Captbob61
Mar 22, 2002
| Very clever. Is transcendentalizes a word?
I don't know how you came up with such a long list of words increasing in length! |
Miguel_is_Feo
Apr 03, 2002
| Idiots! Now I got a headache |
bighippo4
Apr 07, 2002
| Nice one!
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emilymonkeymaia
Apr 11, 2002
| That is a really good one. It took me about 15m to get it! |
Jaxzi
Apr 13, 2002
| Easy to figure out, but extremely clever to have written. |
mcscruffso
Apr 14, 2002
| i agree with jaxzi |
setzerknight
Apr 17, 2002
| it was kinda easy... took me 15 secs to answer it |
Lilman_220
Apr 17, 2002
| Nice One |
Mogmatt16  
Apr 20, 2002
| I've been trying to make one like this and you beat me to it. |
skye 
Apr 21, 2002
| Come ON! The last word and tranzcen... what ever, they aren't even real words. Or their just spelled wrong. |
sparkle
Apr 24, 2002
| Easy but clever |
Tanya0
May 11, 2002
| very good!!!!!!! |
SandPman
May 11, 2002
| Aah! Good one. I thought of one or two possible answers but they were wrong and I didn't see the correct one. |
bluetwo
May 22, 2002
| ugly mike... hehehe, i like that name...
SKYE, transcendentalize is a word. can't say i've ever heard anyone use a word as awkward as incomprehensibleness, but it is a valid word meaning "the state of being incomprehensible". |
frank0001h  
May 30, 2002
| no SKYE, they're not spelt wrong, unlike 'their', just unusually compiled from shorter bases |
mavericklotus
Jun 06, 2002
| OK, OK, I'm nit-picking, but the word is 'incomprehencibility'. Good idea tho ;> |
odcsurferchick
Jun 11, 2002
| LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG WORDS!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
(user deleted)
Jun 14, 2002
| that was a very good one. i was thinking of all kinds of other things |
WizardMagus
Jun 19, 2002
| Ai!! You people...
Incomprehensibleness is actually a word, AS WELL AS incomprehensibility. The suffix "-ness" is correct because that makes it into a noun, which is the correct format. "-ility" makes it into an adjective, which is the incorrect form of the word.
As for "transcendentalize", that is NOT a real verb. You cannot make the adjective "transcendental" into a verb merely on a whim. It isn't viable to make up your own words by adding a suffix onto another word. The academic world decides these things, and that is not a word yet. You could petition them to make it a word though, and in a few years you might be able to use it... |
Jojocranky
Jun 23, 2002
| NO COMMENT NECESSARY |
peppermintwist
Jun 30, 2002
| they're all big words |
Mogmatt16
Jul 07, 2002
| really easy, though |
(user deleted)
Jul 09, 2002
| I would've never guessed that one! Nice job! |
sk8babe
Jul 17, 2002
| if you don't concentrate on what you are reading then it's easy to figure but it must of taken some real effort to write! well done if it's your own work!! And would everyone stop complaining -- just cos u didn't manage it first(!) (don't b offended by that ne1)
=¬D |
zangel3000
Jul 29, 2002
| I first thought at a glance that it included every letter of the alphebet, and then i clicked on the answer button thingi and while it was loading i thought that mayb each word was one letter longer than the word b4 it. (no need 2 tell me i'm weird) |
nuttyprince
Jul 31, 2002
| Really kool , but i saw it word for word on a website ages ago. |
bmotts
Aug 01, 2002
| Very stimulating
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dumbell
Aug 20, 2002
| as to the correctness of certain words, remember that UK and USA dictionaries vary. also remember that this is supposed to be FUN |
something
Oct 05, 2002
| i have a very long word:
monoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. |
something
Oct 05, 2002
| it's even longer when you write in caps, see: MONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS.
|
something
Oct 05, 2002
| and put a hyphen between each letter: M-O-N-O-U-L-T-R-A-M-I-C-R-O-S-C-O-P-I-C-S-I-L-I-C-O-V-O-L-C-A-N-O-C-O-N-I-O-S-I-S |
julip
Apr 18, 2003
| Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. is even longer.(hope its spelt correctly) |
(user deleted)
Apr 18, 2003
| Not only was this a great one, but, as I work in a Dr. office, I can vouch for the fact that it's all true too!! A very very good one!!! |
Codammanus
Apr 18, 2003
| The Longest Word
(For short, call it the “Tryptophan Synthetase A-Protein” )
1,913 LETTERS
Methionylglutaminylarginyl-
tyrosylglutamylserylleucylp-
henylalanylaianylglutaminyl-
ieucyllysylglutamylarginylly-
sylglutamylglycylalanylphe-
nylalanylvalylprolylphenylal-
anylyalyithreonylieucylgly-
cylaspartylprolylglycylisole-
ucylglutamylglutaminylsery-
lleucyllysylisoleucylasparty-
lthreonylleucylisoleucylglut-
amylalanylglycylalanylaspa-
rtylalanylleucyllutamylleucy-
lglycylisoleucylpro6dpheny-
lalanylserylaspartylprolylle-
uceialanylaspartylglycylpr-
olythreonylisoleucylglutam-
inylasparaginylalanylthreo-
nylleucylarginylalanylphen-
ylalanylalanylalanylglycylv-
alylthreonylprolylalanylglut-
aminylcysteinylphenylalany-
lglutamylmethionylleucyala-
nylleucylisoleucylarginylglu-
taminyllysylhistidylprolylthre-
onylisoleucylprolylisoleucy-
lglycylleucylleucylmethiony-
ltyrosylalanylasparaginylle-
ucylvalylphenylaianylaspa-
raginyllysylglycylisoleucyl-
aspartylglutamylphenylala-
nyltyrosylalanylglutaminyl-
cysteinylglutamyllysylvaly-
lglycylvalylaspartylserylva-
lylieucylvalylalanylaspartyl-
valylprolylvalylglutaminylgl-
utamylserylaianylprolylph-
enylalanylarginylglutaminy-
lalanylalanylleucylarginylh-
istidyla,sparaginylvalylala-
nylprolylisoleucylphenylal-
anylisoleucylcysteinylprol-
ylprolylaspartylalanylaspa-
rtylaspartylaspartylieucyll-
eucylarginylglutaminylisol-
eticylalanylseryltyrosylgly-
cylarginylglcyltyrosylthre-
onyltyrosylleucylceucyls-
erylarginylalanylglycylva-
lylthreonylglycyialanylglu-
tamylasparaginylarginyl-
anylalanylleucylprolylleu-
cylasparaginylhistidylleu-
cylvalylalanyllysylleucyll-
ysylglutamyltyrosylaspa-
raginylalanylalanylprolyl-
prolylleucylglutaminylgly-
cylphenylalanylglycyliso-
leucylserylalanylprolylas-
partylglutaminylvalyllysyl-
alanylaianylisoleucylaspa-
rtylaianylglycylalanylalan-
ylglycylalanylisoleucylser-
ylglycylserylalanylisoleuc-
ylbalyllysylisoleucylisole-
ucylglutamylglutaminylhi-
stidylasparaginylisoleucy-
lglutamylprolylglutamylly-
sylmethionylleucylalanyla-
lanylieucylisylvaphenylly-
alanylvalylglutaminylproly-
lmethionyllsylalanylalanyl-
threonylarginylserine.
(Now, someone had to be the jerk/hero to stop the "word" trivia) =) |
(user deleted)
Apr 18, 2003
| heh, I stopped after about the 9th or 10th word...big words give head big bad owies
good one i likes |
julip
Apr 20, 2003
| Bet you can't say it Codammanus! |
jacintan
Apr 18, 2004
| That was great! But does it really make sence? I barely know what any of the words mean.
All the same, it was quite easy, but fun. Definitely a favourite.  |
tangerine
May 24, 2004
| Nice! Easy to solve, but I don't know what half the words mean. Scandalous.  |
rach10
Nov 09, 2004
| I can't believe I got it so quickly. I guess I'm just smart. It was sort of clever. Nice 1.            |
waffle
Mar 18, 2005
| this one was really easy, but it was a lot of fun thanks! |
waffle
Mar 18, 2005
| this one was really easy, but it was a lot of fun thanks! |
Leviathan
Apr 18, 2005
| hard |
wolfy68
Apr 18, 2005
| I love loooong words, so thanks for this and, I actually 'got' it without looking at the hint! Definitely a favorite... |
wolfy68
Apr 18, 2005
| I love loooong words, so thanks for this and, I actually 'got' it without looking at the hint! Definitely a favorite... |
Araldite
Apr 18, 2005
| I also got it without looking at the hint, probably because there is no hint. |
Master_Yoda
Apr 18, 2005
| Wow! |
fishdish123
Apr 18, 2005
| That was a good one! At first I was mesmerized by the long words, but when I snapped out of it, it was pretty obvious. It did take me a minute though. |
i_am_hated
Apr 18, 2005
| thats a good one |
(user deleted)
Apr 18, 2005
| My first one not real tough! |
aka-faka
Apr 18, 2005
| that was clever good one |
DrCreamy
Apr 18, 2005
| The peculiar thing about this sentence is that it is a grammatical train wreck, with the number of letters per word coming farther down the list of peculiarities. And if I'm not wrong, the second to last word has the same number of letters as the third to last if you put the apostrophe in the right place. |
rippler
Apr 18, 2005
| Very enjoyable! It is also missing the most frequently used word in the English language. |
Chelsie
Apr 18, 2005
| That was very easy, but equally cute.
I think the most frightening thing is that I actually understood the sentence.
*Feeling my CHEERIOS!* |
mi2mo2tx
Apr 18, 2005
| Nice vocab usage! Very clever! I was looking for a grammatical issue.... Had all the parts of speech labled. : |
darthforman
Apr 18, 2005
| Kinda interesting but not that funny. merely amusing. |
Lins
Apr 18, 2005
| Hey about this one!! SUPERCALIFRACILISTISTICEXPEALADOCIOUS!!!!!!!!! The first long word I learned how to pronounce. Never heard od some of your words. |
mkfluttrby
Apr 18, 2005
| i thought this was great and the sentence even made sense nice job to the author |
Jessa
Apr 18, 2005
| Creative! Very Good! Loved it! I like these!
|
Muffintins
Apr 18, 2005
| The funny thing about that sentance is that its actually true. I liked that one. |
100riddles
Apr 18, 2005
| Skye, if you cant even write out the words you think are spelled wrong, then you need to shut up. And anyways, there's a rule, and that's not to suggest any spelling or gramatical errors. I thought it was pretty good. |
DummyisDumb
Apr 18, 2005
| panagram? |
Lokene
Apr 18, 2005
| Not bad, but this sentence also has every letter in the alphabet EXCEPT 'J' Not sure if the author realized this..... FYI |
GreenCapStache
Apr 18, 2005
| That was very fun to figure out. Please make more! |
FeaerFactorY666
Apr 18, 2005
| Very clever teaser. I was fully able to read and understand all of the words, however I did not understand what was peculiar. Very nice! |
xFLoRiDa_HuNNyX
Apr 18, 2005
| that confused me |
gypseygal
Apr 18, 2005
| you need to add the vote
STUPID |
Icykillamonkie
Apr 18, 2005
| Nice didnt take ling for me to get it but yeah i liked it |
rockinchick
Apr 18, 2005
| omg... i spent ALL this time lookin up these dang words in the dictionary... and then it was about the length of the words!! ... o well it was fun |
skiiergurl93
Apr 18, 2005
| I actually got it! Really liked it-Clever! |
TiGzLU
Apr 18, 2005
| transcendentalizes is not a real word. Already looked it up in the dictonary it gave words close to it but not that word. |
Lins
Apr 18, 2005
| One more thing I like to say that this got alot of comments, so like it or hate it it got people going, way to go! |
(user deleted)
Apr 18, 2005
| I am the only smart person (amongst visitors) similarly responding. |
(user deleted)
Apr 18, 2005
| I am the only smart person (amongst visitors) similarly responding. |
1stplaceswimmer
Apr 18, 2005
| It reqires a lot of thinking (and counting) but once you get the pattern in the first few words, it sticks and you can then figure it out! |
Nicholle
Apr 19, 2005
| Very easy..predictable. I didnt even have to count the letters, i knew right away. clever though.. i could never come up with stuff like that on my own. |
mufffin09
Apr 19, 2005
| Ah, man, I should have seen that. I thought it might have every letter of the alphabet, and I was focusing on that. |
Doris
May 03, 2005
| It was so easy I knew it once I read it!!I guess I am so smart. |
broken_dreams
Mar 15, 2006
| i thought it was a pangram too at first. but iread through it more carefully and saw it didnt have a j. my friend needed to help me get the right answer!! |
stang99
May 15, 2006
| Oookaaaay!!! Now I got it. Sheesh, U got some vocab! |
azbee123
May 15, 2006
| wow. they puzzle was easy... but the words? what is trancdeihgskljgsdite or whatever???
still fun though.
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OldChinaHand
May 15, 2006
| It's nice to see the 'mathemagic' puzzle again, as well someone who uses a thesaurus. |
lmurray 
May 15, 2006
| BU MING BAI!!! |
atrac
May 15, 2006
| Irritatingly, I got it wrong. I had surmised that it was unusual because it contained no pronouns. But then, AFTER I checked the answer, I saw the I at the beginning! ooppps. :-) |
auntiesis
May 15, 2006
| very hard, but maybe my brain isn't working at 4 in the A.M. I thought some of the words were wrong, but I'm too tired to look them all up. Keep challenging me. |
Pablo
May 15, 2006
| Excellent! |
coachpisco
May 15, 2006
| Double excellent. A veritable plethora of lengthy words. |
Lexicat12
May 15, 2006
| Very clever...
Keep up the good work (because I'll never be able to write a sentence like that!). |
thimblenoggin
May 15, 2006
|
Very nice. New words are being added to our language every day. The academic world merely notes words that fall into common usage or ones they create for new thoughts, things or events. We don't need their approval to use new words that make sense, or that we just like. |
kistin14
May 15, 2006
| WOW! I did not have time to count it! Very cclever! |
bradon182001
May 15, 2006
| I had no clue, what a super teaser. |
feste
May 15, 2006
| Very good. One should look beyond the obvious |
cathym60
May 15, 2006
| Good one! But I can't believe how picky some of these comments are!!!!!!!! Get a life! |
teahoney
May 15, 2006
| That was a good one! |
AwwwSweet
May 15, 2006
| I do see some value within complex problems producing thoughtful, intelligent conversation.
Good job! |
Trishgal
May 15, 2006
| Iliked this ,but i did not get it Loved the sentence, how true. |
kman613
May 15, 2006
| My first thought was, "what isn't peculiar about this sentence?" - loved the answer, and of course, I didn't get it! |
robinmckenzie
May 15, 2006
| In response to DrCreamy, who wrote, "And if I'm not wrong, the second to last word has the same number of letters as the third to last if you put the apostrophe in the right place." You ARE wrong. The sentence refers to the incomprehensibleness of the intercommunications (plural), not just one intercommunication.
Leave the poor apostrophe where it is - it's rare enough that they're put in the right place, without people moving correctly placed ones about!
Then again, I would suggest that the number of letters in a word would include apostrophe-S anyway, so it's an academic discussion. |
iteachkids
May 15, 2006
| WW! GD one!!! |
vlerma
May 15, 2006
| Loved it. And I did get the answer fairly quickly. I just read the sentence and the words just kept getting longer and longer and so I went back to read it again, but started counting letters in each word got to about five and decided that it was simply a matter of adding one more letter each word. However, you did such a great job of splicing it all together so I say. GREAT JOB! |
yoichiro
May 15, 2006
| sk8babe is right everyone needsto stop complaining just because you guys weren't smart enough to think of it . good job |
doka13
May 15, 2006
| wowie... I understood 85 percent of that... but APPARENTLY that wasn't the point ... Well, despite my simple mind I did comprehend the answer *smacks self in head*... doncha h8 when that happens .... |
lindquist_25
May 15, 2006
| Cool! I love words! |
Swordoffury1392
May 15, 2006
| Really good and really easy at the same time!
Someone named the longest word, but in English, the longest is actually pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis. Yup, you guessed ut, too much time on my hands over the summer... |
queenofpiano7
May 15, 2006
| So...many...long....words... |
POPS
May 15, 2006
| Great one Had no CLUE. |
paul726
May 15, 2006
| A very good one to be brought out, dusted off, and shared with us relative newcomers. My vote made it go from 2.99 to 3! |
jazzmusician46
May 15, 2006
| excellent! |
monkey93
May 15, 2006
| Ouch, head ache. Ouch *big words*. COOL TEASER! |
DufusX
May 15, 2006
| Good, but I know you didn't write that yourself. I've seen that one posted around the internet a couple months ago. |
DufusX
May 15, 2006
| Good, but I know you didn't write that yourself. I've seen that one posted around the internet a couple months ago. |
syracuse945
May 15, 2006
| hey, th@ was nys... yay u...
haha...
good job!
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speedywheels
May 15, 2006
| Dude, that was hard. My brain is fried! |
book_worm_77
May 15, 2006
| I only read the first three or four words before I got it. Very easy, but clever! And, oddly, if you know the meanings of the words, the sentence makes sense! Very well written. I commend you. |
RRAMMOHAN
May 15, 2006
| Stupid me! Didnt get it! |
montoman
May 15, 2006
| Easy to figure out but had to be tremendously burdensome andarduous to compose!!!
by the way all...it is a word...
tran·scen·den·tal (trnsn-dntl)
adj.
1. Philosophy
a. Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge as independent of experience.
b. Asserting a fundamental irrationality or supernatural element in experience.
transcen·dental·ly adv. |
scallio
May 17, 2006
| You got me! I was so focused on the fact that the sentence was all true that I couldn't see the "peculiar" about it. Nice job writing this if it was your own work. Thanks for a fun morning even it it wasn't.
|
Musikman212
May 21, 2006
| Good work and a lot of it too I expect. |
cherylspad2003
May 23, 2006
| I'd say there's a few tings that are "peculiar" about this sentence!! |
cherylspad2003
May 23, 2006
| I'd say there's a few tings that are "peculiar" about this sentence!! |
peanut-tiara
May 24, 2006
| This teaser wasn't one of my favourites but it was good.
DufusX...you may have seen in a couple of months ago because it was posted Mar 2002 and these things tend to get passed around alot. |
Phoenixtears
May 15, 2007
| Welllll, I definitely didn't get the answer, but I must say, that the three times I read it over, it had every single letter in the alphabet except for 'J'. So I found that peculiar! |
cloughme
May 15, 2007
| Excellent! |
cdsg-r
May 15, 2007
| Wow, who'da thunk it was all about numbers. I'm reeaally bad with the teasers and today was no exception. Fun anyway. |
bradon182001
May 15, 2007
| I got it this time around. Must be I'm beginning to understand how to figure out teasers, because I sure didn't remember this one from last year.Still a great teaser. |
dancerrox1201
May 15, 2007
| Yea thats a GREAT !!! one |
puttumup
May 15, 2007
| that was a very nice teaser..very well thought out and well written. : |
serenity815
May 15, 2007
| Very cleverly written. Loved it! |
2ndhandrose
May 15, 2007
| I struggled with this one but didn't get it anyway Was on the right track with most words over so many letters long.
GOOD ONE !! 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 etc.
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mosca
May 15, 2007
| A very good teaser! Had me going for a while! |
Brock
May 15, 2007
| Thats great keep the coming |
kitty728
May 15, 2007
| I know we are focused on the looooong words, but the clue said: what is peculiar about this sentence? I got caught up in the grammar and punctuation rules....I first thought it was a run-on sentence and then thought it was an incomplete sentence after I read it again.....
yeah - really long words I guess......duuuuh.....
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Valic4
May 15, 2007
| a well derived sentence; however I agree that "transcendentalizes" may be a coined word |
(user deleted)
May 15, 2007
| Wow very intresting quite a good fun.I love it |
muffinbrittney
May 15, 2007
| Oh I loved it, that was amazing! |
craniac
May 15, 2007
| It doesn't matter if "transcendentalizes" is or isn't a coined word -- it's still a word. (And coining words by attaching the stem of the classical Greek verb idzo to the end of a noun or adjective is common in English -- "journalize" or "normalize," for example.) |
Hummingbird1
May 15, 2007
| I should have taken more time and I may have gotten it. I got hung up the grammar too. Good one. |
saxman
May 15, 2007
| I got hung uup in actually reading it. Then I started looking to see if a vowel had been left out of each word, and then I analyzed it to see if all the parts of speech were represented. I never did get to looking at it simply enough. LOL
Good one. I liked it! |
breathesunshine
May 15, 2007
| I got it right away but it sure is a mouthful! |
Shikamaru
May 15, 2007
| nice but a little chancy. try to make sure they are all words first. |
auntiesis
May 15, 2007
| I'm with Bradon, I got it easily, but I sure didn't remember it from last year. And I had a hard time with it last year. Maybe something got lodged in my little pea brain, and came out today. Lots of thinking to come up with a teaser this complex.....Kudos to you, and thanks. |
4demo
May 15, 2007
| Fun teaser! I originally thought it was another one of those "no letter e - most common letter" things, but it wasn't! Great one! |
speedqueenkmw
May 15, 2007
| and I actually counted some of the words to see if they all had the same amount of letters..and still didn't get it! good one |
Starfruit
May 15, 2007
| Why did everyone say that it was easy? I thought it was hard.
I guess I didn't think about that too hard. But that was so smart.
great job! |
ejhops
May 15, 2007
| Woah. |
jabdr
May 15, 2007
| kewl,,,, |
I_Write_Books
May 15, 2007
| Fabulous!!! |
battle000111
May 15, 2007
| so many syllables! |
katiekinnss1
May 15, 2007
| the words are to big. it confuses me |
phyllisa
May 15, 2007
| A good teaser that took some time to put together I bet. |
dasione1
May 16, 2007
| that was easy for me keep them coming |
lkp68
Jun 06, 2007
| Fun to read through. Thank you! |
Qrystal
Jun 28, 2007
| Nice! I found it easy, and got a chuckle about the meaning of the sentence too.
Incidentally, to those people arguing about whether something is or isn't a word, check out this definition of 'word':
a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning.
I found the meaning of these words was clear, because I understood the roots, and I also know how words are converted to other tenses. Thus, these are all perfectly legitimate words. |
javlad27
Aug 16, 2007
| that was amazing |
dani4w45t
May 16, 2010
| Very well done. This was easy to figure out (took me about a minute, I just ran through a list of possibilities) but very cleverly written and must have taken a lot of work. kudos! |
gaylewolf
May 16, 2010
| I figured it out
I thought it was extremely clever. For all you people who say you've seen it before, perhaps so, but it doesn't diminish the whole idea! Good one!! |
patiencewithaP
May 16, 2010
| Extremely pedantic of you! But I didn't get it Great job! |
Talon99
May 16, 2010
| Great teaser!!! I did figure it out quick, but it was inventive and I liked it. Sorry to say, however, that trancendentalizes really isn't a word. |
BeanSC
May 16, 2010
| Fun - sounds like something a politician would say. |
thecatladycac
May 16, 2010
| For those who claim that transcendentalize is not a word, try goggling it - the online dictionaries give it a definition, so I would assume that it is therefore a word!
Good Teaser! |
bear01
May 16, 2010
| i liked this one. would have been harder if you stopped at "handwriting" since the solution became very obvious after that... good though |
mathisnice
May 16, 2010
| Excellent teaser! |
Johnny
May 17, 2010
| that was so obvious!!!!!!!!! i knew it right away, like, like, RIGHT away. i knew it when, like, the words were, like, i do not like, or whatever, but i like got it right away. and isn't it, like, obvious that the words got, like, longer? they can't have, like, gotten shorter! |
bear01
May 26, 2010
| wtf..johnny? please tell me you are not seriously using 'like' that much in written communication.. 'u look old bcs young ppl wudnt botha' (sic)... please refrain it hurts my head.. we are all better than that here at braingle.. |
