# 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:** 50
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/981 "2008-01-08T16:18:04Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] horcruxes [/QUOTE] Harry Potters Problem People who are on the phone way way too much ---
**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 8, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/982 "2008-01-08T17:04:59Z")
[QUOTE=bannerrefugee] …People who are on the phone way way too much [/QUOTE] Hang up, dammit! People who talk on their cellphones while driving. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/983 "2008-01-08T17:10:27Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Hang up, dammit! People who talk on their cellphones while driving. [/QUOTE] _ **SCREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!** _ **CRUNCH!!!** _ **AAAAAAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!** _ Men who leave the toilet seat up. ---
**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 8, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/984 "2008-01-08T17:56:51Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] …Men who leave the toilet seat up. [/QUOTE] Hey, it happens. The Gallic shrug. ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/985 "2008-01-08T18:15:05Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] The Gallic shrug. [/QUOTE] Funny french gesture HP customer service ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/986 "2008-01-08T20:03:56Z")
[QUOTE=bannerrefugee] HP customer service [/QUOTE] An oxymoron, no? working the night shift for one night after working the day shift for over 15 years… ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/987 "2008-01-08T21:03:08Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] working the night shift for one night after working the day shift for over 15 years… [/QUOTE] Night…In purgatory Pandora radio ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/988 "2008-01-08T21:23:38Z")
[QUOTE=bannerrefugee] Pandora radio [/QUOTE] Never heard it. Clicking the Wiki “Random Article” link, I come up with **U.S. Route 69** as the next challenge. ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/989 "2008-01-08T21:27:22Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Clicking the Wiki “Random Article” link, I come up with **U.S. Route 69** as the next challenge. [/QUOTE] Most Stolen Signs Huckleberries ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/990 "2008-01-08T21:55:28Z")
[QUOTE=Danalan] Huckleberries [/QUOTE] Much like blueberries Rubber chickens ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/991 "2008-01-08T23:30:47Z")
[QUOTE=bannerrefugee] Rubber chickens [/QUOTE] Used in gags. (I was cancelled, btw, so no night shift for me. Completely trivial aside: how come rubber duckies are cute, but rubber chickens are gross?) Margaret Thatcher ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/992 "2008-01-08T23:44:51Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Margaret Thatcher [/QUOTE] Chemist, baroness, widow. People born and educated in the USA who’ve affected such spellings as “honour” and “manoeuvre” in their personal correspondence ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/993 "2008-01-09T01:35:41Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] people born and educated in the USA who’ve affected such spellings as “honour” and “manoeuvre” in their personal correspondence [/QUOTE] How bloody portentous l33t ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/994 "2008-01-09T01:40:41Z")
[QUOTE=bannerrefugee] How bloody portentous [/QUOTE] Maybe even pretentious… > [@](#): > > l33t Internet communication technique The Dali Llama ---
**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 9, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/995 "2008-01-09T03:45:29Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] …The Dali Llama [/QUOTE] Surrealist quadruped painter. 😃 Delightful misspellings. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/996 "2008-01-09T03:54:27Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Surrealist quadruped painter. 😃 Delightful misspellings. [/QUOTE] :eek: :o 😃 I can’t believe I did that, but hey–llamas could teach us much about acceptance and life and being in the moment. Truly not alpaca of lies… Delightful misspellings: Spoonerism wanna be’s? Dr Seuss’ use of anapestic tetrameter ---
**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 9, 2008, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/997 "2008-01-09T03:58:35Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] …Dr Seuss’ use of anapestic tetrameter [/QUOTE] Hat, cat, plane. \*Horton Hears A Who. \* ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/998 "2008-01-09T14:22:42Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] \*Horton Hears A Who. \* [/QUOTE] Elephants on LSD. Where the Wild Things Are. ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/999 "2008-01-09T14:24:22Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] \*Horton Hears A Who. \* [/QUOTE] Vlad’s very vicious yogi berra ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1000 "2008-01-09T14:36:28Z")
[QUOTE=bannerrefugee] yogi berra [/QUOTE] A pic-a-nic basket! OR dead baseball legend (hat, cat, _plane_?) Medusa [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384.md?page=49) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384.md?page=51)