# 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:** 73
**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:** [March 10, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1441 "2008-03-10T14:38:45Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Pachyderm: Elephant’s scientific designation. _Horton Hears a Who._ [/QUOTE] [Abortion protest WHA?](http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/03/08/la-premiere-of-horton-hears-a-who-crashed-by-anti-abortion-protesters/) _Stop Sign_ ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1442 "2008-03-10T16:43:01Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] _Stop Sign_ [/QUOTE] Sign says stop Or Vehicles velocity vanishes Octagonal ---
**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:** [March 10, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1443 "2008-03-10T17:41:05Z")
[QUOTE=bannerrefugee] …Octagonal [/QUOTE] Has eight sides OR Like stop sign OR American architecture trope. An octopus. ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1444 "2008-03-10T20:01:34Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] An octopus. [/QUOTE] Singular seafaring Cephalopod Cthulhu ---
**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:** [March 10, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1445 "2008-03-10T20:15:39Z")
[QUOTE=bannerrefugee] …Cthulhu [/QUOTE] Sleeps in R’lyeh OR Lovecraft’s evil creation OR Craves world domination OR Worshipped by freaks OR Octopoid dreadful demigod OR Not very nice OR In Chaosium game. Role-playing games. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1446 "2008-03-11T00:12:40Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Role-playing games. [/QUOTE] Got any cheetos? OR Nerds social replica OR Slain by elf OR Funny dice game OR Amateur Tolkien gathering. Romance novels ---
**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:** [March 11, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1447 "2008-03-11T00:32:36Z")
[QUOTE=Diomedes] Romance novels [/QUOTE] Mass marketed tedium OR Harlequin reigns supreme OR Fabio’s big intro “Client #9” ---
**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:** [March 11, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1448 "2008-03-11T14:18:58Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] …“Client #9” [/QUOTE] Spitzer’s prostitution designation OR Mr. Clean? Not! OR Washington tryst identifier OR Cheater’s code name OR Governor’s tawdry secret OR Reformer’s death knell OR What a shame. Fall from grace. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1449 "2008-03-11T20:09:14Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Fall from grace. [/QUOTE] [Kristofferson film theme.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075161/) Cecil Rhodes ---
**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:** [March 11, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1450 "2008-03-11T20:39:36Z")
Cecil Rhodes: Wanted to rule OR Endowed important scholarships OR Schemed in Africa OR Rhodesia formerly honored OR Megalomaniacal British guy. Robert Mugabe. ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1451 "2008-03-12T16:02:06Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Megalomaniacal British guy. Robert Mugabe. [/QUOTE] Damned dastardly dictator HTML ---
**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:** [March 12, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1452 "2008-03-12T20:05:19Z")
HTML: Useful webpage language. Quenya, Sindarin and Adunaic. ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1453 "2008-03-12T21:07:23Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Quenya, Sindarin and Adunaic. [/QUOTE] Tolkien’s three tongues adoption ---
**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:** [March 13, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1454 "2008-03-13T03:39:06Z")
Adoption: If no kids OR Much needed today OR Ideal abortion alternative? OR Popular from China OR Builds a family OR A child waits. China’s one-child-per-family policy. ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1455 "2008-03-13T03:53:31Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] China’s one-child-per-family policy. [/QUOTE] Girls get gone I think we are the last ones left ---
**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:** [March 13, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1456 "2008-03-13T04:10:26Z")
[QUOTE=bannerrefugee] …I think we are the last ones left [/QUOTE] Where’d they go? OR Just you, me OR Come back, everyone! 😃 Refusing to let a good thread die. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1457 "2008-03-19T18:26:07Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] …Refusing to let a good thread die. [/QUOTE] Shameless self-promotion. Bumping your own loooooooooong thread, and rationalizing about why no one’s looked at it lately. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1458 "2008-03-19T22:09:11Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Bumping your own loooooooooong thread, and rationalizing about why no one’s looked at it lately. [/QUOTE] Fishing for responses. 🆒 Cornell University ---
**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:** [March 19, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1459 "2008-03-19T23:52:29Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Cornell University [/QUOTE] Perfect Ivy record. The Dartmouth College men’s basketball team. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384/1460 "2008-03-20T14:20:04Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] …The Dartmouth College men’s basketball team. [/QUOTE] Very tall dudes. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s appearance as First Officer Murdock in _Airplane!_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384.md?page=72) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-it-in-three-words/426384.md?page=74)