# Cooped up, need practice. I challenge you to defeat me!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 24, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672 "2003-01-24T18:50:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/1 "2003-01-24T18:50:54Z")

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The wind chill is still in the single digits this weekend, so it looks like I’m not going anywhere. Here’s how it works:

You: Gimme 3 words. Keep it as random as possible.  
I: Write a short (\< 10 lines) poem with those 3 words in it. I MAKE NO PROMISE WHATSOEVER THAT IT WILL BE A DECENT POEM.  
You: Are (hopefully) amused.

I guess the theory behind this is that there are no 3 words in the English language that can’t be shoehorned into a poem. (Also, one set of 3 words per person please.)

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**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/2 "2003-01-24T18:51:43Z")

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Orange  
Doorhinge  
.  
.  
.  
damn!

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**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/3 "2003-01-24T18:54:53Z")

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treacle

philtrum

aglet

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**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/4 "2003-01-24T19:22:05Z")

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constellation

multi-racial

apathetic

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**Author:** ![TeleTronOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@TeleTronOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeleTronOne)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/5 "2003-01-24T19:27:00Z")

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antidisestablishmentarianism

streptococci

cow

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**Author:** ![ForgottenLore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@ForgottenLore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ForgottenLore)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/6 "2003-01-24T19:34:02Z")

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ichthyologist

piezoelectric

underpants

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**Author:** ![Happyjoelucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Happyjoelucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happyjoelucky)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/7 "2003-01-24T19:39:10Z")

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happy

joe

lucky

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**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/8 "2003-01-24T19:39:18Z")

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America  
sexy  
bird

(Why yes, I am litening to The Time, why do you ask?)

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**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/9 "2003-01-24T19:54:58Z")

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Unununium

Gloryhole

Milquetoast

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**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/10 "2003-01-24T19:55:25Z")

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lissencephalic

trigger-happy

moose

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**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/11 "2003-01-24T19:56:48Z")

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fluid  
anal

cavaty

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**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/12 "2003-01-24T20:27:21Z")

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Necrophilia

Archdiocees (spelling?)

Falaphal (spelling yet again)

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**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/13 "2003-01-24T20:32:40Z")

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aventurine

lummox

vichyssoise

( **CRorex** , you want ‘archdiocese’ and ‘falafel’)

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**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/14 "2003-01-24T20:35:36Z")

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anklebiter  
sphincter  
orgasmic

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**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/15 "2003-01-24T20:39:40Z")

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perhaps an SDMB-themed poem involving the words:

asshat  
troll  
moderator

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**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/16 "2003-01-24T20:43:12Z")

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Thaumaturgy  
Stakhanovite  
Palliative

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/17 "2003-01-24T20:44:22Z")

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Studmuffin  
Adventitious  
Miffed

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**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/18 "2003-01-24T23:50:05Z")

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Potato  
Scrum  
Bra

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**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/19 "2003-01-25T00:00:08Z")

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I’d do it, too, but you’ve already got approximately 160 lines to write. Get to work, I guess!

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**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/20 "2003-01-25T00:08:09Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by seal\_clubber \*  
> \*\*treacle  
> philtrum  
> aglet \*\*

I worship the crease of your philtrum  
and the pink of your tear duct  
and the curls in your ear.  
Do not listen to the treacle they play  
on your soap operas and talk shows.  
Leave the pot on the stove for one night-  
be my eyelet, and I will be your aglet.

> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Kalhoun \*  
> \*\*constellation  
> multi-racial  
> apathetic \*\*

hey you, they might be building  
[a giant vibrator in the new york city skyline](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s&threadid=158351)  
gather up a multi-racial crowd  
for its ribbon-cutting ceremony.  
crowned with stars above the apathetic streets,  
it really ought to be  
one of the 88 recognized constellations

> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by TeleTronOne \*  
> \*\*antidisestablishmentarianism  
> streptococci  
> cow \*\*

We should all go out to the cow field.  
Watch them practice their perfect system -  
the antidisestablishmentarianism of the herd.  
(take careful notes.)  
They linger in pastures and splashes of green and brown  
until strands of streptococci take them down.

> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by ForgottenLore \*  
> \*\*ichthyologist  
> piezoelectric  
> underpants \*\*

The ichthyologists sing their songs of longing  
and sometimes the fishes join in.  
As if under piezoelectric stress  
cracks start to show in the scuba visors  
and gradually their underpants settle  
in the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Okay, more later. That last one was tough.

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