# Cooped up, need practice. I challenge you to defeat me! **URL:** \ **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:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/41 "2003-01-25T23:22:16Z")
scuba tulip lava ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/42 "2003-01-26T01:20:23Z")
metafiction cummings grasshopper **Daowajan** , this endeavour is definitely worth at least fifty coolness points. You rock. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672/43 "2003-01-26T05:47:05Z")
gynotikolobomassophile, qhythsontyd, ultracrepidarian. And it had better be romantic, damnit! But how could it not? If foreign phrases count, then, as a separate challenge, I’ll also offer these three: _ad captandum vulgus_, _ex pede Herculem_, and _et hoc genus omne_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooped-up-need-practice-i-challenge-you-to-defeat-me/150672.md?page=2)