# 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:** 48
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/941 "2008-01-03T20:01:57Z")
[QUOTE=bannerrefugee] tongue twisters [/QUOTE] White right-wingers. The Iowa caucuses ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/942 "2008-01-03T20:49:43Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] The Iowa caucuses [/QUOTE] Not that important Hang gliding. ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/943 "2008-01-03T21:43:33Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Hang gliding. [/QUOTE] Flying for fun Dick Clark ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/944 "2008-01-03T23:35:51Z")
[QUOTE=bannerrefugee] Dick Clark [/QUOTE] [Senator from Iowa](http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000448) Jimmy Reed ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/945 "2008-01-04T00:30:26Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] Jimmy Reed [/QUOTE] American blues singer The Bionic Man ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/946 "2008-01-04T15:06:24Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] The Bionic Man [/QUOTE] 70’s television series Lab coats ---
**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:** [January 4, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/947 "2008-01-04T15:35:27Z")
Lab coats: Geeks wear them. Scanning electron microscope. ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/948 "2008-01-04T16:58:02Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Lab coats: Geeks wear them. Scanning electron microscope. [/QUOTE] See’s small stuff Scholarships ---
**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:** [January 4, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/949 "2008-01-04T18:33:38Z")
Scholarships: Help poor students. Going to the college bookstore for the first time, and being shocked and appalled to spend hundreds of dollars on books you’ll only use for a few months. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/950 "2008-01-04T19:47:36Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Going to the college bookstore for the first time, and being shocked and appalled to spend hundreds of dollars on books you’ll only use for a few months. [/QUOTE] Freshman sticker shock pheochromocytoma ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/951 "2008-01-04T19:56:38Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] pheochromocytoma [/QUOTE] Secretes excessive catecholamines. Admitting you use Wikipedia to learn definitions of medical terms ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/952 "2008-01-04T21:01:42Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Admitting you use Wikipedia to learn definitions of medical terms [/QUOTE] Doper being honest I looked it up too, but didn’t try to think of anything. Latte ---
**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:** [January 4, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/953 "2008-01-04T21:30:56Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] …pheochromocytoma [/QUOTE] Er… no thanks? Long Latinate medical or scientific words you don’t completely understand, but which look scary. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/954 "2008-01-04T22:37:48Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Er… no thanks? Long Latinate medical or scientific words you don’t completely understand, but which look scary. [/QUOTE] Songs by [Carcass](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necroticism_-_Descanting_the_Insalubrious) The way you do the things you do. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/955 "2008-01-04T22:47:58Z")
[I’ve had to look up all the jazz musicians–fair’s fair! 🙂] [QUOTE=Cluricaun] The way you do the things you do. [/QUOTE] Temptation’s first hit! compost heap ---
**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:** [January 4, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/956 "2008-01-04T22:53:06Z")
Compost heap: Breaks down garbage. Mitt Romney’s and Hillary Clinton’s moods, post-Iowa caucuses. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/957 "2008-01-04T23:15:52Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Mitt Romney’s and Hillary Clinton’s moods, post-Iowa caucuses. [/QUOTE] Anticipating [Dixville Notch.](http://www.greatnorthwoods.org/dixvillenotch/) Since it was skipped: Latte ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/958 "2008-01-05T03:46:08Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Since it was skipped: Latte [/QUOTE] Caffeine with milk Amesterdam’s interconnected canals ---
**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:** [January 5, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/959 "2008-01-05T21:10:59Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] …Amsterdam’s interconnected canals [/QUOTE] Skateable in winter. Ice skates. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/960 "2008-01-06T00:55:27Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Ice skates. [/QUOTE] Daughter’s expensive footwear. ziggurat [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384.md?page=47) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384.md?page=49)