Gallant Efforts

[crazykate]

You can be a PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHER, but apparently there's no such thing as a PALEOBIOGRAPHER. If you attempt to write a book about Lucy's life story, that might possibly be classified as historical fiction, but never a biography.

[Boulevardiere]

If it looks like a bean, but it doesn't quack like one, it's still not a QUASILEGUME.

[DrPlacebo]

Even if you're in the mood for a melody, no points for PIANOMAN.

[Naboka]

Maybe I should throw caution to the wind and go back to long boards.

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[Boulevardiere]

I'm not sure where this belongs, but I had to share my FRUSTATION (sic) because the second R was on the wrong side of the T and thus not adjacent to the A. Tried it anyway. Didn't work. Expected, but still frustating.

[DrPlacebo]

Bending spoons with your mind may or may not be a thing... in any case it's definitely not NEUROMETALLURGY.

[DrPlacebo]

I think the author Terry Pratchett would disagree with the dictionary on this occasion. In his Discworld books, if you drink too much Klatchian coffee while drunk, it can sober you up too much so you pass through the state of sobriety and out the other side, and end up being knurd. Not many people can handle being knurd, because you see the world too clearly in a way that the human brain can't process. I guess "oversaneness" could be a mild case of knurdness.

GUIL: I think I have it. A man talking sense to himself is no madder then a man talking nonsense not to himself.
ROS: Or just as mad.
GUIL: Or just as mad.
ROS: And he does both.
GUIL: So there you are.
ROS: Stark raving sane.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

[crazykate]

I guess excessive sanity isn't a thing -- you can't be OVERSANE.

(OVERSANENESS and OVERSANENESSES don't count either.)

I think the author Terry Pratchett would disagree with the dictionary on this occasion. In his Discworld books, if you drink too much Klatchian coffee while drunk, it can sober you up too much so you pass through the state of sobriety and out the other side, and end up being knurd. Not many people can handle being knurd, because you see the world too clearly in a way that the human brain can't process. I guess "oversaneness" could be a mild case of knurdness.

[DrPlacebo]

I guess excessive sanity isn't a thing -- you can't be OVERSANE.

(OVERSANENESS and OVERSANENESSES don't count either.)

[BoggleOtaku]

OVEREDUCATIONING: a perennial state of attending college with no plan to finish

[DrPlacebo]

Superstition is a thing, but SUBSTITION is not.

[DrPlacebo]

ELECTRODEMOGRAPHY isn't a thing, in case you were wondering.

[BoggleOtaku]

FUMBLINGNESSES is a word (scored by DrPlacebo), but BUMBLINGNESSES is not!

[DrPlacebo]

A very small price-fixing scheme is not a MICROCARTEL.

[DrPlacebo]

Apparently you can't be an ORANGOLOGIST.