# SDMB Posters Word Find **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 10, 2002, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800 "2002-09-10T14:27:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/1 "2002-09-10T14:27:07Z")
I did this with my own message group. Since we only have ~200 members on it, it was a lot easier to do. Here’s how it works. I’ll take the screen names of the first 20 people or so to post to this thread (who also want to play, of course). There’s a Web site where you can input up to something like 50 words, and a word-find puzzle is produced. So I’ll take the names, input 'em into the system, and voila! We’ll have a **Straight Dope Word Find**. Once the Word Find’s done, I’ll post the URL for it here, and you guys can waste time at work trying to find everyone. 🙂 Note: For members who have numbers in their screen name, I’m going to drop the numbers - it’s too easy to find you in the puzzle! Anyone game? Oh, and if we want to do a second, or third, or whatever, we can - I’ll just take the next set of 20-something. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/2 "2002-09-10T14:38:18Z")
How is it that we still have jobs? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/3 "2002-09-10T14:47:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ringo \* > \*\*How is it that we still have jobs? \*\* It’s pretty amazing, huh? Think what we could do if we could harness this energy for good rather than Mundane and Pointless. But where’s the fun in that? ---
**Author:** ![kitarak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kitarak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitarak)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/4 "2002-09-10T15:05:29Z")
Sure, why not? I for one _don’t_ have a job, and it’s more interesting than my complex method’s homework. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/5 "2002-09-10T15:10:02Z")
I’m unemployed right now too. If I could only get away from this computer for 5 minutes I probably could find myself a new job!! Count me in **dantheman**. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/6 "2002-09-10T15:33:51Z")
i’m still getting over the fact that “web developer” is actually a job and that people will pay me to play on the web - so count me in. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/7 "2002-09-10T15:34:36Z")
I’ll play too! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/8 "2002-09-10T15:37:47Z")
[Just as a note - if you don’t say you want to play, then I won’t put your name in. So if you feel like posting to this thread but don’t want to play, that’s completely cool. But if you do want to play, please say so. ;)] ---
**Author:** ![wayward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wayward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wayward)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/9 "2002-09-10T15:48:40Z")
Hell, I’d only be looking at porn anyway - I’m in. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/10 "2002-09-10T15:49:57Z")
I want to play. (Although I should be working.) Happy ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/11 "2002-09-10T15:50:15Z")
you mean i can’t look at porn at the same time??? not sure if i want to play now… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EggNogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@EggNogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EggNogg)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/12 "2002-09-10T15:54:06Z")
_Throws hat into arena_ Wait… bugger to late egg ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/13 "2002-09-10T16:01:55Z")
I want to play! Since I doubt we’ll be seeing my name in the New York Times crossword, this’ll have to be it. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/14 "2002-09-10T16:11:46Z")
I hate word finds. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/15 "2002-09-10T16:47:24Z")
Drop the hyphen: I won’t mind. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/16 "2002-09-10T18:12:39Z")
Count me in, but only because I really want to mock the 21st person who posts to this thread. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/17 "2002-09-10T18:29:05Z")
Me, please. I’m an egomaniac. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/18 "2002-09-10T20:01:40Z")
Hehe! Now I get to be in the wordsearch, and there’s nuthin you can do about it!😛 ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/19 "2002-09-10T20:20:56Z")
1. I don’t have a job. Of course, if I could drag myself away from the computer long enough to actually make some headway in that direction, I’d probably have one lickety-split! 2. Go ahead and drop the underscore. Still, I have a feeling that my name is going to be too easy to find, if only because of the “x”. 3. My moment of shining fame! Woohoo! 🙂 4. I love word finds. Methinks I should finish more word searches in my gigantic book of them… it has 469. (of course, if this download doesn’t work, then that’s what I’ll be doing… maybe) 5. And yes, I’m in. How could I not be? 😛 F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800/20 "2002-09-10T20:32:18Z")
Sounds like fun. I used to do word-finds with my Ma all the time. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-posters-word-find/127800.md?page=2)