# The 10 word game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-word-game/273374 "2004-11-06T19:10:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-word-game/273374/1 "2004-11-06T19:10:13Z")
Reductio ad absurdum. Describe anything in exactly 10 words. Moby Dick: Ahab seeks revenge. Whale sinks boat. Ismael lives to tell. Spanish Inquisition: Isabella rants, priest chants, Pope grants, doctrine slants, Galileo recants. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-word-game/273374/2 "2004-11-06T21:04:53Z")
_The Da Vinci Code_: Curator dies. Leonardo left clues. Grail is Mary’s kids. Apple iPod: Know your audience: cheap, portable digital music becomes market phenomenon. The Straight Dope Message Board: Attract intelligent, inquisitive people. Let them debate. Much hilarity ensues. ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-word-game/273374/3 "2004-11-06T21:09:35Z")
In answer to the question of whether man has ever visited the deepest part of the world’s oceans: Man visited Marianas Trench once. In 1960. For 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-word-game/273374/4 "2004-11-06T21:48:48Z")
Response to Nightwatch Trailer’s posting: Not many people know that. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-word-game/273374/5 "2004-11-06T22:31:42Z")
Marriage: Unalterable union blessed by God. Until the lawyers get invited. Divorce: My wife commits adultery. The courts say I must pay. Politicians: Chosen prostitutes. No foreplay, no kiss, just wetspot. Kittens: Fuzzy warm handfuls of love. They care no matter what. Parrots: Noisy beautiful feathered friends. Too smart for tiny brain. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-word-game/273374/6 "2004-11-06T23:12:14Z")
NaNoWriMo: Reach fifty thousand words or total insanity, or maybe both. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-word-game/273374/7 "2004-11-06T23:45:12Z")
_Citizen Kane_: Man becomes powerful tycoon, but dies thinking of beloved sled. 1920’s Style Death Rays: **Dogface** ’s triple post to [Scalar Weapons](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=202225) thread started running gag. ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-word-game/273374/8 "2004-11-07T11:48:56Z")
**Hi Opal!:** _Lists of two items are wrong because she said so._ **Cecil Adams:** _Perfect Master. Some believe that he is Ed. They’re wrong._ **"When come back, bring pie":** _Phrase originating from the internet cartoon [Weebl and Bob](http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/pie.htm). wanker_ ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-word-game/273374/9 "2004-11-07T11:52:35Z")
**The US election** Gay marriage, stem cells, and abortions trump dodgy casus belli. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Gutgore\_Blooddrink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Captain\_Gutgore\_Blooddrink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Gutgore_Blooddrink)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-word-game/273374/10 "2004-11-07T15:51:38Z")
> [@According to Pliny](#): > > Reductio ad absurdum. > Describe anything in exactly 10 words. Not to ruffle your feathers there, **Pliny** , but wouldn’t this be more of a game if we wrote ten words describing something and then the other Dopers had to guess? For instace: Nothing. Something about a map. No witch. End. Confusion ensues. The Blair Witch Project Still fun though! -resident MeatBeast ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-word-game/273374/11 "2004-11-07T16:08:08Z")
Works for me ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-word-game/273374/12 "2004-11-07T17:57:14Z")
John, Paul, George, Ringo. Magical chemistry, songs – and much heartbreak. Yer kidding, right? The Beatles. Funny, touching bio-pic about arguably world’s worst movie director ever. Ed Wood The unattainable holy grail for crackpot inventors since time immemorial. Perpetual-motion machines Tiny, pavement-hugging high-performance Italian roadster remains enduring icon. Porsche Jon Stewart dissed 'em for shallowness, empty spectacle, overheated clashes. “Crossfire” and their ilk. Oh fer f@&%'s sake, just pick up a rake already! Those damned noisy, high-polluting leaf blowers! Winter’s inconvenient, but at least it finishes off these pests. Mosquitoes Forget Christmas shopping in December – there’s a game to catch! The NFL playoffs Slowly undulating globules, joining and breaking, oddly hypnotic 60’s fixture. The lava lamp The first sign of impending holliday season. Who _buys_ these? Ch-ch-ch-CHIA PETS! ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-word-game/273374/13 "2004-11-08T04:35:36Z")
Not to be a wise guy, but when did Stuttgart move to Italy? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-10-word-game/273374/14 "2004-11-08T04:49:07Z")
Screams reverberate from every place: some of joy, some despair. Election 2004, of course.