QUOTE(anthony @ Sat 14th November 2009, 8:18pm)
QUOTE(LaraLove @ Sat 14th November 2009, 11:16pm)
QUOTE(MZMcBride @ Sat 14th November 2009, 6:12pm)
"nth" is great as it contains no vowels. "ixnay" is great for playing hangman or SCRABBLE®. (Is this thread sufficiently off-topic yet?)
Next meetup, I'm bringing SCRABBLE®. You missed the noise complaint that we, four nerds on laptops, got in the hotel, but we can try again with a word game next time. (IMG:
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Make sure you bring the official dictionary too. "ixnay" isn't in it (unless maybe you're using the pig latin edition?).
Have you learned nothing from Wikipedia? It's not about whether the word is in the dictionary, it's about who can shout the loudest and argue (or complain) the most. Beside, every real SCRABBLE® player defers to Wiktionary, obviously.
QUOTE(Somey @ Sun 15th November 2009, 2:21am)
QUOTE(MZMcBride @ Sat 14th November 2009, 5:12pm)
(Is this thread sufficiently off-topic yet?)
Well, like I posted earlier, if the whole point is to keep the words "Ottava leaves Wikipedia" on the WR homepage as long as possible, or at least long enough for it to stimulate the "pleasure centers" of everyones' brains, then it really doesn't matter what we talk about, as long as the thread title remains constant.
So let me ask you all this, then: Is it really appropriate for a 50-year old in 2009 to go to a cocktail lounge and request that the 67-year-old entertainer play Perry Como songs? Or is that, like, "ageism"?
I think it'd be more inappropriate, though likely much more amusing, to ask the entertainer to play Jay-Z songs. Though you know how old people are, he'd probably just stare blankly. Much like I did at the
Perry Como reference. God bless Wikipedia.