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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Spizzerinctum #172472 01/10/2008 3:56 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Anybody familiar with this site? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Spizzerinctum Jackie #172473 01/10/2008 5:19 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass yes, Kevin Johnson's spizzquiz.net site went dormant in July of '04, and he gave up the domain name two years later. The conceit of his site was to take a legitimate news story and substitute an obscure word for a key word, and then make a quiz out of it -- it was quite a popular gimmick, but he went on to other things after about six years. (at that time Kevin was also a news writer at USA Today.) here's a link to the surviving spizzquiz archives, courtesy of the wayback machine. -joe (I have Kevin's Backwords t-shirt) friday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Spizzerinctum tsuwm #172480 01/10/2008 4:07 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky gimmick?! Sheesh, am I gullible! [smacking forehead e] (FTR: no, I don't believe everything I'm told; but it simply never occurs to me that somebody would do anything like that, without telling people what they're doing.) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Spizzerinctum Jackie #172482 01/10/2008 4:43 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass >gullible I think that, had you been a regular reader of the spizzquiz, it would not have escaped you that news writers don't use words like that!! -joe (at least not often enough for a daily quiz) friday edit: I think that if I culled the spizzerinctum archives I'd have enough material to keep wwftd going another year or so, without resorting to any other sources! edit² - the backwords tee (note AWAD sale price -- but I doubt these are currently available) edit³ - JFTR, I've probly used half a dozen really obscure words where Kevin's "citation" was the only recent usage I could find. Last edited by tsuwm; 01/10/2008 5:20 PM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Spizzerinctum tsuwm #172526 01/12/2008 3:19 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Thank you, M. [hug] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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