# Telegram...a game. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2000, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948 "2000-05-19T04:31:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/21 "2000-05-19T17:12:21Z")
Oh, double argh! The letters are: D G E R K M H H Q R ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/22 "2000-05-19T17:21:51Z")
D G E R K M H H Q R : Destroy German engineer’s redoubt. Kindly mention Hitler’s halitosis (query) rubella? K O T N H J P I R F ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/23 "2000-05-19T17:22:23Z")
Mine seems more like a bizarre _Onion_ headline… **Dogmatic Godhead Explodes! Repercussions Killed Millions! Humanistic Heathens Question Reality** Here are the next letters: V Z E E E E J Q Z X :: evil laugh :: ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/24 "2000-05-19T17:41:20Z")
I’ll take 'em both on: Keys on table next hairdryer. Just put inside right fender. Versatile zookeeper ends evil elephant’s exile. Jumbo quenches zoological xenophobia. My turn: C H A M B E R P O T ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/25 "2000-05-19T17:42:05Z")
> [@](#): > > V Z E E E E J Q Z X (Picture an office worker who just left his job, and now is trying to lead an office revolt.) Victory! Zero employment! Everybody! Email existing job! Quit! Zero Xeroxes! I won’t be so cruel as the Prince of Darkness … K A M R C F D B G E ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/26 "2000-05-19T17:49:05Z")
Can’t have any Malox? Bowels empty, readily pooping on toilet. Thought it fit the word… K D L E F T S M N D ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/27 "2000-05-19T17:59:12Z")
Kant automatically makes reality concrete, failing dubiously. Broad, generalized events? And I’ll leave my above letters… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gold1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gold1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gold1)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/28 "2000-05-19T18:15:10Z")
Keep always mocking rhetoric coming for death bears great entertainment! how about YFMBUTRDPW ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/29 "2000-05-19T18:29:25Z")
Here’s both: K D L E F T S M N D Kindly delete last effort. Failure to scan means no delight! YFMBUTRDPW You friggin’ maniacs burn up the rest (decent posters will). JIKREMHCCX ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/30 "2000-05-19T18:31:25Z")
Your Fucking Message Board’s Unusual Today. Really Dumb People Writting. And the new letters are: X X X X X X X X X X :: eviler laugh :: * * * Yer pal, Satan _I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR: One month, one week, three days, 16 hours, 30 minutes and 34 seconds. 1627 cigarettes not smoked, saving $203.44. Life saved: 5 days, 15 hours, 35 minutes._ ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/31 "2000-05-19T19:04:30Z")
Xerxes, Xeno, Xander, xenophobic Xavier & xenophon41 x-ray xanthic Xanthippe’s xylophone. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/32 "2000-05-19T19:07:01Z")
Oh yeah, and the new letters are: ISICHWTEBA ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/33 "2000-05-19T19:07:53Z")
Okay…cut me a break on the first verb. Xerophthalmic, xanthous Xhosas x-claim, “Xenophobics xerograph xylophagous, xylotomous xylophonists’ xiphisterna!” Hey, at least it makes sense. Try this one… M W D L T S A B J S ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/34 "2000-05-19T19:14:56Z")
ISICHWTEBA If **Satan** is crazy, he’ll want to exchange barbs again. M W D L T S A B J S “Mah word, dat li’l thang **Satan** am bad,” Jemimah said. HCNVVVVBGT ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/35 "2000-05-19T20:05:22Z")
ROFL at that second one xenophon41! 😉 Hypocrites communicate no veracity. Verily, vicious vagabonds begin gainsaying truth. YDWAFOMBBH ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/36 "2000-05-19T20:25:43Z")
You Didn’t Want A Freightcar Of Monkeys Brought By Here? MGKYIPSDRE ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/37 "2000-05-19T20:41:48Z")
Many gain knowledge, yet intend purely specious denials regarding enlightenment. OPBNOYUGFL ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/38 "2000-05-19T20:45:10Z")
My grandma kept yelling in Papa’s seemingly deaf right ear. Now try this one on for size: QWERTYUIOP ---
**Author:** ![Rosethorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Rosethorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosethorn)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/39 "2000-05-19T21:04:43Z")
QWERTYUIOP Quick! Women Everywhere Revolt! You, Unite If Obfusciatrist Persists! POPLUMONE ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948/40 "2000-05-19T21:07:41Z")
Older people bring nifty offerings. Yenta urges girl for lad. and QWERTYUIOP Quit wasting everyone’s rare time you useless, ignorant, old poster! ZUENTIDFTH [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegram-a-game/19948.md?page=3)