# Keep a Word, Delete a Word **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 1, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013 "2015-05-01T15:39:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 967
**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:** [May 30, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19326 "2018-05-30T16:42:19Z")
brilliant idea ---
**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:** [May 30, 2018, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19327 "2018-05-30T17:35:55Z")
brilliant beet ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19328 "2018-05-30T19:51:45Z")
sugar beet ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19329 "2018-05-30T20:25:09Z")
sugar daddy ---
**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:** [May 30, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19330 "2018-05-30T20:26:31Z")
Daddy Warbucks ---
**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:** [May 30, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19331 "2018-05-30T20:26:35Z")
daddy longlegs ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19332 "2018-05-31T00:25:06Z")
daddy dearest ---
**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:** [May 31, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19333 "2018-05-31T13:20:19Z")
Mommy Dearest ---
**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:** [May 31, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19334 "2018-05-31T13:46:58Z")
dearest friend ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19335 "2018-05-31T14:11:21Z")
friend forever ---
**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:** [May 31, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19336 "2018-05-31T14:27:37Z")
_Forever Plaid_ > **[Forever Plaid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_Plaid)** > > Forever Plaid is an Off-Broadway musical revue written by Stuart Ross, and first performed in New York in 1989 and now performed internationally. > The show is a revue of the close-harmony "guy groups" (e.g. The Four Aces, The Four Freshmen) that reached the height of their popularity during the 1950s. Personifying the clean-cut genre are the Plaids. This quartet of high-school chums' dreams of recording an album ended in death in a collision with a bus filled with Catholic schoolgirls on their ... ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19337 "2018-05-31T20:30:26Z")
plaid trousers ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19338 "2018-05-31T21:41:00Z")
pleated trousers ---
**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:** [June 1, 2018, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19339 "2018-06-01T03:42:06Z")
_[The] Wrong Trousers_ [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-SmwiU1TJg) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19340 "2018-06-01T14:48:38Z")
wrong way ---
**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:** [June 1, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19341 "2018-06-01T14:49:06Z")
better way ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19342 "2018-06-01T18:07:00Z")
way station ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19343 "2018-06-01T19:14:39Z")
space station ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19344 "2018-06-01T20:51:52Z")
service station ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2018, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-a-word-delete-a-word/719013/19345 "2018-06-02T00:10:57Z")
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