# One Word-Backward Story **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 5, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960 "2014-03-05T19:34:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/41 "2014-03-06T19:00:04Z")
downy ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/42 "2014-03-06T19:03:30Z")
alongside ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/43 "2014-03-06T19:05:20Z")
eunuchs ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/44 "2014-03-06T19:14:31Z")
of ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/45 "2014-03-06T19:23:44Z")
legions ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/46 "2014-03-06T19:30:53Z")
consumed ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/47 "2014-03-06T19:33:03Z")
slime ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/48 "2014-03-06T20:02:23Z")
fluorescent ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/49 "2014-03-06T20:06:30Z")
The ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/50 "2014-03-06T20:22:14Z")
Leprechauns. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/51 "2014-03-06T20:23:14Z")
slain ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/52 "2014-03-06T20:24:03Z")
of ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/53 "2014-03-06T20:28:29Z")
of slain leprechauns the fluorescent slime consumed legions of eunuchs alongside downy albinos serving wine with the Lalique carafe, but perchance while spilling laughed, while happily enibriated ushers squelch kittens and celestial angels danced while creamy countless heathen multitudes died, though all wasn’t lost because it lived happily ever after. The End. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/54 "2014-03-06T20:35:40Z")
bushels ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/55 "2014-03-06T20:38:58Z")
. (just a period) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/56 "2014-03-06T20:48:56Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > . (just a period) Sorry-no periods until the previous word is capitalized. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/57 "2014-03-06T20:50:18Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Sorry-no periods until the previous word is capitalized. 😃 but it’s a back ``` wards story ``` by e e cummings ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/58 "2014-03-06T21:07:33Z")
Czarcasm, Hindsight tells me I should have asked your permission to post the previous page’s entries as we moved onto this page; apologies. If you do not want the summary here, I’ll request it be removed. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/59 "2014-03-06T21:13:17Z")
> [@Vita\_Beata](#): > > Czarcasm, Hindsight tells me I should have asked your permission to post the previous page’s entries as we moved onto this page; apologies. If you do not want the summary here, I’ll request it be removed. I like it, and I wouldn’t mind you doing it occasionally to benefit the scrolling-impaired. 😃 ---
**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:** [March 6, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960/60 "2014-03-06T23:03:22Z")
Czarcasm, Ok will do that. Back to the story: bushels [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-backward-story/682960.md?page=4)