# Eggsactly how many faux words can you make with eggs? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 27, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926 "2013-11-27T16:51:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/21 "2013-11-27T22:22:22Z")
The most eggcellent pun I have ever seen on the Dope, courtesy of **Asympotically fat** : > [@a little help](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-help/670197/9): > > I usually make an “¨” by taking the top two pixels from a “X”… you can’t make an umlaut without break a few x’s. ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/22 "2013-11-27T23:35:48Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Y’know why the French only have one egg in any recipe? Becaus one egg is un oeuf. The Tueareggs omelettes are three times the size… (If my phonetics are right…) ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/23 "2013-11-28T02:19:14Z")
Did I hear Jason Aleggsander say some of these Yolks on Seinfeld? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/24 "2013-11-28T07:25:48Z")
Wait, isn’t this an old game that’s been around since, like, the first chicken? I’m sure I remember seeing this in a newspaper. I think it was on the “kiddies page”, where they ran another one, or several, every day that kids sent in. That was years ago. /s/ Seneggoid. ---
**Author:** ![Archeonomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Archeonomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archeonomist)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/25 "2013-11-29T12:17:16Z")
I just popped in to egg you on. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/26 "2013-11-29T12:57:11Z")
eggsist - \*verb \*- have objeggtive reality ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/27 "2013-11-29T17:33:50Z")
This thread is eggscruciating. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/28 "2013-11-30T17:48:05Z")
Eggsacting - painstakingly precise drama about eggs. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/29 "2013-11-30T18:24:05Z")
I’m eggstremely eggsasperated that y’all have eggsausted the eggstenstive list of egg puns in my leggsicon. I’m not sure I can continue to eggsist in such a state. Ova and out. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/30 "2013-11-30T18:30:00Z")
The next poster to make a bad pun deserves a shellacking :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/31 "2013-11-30T21:15:06Z")
It’s not my fault, I just consumed a dozen of them (minus two I had to throw out). In other words, there were eggstenuating circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/32 "2013-12-01T17:30:56Z")
We appear to have some eggspert punsters here… ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/33 "2013-12-01T18:24:39Z")
This puzzle is eggstremely egghilarating. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/34 "2013-12-02T01:35:04Z")
When a chicken runs out of gas does she go to the Eggson station? (Or possibly Shell?) After filling up, the car really eggshelllerates. ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/35 "2013-12-02T14:25:14Z")
I can’t think of any eggsamples of this. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/36 "2013-12-02T14:29:58Z")
There once was an egg set in a stone so firm that only the one chosen rooster to rule the chicken kingdom could remove it from where it was set. That’s right, it’s the story of eggscalibur. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/37 "2013-12-02T14:31:53Z")
Now presenting William Sheggspeare’s masterpiece: \*Omelet! \* ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926/38 "2013-12-02T15:58:59Z")
This thread is a crime! Not on the level of Hitler, but certainly Leggs Luther supervillainy! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggsactly-how-many-faux-words-can-you-make-with-eggs/674926.md?page=1)