# Describe it in three words

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384>\
**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:** 57

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**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1121 "2008-01-24T04:13:10Z")

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[QUOTE=Enola Straight]

Rule 34  
[/QUOTE]

It sounds dirty  
“Australia  
no longer down under”

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**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 24, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1122 "2008-01-24T04:49:23Z")

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[QUOTE=bannerrefugee]  
…  
“Australia  
no longer down under”  
[/QUOTE]

Failed ad campaign?

“Ohio: The Heart of It All!”

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1123 "2008-01-24T06:19:36Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
Failed ad campaign?

“Ohio: The Heart of It All!”  
[/QUOTE]  
Nobody believes it.

Montana

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**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1124 "2008-01-24T09:56:07Z")

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[QUOTE=Derleth]  
Montana  
[/QUOTE]

Some place overseas

dow jones

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**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1125 "2008-01-24T11:51:42Z")

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Unpredictable economic index

Steeple

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**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1126 "2008-01-24T12:33:37Z")

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Church roof spire  
Afterlife

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**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1127 "2008-01-24T13:00:29Z")

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[QUOTE=Gorgon Heap]

Afterlife  
[/QUOTE]

Comes after death?

Believed by some.

snow showers (or as I like to call them, snowers; short o)

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**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 24, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1128 "2008-01-24T14:53:30Z")

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Snow showers: Too many here.

“The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la…”

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**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1129 "2008-01-24T22:57:17Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]

“The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la…”  
[/QUOTE]

Azalea, Cherry, Cercis  
Public radio

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1130 "2008-01-24T23:03:38Z")

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[QUOTE=bannerrefugee]  
Public radio  
[/QUOTE]

Keillor, Magliozzis, Shortz.

The standard crossword puzzle entry _ern_

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**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 25, 2008, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1131 "2008-01-25T04:25:16Z")

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[QUOTE=Sternvogel]  
The standard crossword puzzle entry _ern_  
[/QUOTE]

Does not compute.

Strip Scrabble.

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**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:** [January 25, 2008, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1132 "2008-01-25T05:48:34Z")

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Strip Scrabble: Risque geek game

Postage

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**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 25, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1133 "2008-01-25T15:07:47Z")

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( **Scribble** posted about Scrabble? I love the Dope!)

Postage: Inexorably rising costs.

The Postmaster General.

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**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1134 "2008-01-25T15:19:09Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]

The Postmaster General.  
[/QUOTE]

Super powerful position  
or  
Endlessly humorous person  
11 by 17 copy paper

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**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 25, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1135 "2008-01-25T15:42:47Z")

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[QUOTE=bannerrefugee]  
11 by 17 copy paper  
[/QUOTE]

Tends to jam.

The Xerox Corporation’s ceaseless efforts to keep “xerox” from becoming a common verb and thus losing its trademark.

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**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1136 "2008-01-25T16:09:06Z")

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Pointless Sisyphussian battle

Wind chill

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1137 "2008-01-25T20:27:02Z")

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[QUOTE=Scribble]  
Wind chill  
[/QUOTE]

Cold seems colder.

Chill Wills

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**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1138 "2008-01-25T20:57:35Z")

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[QUOTE=Sternvogel]

Chill Wills  
[/QUOTE]

Played an ass

Beer hall

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**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 25, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1139 "2008-01-25T21:10:10Z")

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Beer hall: Bad for putsches.

Oktoberfest.

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**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1140 "2008-01-25T21:32:07Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]

Oktoberfest.  
[/QUOTE]

Bavarian beer bash  
Or  
Involves table dancing

Pharmacokinetics of beer

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