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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffcc33;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2f5e4ef5-8123-471b-b7c4-b7577900253d/74D927B7-590A-42FF-94F9-0190CCDD3EFE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/divert.htm" href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/divert.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">users.tinyonline.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/divert.htm"><P align="center"><FONT size="7" color="#ff0000"><B><I>Scorpio Tales<BR /> </I></B></FONT><FONT size="6" color="#ff0000"><B><I>Diversions</I></B></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/divert.htm"><P align="center"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">Random wanderings along the convoluted byways of the English language</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/divert.htm"><P align="center"><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Click on a stinger to take the appropriate diversion</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/divert.htm"><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/anagindx.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Anagrams" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Anagrams</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">Dread rare wrongs (Rearranged words)</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/animalaj.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Animal Adjectives" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Animal Adjectives</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">The wild, the wooly ... and the scaly</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/backword.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Back Words" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Back Words</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">Forwards or backwards, they still make a word</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/collnoun.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Collective Nouns" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Collective Nouns</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">A plurality of plurals</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/comicnam.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Comical Names" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Comical Names</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">What do they call you?</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/cntrnmys.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Contronyms" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Contronyms</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">Words that contradict themselves</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/curious.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Curious Word Origins" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Curious Word Origins</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">Common words with uncommon beginnings</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/epilaugh.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Epilaughs" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Epilaughs</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">Here lie many old puns</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/eponyms.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Eponyms" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Eponyms</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">Words derived from people's names</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/sayindex.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Expressions & Sayings" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Expressions & Sayings</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">Why do we say that?</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/fightwrd.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Fighting Words" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Fighting Words</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">Come on, break it up now!</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/funnyeng.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Funny English" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Funny English</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">Linguistic lunacy</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/hetnyms.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Heteronyms" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Heteronyms</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">Same spelling, different sound and meaning</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/homonyms.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Homonyms" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Homonyms</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">Same sound and spelling, different meaning</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/homophon.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Homophones" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Homophones</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">Same sound, different spelling and meaning</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/begin.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="In The Beginning" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">In The Beginning</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">Where it all starts!</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/irregvrbs.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Irregular Verbs" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Irregular Verbs</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">It's all in the past</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/killword.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Killing Words" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Killing Words</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#000000">Not guilty!</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><A href="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/mangeng.htm"><FONT face="Georgia"><IMG width="26" height="18" border="0" alt="Mangled English" src="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/icon.gif" /></FONT></A></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia" color="#ff0000">Mangled English</FONT></TD><TD><FONT size="2" face="Georgia">The English language, tortured and twisted</FONT></TD></TR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/divert.htm">Hom</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a 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