Gallant Efforts

[dannyb]

No such thing as a METAPHONE, whatever that might be.

It is what I use to call up Mark Zuckerberg when when I want to discuss the concepts of identity, being, space and time.

[DrPlacebo]

No such thing as a METAPHONE, whatever that might be.

[dannyb]

The World Series taco-ization of America continues

Published in Mass Live October 23, 2008. Darn those hyphens. The headline was written by Dan Lamothe.

[DrPlacebo]

The fusion taco place in my neighborhood is not engaging in TACOIZATION of other cuisines...

[crazykate]

In case you've ever wondered, NECROTHERAPY is not a thing.

...yet.

Considering some of the methods and products out there that people have come up with and are trying to sell to gullible consumers, I wouldn't be surprised...

[Spike1007]

In case you've ever wondered, NECROTHERAPY is not a thing.

[DrPlacebo]

In case you ever find yourself wondering whether a "sandalmonger" exists... no, they don't. But if you ever find the word on a board, there's probably a C right next to it.

Thanks for this tip. I wondered if SANDALIZES was a word, and then noticed the C next to it.

[dannyb]

Ah, the Yugo! The car that required a driver and three passengers. One person to steer and the three passengers to push the car up hills.

[DrPlacebo]

No credit for JUGOMOBILE (does no one remember the Yugo?) or for ZOOMOBILE.

[crazykate]

CRYPTOPOETS aren't a thing, no matter how eloquent some crypto bros may think they are.

Ooh I think that's a really nice word though. And in this day and age, could totally be a thing. Let's add it to the dictionary.

It could also be a word for poets who specialise in cryptic verses or riddles.
"So what do you do?"
"I'm a freelance cryptopoet for the Sunday Times."

[DrPlacebo]

CRYPTOPOETS aren't a thing, no matter how eloquent some crypto bros may think they are.

[crazykate]

Look at this board. What do you see?
Perhaps you see the actual longest word, ROMANTICIZATIONS?
I didn't. I saw MANTICORIZATIONS.
Maybe I've been reading too much fantasy lately.

[Naboka]

Sometimes I wish you could get credit for part of a game without the rest mattering. Like if you found a good word and wanted credit but didn't want the total score to count against your average.

Anyway, saw that lalatan had found a 35 point word so I knew it was there. By the time I found it I had to dump the board or take a hit on average scores.

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Looked it up and don't really quite grasp what it means. Computer language might as well be Korean. But, part of what I read made me wonder if that was what I've been doing with interconnected groupings of "words." I often don't see the things I input here as actual words with meaning, but rather blocks of letter patterns that have common structure. Like ree rees reen renes reens treen treens trine trines rin rins rine rines ene enes tene tenes een eens snee ... etc. All basically without meaning but similar blocks of evolving structures that are scorable.

the mysteries of the mind

and computers

funny that computers don't really understand anything but have the capacity to assign "meaning" by creating connections to other binary jibberish. None of it has to make sense, it just needs to be connected and pretend to make sense. To a computer #@#^%* could mean "beautiful woman" and "hope"could mean "tall donkey typing nose hair oceanish concrete ggrrnnsspppzz."

much like the human mind in so many ways

the jibberish connections we make that seem meaningful

important

and true.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

[Brisul]

Reading your posts has been fascinating. I'm nowhere near in the same league as you, so a lot of the discussion is hypothetical to me. I'm often baffled by the scores you achieve and I'm not sure I could point out a score that is "theoretically achievable" but on the verge of "definitely cheating". I have no idea where that line is, because both are way over my head.
I'd just like to offer up another point for consideration: in the past, there have been players who perfected a certain style of playing and then created a new account to have a clean slate for their stats. Are we sure this isn't what's happening here?

I thought of that yesterday. It's very possible.

[crazykate]

Reading your posts has been fascinating. I'm nowhere near in the same league as you, so a lot of the discussion is hypothetical to me. I'm often baffled by the scores you achieve and I'm not sure I could point out a score that is "theoretically achievable" but on the verge of "definitely cheating". I have no idea where that line is, because both are way over my head.
I'd just like to offer up another point for consideration: in the past, there have been players who perfected a certain style of playing and then created a new account to have a clean slate for their stats. Are we sure this isn't what's happening here?