# A Feud! \[Game Over\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-feud-game-over/698342>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [September 12, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-feud-game-over/698342 "2014-09-12T22:14:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-feud-game-over/698342/35 "2014-09-13T11:09:43Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> It became an expression in feud threads. It’s a category in which most people guess the same answer.

I went searching for the origin, and discovered that this Feud is a repeat of the [Feud in which it originated](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=467106). It’ll be interesting to see if the winning answers are the same as they were in 2008.

From subsequent Feuds:

> [@The Foodie Feud \[Closed\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-foodie-feud-closed/449894/74):
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> Believe me, I was equally baffled when everybody said, “conch”.

> [@The Boomer Feud \[Closed\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boomer-feud-closed/450361/8):
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> Yeah, I shouldn’t have excluded Letterman – or should have excluded Carson also. Oh well, every game needs a “conch.”

So as far as I can tell, **twichster** was the first to use the word “conch” to specifically mean “(category with an) answer that almost everyone gives.”

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