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Suspence
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:56 pm Post subject: 1 |
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I'll list a word, and you create plausible backronyms for it. After we get a few submissions, I'll post a poll and we'll determine a winner. We can continue until you get bored of the idea.
Current backronym is:
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Previous Winners:
PIRATE - Port Immigrant, Rough Around The Edges. (Elethiomel)
IRONY - Incongruity, really! Or not, yeah. (Thok)
MAFIA - Mysterious Alliance For Italian Americans (Suspence) / Moderated Activity For Insidious Agitators (Elethiomel)
FIRE - Fun, Insanely Reckless Entertainment (itisally)
WIFE - Why I Fear Eternity (novice)
GUEST - Gets Under Everybody's Skin, Typically. (novice)
INCEPTION - Interminable Narrative, Convoluted Exposition, Predictable Tropes - It's Obvious Nonsense. (Scurra)
INTERNET - It's Needed To Establish Relationships Now; Everyone Tweets. (Suspence)
ALIENS - Americans Love Inventing Enemies of National Security. (novice) <<< BEST-SO-FAR WINNER FOR FIRST 10 BACKRONYMS
SPORTS - Steroids, Please. Oh Really? They're Sanctioned?!? (Zag)
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BARGAIN - Buy A Ridiculous Good, And Ignore Needs. (Thok)
CYNIC - Convinced Your Niceness Is Condescending. (novice)
DOCTOR - Daleks Overrunning? Call TARDIS Occupying Regenerator! (Sentran)
HAZARD - Hiring A Zombie As Resident Doctor (Elethiomel)
BACKRONYM - Backronyms Are Commonly Knotty Ruminations Of Nerdy Young Minds. (Elethiomel)
EMOTICON - Exhibiting Moods Online Through Images; Constantly Overused by Newbies. (Suspence)
PRESIDENT - President Romney Exists Solely In Democrats' Evil Nightmares, Thankfully (Sentran)
DYSLEXIA - Do You See Letters Erroneously? "Xmas" Is "Axioms". (mathgrant)
SUDOKU - Solve Using Digits Only, Keeping Uniqueness. (Scurra) <<< BEST-SO-FAR WINNER FOR SECOND 10 BACKRONYMS
CHRISTMAS - Consumerist Holiday Rather Incongruously Splicing Traditions, Materialism And Spirituality. (novice)
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MONDAY - Monotony of necessity, demand another yesterday! (itisally)
You may not vote for your own submission in the poll. _________________ I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature.
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jadesmar
Bad Puppy
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:57 pm Post subject: 2 |
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You're going to make me google backronym aren't you.  |
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Suspence
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:00 pm Post subject: 3 |
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Sorry...an example then:
FORD = Found On Road Dead or Fix Or Repair Daily _________________ I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature. |
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Elethiomel
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 10:27 pm Post subject: 4 |
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| PIRATE = Port Immigrant, Rough Around The Edges |
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Suspence
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 10:49 pm Post subject: 5 |
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Privateer Invader, Raiding And Taking Everything _________________ I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature. |
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groza528
No Place Like Home
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:10 pm Post subject: 6 |
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| PIRATE Procures Illegally Registered Applications, Technological Evildoer |
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Thok
Oh, foe, the cursed teeth!
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:21 pm Post subject: 7 |
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| People internationally recognized ARRRRR talking, egads |
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jadesmar
Bad Puppy
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:43 am Post subject: 8 |
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| Property? Intellectual? <reads and takes everything> |
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MatthewV
Daedalian Member :_
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 2:01 am Post subject: 9 |
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Peaceful
Irritated
Restless
Animals
Take
Everything! |
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MatthewV
Daedalian Member :_
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 2:02 am Post subject: 10 |
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| I hate when someone uses my idea before me but my post comes after theirs :-) |
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referee
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 3:54 am Post subject: 11 |
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If someone uses your idea before you, the normal thing to happen is your post coming after theirs... _________________ Jan 21st, 2008: The pillaging continues.
Mar 4th, 2008: Rest in Peace, Gary Gygax. May your dice always roll a natural 20 wherever you are.
Be the Ultimate Ninja! Play Billy Vs. SNAKEMAN today! |
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MatthewV
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 4:48 am Post subject: 12 |
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PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
--Ambrose Bierce
One of my favorites  |
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Suspence
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 5:18 am Post subject: 13 |
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Six is enough. The poll is up, please cast your votes... _________________ I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature. |
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Suspence
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 11:58 am Post subject: 14 |
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Just for fun, I thought of this baseball related version:
PIRATES - Pittsburgh Inhabitants; Really Awful Team Every Season
Though they might prove me wrong this year... _________________ I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature. |
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Trojan Horse
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:38 pm Post subject: 15 |
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Or if you prefer football to baseball:
NFL - Not For L.A. |
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Suspence
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:50 pm Post subject: 16 |
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The PIRATE poll has ended with a tie between:
Port Immigrant, Rough Around The Edges ( Elethiomel)
Privateer Invader, Raiding And Taking Everything (Suspence)
Since I came up with the word, I think Elethiomel should be declared the winner.
El, would you like to suggest a new word? If so, I'm happy to change the thread title and run the poll once we have some submissions. _________________ I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature. |
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Elethiomel
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:46 pm Post subject: 17 |
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| Alright, not sure how to pick a good word here, but let's try IRONY. |
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Suspence
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:50 pm Post subject: 18 |
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Sounds tough, but we'll give it a go. _________________ I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature. |
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L'lanmal
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L'lanmal
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:54 pm Post subject: 20 |
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| Personally, I would refer to the things constructed as Acrostics rather than Backronyms, but that may just be my puzzling tradition speaking. I am not sure exactly how backronyms are supposed to differ from acrostics. |
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Amb
Amb the Hitched.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:23 am Post subject: 21 |
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| In Reality Obama's Not Yankee! |
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Suspence
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:25 am Post subject: 22 |
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I don't know that there is a difference. That Wiki page refers to backronyms. "Players enter a channel hosted by a bot which runs the game. In each round, the bot generates a random acronym. Players compete by racing to create the most coherent or humorous sentence that fits the acronym - in essence, a backronym."
Anyhow, for IRONY, all I've got is:
IRONY - I'll Read Oedipus Next Year _________________ I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature. |
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jadesmar
Bad Puppy
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:50 am Post subject: 23 |
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| Itslike Rain ON Yourweddingday. |
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Scurra
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:00 am Post subject: 24 |
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Damn, jadesmar did the one I was going to do.
Immortality: really old, no youth _________________
still Quiz Olympiad champion. Must get a life.
New definitions: COFFEE - someone who is coughed upon
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3iff
very unbifflike
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:37 am Post subject: 25 |
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And Scurra does one of the possibilities I was thinking of...well, close, anyway.
I have 3 to choose from and I don't really like any of them. Still thinking... |
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Thok
Oh, foe, the cursed teeth!
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:00 pm Post subject: 26 |
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| Incongruity, really! Or not, yeah. |
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3iff
very unbifflike
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:08 pm Post subject: 27 |
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| I'm Ready. Oh, Not Yet. |
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Suspence
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:44 pm Post subject: 28 |
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Poll is up and set to end in 2 days. _________________ I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature. |
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Suspence
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 3:43 pm Post subject: 29 |
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It's a tight race so far...
I don't think I stated this as a rule, but I should have:
You may not vote for your own submission. Even if it's clearly the best one (which I'm sure it is ) _________________ I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature. |
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Thok
Oh, foe, the cursed teeth!
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:03 pm Post subject: 30 |
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| Suspence wrote: |
You may not vote for your own submission. Even if it's clearly the best one (which I'm sure it is ) |
Don't worry, I've voted for "Itslike Rain ON Yourweddingday" |
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jadesmar
Bad Puppy
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 3:16 pm Post subject: 31 |
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| I voted for my own and believe that if I hadn't Thok would have won by now. |
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Suspence
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 4:23 pm Post subject: 32 |
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Let's declare Thok the winner.
Thok, care to pick a new word? _________________ I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature. |
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Amb
Amb the Hitched.
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:23 pm Post subject: 33 |
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| WHere's the poll gone? What were the final numbers? |
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Suspence
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:26 pm Post subject: 34 |
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Sorry, I guess I should have saved those for posterity. I removed it after it ended and a winner was declared. I can move the results into the first post from now on.
Incongruity, really! Or not, yeah.
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Itslike Rain ON Yourweddingday
both had 3 votes. The rest had 2 or 1, no 0s, IIRC. 11 votes total. _________________ I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature. |
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Thok
Oh, foe, the cursed teeth!
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:14 pm Post subject: 35 |
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| Let's try MAFIA for the next word. |
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Suspence
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:36 pm Post subject: 36 |
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Mysterious Alliance For Italian Americans _________________ I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature. |
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Amb
Amb the Hitched.
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:55 pm Post subject: 37 |
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| Mithrandir's A Forum Inventor. Alynchin'wewillgo... |
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Suspence
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:12 am Post subject: 38 |
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Can I submit two?
Most Annoying Forum. I Avoid.
I probably shouldn't. _________________ I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature. |
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3iff
very unbifflike
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:32 am Post subject: 39 |
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| Mobs Adopt Fraud In America |
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Elethiomel
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:51 am Post subject: 40 |
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| Moderated Activity For Insidious Agitators |
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