I voted A was the bluffer because he used the word "juxtaposition" - B is telling the truth becuase he said "****-up" - that's my 2 cents (or 4.8 tolars) worth anyway.

Life is too short to try and read War and Peace anyway.

The results are out and it seems that "A" was the bluffer. I suspected as much due to the overuse of long words. So the moral of the story seems to be , to talk bollocks, one should use long confusing words to sound like you are an expert.

El Presidente wrote:

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The results are out and it seems that "A" was the bluffer. I suspected as much due to the overuse of long words. So the moral of the story seems to be , to talk bollocks, one should use long confusing words to sound like you are an expert.

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Sir Humphrey: "Prime Minister, I must protest in the strongest possible terms my profound opposition to a newly instituted practice which imposes severe and intolerable restrictions upon the ingress and egress of senior members of the hierarchy and which will, in all probability, should the current deplorable innovation be perpetuated, precipitate a constriction of the channels of communication, and culminate in a condition of organisational atrophy and administrative paralysis which will render effectively impossible the coherent and co-ordinated discharge of the functions of government within Her Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland."
Jim Hacker: "You mean you've lost your key?"

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