# Let's have a dicksize contest and save the world at the same time! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 9, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389 "2007-12-09T16:24:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/1 "2007-12-09T16:24:15Z")
I stumbled across FreeRice, a site that purports to donate rice to the hungry if you play a word definition game. How well this works I don’t know (but [Snopes seems to buy it](http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/charity/freerice.asp)), but I _do_ know that I never shy away from boasting to Dopers about meaningless things. As of right now, I’ve answered 100 words correctly and have reached a level of 45. Not bad for a non-native English speaker. So, I invite you all to beat me and boast about it, while simultaneously (possibly) working to end world hunger. Can you say no? Didn’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/2 "2007-12-09T16:34:25Z")
1. “Corybantic” probably isn’t even a real word! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/3 "2007-12-09T17:52:50Z")
I can’t get past 48. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/4 "2007-12-09T17:58:41Z")
48 is the highest I’ve gotten to as well. It’s pretty addictive! Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/5 "2007-12-09T17:59:53Z")
50 on three different occasions. I usually answer two or three right there, then drop back to 48 or 49. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/6 "2007-12-09T18:10:50Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] I can’t get past 48. [/QUOTE] Same here. Let me give it another whirl. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/7 "2007-12-09T18:23:28Z")
50! But it took me a while and I didn’t stay there long. ETA: the quizmaker seems to have a thing for armor and weapons ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/8 "2007-12-09T18:30:16Z")
Hey! Misleading thread title!! You think I would have clicked on a thread that was titled, Let’s have a word contest. . . . ?! :mad: Well, OK, maybe. . . but I wouldn’t do it with the same corybantic relish! 😃 [corybantic](http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?May.16.2007) • \kor-ee-BAN-tik\ • adjective ``` : like or in the spirit of a Corybant; especially : wild, frenzied ``` **elucidator** , you don’t know what a Corybant is?! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/9 "2007-12-09T18:49:11Z")
A lifetime of playing RPGs certainly helped with many of those words. I got a 45. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/10 "2007-12-09T18:55:01Z")
I turned my 15 year old daughter onto that site. I figured it would do well as preparation for the SAT. Oh, and she got a 100 on her last vocabulary test in English. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DJ\_Motorbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@DJ\_Motorbike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJ_Motorbike)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/11 "2007-12-09T20:08:41Z")
I can only get to 41. Excuse me while I go find some abstolic hormunculouses. It seems my exprehensions have fatouitated a bit more than I expected. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/12 "2007-12-09T23:52:04Z")
I got to 50 the one time I tried. But then it kept recycling words and I got bored. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/13 "2007-12-10T01:37:49Z")
I couldn’t get past 49, but I donatedover 2000 grains of rice. I’ve never even seen some of these words. postiche misoneism maculation guyot ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/14 "2007-12-10T02:20:23Z")
Got to 47 with 1000 grains of rice but got bored. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/15 "2007-12-10T02:22:59Z")
47 with 6000 grains of rice. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/16 "2007-12-10T02:25:08Z")
NO FAIR!! You can’t have a word I don’t know and list 4 other words I don’t know as the possible answer!!! Stupid rice. I’m bombing if you haven’t figured it out. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/17 "2007-12-10T03:19:36Z")
I don’t know as this is such a good thing, as it has made a number of us into shameless liars. ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/18 "2007-12-10T04:06:14Z")
It’s been weeks since I messed around with it, but I got a 43 and was very proud of myself. Hopefully Luci is wrong, though – good job if you got higher! (The thing’s freaking HARD!) ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/19 "2007-12-10T04:10:17Z")
I got up to 49 a few times before I finally gave up after donating 3000 grains of rice. I admit that some of the time I was making wild guesses, but a few times I kicked myself when I saw the right answer and realized that I should have known that word. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389/20 "2007-12-10T05:52:31Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] I don’t know as this is such a good thing, as it has made a number of us into shameless liars. [/QUOTE] Hey! I swear I’m not lying. In fact, I was so proud when I got up to 50 (trust me, it took ages) that I took a screen capture! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-have-a-dicksize-contest-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/429389.md?page=2)