# \[GAME\] a

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267>\
**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:** 47

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**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 23, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/921 "2014-09-23T16:39:32Z")

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**Z** is last round, **z** she made no sense **z** at all!

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**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:** [September 23, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/922 "2014-09-23T16:45:05Z")

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**A** -choooooo!

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**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 23, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/923 "2014-09-23T16:50:00Z")

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**B** less you!

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**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:** [September 23, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/924 "2014-09-23T17:00:47Z")

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**C** or! What\*\* c\*\*ame out m’nose!

(Thank you)

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**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 23, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/925 "2014-09-23T17:07:03Z")

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**D** o we have to be gross? Delicate dame here…

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**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 23, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/926 "2014-09-23T17:26:57Z")

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**E** ase up on the congealing bodily fluids, please.

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**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:** [September 23, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/927 "2014-09-23T17:37:56Z")

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**F** lem, it’s called **f** lem.

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**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 23, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/928 "2014-09-23T17:47:24Z")

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**G** ross, you’re called gross.

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**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 23, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/929 "2014-09-23T17:49:32Z")

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**H** umours.

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**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:** [September 23, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/930 "2014-09-23T18:27:09Z")

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**I** badly misspelled…never mind.

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**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:** [September 23, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/931 "2014-09-23T18:30:58Z")

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**J** ust because you misspell a word doesn’t maek you alliterate.  
(First typo was actually unplanned, but hey, why not keep it?)

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**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 23, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/932 "2014-09-23T18:42:13Z")

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**K** at says, “D@mn right!”

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**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 23, 2014, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/933 "2014-09-23T19:31:18Z")

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**L** et no man tell you how to spell; for next they will tell you: how to punctuate.

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**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/934 "2014-09-23T20:45:11Z")

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Mistakes! The above post contains several punctuation errors! The horror of it all!🙂

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**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 23, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/935 "2014-09-23T20:45:29Z")

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**N** inja’d! Yet, Merriam-Webster thinks differently on that.

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**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 23, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/936 "2014-09-23T20:48:42Z")

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**O** h, dictionary schmictionary. You should be relying on your wyps and porlacaberns.

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**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:** [September 23, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/937 "2014-09-23T21:22:27Z")

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**P** hat chance of that happening.

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**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 23, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/938 "2014-09-23T21:24:19Z")

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**Q** uit demeaning orthography! Have you ever tried reading a 17th Century text?

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**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/939 "2014-09-23T22:18:28Z")

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**R** eading to you a 17th century quote from _The Venerable Bede_ 673 - 735

“O King, seems to me the present life of men on earth, in comparison with that time which to us is uncertain, as if when on a winter’s night you sit feasting with your ealdormen and thegns, - a single sparrow should fly swiftly into the hall, and coming in at one door, instantly fly out through another.”

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**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 23, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-a/696267/940 "2014-09-23T22:27:01Z")

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**S** parrow? Is not this ornithology, not orthography?

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