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Two trucks loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus collided as they left a New York publishing house last Thursday, according to the Associated Press.
Witnesses were aghast, amazed, astonished, astounded, bemused, benumbed, bewildered, confounded, confused, dazed, dazzled, disconcerted, disoriented, dumbstruck, electrified, flabbergasted, horrified, immobilized, incredulous, nonplussed, overwhelmed, paralyzed, perplexed, scared, shocked, startled, stunned, stupefied, surprised, taken aback, traumatized, upset.
PS. One or both of the trucks may have been driven by Leslie Nielsen.
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This is the kind of joke which are easier to write than to tell.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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It was a joke?!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I am amazed, astounded, bewildered, boggled, confounded, dazed, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, overwhelmed, shocked, stunned, stupefied, floored, staggered, blown away that you did not get it.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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You anticipated, expected, foresaw, predicted, prepared for, assumed that he would find it funny?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Thank god you weren't disconcerted, disoriented, dumbstruck, electrified, immobilized or paralyzed... 
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
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Simply; He wasn't in New York when it happened
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Or he was in the truck.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Leslie Nielsen also asked me if there is another word for thesaurus? 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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Is it Friday yet? 
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
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Of course there is ![^]
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I checked the link ...
"onomasticon" ...  sounds like someone who chews their food with a single tooth! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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In this part of the world, what we lack in teeth we make up for in fingers!
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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This is a note, not a word.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Tut tut ...
Rage wrote: This is a note number, not a word.
FTFY!
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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DeathByChocolate wrote: FTFY! Fyftin !
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Very good!
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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Publishing house? Thesaurus (as in a hard-copy book)? Wow!
I'm amazed, astonished, baffled, blah, blah, blah...
This must be a really old joke.
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Vivic wrote: What is the word?
Bird![^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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"Hesitate after loud snarls endure with alternative energy in that lot has lack of proof of marginal effort?"(7,4,7)
This is either very easy or very hard!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Without even looking for a solution, I think the last 4 words give it away (at least the letter counts fit my answer).
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Prove it!
or is it a case of Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Let's make it a wide margin
loud = F
hesitate = ER
snarls = MATS
endure = LAST
alternative = OR
energy = E
that lot = THEM (around ORE)
FERMATS LAST THEOREM, for which he had a marvellous proof, but the margin of the page was to small to contain it, as any fule kno!
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