The Bold Acronym Game: How to Play

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around a game involving the creation of sentences using acronyms. Participants share their attempts at forming sentences based on a given word, exploring the creativity and humor in their responses. The game appears to encourage playful language use and the construction of nonsensical phrases.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant describes the game mechanics, emphasizing the need for the next sentence to use the bolded word as an acronym.
  • Several participants provide their own sentences, often resulting in humorous or nonsensical phrases.
  • There is a suggestion that acronyms should be directly substitutable for the original word, with an example provided to illustrate this point.
  • Some participants express confusion over the term "jabberwocky," leading to a discussion about its meaning and references.
  • Multiple participants claim to have discovered a forum-related issue with the word "jabberwocky," leading to a playful debate over who identified it first.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the mechanics of the game, but there is disagreement regarding the proper structure of acronyms and the interpretation of "jabberwocky." The discussion remains unresolved on these points.

Contextual Notes

Some participants express uncertainty about the rules of the game, particularly regarding the grammatical correctness of their sentences. There are also unresolved issues related to the display of certain words in the forum.

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This is how it works:

One person writes a sentance, and bolds one word. The next person has to write a sentance, using that word as an acronym. for instance:

howitworks said:
Hello, my name is yomamma!

No Apples, Make Entrées

see? try to make your sentance make sense.

I'll start off:

This is the first sentance of the game
 
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yomamma said:
This is the first sentance of the game

Fall Into Roman Snakes Trehugger!

oooo, i bolded something inside my something,oooo
 
oooo

Stupid nasty apples killed every student.
 
killing indeginous lepricons evolved dramtically.

I have no idea what mede me write that. :smile:
 
oops forgot about the double "l" added "lonely" infront of lepricons
 
Tzar said:
killing indeginous lepricons evolved dramtically.

I have no idea what mede me write that. :smile:
it's on :devil:

Every volcanic oysterly lampshade vehemently eats drapes
 
very enthusiastically he eats my ear, noisily talking, laughing "YES!"


Nice and long one for you :biggrin:
 
every neverending tree has undoubtable stains in a stupid, toothless, icky, cloudy yam
 
Tzar said:
very enthusiastically he eats my ear, noisily talking, laughing "YES!"


Nice and long one for you :biggrin:

entry nests thrust hepaticocholangiocholecystently unsually systematically in a surely tampermental insertion calculated as long length yes?


:biggrin:

EDIT: Yomamma, :cry: :devil:
 
  • #10
@ moose

hoping every person at terry's inscence company opened cool halogens, otto left a noodle gig in olive colored hampers. Opening losing ebbing cycles yesterday stayed thumping every noose today, loser yam
 
  • #11
I never supposed complete entropy negated calming enthalpy.
 
  • #12
clams also like most integers, never geese.
 
  • #13
Great game idea by the way.

I never take every **game** enormously redundant seriously
 
  • #14
Going after medals enthustiastically.
 
  • #15
Shouldn't the acronym be directly substitutible for the word? (that's what an acronym is, isn't it?)

eg. Moose's sentence is now 'This is the (Fall Into Roman Snakes Trehugger!) sentance of the game.'

Seems to me, it would behoove Moose (ahah) to make his Acronym an adjective, like the word he was given: 'first'.

For example: First= Friendly, Internally-Ruled Spruce Treelike

So, now our sentence is:
'This is the (Friendly, Internally-Ruled Spruce Treelike) sentence of the game.'

While the sentence would semantically be jabberwocky, it would still be grammatically correct.

More clever, IMO.
 
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  • #16
Thanks selfAdjoint.

Even now that humble users scarecly try, its all stupid, typing incomprehensibly always looks like yomamma.
 
  • #17
DaveC426913 said:
While the sentence would semantically be jabberwocky, it would still be grammatically correct.

Astonishing! Is this a hack?

The word in the above sentence was typed as - and continues to display in edit-mode as = "jabberwocky".

jabberwocky! "jabberwocky!"

J-A-B-B-E-R-W-O-C_K-Y.

I swear, the word I am typing and editing is J-A-B-B-E-R-W-O-C_K-Y.- in all of the above cases.
 
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  • #18
jabberwocky? What's jabberwocky?
 
  • #19
errr... Jabber-wocky, what's jabber-wocky?
 
  • #20
Well, JavaScript is a scripting language used on HTML pages, but what I don't understand is why I am incapable of displaying the word jabberwocky (J-A-B-B-E-R-W-O-C_K-Y) in this forum.


Dibs! I found it, I am laying claim to any Easter Egg prize!
 
  • #21
Jabberwocky

Hunh, seems to work for me.

You must have the bug, not the PF.
 
  • #22
Google it. It's a pvery famous poem (and a Monty Python film). It means "nonsense".
 
  • #23
J abberwocky is a poem, and if you haven't heard of it, you're stupid.

I tried typing jabber-wocky before, it turned into javascript:

jabberwocky
 
  • #24
pattylou said:
jabberwocky
Try it without the capital J.
 
  • #25
This will henceforth be known as the DaveC426913-Jabberwocky Effect.
 
  • #26
Dave, I discovered it a LONG time ago. sorry. it is the yomamma-Jabberwocky effect
 
  • #28
yomamma said:
Dave, I discovered it a LONG time ago. sorry. it is the yomamma-Jabberwocky effect
:-p I reported it. I've got a paper trail. nyah.

[Edit:] DOH! Robbed!
 
  • #29
it's ñah, and I discovered it

It is officially: The yomamma-Jabberwocky effect

EDIT- it's D'oh!
 

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