be a bad dad 4

[TheRambler]

Actually the subject of this thread doesn't sound as bad as its literal meaning, if you didn't notice those words can be played on a musical instrument.

Can you think of a better-sounding phrase?

This puzzle is susceptible to SQLing!
Some words you can use: bag, dead, beef, bed, face, babe, cage, egg, ace and so on, you can figure out the rest.

Download Pianito MicroStudio if you want to test your creativity.

 

[TheRambler]

You are welcome. I don't have a dictionary database yet, all I did was to download a file (letter C), save it as html and open it to see what it looks like.

I guess I wouldn't strip the html tags because I would need them to identify each word as they are enclosed like <hw>C</hw>.

 

[RodKnowlton]

I just used

grep -v -e  '[^a-f]' /usr/share/dict/words

to get a word list.

The composition is my own, thanks for the compliments and the welcome.

 

[ESquared]

I've been playing piano since I was nine years old and I forgot the G? No wonder my word list was short. Ha!

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(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)

 

[CajunCenturion]

ESquared - I thought you were sharper than that.

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[ESquared]

I can only plead life & job stress, and mental preoccupation with other things. That's left my normal mental acuity a little flat...

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[CajunCenturion]

I completely understand. Your comments have definately struck a chord with me.

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[ESquared]

Yes, I know there's no reason to feel personally diminished just because of a little hiccup in my normal tempo.

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It is better to have honor than a good reputation.
(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)

 

[RodKnowlton]

ESquared & CajunCenturion,

Could you scale your conversation back, or at least change the tone? This thread already has over a score posts, and if that should treble, I fear that I'll lose my sight reading them all.

 

[CajunCenturion]

:-D

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[ESquared]

RodKnowlton,

Your words haven't augmented things in the slightest. In fact, they have rather diminished the thread by creating a key change in its timbre.

I expect you to compose yourself before you make such a fearful recital again!

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It is better to have honor than a good reputation.
(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)

 

[TheRambler]

This thread has been raised to too high a pitch already! we need harmony, not dissonance...

 

[RodKnowlton]

ESquared,

Please don't use my overture as a measure of my conduct.

As I beg your quarter, note that modulation has never been my forte.

I intended no slur, on this I my case must rest.

 

[RodKnowlton]

I my"?

Bad fingers! Bad! Bad!

 

[ESquared]

Actually, if you use rest as in "I rest my case on this" instead of "my case rests on this" then your sentence was grammatically correct, even if it used a nonstandard word order. I think.

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It is better to have honor than a good reputation.
(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)

 

[RodKnowlton]

My original sentence was supposed to be as follows:

I intended no slur, and on this my case must rest.

It is a universal rule that a person's proofreading ability increases by an order of magnitude in the interval between pressing "Submit Post" and the disappearance of the form.