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    The following sentence is true. The previous sentence is false.

    There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to.

    Good luck:
    There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word – from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

    Hint(s)
    1. An action that would surprise you could also be *********.
    2. You may remove any letter, not just from an end.

    Answer:
    The base word is Startling – starting – staring – string – sting – sing – sin – in – I

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    • #951690

      Good puzzle Jeremy, just a pity you put the answer in there too… I have no willpower whatsoever so went straight to it…

      • #951709

        whisper He’s on night duty at the moment, the stars do strange things to your mind hairy evilgrin

        • #951728

          laugh Such as? Feeling the urge to go out and buy ‘crazy frog’ Cds? flee

          • #951734

            rofl There’s no need to be insulting! evilgrin

            • #951736

              I’m sorry, I did go a bit too far that time… evilgrin

            • #951785

              I have the crazy frog ringtone as my “New Mail Message” sound! How odd… evilgrin

            • #951918

              Nooooo….!!!! surrender

            • #951999

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            • #952007

              Right, this is the start of my ‘Steve For President’ campaign, following that last post.

              “President of what?!” I hear you cry. Anything he likes if getting rid of that censored frog is part of his manifesto

            • #952040

              Lyra
              As you can see from this post, the removal of a particular mentally challenged amphibian has been a major part of my manifesto for some time! evilgrin

            • #952041

              clapping

            • #952008

              Steve

              Please, please tell me you caught my slimy nemesis and you actually hung it yourself. If so, I will be straight over to the west part of London and hand you two purses of gold sovereigns 2cents

            • #952011

              I have to come clean and admit that it was a colleague at the other campus who committed the ‘dirty deed’. I’ll try to find out where it came from.

            • #952012

              No, no. The two of you shall share the reward dear sir. have a [bar of chocolate]

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