# 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:** 59

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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1161 "2008-01-29T22:17:12Z")

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Aquaman’s Marvel Counterpart

Chocolate Rain

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**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1162 "2008-01-29T23:16:30Z")

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Tay Zonday song

logarithm

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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 30, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1163 "2008-01-30T19:07:41Z")

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[QUOTE=Scribble]  
…logarithm  
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Lumberjacks gettin’ down.

The _Saturday Night Fever_ soundtrack album.

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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 30, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1164 "2008-01-30T20:31:36Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]

The _Saturday Night Fever_ soundtrack album.  
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Memories of Germany (we listened to that all the way through our tour of Germany as a HS sophomore).

OR  
Disco fever lives!

Corporate culture

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**Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1165 "2008-01-30T21:30:44Z")

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[QUOTE=eleanorigby]

Corporate culture  
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Money before morality

or

Must always expand  
Rococo

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**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1166 "2008-01-31T01:34:03Z")

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Firesign Theatre villian

Kaiser rolls

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**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1167 "2008-01-31T03:18:09Z")

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[QUOTE=Scribble]  
Kaiser rolls  
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Too much Oktoberfestbier

Really long German words like Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft

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**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1168 "2008-01-31T13:46:01Z")

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Take a breath!

Love

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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 31, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1169 "2008-01-31T19:40:13Z")

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[QUOTE=Scribble]  
Love  
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Between Jennifer, Hewitt.

John Edward

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**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1170 "2008-02-01T04:22:48Z")

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Widely televised charlatan

Patent leather

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**Author:** ![Paragod22510](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5ac83/32.png) [@Paragod22510](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paragod22510)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1171 "2008-02-01T04:30:26Z")

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[QUOTE=Scribble]  
Widely televised charlatan

Patent leather  
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Fuck me pumps.

(sorry for the gutter ball, but it was the first thing that popped into my head.)

And the word that my partner from work came up with, because she couldn’t think of 3 words for it:

ASPHAULT

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**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1172 "2008-02-01T05:23:48Z")

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Black paving material

Cobalt

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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:** [February 1, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1173 "2008-02-01T06:15:52Z")

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Cobalt: Pretty blue glass.

Dr. Robert Oppenheimer.

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**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1174 "2008-02-01T14:24:55Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]

Dr. Robert Oppenheimer.  
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Built the Bomb

or

Parodied by Vonnegut

Paper cut

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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:** [February 1, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1175 "2008-02-01T14:28:03Z")

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Paper cut: Disproportionate injury, pain.

The British National Health Service.

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**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1176 "2008-02-01T14:33:24Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]

The British National Health Service.  
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Different locum, _again_?

OR

It works, just.  
bumble bees

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**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1177 "2008-02-01T15:24:38Z")

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Bumble bees: Vital for pollination.

A dozen red roses for your sweetie on Valentine’s Day.

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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:** [February 1, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1178 "2008-02-01T20:30:13Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
A dozen red roses for your sweetie on Valentine’s Day.  
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Expensive floral purchase.

The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

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**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1179 "2008-02-01T21:11:32Z")

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[QUOTE=Sternvogel]

The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre  
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Gory gang gunning  
Or  
Prohibition driven murders

Credit cards

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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:** [February 2, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1180 "2008-02-02T02:29:13Z")

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[QUOTE=bannerrefugee]  
Credit cards  
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Plastic consumer enablers.

Overdrafts.

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