# Party Quirks II: Electric Boogaloo **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 12, 2008, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240 "2008-07-12T15:06:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/461 "2008-07-21T01:37:31Z")
**Daphne** , I have to confess - I thought you got me, until you forgot that some paparazzi are freelance, not actually working for a specific publication. 😉 My quirk was that I was a paparazzi trying to get dirt on you, and the other two hosts. ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/462 "2008-07-21T01:40:07Z")
[QUOTE=Omi no Kami] I outline my quirk in the forbidden thread, so I won’t repost here unless someone wants me to, but I have a question for **Daphne** : where did you get the theory about my having to repeat something? I wasn’t even _trying_ to build that red herring, so it took me a little by surprise. [/QUOTE] I dunno. I was grasping at straws. I searched your posts and couldn’t decide if it had anything to do with how you were introducing your posts or something (I noticed a lot of sort of ‘Well,’ and stuff and was suffering from a bit of tunnel vision I guess). I noticed you seemed to be doing the conversational gambit of repeating what the person before you had said, but I wasn’t clear how it was working (since, like, it wasn’t…) _Note: I haven’t yet read the forbidden thread_ ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/463 "2008-07-21T01:42:39Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] **Daphne** , I have to confess - I thought you got me, until you forgot that some paparazzi are freelance, not actually working for a specific publication. 😉 My quirk was that I was a paparazzi trying to get dirt on you, and the other two hosts. [/QUOTE] Gah! I knew it! I thought you were being a bit mean to me 🙂 Dagnabbit. I had you, and let you slip through my grasp. [/drama] ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/464 "2008-07-21T01:49:25Z")
Here’s a [hint](http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5037/srabs1.html) for mine. Er…psychopath, knight, salmon. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/465 "2008-07-21T01:51:31Z")
[QUOTE=Kat] Here’s a [hint](http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5037/srabs1.html) for mine. [/QUOTE] My big clue for you–only clue for you, I’m not good at guessing this kind of stuff–was when you chose me for the gnome to be behind. Of course, by that point in the game, the likelihood of the hosts figuring out all the remaining guests was slim to none. err, and here’s a helpful smiley for Daphne :smack: ---
**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:** [July 21, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/466 "2008-07-21T01:51:39Z")
My quirk was, I was a psychologist. I thought people would guess it in pretty short order… maybe I was too obscure in my posts? ---
**Author:** ![Omi\_no\_Kami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Omi\_no\_Kami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omi_no_Kami)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/467 "2008-07-21T02:01:28Z")
[QUOTE=DaphneBlack] I dunno. I was grasping at straws. I searched your posts and couldn’t decide if it had anything to do with how you were introducing your posts or something (I noticed a lot of sort of ‘Well,’ and stuff and was suffering from a bit of tunnel vision I guess). I noticed you seemed to be doing the conversational gambit of repeating what the person before you had said, but I wasn’t clear how it was working (since, like, it wasn’t…) _Note: I haven’t yet read the forbidden thread_ [/QUOTE] You actually picked up on an artifact of my normal writing. 😃 My quirk was that every post I made had to include at least one foreign word that had entered English untouched (taco, kimono, croissant, and so forth). The disallowed post was disallowed because I tried to convince **Twick** that since the traditional meaning of"post", “a type of stake,” came directly from French, it should be legal, but she wasn’t having any of it. 😃 ---
**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:** [July 21, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/468 "2008-07-21T02:15:03Z")
When my quirk was the first one guessed in the guest thread, I thought I was sunk. Once I got going, though, I think I got progressively more obscure (until even **Twickster** once had to ask me what one of my posts meant). Near the end, I started giving out a few more clues. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/469 "2008-07-21T02:20:23Z")
Mea Culpa! Two things! I forgot to say, “Ah ha! Have we won now?” AND, **twickster** did remember to send me the list of quirks; my hotmail filter got it. By the way, **Kat** , you are so clever! Not only with the “gnome-be-gone” bit, hee hee! But especially with the whole gnome hiding behind Eureka thing!! I never would have caught it if she hadn’t pointed it out. You must have gotten a good chuckle out of **that** one! Here is **twicks’s** list: HOSTS: DaphneBlack Oredigger77 Santo Rugger GUESTS: Antinor01 – Bette Davis films Dolores Reborn – wants to be Obama’s veep Drain Bead – monosyllabic Elendil’s Heir (Rysto) – shrink Justin Credible – colors Kat – silent letters Left Hand of Dorkness – SDMB cliches Omi no Kami – foreign words (at least one word picked up in English exactly as spelled in its language of origin) OtakuLoki – tabloid reporter (I’d originally said he was looking for a story on the hosts, but that seems to have gone by the way) Guessed: Autolycus – Munchausen syndrome Brujaja – anagrams Eureka – smileys Fachverwirrt (MadTheSwine) – Scrabble Inner Stickler – alpha order Revenant Threshold – Great Debates Tdn – musical genres Wargamer – questions (what game?) ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/470 "2008-07-21T02:21:44Z")
Yeah, I thought for sure someone would get mine when the only two-syllable word I used was in my “lie” that I was very good at this game. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/471 "2008-07-21T02:43:01Z")
I didn’t think I’d be able to pull off my quirk, but the late great Ms Davis had some fun film titles. My personal favorite post was managing to get “Now, Voyager” slipped into one with correct punctuation. 🙂 I had been wanting to use “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane” since the beginning and didn’t think I would manage but the 2 truths and a lie gave me the perfect opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/472 "2008-07-21T03:00:45Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] OtakuLoki – tabloid reporter (I’d originally said he was looking for a story on the hosts, but that seems to have gone by the way) [/QUOTE] What does she mean that fell by the wayside? I’ve got **Oredigger77** , admitting to having an unlicensed surgery here. I managed to get all sorts of twistable quotes from **Daphne**. And I have evidence to link all the hosts to the Illuminati. Sounds like a fun and profitable party for me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/473 "2008-07-21T06:17:42Z")
**Drain Bead** , you’re amazing! I never even noticed! duhhh. everybody…[sings] John Stuart Mill of his own free will, of a half a pint of shanty was particularly ill… [/sings] ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/474 "2008-07-21T10:50:29Z")
Yep, I had to use a color in all my posts. I figured mine would be one of the first guessed. ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/475 "2008-07-21T11:09:13Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] My quirk was, I was a psychologist. I thought people would guess it in pretty short order… maybe I was too obscure in my posts? [/QUOTE] That’s what I thought… I fell into ‘that’s too simple’ trap and was trying to see if it was more specific. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/476 "2008-07-21T11:12:29Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] I didn’t think I’d be able to pull off my quirk, but the late great Ms Davis had some fun film titles. My personal favorite post was managing to get “Now, Voyager” slipped into one with correct punctuation. 🙂 I had been wanting to use “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane” since the beginning and didn’t think I would manage but the 2 truths and a lie gave me the perfect opportunity. [/QUOTE] OK, well, I feel better now. I never would have gotten this one anyway. **LHoD** , I was snowed under by the weight of verbiage, I think. I had no idea. And I know all the damn cliches too. There sure was a lot of pie… **Drain Bead** , gah! Well done. ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/477 "2008-07-21T11:15:46Z")
[QUOTE=Justin Credible] Yep, I had to use a color in all my posts. I figured mine would be one of the first guessed. [/QUOTE] I was suffering tunnel vision on the magic/sci fi thing for some reason… well camoflaged. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/478 "2008-07-21T11:17:54Z")
[QUOTE=DaphneBlack] I was suffering tunnel vision on the magic/sci fi thing for some reason… well camoflaged. [/QUOTE] I thought you had me when you asked what my favorite color was. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/479 "2008-07-21T14:08:23Z")
Great Job guests. I’m sorry I didn’t post more but I was reading the thread and had no idea what the quirks were. Daphne great job picking up the slack and getting as many as you did. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240/480 "2008-07-21T14:23:00Z")
I thought I was giving it all away when I said I wanted to be jogging buddies (running mates) with Obama. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-quirks-ii-electric-boogaloo/456240.md?page=25)