#54816
02/02/2002 1:39 AM
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I got one! by posting here, it should give me the one of one necessary to fullfill rules.
haiku velleity
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#54817
02/02/2002 1:47 AM
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First find nought of nought:
Then post both strange words here, and
Wordsmith will get hits.
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#54818
02/02/2002 1:51 AM
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Maybe it's a case of velleity..... It still hazn't googled as a hit. Hope it doesn't take all day, wishing dreamily-e 
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#54819
02/02/2002 2:08 AM
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enthusiast
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Howye fokes
I typed in "gallantted wins" and got 1 of 1! Imagine! Do I win a prize now or somethin?
Speaken of prizes, did ye all see me on the telly the other week, at the Golden Gob awards? I won furst prize.
Have ta dash now and polish it up.
Be seein ye
GallantTed - JOURNEYMAN
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#54820
02/02/2002 2:15 AM
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the naughts
Connie's coinage isn't coming up, as a 'hit' yet I mean. Is wordsmith immune to Google?
(and by the way, Connie, do you have a good recipe for trilobite fricas[s]ee?)  [not-segueing into a food-thread-e, but if anybody'd have this, you would!..prolly with lots of mushrooms!] 
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#54821
02/02/2002 2:21 AM
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and wine. Don't forget the champagne and wine.I finally remembered what song that line is from. "I Will Be There" by Van Morrison, Ooops, I meant St. Dominic's Preview, not Astral Weeks
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#54822
02/02/2002 3:07 AM
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This game is too easy. All you have to do is take a few recent wwd's and after eliminating those not in the proper dictionary per faldage] try googling all possible pairs. Most pairs won't work, but many will. For example, if I haven't slipped: gonzo winebibber
esemplastic camorra
winebibber ethnologyTo make it more challenging, one might look for a two-word phrase actually makes some kind of sense, as in respected faldage, wordsmith faldage, hunk faldage. And even better, a phrase where the neither word of the pair is ridiculously obscure. The above faldage-phrases are complimentary, but [evil grin -e] I am now searching for phrases of invective.
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#54823
02/02/2002 11:39 AM
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Maybe it will hit
now that it is a title
if not I am lost
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#54824
02/03/2002 2:47 AM
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Good heavens, I found one--the only match was from that daggoned on-line text dictionary thing: sashaying salubriously. And if it ain't in the right dictionary--I don't care!
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#54825
02/04/2002 5:30 AM
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f-y-r-d b-a-t-i-k
f-j-o-r-d a-r-e-o-p-a-g-u-s
Bingley
Bingley
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#54826
02/05/2002 3:15 AM
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This one was good! A real one hit wonderHi, Musick! Haiku Hippopotomi
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#54827
02/05/2002 1:42 PM
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Yeahbut©, if you spell hippopotami right you get 44 hits.
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#54828
02/05/2002 1:51 PM
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find one word which appears nowhere else
Which brings us to my proposal for a revised scoring system. If we use my previous suggestion of multiplying the single word hit numbers of the components all you need do is find a word which appears nowhere else and combine it with the giving you a score of 2,420,000,000. Therefore, my amended scoring plan is: The score for a googlewhack is the lower of the two numbers of hits of each single word.
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#54829
02/05/2002 4:28 PM
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I agree, faldage. That makes it more challenging: two words neither of which is rare, but appear together only once.
Best I can do at this point is longwinded k-v-e-t-c-h": 1 hit
(9840 hits & 10,600 hits for the components)
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#54830
02/05/2002 7:05 PM
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It doesn't seem to return the exact number of hits, but an approximate number. Assuming I understand your scoring method correctly,
c-a-llypigian i-n-undation scores 1,030 on 1st word.
i-n-vigorating o-m-phaloskepsis scores 780 on the 2nd word.
b-o-mbastic v-e-rbicide scores 406 on the second word.
(haven't submitted this one yet, though)
My best so far is
q-u-otidian b-l-oviation scoring a 322 on the second word.
k
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#54831
02/05/2002 7:20 PM
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You want the lower score to be as high as possible! I like it!
Okay, here's one:
f-a-l-l-o-p-i-a-n antigravity, 74,100 and 21,000 respectively, for a final score of 21,000.
k
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#54832
02/05/2002 7:37 PM
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old hand
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I'm not sure what principle is at play here, but there's no need to disguise words with gratuitous hyphens for fear of the charm being broken - I just regoogled perambulatory isthmus to test my theory, and it didn't pick up my nonchalant mention a few posts above... I don't know if we're guarded by some sacred force field or if it's just the function of the Board.
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#54833
02/05/2002 7:41 PM
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a final score of 21,000 well done, fiend! A worthy competitor!
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#54834
02/05/2002 8:07 PM
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Giving the Fiend full credit for his atomic-physics idea (and flattering by imitation):
shakespearian n-ucleon
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#54835
02/05/2002 8:20 PM
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veteran
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my guess is it takes the google bots at least a few hours and perhaps a few days to pick up new stuff.
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#54836
02/06/2002 1:08 AM
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Nitpicker  How about synchronous velleity, then? I got one hit, I spelled them both right, and the site is busy, so I haven't been able to post it
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