Caption Competition
Winning entries in the caption competition.

This week's picture is a portrait of the Prince of Wales by artist Lizzie Sanders to celebrate Scrabble's 60th anniversary. Can't see the prince? Try squinting.
The competition is now closed. Full rules can be seen here [PDF].
Thanks to all who entered. The prize of a small amount of kudos to the following:
6. RMutt-Urinal
Prince's lunch of alphabet soup ruined by sneezing fit.
5. rogueslr
"A word in your ear, your Highness."
"I know, it's antidisestablishmentarianism."
4. SteeleHawker
"I think Colossus is malfunctioning again, Sir."
3. SeanieSmith
"KIGN...INGK...KGIN...GNIK...? No, I'll have to pass..."
2. In Off The Post
It was an increase in workload, rather than a pay reduction that led to Carol leaving Countdown.
1. Magnum Carter
"...as in 'when I become Qing'..."


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A face is worth a thousand words, or three thousand if it's on a treble.
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The new presenter of Countdown is announced
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I think one has a triple?
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Can you see it yet?
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The King and I I I O U X W
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...and on a triple word score, that's 6 billion points to me, thank you.
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Terminator 4 - The rise of the autocues.
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Unfortunately, Dad couldn't make anything longer than four letters
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Don’t you know the Queen’s English? Of course she is.
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It was going to be a long long game..
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Postmodernists debate the significance of the word ZMOWAA in the mouth of the future king.
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No, I said SCRIBBLE me a quick portrait. Oh, never mind....
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I think Colossus is malfunctioning again, Sir
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A lot of difficult letters – or so tenants at Sandringham think
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Unfortunately for the Prince, pixelation was not the answer to disguising his celebrity
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Unfortunately Hasbro and Mattel are suing as an infringement of Crown copyright.
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"...as in 'when I become Qing'..."
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A lot of difficult letters - or so tenants at Sandringham think
Sorry
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So, are you the Alpha Male?
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World's largest scrabble score contested after missing blanks discovered
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It was an increase in workload, rather than a pay reduction that led to Carol leaving Countdown.
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Diplomatic row ensues as MUNFUHU is found to be a significant term of abuse in Swahili.
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Prince Charles - man of letters
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Unfortunately Microsoft are suing as an infringement of WordArt.
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The result of sitting too close to the telly after Mum told you not to
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It required some explaining to Charles that he had not been sent the latest Myra Hindley portrait
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A picture is worth a thousand words
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So, to recap - that's a triple word score AND I've used all my letters so I win.
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Charles - Prince of Tiles
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Ms Sanders wondered how long it would take them to spot the rude word.
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Camilla tries out the scrabulous setting on her new digital camera
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"Our dictionairy defines "ears" as protruberances from a covered skull."
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Well the writing IS on the wall - I'd say you're royally screwed
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One is not RAROTNIO
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Mensa has issued a photo-fit of the man they wish to interview
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I'm a man of few words...
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Charles was accused yet again of being too wordy
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You can really see the tan lines
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Queen demands new reading glasses
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It's very appropriate, really - whoever made all those words with only consonants was clearly using a Welsh dictionary
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Even with a blank expression, the prince managed to score points.
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The answers were written all over his face
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Let us paint.
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Camilla was none too pleased when Charles celebrated his 60th with a night on the tiles.
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The prince after a night on the tiles.
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Damn! not enough letters for abdicate
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Prince Charles gets up to some antics (semantics)
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The return of Letterman
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So, sixty years ago, the Queen found giving birth so boring that she decided to invent a board game at the same time?
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Charles accused of setting a bad example to his sons after having a night on the tiles
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Charles revisits Bletchley Park and returns a changed man
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"After Mum's done her speech, who's for a nice Christmas board game?"
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Computer technology is used to make clearer the face of the man on the grassy knoll
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Come-in-n-pick-your-vowels
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Unfortunately, Lizzie Sanders had misunderstood her Australian boss's request to make a portrait of Prince Charles out of tails
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A knight on the tiles
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So am I painting by numbers, or by letters?
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Falling asleep late at night on the computer resulted in a rather unfortunate case of "keyboard face" the next morning.
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Charles began to be worried about another Peasant's Revolt when he overheard an aide asking 'What tiler?'
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Giving 10,000 monkeys 10,000 sets of scrabble produced some interesting results but alas no shakespeare.
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Charles had always aspired to be a man of letters
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A portrait of Prince Charles by his gamekeeper
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Regent Square
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Heir, Apparently
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Accomodating the Royal ears within the confines of the board had been the artist's real challenge.
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Mosaic discovered of "The Man Who Would Be King"
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A man of many words - most of them made up.
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The poor old editor of "The Sun" had spent days trying to find a rude word in there somewhere, to no avail ...
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The Charles formerly spelt as Prince
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"Let me spell it out for you, your Royal Highness, it's a JIGSAW..."
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Just for a laugh, scientists decided to DNA profile some vegetable soup..
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So that's what Dubya has been doing for the last eight years.....
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"It's always all about U", laments Camilla
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Charles rejects accusations of being square
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Unfortunately, when the Palace instucted everyone to list all Charles' titles, the second 't' had been omitted
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"Yes, it's very nice dear but Scrabble isn't a jigsaw"
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scrabu.....under threat from hasbro's lawyers, the rest of this caption has been deleted.
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For the documentary on his sixtieth birthday, Charles had wanted to present himself as a well-rounded character
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And next week, a portrait of Camilla, made out of Duchess potatoes
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"Charles,can I have a word."
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Eventually, Charles' left ear was found down the back of the sofa
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No matter how hard anyone looked they just couldn't find the word KING anywhere in the wordsearch.
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A very prosaic mosaic
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The prince was enjoying a performance by Fawlty Towers' Manuel when artist Lizzie Sanders placed her hands into sacks and drew.
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In an attempt to boost ratings, ITV announce the return of Celebrity Squares.
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"The picture's great but the pedants who inhabit the Magazine are going to have a field day with your terrible spelling"
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"It's difficult to make out, but if you stand far enough away from it, you won't see anything at all"
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'A word in your ear your Highness.'
'I know, it's antidisestablishmentarianism.'
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His 'A's seem to follow you around the room...
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If that doesn't stump Robert Langdon then I give up!
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Scrabble-Wrestling proved less successful than Boxing-Chess.
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The future king of letters
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Sarah's spelling wasn't impressive.
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Good grief, is that the word "mad" in the middle top left of the picture?
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Originally Harry and Wills were going to do it, but Pop Art is just so passe.
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Charles: The only word I can find here is 'mop'. What is exactly is a mop?
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Unfortunately, the new security keypad at Windsor Castle was not a success, as everybody kept hitting Charles on the nose
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Charles misunderstands the rules and requests to buy a vowel
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The Prince of Wales receives a moving portrait from the Welsh Scrabble Society. The left ear bears a rather fitting triple score word, which no one has yet dared translate...
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Artist Lizzie Saunders has ordered 270 more boxes of letters to do the Prince's ears...which will appear as seperate exhibits...
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Charles liked to think he was the font of all knowledge.
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Brings a whole new meaning to 'letters after one's name'.
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Travel editions of Wills and Harry coming soon...
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The newspapers were careful to conceal the identities of everyone at the strip club
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The word "ROI" on the nose is a vein attempt at a subliminal message regarding one's birthday present...
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We can see now that Charles has had a nose job...
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It's written all over his face...
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Charles wasn't impressed with the word 'Dim' written on his nose
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"As one has reached 60, one was expecting something made out of diamonds...like a crown...?"
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One is not too flattered by the Hitler moustache!
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"Can one guess what it is yet?"
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'Could you please put the word Dim on my father's picture, not mine'
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Frustrated office worker spends 2 hours searching for amusing words in new artwork, before giving up his fruitless task.
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Like James Stewart in "Harvey," Charles appears to be a little pixellated
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Picture of Charles when "WILI" was just a glint in his eye...
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Whilst onlookers marvelled, Prince Phillip was overheard to say, 'the little pipsqueak was always such a square anyway'.
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Well, you can tell the gardener I'm certainly not paying him for that crazy paving at Highgrove
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What do you mean 'Prince Charles is only worth 22 points'?
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Price Charles' outspoken views on architecture were written all over his face.
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What's black and white and brown and read all over?
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"Is it one?"
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Has one scored?
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I'm afraid the final problem to reach the Holy Grail is a little more difficult, Indy
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One is amused (and for 14 points!)
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"It started out as Michael Jackson."
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One`s eyes are black following a misunderstanding with Camilla over my request for a handful of spare Rs.
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A new element, Charlesium, is discovered in the periodic table
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Charles' range of organic food products famously do not include any e-additives, but scientists discover an awful lot of other letters in there
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no, I said it's NOT a carbuncle.
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You could read Charles like a book.
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"The sitting took so long, I didn't have time to shave!"
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The crop circles in Gloucestershire were getting ever more ingenious
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One didn't use superglue to attach these did one Lizzie?
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Lizzie Sanders lost her head after failing to mind her p's and q's properly.
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Charles deeply regretted getting drunk and falling asleep over a game of Scrabble
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So this is what all the young people have been talking about, Facebook!
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Royal typographers unveil their new "typeface".
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The pictures editor wasn't very happy with the quality of the photograph but decided he could heirbrush out the blemishes
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The picture was withdrawn after someone noticed they'd given Charles a Hitler moustache
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Er, shouldn't they have used i's for his eyes?
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Is it too early to congratulate SeanieSmith on a 12th top six entry ?
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And when I'm monarch, they'll make me in Lego
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Are you sure we can't use "Send us a letter" for this one?
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The Art formerly known as Prince.
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Camilla begins to suspect Charles's claim of "I only have eyes for you.."
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"Charles" scores 12
"Camilla" only scores 11
-Perhaps one ought to give her 1
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Camilla could see Charles was useless at Scrabble - it was written all over his face.
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Well, if my mum can have her face stuck on letters ...
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I'm sure "HRH" is a word.
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To celebrate his 60th birthday, Prince Charles got well and truly scrabbled.
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A fine effort, but mum's still the word
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"You know what", Andrew said to Edward, "Charles really is a capital fellow!"
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The solutions were staring Charles in the face - but his mind drew a blank
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"...You know Betty, I'm sure it's not in the dictionary!"
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"Admirably edgy, what?"
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Neil Buchanan was p*ssed that someone had ripped off one of his lesser known Big Art Attacks!
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Prince (1989): "...such a dismal wasteland of banality, cliche and casual obscenity."
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Funny how some people look better when you're slightly pissed!
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And in the Welsh national scrabble championships, Mr. Morgan Evans wins with the first move of the game scoring 39,678 points for:-
"AWGIBACMUNFUHUTRWGRLIMTMPHFWTTREUZBWATINWOPSIDTBIJNRWTSABOLMVXXHRPVWIANWLLWEIPUHYMADJGFREMWILIBRDQECHKIWSOOTNUASFCCTERWEOLOAEEESRIIEOALFWIEMOPPUNISUIERAROTNIOLIOICTAIIOMTSSQMEFZEYOTAMNMRECQLNTONERDEIXTOUTORHYDIITKWNNRJRLARWDIDTYNIDRBDEMTYIRSLIREAOODROODIUBIGOHHLEGNKNTABIEWWDIMNMVESLOTGITNOOSKHCWYRUFLEVAETESOXETVOTNAFHDJEUHSURSNQVUCOHIKNFPOATHEDBIETASTAVMLIETHEAEGVEVUEDDEEWNNONIYTOEEFROOIITNVDEEWYOMPNWRAUTCIOOILSUITIOKELIIFEWUUOUHRIOEDUZNAGTVUEZIRONLTEIPYILNGUQDGMQOZMOWAADVQRPIFRNPEFEIUOILOTJIZIRGRZAYROTDDIUWHEBIPEUEXGORONRAITLLTEINSIMRTEIALDCOFIPVNTVYKSTTUSJSIATTLTTTLLEOETTUBODOIASOHOLPFPSNGSEIYMOENOTHGALTIUIMTDITEINGAOGAWFTRVOFWGIAOMCQ"
Which means "Hello" in Welsh
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I've found LOT, PUN and NEO. Any advance on that?
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That's Wordwang!
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If Carl Sagan did pareidolia...
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Every face tiles a story
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Cash-strapped Hello! struggled to keep within budget for Charles' 60th birthday issue
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Digital ID card trial delayed yet again after technical issues with the first users.
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Treble TOP
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The BBC were unsure their new "anonymising" technique for whistle-blowers was an improvement.
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Someone is putting words in One's mouth again.......
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The 2011 simultaneous Christmas broadcast from President Obama & King Charles had a few technical problems.
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Scrabble's been thrown off Facebook, so I refuse to play. So there.
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'A Knight in the tiles' - since Prince Chaz is, among other titles, "Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Great Master and First and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and Knight of the Order of Australia".
Or, to give him his full title - "His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Great Master and First and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Member of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Order of Australia, Companion of the Queen's Service Order, Honorary Member of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, Chief Grand Commander of the Order of Logohu, Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Canadian Forces Decoration, Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty".
Get all that on a Triple-Word score and you're laughing...
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I could read his expression; the Prince looked puzzled.
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Prince, heir presumptive, man of letters....
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The words ABDICATE and NOW, and the phrase BYE BYE MUMMY can be found if you look hard enough.
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One has to play Scrabble because Mother has the Monopoly.
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Scientists crack the royal genome
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If you ask me, it's simply a question of context.
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"How many times do I have to tell you? We're not playing Pictionary! We're playing Scrabble!"
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HRH King Charles the Treble
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Prince Charles had such a good night, he still has Soho on his chin...
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"And that's 7 points to me and 6,405,721 to you...What do you want? A medal?"
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"ooh, his 'i's really follow you around the room don't they?"
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Molly's alphabet spaghetti looked a bit special today...
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The Prince hoped his new Gameboy game would improve his image with the youth.
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When he'd signed the contract, Jeff Stelling hadn't realised just how much Countdown would take over his life.
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Camilla should have gone to Specsavers!
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All this stuff that is written about one in the media.....is just words
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Now we know why your first wife left you!
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"Camilla I don't care how long you worked on it. It doesn't even look like me!"
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Words fail me!
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Charles, the new face of the Dsylexic Scrabble Society (DSD)
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Well, at least the writing's not on the wall.
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The Queen's directive to send letters to those turning 60 was soon misinterpreted.
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A thousand words paints a picture.
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Camilla warned me not to hire Banksey for the one's portrait - but never mind, I've just been informed that its increased the value of mummies west wall at Buck's by heaps
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Less publicity was given to the 60th anniversary of Playboy
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Lost for words.
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"Wo" said Neo in a surprised fashion. While looking at the code of the Matrix he realized just who had built the machines!
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'ears to a game of scrabble
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Those long winter evenings at Charles and Camilla's just flew by.
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'Monstrous Carbuncle' declared the prince. 'That's 78 points!'
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At least I've already made a Will
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When will it be Mama's turn to go ?
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At last, French Police issue photofit
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Heir, apparently
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Memories of binge drinking at the Prince of Wales Pub
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Charles seemed to have a Q with no U for a long time....
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Charles heard his sons enjoyed a night on the tiles, and thought he'd give it a go.
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One is missing a Y? How dare you!
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Scrabble against the cryptanalysts' team was so hard, when he won, he wanted a memento.
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Prince of Wales completely boggled when it comes to Welsh scrabble.
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W.W. Dim - on the nose!
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In the other family scrabble pictures, Prince Harry looked nothing like Charles!
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Prince Charles was told that the unscrambled photo on his new biometric passport was as unscrambled as it was going to get.
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Scrabble rules changed after threats that the makers were to be sued for discriminating against people who can't spell.
Lawsuits against bingo, charades and eye spy are expected in the near future.
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A picture says a thousand words...
Unless made by random scrabble letters, then it says nothing
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"Read my lips....."
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Prince Tiles
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Charles exhibiting a cheeky pun!
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Charles exhibiting a pun in cheek
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How many times does one have to tell you Harry, I don't understand text speak.
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"Drat!" said Charles after losing by 10 points.
"'Vevue' was under my nose the whole time!"
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The board look.
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One scored 3 with 'one.'
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"One won."
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This is your spellchecker on 'English - UK',
Whereas this is your spellchecker on drugs...
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Guiness Book of Records in its latest sweep to 'pad out' it's material, finds worlds worst scrabble player...
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Bond, you were supposed to hide the text in the picture !
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and another vowel please Carole and another and another...........
doo loop doo loop doo.....
I've only got lots of 4 letter words Des
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A night on the tiles did little for Prince Charles' complexion.
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Oh no, not another joke about brooms? Charles has got MOP PUNs on the brain
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It was harder for Charles doing the word search looking in the mirror
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Very nice but if you could just see your way to putting my head on the monopoly money - seems the closest to the real thing I'm going to get
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...meanwhile, George W. Bush is pictured in the U.S. and Canada.
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The Prince was never lost for words.
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Allegedly Dan Browne has already written his next thriller based on hidden messages in "The Charles Code"
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I don;t know about using foreign languages are you sure SQMFZEY is turkish for prince?
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The Prince Charles Scrabble set was great fun, but it was never going to rival the Princess Diana Cluedo game.
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"'ONE' would've given One 3, but 'WON' gave One 6, so One went with 'WON' and won."
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Charles appears to have done badly in the Friday morning spelling test
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"Waiter, I ordered scrambled eggs not scrabbled eyes"
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Bee 1 talking to Bee 2....
i don't believe it, there's that bloke talking to the plants again !
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Unlike many others, Prince Charles will never be stuck for words
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"I said I wanted Scrabble prints."
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the BBC have apologised for the illegible messages left on Prince Charles facebook and have suspended Jonathan Ross for a further 6 months
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"APicture tells a thousand words!"
Geoff Brown, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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"A Picture tells a thousand words!"
Geoff Brown, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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The Pre-decimal Matrix
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"I am indeed a man of letters, you know!"
Geoff Brown, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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It's called Art. Whatever Art means...
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Hercule Poriot stared forlornly at the letters. They dying victim had said they'd reveal the murderer, but he was having extreme difficulty in solving the anagram. But maybe the answer was staring him in the face ...
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I do hope that Seanie is back soon
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After seeing the results of his birthday botox, the Prince of Wales is lost for words.
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The new Biometric ID card handily contains both your photo and your simple to remember password..
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...and His Majesty has got a triple word score of 254 there...
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I don't beleive it. Of all the letters left in the bag i get the Q.
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Scrabble Prince, Square Face pilot airs on BBC website
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Being an organic farmer, Charles was very upset. "I told you make my face out of lettuce," he wailed.
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For His Royal Highness, it was this or an afternoon with Rolf Harris.
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Portrait of the Prince of Wales?! I'm lost for words.
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I C U R puzzled !!!
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So, U or Non-U?
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60 years and all I get is a Scrabble set; but at least I should score tonight!
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If his former wife was princess of hearts, why can't he be prince of letters?
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..and this picture shows how our computer ageing programe predicts you will look in 40 years William, now just wait tillyou see Harry's...
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Lizzie: "It's supposed to be George Bush."
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Hell's bells, the Turner Tiles...Piles...Prize...!!
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Charles,never a cross word.
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The Royal Guards commission a cleverly disguised legend for reassembling Prince Charles' face in the event the Duchess of Cornwall ever rearranges his face in a fit of rage.
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That's what they say about Charles - always looks better from a distance
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Cut backs in the Royal household leads to Prince Charles using a cheaper digital camera...
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What Monitor readers do while waiting for the caption competition...
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He had a blank look in his eyes....
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I'll take a right nostril please, Bob..
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What's that word I'm looking for... ah, yes, Munfuhu. Thank you, your majesty.
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"Putin to sue of his likeness being used for royal portrait"
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bugger, mistyped- correction follows:
"Putin to sue over his likeness being used for royal portrait"
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Art, tar or rat?
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Perhaps artist was not the best cover identity for the world's leading cryptographer...
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No, Ms. Sanders, we will not triple your commission on foreign words.
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Should have gone to Specsavers... They might have had something to say about your 'I's...
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The "Caption Competition" is a method of psychological evaluation which tries to examine the personality....
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"One must remember not to eat alphabet spaghetti after my special wild mushrooms."
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One is having difficulty with thirteen across: "Two words, 6,5, awarded for Gallantry."
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Camilla had a cross word for Charles!
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Face Value .
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"Hello, is that Swansea Council? It's about the 'No Parking' sign..."
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The Squints of Wales
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His Royal Highness Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales, KG, KT, GCB, OM, AK, QSO, PC, ADC, Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, and yet still not included in Sowpods!
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Charles draws a double blank...
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Prince's lunch of alphabet soup ruined by sneezing fit.
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See, this is what happens when you muck the ozone about!
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P R I N C E C H A R L E S - no Qs or Zs between us.
But we could make between us: clasp her nicer, rich clap sneer or scalp enricher.
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Row 5, Column 9, going down. Someone can't spell.
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After moving next to Bletchley Park, the TV reception was never the same again.
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Police are hunting a peeping tom with tattooed features last seen peering through a bathroom window.
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"Can one tell what it is yet?"
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It's either a monstrous carbuncle or the face of a much-loved and elegant friend... I can't quite tell from this angle.
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The Anarchists v Royalists Scrabble Tournament ends in a draw.
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Squints Charles
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"Have you no idea what it is, Doctor?"
"...It's a conundrum, Sir."
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Scientists have been puzzled ever since Voyager 2 returned to Earth orbit, with what appears to be a reply from an alien civilization.
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Glad to see one hasn't forgotten their P's and Q's.
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"Come on, Timmy - put Daddy's Scrabble away....wait until you learn spelling at big school."
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Give me a C, give me an H, give me an A, give me an R, give me an L, give me an E, give me an S! What have you got?!
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Spelly Vision
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"Damn, so many letters and I don't seem to find 'Elizabeth' and 'abdicate' written anywhere!"
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A picture paints a thousand words, but in this case all the words are Welsh.
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Suddenly, Camilla understood Lady Churchill's incendiary response to the portrait of Sir Winston.
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Compiling the word search for the Christmas competition at work is going to be easier than I thought....
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That photo opportunity Charles, what were you thinking??
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"Agghh, blasted computer! How is one supposed to work this keyboard with the letters in the wrong order...?"
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The Pixellated Prince.
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Prince Charles puts his game face on.
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If one can read this, one is standing too close
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Prince Charles at a loss for words.
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Scrabble, formerly known as Prince.
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A man of letters whose words often confuse.
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In Carol Vorderman's dreams..
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The scrabble portrait fades into insignificance when compared to the monopoly money origami figures said to represent the entire Royal Family.
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Charles proudly joins the ranks literati at last
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Leaked designs for Charles' first stamps are criticised for not displaying appropriate denominations.
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Charles' 60 year project is finally finished..
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In celebration of his 60th Birthday Lizzie Sanders creates a mosaic of Charles formed out of a collection of his greatest quotes..
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"The Prince, a true square..."
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"Unlikely it seems with those ears,
Which belonged to a couple of Peers,
Who sat in the Commons,
Instead of the Lords,
But settled instead for two Beers."
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"Is there truth to the rumour that Seanie Smith is the well-known Ms. Monitor?"
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I say Camilla, that artist chappie got my likeness down to a "T" !
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Charles face show's lots of character
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For once Charles was lost for words.
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Morpheus: "There's something wrong in the Matrix".
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It was all going so well, but then the dog knocked the board over!
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The Royal Font
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Artist diagnosed with Inconsonance - The inability to control one's vowels.
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The man who would be knig
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The Welsh translation bureau were obviously on holiday
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One is lost for words.
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Royal teleportation trials declared a partial success
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Camilla saw that Charles had that special look in his eyes. The one that breathed: MUNFUHU.
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The IgNobel Prize for literature.
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60 and still destined to be held at arms' length.
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The optician saw how long it would take to get to the bottom line and decided to charge by the hour.
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At 60, everybody said Charles was too old to play the lead in "The Matrix Rescrabbled"
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All Hollywood said Harrison Ford was too old for the lead role in "Indiana Windsor and the Lost Crusade"
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Prince Charles warns of dangers of all-Spelt diet
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Hang on, I can read "Rince Charles" - is someone taking the 'P'?
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We have been underdogs for far too long. Now we are taking over the world. Do not try to adjust your television - this is being transmitted on all channels ...
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The Prince's claim that he was no longer troubled by Diana's letters could not be taken at face value
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And the winner of "Face of Scrabble" 2008 is............
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One's always been considered a bit of a square, but now one's positively covered in the things.
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Proof-reader given detention for printing Charles as "The Ducky of Cornwall"
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Charles couldn't manage his new role as a postman, on the face of it he had too many letters.
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Yet another Royal caught spending 'a night on the tiles'
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Evry picture tells a story.
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Laura White fans also made a similar portrait of Louis Walsh and Simon Cowell, but the words they used were a little less random ...
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The more time they spend with each other, the more Prince Charles and Camilla look like each other.....
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The version made by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand will be shown after the BBC's watershed
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The words came out but he was making no sense.
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I,m sorry sir, but when when suggested a new letterhead that was not quite what we had in mind.
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Camilla had him under her spell.
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The Queen chose her words carefully but still the public face of Prince Charles remained unclear.
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To celebrate his 60th birthday, Prince Charles releases a single. A cover version of Cameo's 'Word Up'
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His ears were worth 253 points alone.
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Scrabble in Wales is fun when you have all the Ls......
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Mummy, it's time to chuck in the tile.
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as the regeneration process reaches it final stages......the audience are on the edge of their seats........ to discover the identity of the new Doctor........aaarrrrrgggghhhhhh
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"KIGN...INGK...KGIN...GNIK...? No, I'll have to pass..."
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Roger, the referee, 'called' it pointless.
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"Don't deny it Charles, I can read you like a book."
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The dyslexic Scrabble world championships were not a great success.
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police have released CCTV images of the person they would like to question in connection with an attack on a GM farm last night
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Specsaver's new 'Royal' range came at a premium price and a darn harder eye test..
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Queen concludes 'This typeface does not look familiar'
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After recent concerns over data security, the Palace decides to encrypt Prince Charles.
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"Damn you Charles - if your nose was as big as your ears I'd have got a triple word score!"
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"You think that's good? You should see my Camilla Parker-Bowles made out of Ker-Plunk!"
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The BBC would like to apologise to Welsh readers for the tasteless references to Andrew Sachs in this week's caption competition photo.
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Correct to the letter
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Camilla had not fully understood the rules of Pictionary.
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WIL I B?
Probably not!!
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If you read the words carefully, you will see a repeating sequence of words that says (in Welsh):
"I am not in the office at the moment. Send any photographs to be printed"
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The Prints and the paper
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Terminator 4: He must not be King
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After seeing the face of Jesus on a slice of toast, there was some disapointment in the monastery when this couldn't be repeated with random Scrabble pieces.
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Your highness, I'd like a word in your ear.
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Dammit! I can never do these Magic Eye picture things.
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If you look closely you can see he's got PIE in his eye
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Prince Andrew was last seen screaming "that's not a word"!
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When I commissioned the portrait I said make me look FABulous, not Scrabulous.
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I'll have a P please, Charles.
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You've got it all wrong, it's my dad that makes the blockheaded remarks not me.
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The artist was cunningly able to combine his portrait of Charles with a depiction of the constituent letters of his vocabulary.
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The Prince marvelled as he peered through this architectural masterpiece - frosted glass with letters.
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Prince Charles scored exceedingly well with a triple word score.
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Anagram from the Queen
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JPEG compression, the manual way.
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This new magic eye puzzle is no good, no matter how hard I look I just can't see a future king.
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"Should have painted by numbers" thought royal portrait painter.
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"If a picture paints a thousand words, why can't I paint you ? " was the royal artist's impression.
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Charles had been warned about standing too close to the Army's new top-secret Scrabble gun
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Charles was never short of a word or two when it came down to it.
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Charles, I am pretty sure that OTAMNM is not a word.... I don't care if it's on a double!
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The Queen has generously allowed Prince Charles as long as he wants to solve the CrownedWhen Conundrum.
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"If you stay there much longer, Charlie-boy, you’ll be square-eyed," joked Prince Phillip.
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"If you stay there much longer, Charlie-boy, you'll be square-eyed," joked Prince Phillip.
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Read My Lips!
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"Letters be King" murmured Charles to his mum.
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People had always thought that the Prince was 'quirky', but never 'qwerty' !!!
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What do you mean the number of years until i become king is the same as this scrabble score?
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"WORD UP!" sang Grandmaster Charles as he hoped his attempt to show that he was 'down with the youth on the street' would not be mis-interpreted!!
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"It quite give's me a pain in me 'ead,
Thinking now of how to compose,
A look close to Prince,
Merely makes just one wince,
Why couldn't he just have been Fred?"
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Every generation rewrites fairy tales with a modern twist, here we see the Prince and the P, Q, R, S.....
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NASA are stumped by latest pictures from Mars.
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If you squint hard enough, you'll be able to see JEUHSURS!
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A man of letters
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JIZIRGRZAY on a double-chin = 78 "for the crown" points!
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I say Mother, this is Scrabble, not a jigsaw.
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an ardent fan of the pop star Prince is suing tattoo artist over misunderstanding......
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The annual scrable game at the national dyslexia association had gone well
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Turner Prize entries are a bit weak this year
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Are you sure I have to dot my 't's and cross my 'i's ?
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what a waste of time - what's Prince Charles going to do with that?
not that i could do any better bout then i wouldn't want to
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Prince Charles invited Bob Holness round to join in with his version of Blockbusters.
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Prince Charles has always been a man of few words, but many many letters.
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The BBC's new high-def channel with Welsh subtitles had obviously been left in the hands of Capita.
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With the onset of Dementia, Prince Charles keeps getting his words mixed up.
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"Prince's Scrabble" wasn't as big a seller as last year's "Royal Family Top Trumps".
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So many letters - that's why it's the Royal Male...
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After his first meeting with the CIA, Barack Obama is having difficulty remembering Prince Charles code name.
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Depsite the poor photofit, Crimewatch was flooded with calls from people claiming to know who the suspect was.
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Not even the toughened glass window to Carol Vordeman's dressing room could foil her most determined stalker.
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Charles was upset at having to omit half the letters after his name
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this is just PC gone mad
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Charles after a night on the tiles.
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Do my 'r's look big in this?
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Charles proves he hasn't inherited his fathers habit of not thinking before he speaks
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Charles runs a spell-check on "The Old Man of Lochnagar"
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Finally he saw how it was, to be considered square, and he liked it.
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Carole vorderman expresses her anger to Prince Charles at not being made a Dame....
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A Knight On The Tiles
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One is not a number
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Is this how One joins the Bookface thingy?
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So I explained to Mater why it would be a good idea for her to abdicate and let me be King and she threw the words straight back in my face.
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Buy purchasing 16 more paints, Lizzie was able to graduate from painting-by-numbers to painting-by-letters
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Charles the subject of new Letters Patent
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30,000 scrabble pieces used ,29,000 on the ears.
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It was universally agreed that Charles looked better from a distance.
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Camilla: "You look Scrabulous darling!"
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One is lost for words
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Limited edition Prince available now.
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The artist Lizzie Sanders takes Prince Charles’s German heritage too far with his scrabble moustache!!
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The artist Lizzie Sanders takes Prince Charles German heritage too far with his scrabble moustache!!
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The Prince joins Facebook.
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"Why can't I have a codename like Obama's 'Renegade' ?" said Charles, after reviewing his latest MI5 photograph.
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Although it was obvious to the Welsh what it said, it was unprintable in English.
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After a night on the tiles, one's eyesight does get a little blurry.
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We were going to use chess pieces, but they wouldn't let use the kings.
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Four letters left .. K .. I .. N .. G. If one keeps trying, one will work it out one day.
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And when you break the code, you will be King, my dear.
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When challenged: Charles angrily responded that GOHHLEGNKNTABIEWWDIMNMVESLOTGITNO was a word in his dictionary.
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Take a letter, Miss Sanders.
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A word in the ear is worth two in the mush.
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