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He was still thinking about a name for his newborn son, so I told him Lance would be nice.
He said Lance is too uncommon.
So I told him that in medieval times, people were named Lance a lot.
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Since it's a son, we should consider how Lance a Boil fits into this equation and the father's thinking.
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Name should be mulligan. Just in case he wants a do over.
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My sister had a boy and a girl after in vitro and I suggested she could call the girl Denice...
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Not sure if Denephew is going to like that 
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We all know that to fix serious problems you need a hammer, but how do you fix a broken hammer?!
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With a bigger hammer.
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"Nailed It !"
(that response to your response was mandatory)
(edit: fixed a broken tag. Nothing to see here, so move along)
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My God! It’s hammers all the way down!
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The smith came first: you can cast a pair of crude hammers using sand and a wooden former, then use one to refine the other. With refined (or even pretty crude) hammers, you can start forging and produce better hammers and other tools.
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Yeah?! And how exactly do you dig up sand and cut down trees without hammer, I ask you!
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Stone tools. 
Flint is sharp, and easy to work (if you know how).
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OriginalGriff wrote: (if you know how)
You mean a smith would 
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Well, maybe: Knapping - Wikipedia[^]
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You can make an even cruder hammer out of a large stone.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Are you saying Obelix was a smith and carrying a hammer on his back all day? (when he wasn't throwing it at romans)
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He used to mostly throw Romans at Romans! 
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You can, but it wouldn't be a lot of use for metalwork: stone is too brittle and liable to fracture with heating.
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Just grab any tool. After all, every tool has a hammer side.
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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Bottom donkey - trendy killer (8)
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Bottom donkey -> ASS
trendy -> hip -> ASS
trendy -> IN =============================
trendy killer - overall
ASSASSIN
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You are up tomorrow! 
You could have made it easier for yourself though:
Bottom ASS
Donkey ASS
Trendy IN
Killer:
ASSASSIN
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Please may I steal this to use in the Discworld MUD? I want to graffiti the assassins guild...
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Help yourself!
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