# Describe it in three words **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 14, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384 "2007-11-14T17:06:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 28
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/541 "2007-12-01T05:57:21Z")
Baby: Dingoes, stay away! Australia’s likely next PM, Kevin Rudd. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/542 "2007-12-01T06:09:40Z")
Unknown Australian politician. Tijuana’s new mayor’s pledge to create an honest and honorable police force ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/543 "2007-12-01T15:56:01Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Tijuana’s new mayor’s pledge to create an honest and honorable police force [/QUOTE] New guy bullshit. Next: 50 Vikodins ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/544 "2007-12-01T16:05:31Z")
50 Vikodins: Lotsa misspelled pills. Life-threatening treatment errors due to doctors’ poor handwriting. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/545 "2007-12-01T16:16:04Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Life-threatening treatment errors due to doctors’ poor handwriting. [/QUOTE] Sentinel event, definitely. The Aussie Labor Party Thingy: social democratic party? or democratic socialist party? Chocolate addiction. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/546 "2007-12-01T16:22:42Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Chocolate addiction. [/QUOTE] [Promoted by Hershey’s?](http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/30/1133748-police-hershey-candy-looks-like-drugs) Highway ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/547 "2007-12-01T16:53:44Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Highway [/QUOTE] military airstrips: myth defenestration ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/548 "2007-12-01T18:58:37Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] defenestration [/QUOTE] dying most panefully digital watch ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/549 "2007-12-01T19:15:14Z")
mankind’s greatest invention end of the universe ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/550 "2007-12-01T20:53:03Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] mankind’s greatest invention end of the universe [/QUOTE] [Adam’s Restaurant Location](http://www.amazon.com/Restaurant-at-End-Universe/dp/0345391810). Galaxy. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/551 "2007-12-01T21:19:20Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Galaxy. [/QUOTE] Ford type car OR Hitch-hiker’s necessary guide ice storm ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/552 "2007-12-02T01:52:25Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] … Hitch-hiker’s necessary guide ice storm [/QUOTE] (Remember that hyphenated words count as two!) Ice storm: Angsty recent movie. \* Brokeback Mountain.\* ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/553 "2007-12-02T02:07:22Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] _Brokeback Mountain._ [/QUOTE] Two backed beast OR Jack! Ennis! Alma! OR “Jack, I swear…” ennui ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/554 "2007-12-02T02:08:49Z")
boredom on steroids Gallup poll ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/555 "2007-12-02T02:48:24Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] Gallup poll [/QUOTE] Presidential winner predicter nystagmus ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/556 "2007-12-02T03:59:26Z")
Involuntary eye zigzags. Vestibular nerve ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/557 "2007-12-02T05:00:06Z")
[QUOTE=Scribble] Vestibular nerve [/QUOTE] 8th cranial nerve vertigo ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/558 "2007-12-02T05:12:38Z")
Great Hitchcock movie. Torn Curtain (blecch) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/559 "2007-12-02T05:42:33Z")
_Torn Curtain_: Newman, Andrews pic. The giant hillside “HOLLYWOOD” sign. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/560 "2007-12-02T06:09:48Z")
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