Avoid the letter

[Scheherazade]

Write a sentence without using a certain letter.

Sake of sanity, let's go in alphabetical order.

First sentence, without using "a":

This is not very difficult.


Next sentence should not have a "b".

[Pensive]

This is easy!

Next sentence shouldn't have a c?

[cacian]

I like this game

avoid D

[Scheherazade]

Seems like it is going to be yet more rain for us.

Avoid e.

[drago]

That was not as difficult as I thought.

Don't you dare use an f.

[cacian]

brilliant !!!! what is one supposed to write hey haha??!!!


avoid G

[drago]

It's wonderful as that particular letter rarely comes up.

No h!

[cacian]

alrighty not a problem will do


avoid E

[Scheherazade]

alrighty not a problem will doIs that a "h" that I spy in there? ;)

I will play in Cacian's place.

Next: No "i".

[cacian]

Oops haha :sick:( I am assuming I can still play right?!!)

Ok hopefully my turn now :)

avoid J

[aliengirl]

It is easy to avoid.

No K

[Calidore]

Finally, a letter game where you're happy to get q or x.

Love L? Tough.

[Scheherazade]

Not as tough as it seems to do.

Next: M

[Delta40]

It's ok if you want to avoid a certain letter

Next: N

[cacian]

pretty easy this

Next: O

[Dina12]

It isn't all bad.
avoid p

[cacian]

honestly said I shall oblige

avoid Q

[RicMisc]

This is probably the easiest letter to avoid in the entire alphabet.

next R

[cacian]

This is not an easy one I had to think about it haha

avoid S

[Scheherazade]

I cannot write anything without that letter... Or maybe I can.

Next: T

[tonywalt]

A game which is harder than you would imagine- below avoidance will be easier.

Avoid U

[cacian]

YOU?!! haha only joking!

I am going to try and see...


avoid V

[Calidore]

Now we're in the easiest stretch.

No W.

[Bleeding Pawn]

Still three alphabets to go.

Nekst: X

[Calidore]

What marks the spot again?

Next can't ask Y.

[Bleeding Pawn]

Will we start again once we run out of alphabets?

Next; Z

[Pompey Bum]

It should not prove hard to write a sentence without the letter in question--no indeed, it has been as easy as a wench at closing time.

Next: A

[Bleeding Pawn]

This would never end, just like I thought so.

Next: B

[Pompey Bum]

"Gadzooks!" cried Polly, "You're not telling me the milkman didn't know!"

Next: C

[Bleeding Pawn]

"Whatever. It really does a toil on your grammar.

next- D

[Calidore]

The looming spectre of passing-on lacks that ominous feeling.

Next gets the toughest assignment: No E

[Bleeding Pawn]

Says who? you just got to murmur a magic word and voila, you`ll grow a wisp of blond hair.

Next ; F

[Pompey Bum]

One hopes that with death's approach there may come a clearer sense of the uselessness of human vanity.

Next: G

[NikolaiI]

Scheherazade came up with a fun activity, but hasn't participated in it since 2012.

avoid H

[Mercy]

All men die, and most men miserably.

Avoid O, fellow writers.

[Pompey Bum]

Nice ladies and gentlemen usually feel happy when they are unimpeded by cannibals.

Avoid P (but what happened to i, j, k, l, m, and n?)

[Chuck Habakkuk]

I do not believe this game is yet challenging enough, maybe we should find a way to derive greater mirth by raising the stakes? Just a thought.

Avoid Q

[Pompey Bum]

If you use a letter that you are not supposed to, you die. It's kind of like The Ring, but instead of the little girl, Papayahed comes out of your television screen. Is that better?

Avoid R.

[bouquin]

it's as easy as ABC.


avoid S

[Pompey Bum]

It can be inferred that an adult male porcupine experienced a difficult puberty.

Avoid tea!

[bouquin]

Drink coffee.

Avoid U.

[Pompey Bum]

Yes, I know, everyone avoids me.

Avoid V!

[bouquin]

Let me remind you that we must keep a stiff upper lip and play the game.

Avoid W.

[NikolaiI]

I'm a little teacup, short and stout, tip me over and pour me out.

Avoid X-women, er no, I mean X-men, oh heck, just avoid X

[bouquin]

I couldn't help rather wishing for this to be avoided but now my hopes are dashed.

next : No Y

[NikolaiI]

I have a good friend who thinks that the Renaissance was caused from the influx of coffee into Europe. :-)

No Z.

[Pompey Bum]

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Avoid A!

[NikolaiI]

Nosey, weren't they?

Never use the letter "B" in the next post. :-)

[Marbles]

British spelling helps a lot in this case such as organisation, realise and so on...

Avoid T

[Pompey Bum]

British spelling helps a lot in this case such as organisation, realise and so on...

THROW HIM TO THE WEASELS!

Avoid C!

[bouquin]

I see your mind is made up, so there is no use in arguing.

next : No D

[Pompey Bum]

Big-breasted beauty most often belies
Billowing buttocks and corpulent thighs.

Avoid E!

[bouquin]

Big-breasted beauty most often belies
Billowing buttocks and corpulent thighs.



:nono: Pompey Bum! You got distracted by the big-breasted beauty! :lol:

Let's try again... Avoid D

[Marbles]

British spelling helps a lot in this case such as organisation, realise and so on...

Avoid T

Sorry. I actually replied to post #46 but took so much time (had to leave the screen to answer the doorbell) that two people replied in the meanwhile. I only saw that when I revisited the thread :blush:

[Pompey Bum]

:nono: Pompey Bum! You got distracted by the big-breasted beauty! :lol:

Let's try again... Avoid D

You're right. I originally wrote "buxom" but the meter didn't work.

Okay, avoiding D:

I am such a humble fellow,
No buxom lasses keep me mellow.
And yet, and yet, when I was young,
They new the kiss of Pompey Bum.

Avoid E!

[bouquin]

That's too difficult and, anyway, what good will it do?

next : No F

[NikolaiI]

Not once or twice, but every time.

Avoid G

[Pompey Bum]

Are there oysters in this country?

Avoid H!

[bouquin]

I am struck by your singular request. Let me ponder upon a way of addressing it.

next : No I

[Pompey Bum]

Wouldn't you say that the harsh weather cannot continue much past March 17th?

Avoid J!

[bouquin]

Wouldn't you say that the harsh weather cannot continue much past March 17th?

Avoid J!

There's an I in continue. :yikes:

next : No K

[Pompey Bum]

I'm basically having a bad day. :)

Avoid J!

[NikolaiI]

I'll go with what Pompey Bum requested, even though I think the letter was supposed to be "L." ;-)

Next, avoid K

[bouquin]

Are you having a bad hair day?

next : No L

[Scheherazade]

Scheherazade came up with a fun activity, but hasn't participated in it since 2012.
Yes, one of those rare moments in my biography when I thought of something fun! :goof:

Next: M

[bouquin]

The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.

next : No N

[Pompey Bum]

We may say, with a modicum of skepticism, that the Republic survives.

Avoid O!

[NikolaiI]

Peace and bliss are great, as well.

P

[bouquin]

It is not that at all, and you very well know it.

next : No Q

[Pompey Bum]

I often wonder which Heaven those soft cries and breathless gasps flew away to. But silence is the only riposte God grants.

Avoid R!

[NikolaiI]

I love the snow, but as of yet, we've gotten only a little.

Next, no S

[Pompey Bum]

I'm afraid that I don't actually care for the aroma of ocelot fur.

Avoid T!

[bouquin]

I say, would you mind refraining from expressing such a novel opinion?

next : No U

[Pendragon]

Well,isn't this another mess, Alfie?

Avoid e

[YALASH]

Happy short days and long nights.

==

No F plz

[bouquin]

Well,isn't this another mess, Alfie?javascript://

Avoid e :confused:

After U, Pendragon. It sure is a mess! :biggrin5:

next : No V

[Pompey Bum]

I do not trust baby ducks: they know exactly what they are doing, and you may take it from me, they are not our friends.

Avoid W!

[bouquin]

I have a plan but I can figure that out in detail later. I think an appreciative silence is the best policy to pursue at this point.

next : No X

[Pompey Bum]

I'll avoid X.

I need hardly remind any of you of what this place was like before we adopted our no-tolerance policy toward ruminants. The restrooms were not the sort of places you would have felt good about visiting, and as for the front yard, why one might say with justification that we could all have grown rich selling the stuff!

[bouquin]

I'll avoid X.

I need hardly remind any of you of what this place was like before we adopted our no-tolerance policy toward ruminants. The restrooms were not the sort of places you would have felt good about visiting, and as for the front yard, why it is no exaggeration to say that we might have grown rich selling the stuff!

What about exaggeration? :yikes:

[Pompey Bum]

Okay, fixed. (Bloody pedant :) )

Avoid Y!

[bouquin]

I know. . . I know. I believe in utter frankness about these things. A leopard can't change its spots, and neither can I. But I do not wish to sound so serious. There will be time enough to do that when I have to come to the rescue. Just let me know and I will come along.

next : No Z

[Pompey Bum]

The time has come to say it: in the long struggle against red mildew, we are equal allies, sharing the common lot, unafraid to forge on to uplands bright, and resilient always, despite inevitable setbacks that can only test our character. God bless you and God bless the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I thank you.

Avoid A!

[bouquin]

So he might if Bob's your uncle.

next : No B

[Pompey Bum]

Many of their sort express surprise that I received no injuries worthy of mention in the furiously fought though ultimately indecisive struggle for a greater foothold in that remote clime. The silent sands might sing another song, mais pas moi. Jamais.

Avoid C!

[bouquin]

Quel dommage! Don't you know that every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen?

next : No D

[Pompey Bum]

The more I learn about you, Professor Streuselmacher, the more I suspect that you possess no orangutan whatsoever--much less converse with it about law!

Avoid E!

[bouquin]

A good man is hard to find.

next : No F

[YALASH]

Good morals illumine a good looking person.

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No g plz.

[bouquin]

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

next : No H

[Pompey Bum]

In 'ertford, 'ereford and 'ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly ever 'appen.

As the Buddhists say, no I!

[bouquin]

Dot your eyes and cross your teas.

next : No J

[Pompey Bum]

It isn't that I don't think a lot of you as a primate, Mr. McGregor, but my parents insist that I can only marry another gibbon. I guess we could groom each other, though. Mmmm! Ticks!

Avoid Kay!

[bouquin]

It must be so discouraging to find each new one exactly resembling the old one.

next : No L

[YALASH]

Peace be on everyone!

Next no 'M'

[bouquin]

You need not tell us. We can guess.

next : No N

[Pompey Bum]

So it proved to be just a wartime tryst: a dirty cuddle in the dark that came, in time, to embrace us all.

Avoid O!

[YALASH]

Be kind and be nice to humanity.

Next 'av-id' P

[Pompey Bum]

Would the king himself dare to stand before such beauty when the moonlight takes it so?

Avoid Q!

[NikolaiI]

Why - is there something wrong with it?

Avoid R

[Pompey Bum]

If this thing goes as quickly as I think it will, it would be wise to begin heading home now.

Avoid S!

[bouquin]

I am not quite certain what you mean, but if you mean would I go that way, no, I would not.

next : No T

[Pompey Bum]

Never speak harshly when addressing a sea anemone. Such lifeforms already have much to make them glum.

Avoid U!

[YALASH]

One have to avoid rain in winter otherwise it may make one sick, doctor happy and medicine making company richer.

Avoid 'v'

[Pompey Bum]

There is little more to say. Those things I took for gold were dross. And now that I am too old for a miner's life, I smile to find a glittering dust in the eyes of the young.

Avoid W!

[YALASH]

Love for all hatred for none, said Ahmadiyya Khalifah.

Avoid 'x'

[WordsWillCome]

I have an awesome cat named Buddy.

Avoid Y

[Pompey Bum]

Those who give ear to the tongue of slander are in need of the sobering Kleenex of truth.

Avoid Z!

[WordsWillCome]

Sometimes you have to crash and burn to lighten heart and fly

[Pompey Bum]

Indeed, it is seldom worth the effort of reviewing things for the second time with most jellyfish. Squid, of course, quickly comprehend you.

Avoid B!

[Snowqueen]

I appreciate an old man's cautious opinion more than the valor of a young man.

Avoid C

[Pompey Bum]

Again and again I have sought to dissuade my peers from pursuing lives that lead only to further transgressions against the time-honored norm of "righty tighty-lefty loosey"; but indeed some of them hardly seem to listen.

Avoid D!

[WordsWillCome]

Having to not use such a common letter is annoying but I think this works.

[Pompey Bum]

I always look for a girl who laughs as much as mourns and who wants strong things from a boy.

Avoid F!

[Calidore]

Well, it's better than an h-bomb.

No G.

[Pompey Bum]

Much is more difficult to obtain than immortality, my old love, but none such as a person with your need for constant pecuniary advancement will ever comprehend.

Avoid H!

[Pompey Bum]

THIS IS A GOOD ONE, TOO.

False friends are as cruel as vipers and as bitter as boiled bunny crap.

Avoid I!

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"Anathema," he groaned, before he toppled over.

Avoid J

[Pompey Bum]

Hmph! Taxonomy and taxidermy are very different sciences, I assure you! So stop hiding behind those crocodiles, old fellow. It's really quite annoying!

Avoid K!

[North Star]

It was certainly devious of train companies to hire chimney sweeps and get them to dirty up the people in third-class coaches with jobs that didn't pay too well but required a suit to be worn.

Avoid L

[Danik 2016]

What do you know about the three sad tigers?

Avoid "M"

[Pompey Bum]

Rather than go into excruciating detail about it, l'll just say that I no longer wish to work with porcupines.

Avoid N!

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Harvard Law School produces predatory maggots.

Avoid O

[Danik 2016]

Three little wild ducks swam in the sea.
Avoid P

[North Star]

Well, regardless of Cristiano Ronaldo's knee injury, the French didn't win tonight.

Avoid Q

[Danik 2016]

Many cheers for Portugal!

Avoid R

[Tyrion Cheddar]

You call that big? Please.

Avoid S

[Pompey Bum]

Harvard Law School produces predatory maggots.

LMAO

Look, friend, I don't judge you, but couldn't you keep the iguana in the cage until I leave?

Avoid T!

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Look, friend, I don't judge you, but couldn't you keep the iguana in the cage until I leave?

Why does every woman ask me...

avoid u

[Pompey Bum]

I don't know what I like most about bats: their faces, rabies transmission, or big caves with towering piles of their crap.

Avoid V!

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Perspective, it has been said, is the difference between knowledge and wisdom. I don't know who said that. Possibly H.L. Mencken. Possibly Herve Villechaize.

Avoid W or face the consequences...

[North Star]

Perspective, it has been said, is the difference between knowledge and wisdom. I don't know who said that. Possibly H.L. Mencken. Possibly Herve Villechaize.

Avoid W or face the consequences...
Oh, the irony of such a statement coming from the same post that thrice ignores the requirement to ignore the letter V.

Avoid X

[Pompey Bum]

Never trust a redhead who hangs upside down, that's what I always say.

Avoid Y

[North Star]

What the heck, no-one is doing this right, it seems.

Avoid Z

[Pompey Bum]

Oh dear, he's right. And that was the easiest one, too. Once again the proud have been humbled.

Avoid A!

[North Star]

Some exits will be closed for the weekend, so remember to use exits B to Z.

Avoid B

[Danik 2016]

Never mind the politics of parrots.
Avoid C

[Pompey Bum]

A sage warning, Danik; I would go so far as to forgo their feathery assemblies altogether.

Avoid D!

[Danik 2016]

:D Not always possible; they're legion!

Avoid E

[Pompey Bum]

Such mawkish squawks among us? Nay, not known by valiant boys and virtuous girls: a pogrom on Polly and all who fly with him, say I!

Avoid F!

[Calidore]

Such mawkish squawks among us? Nay, never known by valiant boys and virtuous girls: a pogrom on Polly and all who fly with him, say I!

Avoid F!

Whoops!

Try again, Pompey. Avoid G.

[Pompey Bum]

Oh heck. Okay, thanks. I patched it up.

Avoid H!

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Holy heck, how in Hades have you--oh, wait. Did I screw it up? Start again. I believe I'm supposed to avoid a letter wot comes after G. Now I've got it.

Avoid I, or face the wrath of Donald Trump's feathery toupee!

[Pompey Bum]

You see, before the darkness came, small settlements called towns were where we stayed, and none yet hunted human flesh. Some even hoped that one day we would contact other worlds. Who now know why? For those fools went before the others.

Avoid J!

[Tyrion Cheddar]

You see, before the darkness came, small settlements called towns were where we stayed, and none yet hunted human flesh. Some even hoped that one day we would contact other worlds. Who now know why? For those fools were the first to go.!

Turd, you did it again! :biggrin5: There you were, feeling pretty good about yourself, writing this whole long story to show us you could do so without using the forbidden letter, and you go and do exactly that! Why, you son of a Dornishman!

Avoid K

[Pompey Bum]

Perspective, it has been said, is the difference between knowledge and wisdom. I don't know who said that. Possibly H.L. Mencken. Possibly Herve Villechaize.

Avoid W or face the consequences...



Not three times at once, though.

Avoid L!

[Tyrion Cheddar]

You think I can't, Pompey Bum? I can reduce you to ashes without one mention of that accursed consonant!

Avoid M!