# Okay, we gotta try this game! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014 "2001-10-27T22:43:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/121 "2001-11-05T13:16:23Z")
Flard - one of the Absent-Minded Professor’s failed experiments previous to his discovery of “flubber.” (Other failures include floothpaste, flairgel, flustard and flampoo) Next word - igglethorpe ---
**Author:** ![Dryfreeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@Dryfreeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dryfreeze)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/122 "2001-11-06T02:09:52Z")
igglethorpe: 1. prop. n. Thumper’s (from Bambi) incest committing cousin. 2. common adj. someone who has experienced the act of having one’s left big toe being severed by a rabbit. i.e. Look at igglethorpe little boy; the poor kid has only one big toe. Next word. Skamadle ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/123 "2001-11-06T02:41:12Z")
**skamadle** : \*vb.\*To tidy up the house before the cleaning woman arrives. wivlak ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/124 "2001-11-06T07:03:23Z")
wivlak–the state of bachelorhood. Usually used to refer to the state of wanting a wife. “Jack is really feeling his wivlak” Next word- bleknic ---
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/125 "2001-11-06T07:13:17Z")
How the hell did I miss this for three pages? I’m so proud to see my baby out in the world… (wipes a tear) ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/126 "2001-11-06T16:00:13Z")
**bleknic** : _n._ Pronounced bleeknitch. A niche with limited economic possibilities. [Polish origin] First coined by future Nobel laureate and Polish President Lech Walesa while employed in the Gdansk shipyards when asked what he thought of the development of a special glue which would replace rivets on ships. lolofil ---
**Author:** ![walor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@walor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/walor)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/127 "2001-11-06T16:22:21Z")
lolofil: to be up to your gunwhales with someome who is **not impressed** as in… ‘That thread left me feeling lolfil’. Next word: Urchkiioni ---
**Author:** ![walor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@walor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/walor)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/128 "2001-11-06T16:24:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by walor \* > lolofil: to be up to your gunwhales with someome who is **not impressed** > > as in… ‘That thread left me feeling **lolofil** ’. > > Next word: Urchkiioni oops ---
**Author:** ![Re\_PT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Re\_PT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Re_PT)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/129 "2001-11-06T18:35:55Z")
Urchkiioni: (Ur-tch-key-ownee) A teleologist’s thurible. Next: oilababe PT ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Lord_Davidson)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/130 "2001-11-06T19:06:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PT \* > **Next: oilababe** Oilababe (v): Contemporary contraction verb denoting the action of rubbing baby oil, tanning lotion, or Crisco on young, attractive females. Next: granquette. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/131 "2001-11-06T19:07:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PT \* > **Next: oilababe** n. A person who asks, “If we get corn oil from corn, and coconut oil from coconuts, where do we get baby oil?” Next: troposia ---
**Author:** ![Mysphyt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@Mysphyt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mysphyt)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/132 "2001-11-06T19:36:15Z")
Mmm, simulpost goodness. I’ll get 'em both. granquette, _n._ A woman who maintains her coquettish behaviors well past the age at which she ought to be allowed to. As in, “Yeah, I was visiting Opa at the retirement home and this 82 year old granquette started hitting on me!” troposia, _n._ A mental disorder compelling sufferers to always believe that they are on the beach somewhere in the Bahamas. Best exemplified by most Corona commercials and by the _Kids in the Hall_ sketch in which Kevin McDonald grows out a beard on vacation. ---
**Author:** ![Mysphyt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@Mysphyt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mysphyt)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/133 "2001-11-06T19:48:47Z")
_cough_ Erm, next word denaliphobia. ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/134 "2001-11-06T20:08:33Z")
**denaliphobia** : 1. _n._ fear, usually found in dyslexics, of having to write or pronounce the word ‘denial’ incorrectly either in an essay or during a speech. 1. _n._: fear of denalis. builbich ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/135 "2001-11-06T20:14:07Z")
Come to think of it, it should probably read “fear of writing or reading…” (otherwise, the whole thing wouldn’t make much sense, would it?:D) ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_the_Shrubber)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/136 "2001-11-06T23:56:21Z")
Hmm, aren’t games like this only supposed to go on for so long–then another thread is started, a continuation? When is that supposed to happen? ---
**Author:** ![JBERGES](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@JBERGES](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBERGES)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/137 "2001-11-09T03:38:07Z")
builbich: n. the last post on what was a great thread. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/138 "2002-04-05T19:13:11Z")
Houplejin: n - a vile, homemade form of alcohol often made in toilets and bathtubs during prohibition. Example: Man, every time my old lady makes me coffee, the stuff comes out tasting like houplejin. Next Word: Harletrica ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/139 "2002-04-05T21:20:25Z")
Harletrica: A subgenre of electronica designed to be played only at strip clubs and during the viewing of pornography Schlurple ---
**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:** [April 5, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014/140 "2002-04-05T21:50:59Z")
Schlurple: The sound your now shoeless foot makes as it comes out of the big pile of mud you accidentally sank your leg into. meyt [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-gotta-try-this-game/90014.md?page=8)