MM Links May 2012 Week 4

BigMac | 07:45 Sat 26th May 2012 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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This is “BigMac”.

First – an apology. My use of a proper name last week caused some anger / confusion. I apologise. In mitigation, the word ‘posh’ was used in my preamble.

Now to week four and my final week setting the links.

I was privileged indeed to be at Twickenham last Saturday for one of the best games of rugby I’ve ever seen. I have some sympathy for the Ulster fly-half but also admiration that his failed attempts at goal did not cause him to hang his head.

The impacts of the ‘big hits’, even from where I was sitting, made me wince. Today the game is faster and harder than ever it was, certainly since I stopped playing a few (surely, MANY, Ed?) years ago.

The weather was clement [for the avoidance of doubt, ‘Attlee’ is not a link word] and the company convivial, although to my mind there is still something wrong with a 5.00pm kick-off. Even so, I was glad to have my dark glasses.

Next year’s Heineken Cup final will be in Dublin and the plans are already beginning to gel. But it might be difficult to arrange as my son will be doing exams at that time. Thankfully, he’s not yet of an age to have to take a viva, although I suppose there is that element in any language course.

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According to normal practice, for the everyday running of MM, I shall follow this rule on word length, in that each of my pre-selected link words contains at least four letters and at most eight letters. Stray outside this range and you will be wasting one of your attempts!

Each of the selected link words may go in front of, or behind my challenge word to make a new longer word or to make a well-known phrase or saying. The combination will never be a person's name.

The competition will officially close on Sunday Evening at 7.00pm, when gen2 will declare my pre-selected words and then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past. My set of four words to have their links predicted should appear below at 9.00am.

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I, BigMac, challenge you to predict my set of four links to go with these four challenge words.

DROP
TACKLE
SUN (I am allowed three letters – you are not)
ORAL

Good Luck everyone!