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Wow. I said I might undertake to create fresh and witty Puzzling questions because brilliant men on the internet have solved my latest ones way too speedily for my foolish conceited pride - so everyone consider this a fledgling attempt I expect qualifies for favorable attention and greater votes ...

What is this puzzle about?

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^{If you're one of those PSEers who gets this instantly, consider leaving it for less experienced puzzlers to solve. Thanks!}

Puzzles like this are like ciphertext - the shorter ones are harder to chip away at! — Phylyp, Mar 14 '18 at 13:47
An hour, roughly? Spread across two sessions. I took a break at the hyphen ;) — Rubio, Mar 14 '18 at 14:02
@Rubio - wow! The neat thing is yours flows like a regular sentence, unlike my clumsy attempt below. — Phylyp, Mar 14 '18 at 14:20

score 42 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 14 '18 at 17:40

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Hey! A date I maybe predicted to appear today has truly occurred perfectly...

This puzzle is about:

Pi, which is appropriate because today is Pi day (a.k.a. 14th March, or 3.14 in American style).

Because:

The number of letters in each word form the digits of:

$\pi = 3.14159\ 26535\ 89793\ 23846\ 26433\ 83279\ 50288\ 41971\ 69399\ 375 ... $

with the hyphen in "conceited pride - so everyone" standing for zero

edited Mar 14 '18 at 17:40

NotThatGuy

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answered Mar 14 '18 at 13:50

Phylyp

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Even the dot is in the right place! Nice puzzle Rubio – ferret Mar 14 '18 at 13:56
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And the trailing ellipsis is functional as well. :) thanks – Rubio Mar 14 '18 at 13:59
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I particularly like the hyphen :-) – Phylyp Mar 14 '18 at 14:00
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@Phylyp The title is meaningful too. – Rubio Mar 14 '18 at 14:01
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The "today" is what twigged me onto this, and gave me a respite from doing letter frequency analysis! – Phylyp Mar 14 '18 at 14:03
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8 minutes to solve. that counts as "way too speedily" – NH. Mar 14 '18 at 14:56
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@NH. - Rubio gave an underhanded softball this time :-) – Phylyp Mar 14 '18 at 15:34
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@Phylyp Sure, then "consider leaving it for less experienced puzzlers to solve." :) – maxathousand Mar 14 '18 at 15:35
For a vote I would certainly go toward these top rated solutions – Strawberry Mar 14 '18 at 15:46
@NH. No, it really doesn't :-) – Rand al'Thor Mar 14 '18 at 18:38

Today starts my new puzzle series!

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