# 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:** 67

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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 16, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1321 "2008-02-16T01:47:56Z")

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Traditional retirement gift.

Golden parachute.

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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 16, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1322 "2008-02-16T02:24:18Z")

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Golden parachute: I’d like one.

Referring to Cecil Adams as “The Master” or the like.

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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:** [February 21, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1323 "2008-02-21T17:25:15Z")

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Term of Respect

embiggened

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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 21, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1324 "2008-02-21T18:09:48Z")

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[QUOTE=Enola Straight]

embiggened  
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Lisa’s linguistic lark  
I thought this thread was dead.  
Norse Mythology

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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 21, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1325 "2008-02-21T21:23:28Z")

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[QUOTE=bannerrefugee]  
Norse Mythology  
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Loki, Thor, Yggdrasil.

In honor of the new forum:

**Game Room** moderator **fluiddruid**

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1326 "2008-02-21T22:29:37Z")

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[QUOTE=Sternvogel]  
Loki, Thor, Yggdrasil.

In honor of the new forum:

**Game Room** moderator **fluiddruid**  
[/QUOTE]

Moderates Game Room

Well, duh…

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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 21, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1327 "2008-02-21T22:39:06Z")

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[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas]

Well, duh…  
[/QUOTE]

Only obvious option

Encryption

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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 22, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1328 "2008-02-22T01:21:07Z")

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Need a key

Lunar eclipses

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**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1329 "2008-02-22T01:27:54Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Lunar eclipses

Where’d it go?

Fibrous.

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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 22, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1330 "2008-02-22T02:00:02Z")

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Made of strands

Inexorable

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1331 "2008-02-22T15:16:01Z")

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[QUOTE=Scribble]  
Inexorable  
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Not being persuaded.

Scurvy.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1332 "2008-02-22T15:44:08Z")

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[QUOTE=Cluricaun]  
Not being persuaded.

Scurvy.  
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Eat an Orange

Eat A Peach

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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 22, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1333 "2008-02-22T15:57:55Z")

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[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas]

Eat A Peach  
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Fruit for food

Game show host

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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 22, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1334 "2008-02-22T20:33:35Z")

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[QUOTE=bannerrefugee]  
Game show host  
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Now [Dennis Miller](http://www.nbc.com/Amnesia/)!

The circumstances of Lee Harvey Oswald’s death

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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 22, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1335 "2008-02-22T20:53:36Z")

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[QUOTE=Sternvogel]

The circumstances of Lee Harvey Oswald’s death  
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Kennedy’s killer killed  
Or  
Ruby rub-out

The piano has been drinking, not me

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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 23, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1336 "2008-02-23T00:32:38Z")

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Tom Waits lyrics

Dead puppies

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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 24, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1337 "2008-02-24T02:58:55Z")

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[QUOTE=Scribble]

Dead puppies  
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Pet pal past

The prairie dog liberation society

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**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1338 "2008-02-24T11:04:42Z")

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[QUOTE=bannerrefugee]  
Pet pal past

The prairie dog liberation society  
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Free Desert Rats!

Hegelian Dialectic

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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 24, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1339 "2008-02-24T12:41:48Z")

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Thesis, antithesis, synthesis

Rampant stupidity

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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 24, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1340 "2008-02-24T17:08:57Z")

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[QUOTE=Scribble]  
…Rampant stupidity  
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Rare on SDMB.

How glad I am to see this thread back up and running again!

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