Gallant Efforts

[JJBeanie]

I'd say a lot of mid 20th century home cooks were GELATINISTS, but Wordtwist doesn't agree.

What are the chances? I read your post and a few games later I had the opportunity to try GELATINISTS. It didn't work for me, either.

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[DrPlacebo]

I'd say a lot of mid 20th century home cooks were GELATINISTS, but Wordtwist doesn't agree.

[DrPlacebo]

If for some reason the Sharks or the Jets scare you, you might be a CHOREOPHOBE... or maybe not, because it's not recognized here.

[Naboka]

In "2001 a Space Odyssey," there were spaceflights and a monolith,

but no fecaliths.

One can imagine someone experiencing a fecalith praying to God.

(Does that count as a religious experience?)

Not that fecalith is recognized here.

Though isn't fecolith a valid scrabble word--and available on this board, as is fecoliths.

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[Boulevardiere]

When I can't sleep, I'm an insomniac. But when I can't get moving the next day, I'm apparently not an INERTIAC.

[JJBeanie]

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If you can snort it, it's snortable. Sadly, the things you snort are not called "snortables".

[crazykate]

Even if you are an atheist, you may not call Christianity's main event the CRUCIFICTION.

(I just had to try it, because it was right there.)

[DrPlacebo]

You can't describe how much a job pays as its SALARIOUSNESS.

[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