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#188624 01/08/2010 9:23 PM
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We're promised a blizzard tomorrow that will immobilize us all. Could we do a short word game?
See if we could carry this up to 10?

I can do the first one: 1ting

(I could do the second but the third is trouble already)

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I'm afraid I don't get it.


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Reminds me of Bilbo Baggins's "eleventy first" birthday.


----please, draw me a sheep----
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Eleventy one base twelve would be 133 base ten.

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Um...tooting?

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yes, 2ting or2morrow or for that matter 2thache

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No one for 3? O.K. I found at least this 4tuna :

What they really sing:
O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem. But Buffalo sings this real text I remember.

Fortuna- Fate - monstrous and empty, you whirling wheel, you are malevolent, well-being is vain, and always fades to nothing, shadowed and veiled ; you plague me too; now through the game I bring my bare back to your villainy.
(pretty gloomy)

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hmm.

1ting = wanting?

2ting and 2morrow I get. but 2thache? oh, ok. toothache.

must be a 3 somewhere.

4titude.


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There are quite many to think of with the 4, but 3, I can't think of any.

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3some?

or 3ose.

or 3nes.


onelook ftw.


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3CPO

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And in case things go up.

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5pence?

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Not that I set the rules... and who needs no steenkin rules...

but surely we're looking for words with the sound of the number, not simply the number. Otherwise 6ty, 7ty etc...

In that vein I'll offer: 5orite

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Or either 5el Mousekwitz if you pronounce Doc C's submission with something other than an Aussie or some variety of UK accent.

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Huh? seems like I lost a post here. Gee..
I answered doc_comfort:

Yes, this is not about numbers, but just like Victor Borge does.( good show, zed )( see zed's little up- link ) Numbers hidden in words. In this case up front of the word. So tsuwm's 3ting and Jackie's 2ting count, but the others are not exactly right.
Then I asked: But pray, doc-comfort, what is fivorite?

Maybe I forgot to submit it. I've got a snowy brain these days.

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You got me stumped, Bran. What the heck is threeting?

I think "fivorite" is not a mineral, but an alternate pronunciation of "favorite".

We'll have a barrel full primate trouble basing a game on pronunciation!

The only thing I can find for 3 is 3p, and I still am fuzzy on what it means...

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I said 3ping, with a link; I don't know where 3ting came from, unless Bran was expanding on 1ting.

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No, no expanding on 1ting. I made a mistake. You said 3ping and that is a very valid word. It wasn't even a typo, just an ERROR> shame on me!........

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Originally Posted By: twosleepy
You got me stumped, Bran. What the heck is threeting?
error,error, error . It's not a barrel of trouble; I just made a tiny bit of a mistake.
I have never heard favorite pronounced as fivorite, but if it exists then 5orite is fine with me. Sixorite however is really not possible. (just a silly game allright, but what )

tsuwms word threaping (3ping smile )is a real decent word:
2. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction;
also, to contend or argue against (another) with
obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was
so. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Burns.
[1913 Webster]

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I finally watched the Victor Borge piece; I've always liked him, and that's a great one! He missed a few opportunities, though.

Okay, I got it now, Bran!

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Originally Posted By: BranShea
but the others are not exactly right.


ahem.

thre·ose
Pronunciation: 'thrE-"Os
Function: noun
: a syrupy synthetic sugar C4H8O4 that is the epimer oferythrose and that occurs as two optical isomers

Threne (?), n. [L. threnus, Gr. . Cf. Drone.] Lamentation; threnody; a dirge. Shak.

The threns . . . of the prophet Jeremiah. Jer. Taylor.


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But, but--C4H8O4 only has one O.

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Huh-Jacky? What's the O got to do with it?

3ose and 3ne are perfectly allright in this concept.( if you can call it concept )

threose
threne

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Besides, there are 4 Os in C4H8O4. Are we up to 6 yet? 6ten Sparre, the anit-hero of Elvira Madigan. Or, if you don't like proper names, there's always that regular column in Verbatim, 66ic!

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Originally Posted By: Jackie
But, but--C4H8O4 only has one O.


heh

Originally Posted By: Faldage
Besides, there are 4 Os in C4H8O4


heh2eh or is that heh2, or h4e2?


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7night!

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7night Yes yes yes !
No no no 8theism the h makes it incorrect, so,
i 8 my words

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
7night!


How is this different from 6ty, 7ty etc.? It's just the numeral form of the word seven.

How about mi7ts?

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Originally Posted By: twosleepy


How about mi7ts?


Huh?

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Originally Posted By: Faldage
Originally Posted By: twosleepy


How about mi7ts?


Huh?


Well, the stressed syllables may be a little off, but it works for me: misevents

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there are 4 Os in C4H8O4 Nuh-uh; there are four os and one O.

Ooh! 7fold. No, wait; that's just like 7ty, innit? Sorry!

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Originally Posted By: twosleepy
Originally Posted By: tsuwm
7night!


How is this different from 6ty, 7ty etc.? It's just the numeral form of the word seven.

How about mi7ts?

Ah 2sleepy , remember! 7night is Hogwash!! A little tsuwm offgame joke. That's why I cried YES! yes yes. (Hog seems to have passed away.)

This "game" is about numbers making part or hidden of/in a word that is not about numbers.

Oh , Jackie, Oh os O4 Oh......... grin

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Originally Posted By: twosleepy

Well, the stressed syllables may be a little off, but it works for me: misevents


Misevents is a word? Ain't is a word. Irregardless is a word. Unfriend is a word. But misevents?

Oh, OK. Maybe. It's certainly no worse that 5orite or 1ting.

Learn something new every day (one might hope).

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Well, the stressed syllables may be a little off, but it works for me: misevents
Yeh, you have to stretch it cause you do not pronounce it mis-évents , you pronounce this mis-evénts, so you never really hear the seven.
mi7ts.
7of9 I mean we's up to nine.

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Are you still snowed in?!?

Okay, there's lots for 9, so let's all find one related to our profession/vocation/day job/whatever...

stanine

Amusingly, it follows the roolz and the "nine" is not 9, but itself deals a lot with 9s... :0)

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abbreviation of standard nine Yes, you hardly can go wrong with this one. I looked it up, thought it was something like amphetamine or some other drug, smile

Yes, great, snow still hanging on and ice and hazardous bike rides. People who are buried in snow every year can't imagine how boring a winter without snow is. People look more alive.

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How about asi9?

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