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O.C.D. Dinner Set
plates, cups, saucers, cutlery etc suitable for use by those with Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder | |
Folk with OCD are only really happy when they have an outlet which satisfies their compulsive behaviour. The OCD Dinner Set achieves this objective.
It has several characteristics which provide material upon which the OCD sufferer can focus. These are listed as follows:
Each item has a short black
line printed on it.
Each item has a coloured dot attached to its underside.
Each item has tiny flaw in the form of a nick or a scratch which requires close scrutiny in order to find.
Each item has a set of random words running along part of its rim edge.
The OCD sufferer is now faced with a more or less infinite set of potential arrangements for laying out or storing their dinner set, and the rationale for constantly checking that this particular layout is the optimum one possible.
The protagonist is preoccupied with the letter Z
http://books.google...m=4&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAw
and, to a lesser extent, with its neighbours. [pertinax, Nov 13 2010]
The Dirty Fork
http://en.wikipedia...wiki/The_Dirty_Fork
Qver-reaction, [8th of 7, Nov 13 2010]
The protaganist is pre-occupied with V.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.
'V' by Thomas Pynchon. [DrBob, Nov 16 2010]
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Didn't they have these on The O.C. ? |
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By the way, I note there's an X and a Z in your username, which is quite unusual. Z is the least used letter in the English language, with X, Q & J close behind. It stands to reason that you may not be a native English speaker. |
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From this I deduce that you are likely of Maltese or Basque extraction. Just saying... |
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Zounds! I think you're being somewhat jejune (or maybe just
jovial) in your quizzical lexicographical examination.
Excessive
deficits of X, J, Q and Z are quite common, but - by Jove -
not quite as quixotically extreme as you think. This dozey
quest for bizarre paradoxes is amazingly zany - axe it, whizz-
kid! |
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What could one possibly say after *that* anno?!? |
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Exceedingly sagacious - especially if fabricated from
quartz. |
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//behave reasonably under all circumstances // |
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Even when they're given a dirty fork ? |
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Dirty forks are half of the fun you can have under the table in a restaurant. |
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//What could one possibly say after *that* anno?!?// Zilch. |
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Hang on to it until you can use it on a triple word score. |
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Most of us have exes, [xandram]. |
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This may work for my family, I am very impressed. |
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Well, yeah, some of us have two x's, others an x and a y. In support of this thread, however, there is a clear need to invent a z chromosome. |
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...and then to keep it scrupulously clean. |
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Birds have Z-chromosomes. I think. |
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I can include a letter "Z" on each plate. There are clearly a lot of letter "Z" OCDs here. |
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Yes, but how many ? Exactly how many ? And are you quite sure that one of them isn't in fact a "2" ? Better go back and count them all over again ... |
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That must be confusing for New Zealanders with OCD. |
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Do you think that if someone lived in a completely
mucky, dirty environment, where no surface or space
was without glug of some kind or another, that they
would think OCD was made up, or something out of
science fiction, or something. I dunno. |
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I have an *x* because I have an ex. I didn't get a divorce when we first separated, so I changed the spelling of my name to start with an *x* so I could be [x-so and so]!! |
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The odd thing is that the idea as posted contains 44 E's, 33
A's, 22 O's and 11 U's. |
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Be glad of that, he's nothing but trouble. |
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and I read it SO many times too...starting with the first letter of every second word and then the second letter of every third word and so fourth until I had wrapped the whole thing. |
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There's just something about a Q which requires close scrutiny in order to find. |
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//there is one// No, it is a q, not a Q. |
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You're right. I had the caps-lock on my screen turned on. |
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I think that was your cue, [pocmloc]. |
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