# 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\
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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:** [February 11, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1261 "2008-02-11T22:12:49Z")

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[QUOTE=Wargamer]

Plastic cups from sporting events  
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Sporting, sipping souvenir  
stripclub manager

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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 11, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1262 "2008-02-11T22:21:19Z")

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[QUOTE=bannerrefugee]  
stripclub manager  
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“Bare asses? Assets!”

Two-dollar bills

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1263 "2008-02-11T22:43:15Z")

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[QUOTE=Sternvogel]  
“Bare asses? Assets!”

Two-dollar bills  
[/QUOTE]  
discriminated-against duckets.

One Thousand Dollar Bills.

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**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:** [February 11, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1264 "2008-02-11T23:10:37Z")

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[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting]

One Thousand Dollar Bills.  
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No longer circulated.

The Papiermark, circa 1923

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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 11, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1265 "2008-02-11T23:13:47Z")

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[QUOTE=Governor Quinn]  
…The Papiermark, circa 1923  
[/QUOTE]

Load those wheelbarrows: [Papiermark - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papiermark)

Hyperinflation.

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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:** [February 11, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1266 "2008-02-11T23:18:12Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]

Hyperinflation.  
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Balloon _will_ pop!

Bush’s budget eliminating funding for RIF programs to needy areas/kids.

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**Author:** ![haystack1989](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/839c29/32.png) [@haystack1989](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/haystack1989)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1267 "2008-02-11T23:43:05Z")

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really hot air

next is carnival worker

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1268 "2008-02-12T00:26:02Z")

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[QUOTE=eleanorigby]  
Bush’s budget eliminating funding for RIF programs to needy areas/kids.  
[/QUOTE]  
Many dollars short.

[QUOTE=haystack1989]  
carnival worker  
[/QUOTE]  
Migrant midway laborer.

Superdelegate.

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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 12, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1269 "2008-02-12T14:26:46Z")

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Superdelegate: Now unexpectedly important.

The 1860 Republican national convention in Chicago.

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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:** [February 12, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1270 "2008-02-12T14:31:49Z")

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Lincoln beats Seward

the best pizza in town

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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 12, 2008, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1271 "2008-02-12T14:37:26Z")

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The best pizza in town: Everyone opines magisterially.

Magistrate.

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**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1272 "2008-02-12T15:02:28Z")

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Ignorant connected lawyer.

Thomas Edison.

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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:** [February 12, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1273 "2008-02-12T15:21:27Z")

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[QUOTE=Wargamer]

Thomas Edison.  
[/QUOTE]

Tesla’s terrible tormentor  
Or  
Personally patented plenty  
Stale coffee

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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 12, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1274 "2008-02-12T16:34:50Z")

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[QUOTE=Wargamer]  
[Magistrate] Ignorant connected lawyer…

[/QUOTE]

HEY! :mad: I _am_ one!

Stale coffee: Throw it out.

Gathering up your household garbage and only then realizing there won’t be pickup because it’s some obscure holiday.

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**Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1275 "2008-02-12T17:29:29Z")

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Stuck with trash.

sidewalk preachers

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**Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1276 "2008-02-12T17:52:57Z")

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[QUOTE=Scribble]  
…sidewalk preachers  
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Walk around them.

Sister Aimee Semple McPherson.

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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 12, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1277 "2008-02-12T22:12:05Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
Sister Aimee Semple McPherson.  
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Foursquare Church founder.

Shirley Temple

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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:** [February 12, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1278 "2008-02-12T22:16:47Z")

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[QUOTE=Sternvogel]

Shirley Temple  
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Sugary kiddie cocktail  
OR

Actress turned ambassador

Ogden Nash

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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:** [February 12, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1279 "2008-02-12T22:25:18Z")

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[QUOTE=eleanorigby]

Ogden Nash  
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Published puny poetry

Rash

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**Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1280 "2008-02-12T22:54:39Z")

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See your doctor

Or

Hydrocortisone works well

Or

Hotheaded, not premeditated

Rent control

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