The strange, the bizarre and the unexpected

[DrPlacebo]

REREPEAT and REREPEATS count!

[Naboka]

BTW.

Happy Tau Day!!!!!!!!!!!

Been celebrating by trying to create circles with an increasing enlistment of all the senses.

How does one create a cirlce with taste?

Glad you asked.

[bwt1213]

Meanwhile, I'm chasing something I already achieved once: a perfect tie on every category for the previous best. Yesterday, I got the exact same number of words, the same best word and the same longest word. But the number of points wasn't a match -- I was about a hundred points higher. What made it perhaps easier was that the board had only been played twice before. But I've never heard that anyone else got a perfect match like that, before or since. Perhaps no one else thinks it's worth mentioning.

My term for this achievement is "the invisible game", because even though you were the highest/best/longest/most in everything, you will never be seen or mentioned for it.

[Naboka]

Man...

sometimes...

learning a lot of words can bite you in the butte.

Playing this board, I tried fibrations and fibration. Twice. Mathematical mapping terms. Terms in Lexic.

But, either my typing is really bad,(which it often is) or the game doesn't accept them yet.

Sigh...

So close.

Skipping dozens of easy words for a gamble.

But, gambling is where the interesting finds lie.

The gold rush.

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[lalatan]

lalatan, here's a word that was overlooked on this board. Don't know if it's in your arsenal or not.

Monometers was the previous pick.

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Negative, Naboka. I will store it in the cabinet now and hope I can retrieve it at the proper time. Thanks and good find! I've found ATMOMETERS, MONOMETERS and OSMOMETERS but not that one.

You and dannyb had some interesting encounters w marine life. A Vancouver Island kayaker was shooting a video of an orca that was approaching him. (I tried looking up the video again but couldn't find it.) It dove and went right under him. He was understandably very uneasy when that happened. While filming the underwater pass he was coaching it to move along in a subdued voice.

We rented a cottage right next to Northumberland Channel for 8 months. One day we saw 2 orcas swimming by. What a treat! They are huge animals!! About 2 weeks later we watched a gray whale and her calf go by. She made the orca look average-sized.

I think people play games while they are @ work as their jobs are boring & this keeps them awake. Maybe in your case, this person was in the middle of playing this game & either a coworker or the boss walked in & rather than just ending the game, they hid the screen behind the work screen, the game time ran out & that's why it ended w/such a low point total.

That could be 2cute. Nobody knows but him. I saw one other game of his w the result being 1 4 pt word. He just joined WordTwist so could be trying things out.

[2cute]

I saved this screenshot of a game I played 2 months ago. My record was 10x the pt value of the previous record, a personal best. Why someone (likely the same user you cited) would play a game for 3 mins and only play 1 word worth 3 pts befuddled me. I did not even consider his choice of "tire" could be a message to humanity. A lack of imagination on my part I admit. Now I'm interested in how you will philosophize this one.
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I think people play games while they are @ work as their jobs are boring & this keeps them awake. Maybe in your case, this person was in the middle of playing this game & either a coworker or the boss walked in & rather than just ending the game, they hid the screen behind the work screen, the game time ran out & that's why it ended w/such a low point total.

[Naboka]

lalatan, here's a word that was overlooked on this board. Don't know if it's in your arsenal or not.

Monometers was the previous pick.

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[lalatan]

LOL, that's great stuff, Naboka.

[Naboka]

Ah, when that player chose "tire" as their message, they were referring to weltschmerz. The feeling that physical reality can never match the aspirations of the mind. A world weariness.

Tire.

We're given tasks which seem endless, that have no meaning. We tire of them. The tasks stultify rather than inspire.

Gertrude Stein wrote on her paper when studying under William James that she had no interest in taking an exam in philosophy that day. For which James gave her an
A.

She had tired of the tedium of examination as proof of her knowledge and inclinations. She had taken a philosophical position rather than a test.

Some days, playing Wordtwist can seem so meaningless. An endless exam. A hamster cage of challenge.

Literally meaningless, as we play so many words that mean nothing to us.

The player was merely emphasizing that they controlled the game rather than the game controlling them. By choosing that one word (and no more) they declared their ability to stop when they chose, rather than being a slave to clock or stats.

They had chosen enlightenment over task.

For them, the reward no longer came from the game.

[lalatan]

There certainly are some clever devils lurking here.

Imagine the clairovoyance needed to predict such an outcome through every deflection of energy and choice through time and space.

Simply amazing.

And then, to only pick such a humble word as a message.

Like finding a note in a bottle, washed to shore, and revealing a koan, which, once understood will bring Satori.

Who would have anticipated that the simple word "coursed" could change the...

the...

the...

course of one's life?

I saved this screenshot of a game I played 2 months ago. My record was 10x the pt value of the previous record, a personal best. Why someone (likely the same user you cited) would play a game for 3 mins and only play 1 word worth 3 pts befuddled me. I did not even consider his choice of "tire" could be a message to humanity. A lack of imagination on my part I admit. Now I'm interested in how you will philosophize this one.
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[dannyb]

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Wow. Big fish. Great story.

Why DiMaggio? It's been decades since I've read Hemingway.

Santiago (the main character) loved DiMaggio it was his favorite baseball player AND the son of a fisherman. Santiago would talk to his protegee Manolin about "the great DiMaggio"

[Naboka]

They knew you were coming and did it just to mess with you.

There certainly are some clever devils lurking here.

Imagine the clairovoyance needed to predict such an outcome through every deflection of energy and choice through time and space.

Simply amazing.

And then, to only pick such a humble word as a message.

Like finding a note in a bottle, washed to shore, and revealing a koan, which, once understood will bring Satori.

Who would have anticipated that the simple word "coursed" could change the...

the...

the...

course of one's life?

[Naboka]

I wouldn't have done what you did. I wouldn't have acted as you did. I would have had an accident, and pulled that paddle back and hoped I didn't look like prey.
And I wouldn't have gone out again. Ever.

Went out the next morning and saw a school of small rays. Maybe 15 of them, in groups of 3-4, darting all over the place.

Long ago, I wrote my jisea.

Now, it's simply enjoying the poetry of living. +

Jisei: Japanese farewell poem written as death approaches. A word not accepted in Wordtwist and which isn't in Lexic. But should be added.

[Naboka]

I was canoeing in Whalebone Cove (an oxbow still connected to the Connecticut River) early one morning when a channel catfish passed under my canoe. It was about 3 feet long. I was impressed. About 15 minutes later a shadow of a fish about 5-6 feet long went under my canoe. I have no idea what it could have been. I don't think that there are blue catfish in Connecticut. I was about a half mile up from the brackish area of the river.

I felt like Santiago, the fisherman, in "The Old Man and the Sea". Seeing that shadow made me whisper, "The great DiMaggio."

Wow. Big fish. Great story.

Why DiMaggio? It's been decades since I've read Hemingway.

A couple of bull sharks have made it all the way up the Mississippi River to St Louis. Wonder if it was a shark you saw.

The shark I saw would probably measure in the 6-9' range, but water distortions and mental recalculations can exaggerate experience.

[dannyb]

Was kayaking on the gulf near Pensacola for morning exercise. Glanced down and saw a bull shark that looked in the 8-12' range--about 10 feet deep.

Mixed feelings about something so grand. And something so scary.

Pulled in the paddle and drifted, watching it as long as I could.

I was canoeing in Whalebone Cove (an oxbow still connected to the Connecticut River) early one morning when a channel catfish passed under my canoe. It was about 3 feet long. I was impressed. About 15 minutes later a shadow of a fish about 5-6 feet long went under my canoe. I have no idea what it could have been. I don't think that there are blue catfish in Connecticut. I was about a half mile up from the brackish area of the river.

I felt like Santiago, the fisherman, in "The Old Man and the Sea". Seeing that shadow made me whisper, "The great DiMaggio."