# Son of Word Twickery **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 11, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-word-twickery/368230 "2006-08-11T00:48:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-word-twickery/368230/1 "2006-08-11T00:48:50Z")
Okay. It’s my (no doubt pathetic) hope that this will take y’all more than 15 minutes. What is the significance of the following list? MENDER UNEATEN HOKEY RUDER FRIGHT REUSE BEET USER PANTING INURED FAIR CHORINE ARREST COVERT ROSTER POLAR BBS POTION RETRAIN NAÏVE MORNING INERT LAYER BOING CAUSE LAY As always, pls. put your guesses in spoiler boxes for those who want to play along. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-word-twickery/368230/2 "2006-08-11T01:04:21Z")
Woo hoo! We’ve passed the 15-minute mark! **dance of joy** ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-word-twickery/368230/3 "2006-08-11T01:06:51Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] As always, pls. put your guesses in spoiler boxes for those who want to play along. [/QUOTE] Alphabetic additions in the 3rd letter position makes new words: ME **A** NDER, UN **B** EATEN, etc ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-word-twickery/368230/4 "2006-08-11T01:08:18Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Woo hoo! We’ve passed the 15-minute mark! **dance of joy** [/QUOTE] Only because I didn’t open the thread until the 14-minute mark… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-word-twickery/368230/5 "2006-08-11T01:14:08Z")
[QUOTE=Monstre] Only because I didn’t open the thread until the 14-minute mark… 😉 [/QUOTE] I’ll take the victory any way it comes. Because, of course, you’re right. But hell, I did enjoy those couple of minutes… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-word-twickery/368230/6 "2006-08-11T02:24:08Z")
I correctly identified the significance of the words on the list within about 15 seconds, though I would have been a little more casual in my description than **Monstre** was. Not that it matters, since I was not at my computer when you posted the puzzle. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-word-twickery/368230/7 "2006-08-11T03:59:40Z")
[QUOTE=Eureka] I correctly identified the significance of the words on the list within about 15 seconds [/QUOTE] So did I – just didn’t open the thread until just now. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-word-twickery/368230/8 "2006-08-11T10:41:40Z")
Well, aren’t you both _special_. [/Church Lady] ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-word-twickery/368230/9 "2006-08-11T10:59:43Z")
Okay, now use all those words in one sentence. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-word-twickery/368230/10 "2006-08-11T12:28:07Z")
I _meander_ed down the _unbeaten_ path, past a _rudder_less _hockey_ game, unburdened by the _freight_ and _refuse_ of the past, which often _beget_s and _usher_s in unfair expectations, _planting_ them in the minds of the _fakir_s, which has also _injured_ me in the past, and often acts like a sort of _chlorine_, bleaching out my memories and _convert_ing them into a kind of _armrest_ where I may pause a while before a _rooster_ crows in the back of my brain and I again notice the _poplar_s and _bbqs_\* of the neighborhood, a _portion_ from which I must be _restrain_ed, lest I go _native_\* and eat my fill, leaving the owners in _mourning_ over their loss (_insert_ your own invective here), upon which I shall be forced to hire a _lawyer_ and endure hours of _boxing_ in the legal arena even the _Cayuse_\* would be hard pressed to endure, and not because they are too _lazy_ but because they just wouldn’t typically put up with this kind of crap. Whew, I think I blew out a participle in there somewhere. Somewhere else, off in the distance, an English teachers crys out in pain and is lost. \*I think these are all a bit of a stretch on the lovely **Twix** ’s part. They’re _all_ a stretch on my part. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-word-twickery/368230/11 "2006-08-11T12:34:42Z")
**standing ovation** FTR: Cayuse is also a horse, thus not a proper noun. And, yeah, Q was the starting point – the only other possibilities I could find both had the added letter in the first position (far less interesting), and involved proper nouns _and_ brand names – Atari and Tip. And I don’t usually do the umlaut in naive, so I can live with myself there also. And **Eureka** and **Scarlett** may have found it revoltingly easy – but I just sold it to my old pals at _Games_, so nyah nyah nyah. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-word-twickery/368230/12 "2006-08-11T14:32:30Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > And Eureka and Scarlett may have found it revoltingly easy – but I just sold it to my old pals at Games, so nyah nyah nyah. Well, I wouldn’t say revoltingly easy, just easy enough to make your gloating about how long it took to solve your challenge irritating. In general, I find word puzzles like that either revoltingly easy, tedious, or exasperatingly difficult. My ability to find puzzles with just the right amount of challenge to appeal to me is limited. It’s like the lady I called yesterday who was so flattered that I had called to tell her I got a job offer. Um, look, it’s nice that I called you and all, but you do realize it wasn’t my idea? She was still flattered after she realized that I called at my mother’s prompting. Still, good for you, creating and selling your puzzle. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-word-twickery/368230/13 "2006-08-12T00:52:08Z")
It’s obviously not easy being you, **Eureka**. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-word-twickery/368230/14 "2006-08-12T01:28:56Z")
Well, if it makes everybody feel better, I had no freakin’ clue. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-word-twickery/368230/15 "2006-08-12T01:32:05Z")
You’re a good egg, **kambuckta**. 😉