# \[GAME\] a **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 23, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267 "2014-08-23T02:58:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**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:** [August 31, 2014, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/361 "2014-08-31T09:12:55Z")
Faster, Too. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/362 "2014-08-31T11:07:27Z")
**G** etting up early works as well. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2014, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/363 "2014-08-31T13:46:29Z")
**H** ow early is early? ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/364 "2014-08-31T13:53:28Z")
**I** think if you look above, you’ll see the time stamp. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/365 "2014-08-31T15:48:41Z")
**J** ust for the record, there’s a 6:07 in the AM, too? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/366 "2014-08-31T15:49:43Z")
**J** ulian or Gregorian calendar? ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/367 "2014-08-31T16:02:44Z")
**K** at sent out a memo about restricting ninja’s to the letter N - didn’t you get it? ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/368 "2014-08-31T16:04:21Z")
Left out again! ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/369 "2014-08-31T21:20:40Z")
**M** aybe there should be some kind of computer alarm to let me know I got ninja’d. :smack: ---
**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:** [September 1, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/370 "2014-09-01T00:47:26Z")
**N** inja! Ninja! Ninja! (Hey, where did everybody go?) ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/371 "2014-09-01T00:50:06Z")
**O** verly cautious here, to avoid ninjas! HAH! ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/372 "2014-09-01T00:50:54Z")
Obviously I was watching tennis and golf. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/373 "2014-09-01T00:55:44Z")
**P** ow! etv got ninja’d anyway! ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/374 "2014-09-01T00:57:02Z")
**Q** uick - I want my prize. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/375 "2014-09-01T01:11:26Z")
Requires you to mail in 4 box tops and compose a palindromic haiku. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/376 "2014-09-01T02:42:15Z")
**S** educed into this game that you play I just don’t have that much to say For as long as I sit There’s no haiku that will fit For me it’s a limerick day ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/377 "2014-09-01T02:49:48Z")
Tommy Burns loved corned beef ‘n’ cabbage ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/378 "2014-09-01T03:15:06Z")
**U** sually we just post one liners, but Civil Guy upped the ante. We don’t want to seem like whiners, So here’s a poem, not a ranty. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/379 "2014-09-01T04:25:11Z")
**V** erses aren’t easily written (and I fear this one’s quite lame) Yet the Bard bug in me has now bitten 'Cause Idle Thoughts brought his “ **A** ” game. So Buddha, Professor and Civil Guy Kat,etv, wonder mutt please pardon this poor fellow’s try lest my poetry not make the cut For rhyming like this just ain’t easy I should give up now —or I suppose I’ll be ninja’d and left feeling queasy to slink back to the false dominoes. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/380 "2014-09-01T05:16:03Z")
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