at the Taunton Institute of Time and Space struggle to solve the dimensional conundrum before it's too late ...

No good. You had three words left, you could have finished the cliffhanger. I'd disqualify you on the basis of it being a deliberate tease, and a cruel, some might say cheap, effort to ensure votes.

Next!

 

[Boneman]

What will you do when you want to say 'It was around about three o'clock when the turnips grew legs'...?

 

[HareBrain]

Now that's weird. I edited my post to remove the words "a group of" and correct the spelling of "institute" but there was a database error and the edit didn't seem to take. But your quote of my post reflects my edits, even though my original post still doesn't!

What a fascinatingly wide-ranging thread this has become.

Now, how about we discuss differences between male and female wurzels?

 

[The Judge]

How about we take wurzel sexing to the Lounge...

 

[Ursa major]

Just so everyone is sure about this: Wurzel sounds like English that's been put through the mangle....

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