# The describe y in x number of words challenge. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 16, 2003, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189 "2003-06-16T11:54:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/181 "2003-06-20T23:38:57Z")
Is it not having to cook? Is it someone dancing attendance on me? Is it not doing the dishes? Actually, it’s all three. Tell me what you think about all this freakin’ rain in 11 words. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/182 "2003-06-20T23:43:08Z")
I wish it would come to Saskatchewan, we want it badly. Describe a dandilion in 18 words. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/183 "2003-06-20T23:49:52Z")
It blossoms in my flowerbed And, blooming, shows a yellow head. It’s fun to _poof_ the seeds instead. In 39 words, tell me: where did you last leave that thing you lost? You know, the one you’ve been trying to find for hours now? ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/184 "2003-06-21T01:00:43Z")
I actually haven’t lost anything of any relative importance in the last two weeks. However, if I had, and I knew where it was, it wouldn’t be at all lost. Therefore, your entire question is pointless, while refreshingly paradoxical. In 35 words, describe the sounds coming from your computer speakers right now. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/185 "2003-06-21T01:59:45Z")
The sounds coming from my speakers right now are voices and instruments of Clannad. I have just watched Last of the Mohicans and I am trying to find several tunes from the film. Good film. Describe your childhood in 12 words. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/186 "2003-06-21T03:43:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Describe your childhood in 12 words. Moved. Moved again. Moved again. One parent, then the other. Sorta sucked. Describe your favorite insect in 43 words. ---
**Author:** ![Melanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Melanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melanie)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/187 "2003-06-21T07:10:28Z")
The dung beetle eats bits from other animals’ poo. A male dung beetle will find a big ball of poo and roll it many miles to his loved one’s home. Sometimes the poo will be stolen while he is getting his just rewards. Describe ‘hope’ in 37 words. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/188 "2003-06-21T12:34:43Z")
Hope was Mel Harris’s character in “thirtysomething.” She was married to Ken Olin’s character, even though Ken Olin is married to Patricia Wettig, who played Timothy Busfield’s wife, in real life. I always found this somewhat bizarre. What’s your reaction to the Harry Potter hoopla? 15 words. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/189 "2003-06-21T13:21:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by twickster \* > \*\*What’s your reaction to the Harry Potter hoopla? 15 words. \*\* Where is my book? I’m desperate! Tracking shipping over internet… Where is the FEDEX guy??? Describe your favorite cookie in 21 words. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/190 "2003-06-21T14:10:01Z")
White chocolate chips and cranberries. Oh. My. God. You can take over the world with these. Absolutely the best cookies ever. Trickle-down economics in 28 words. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/191 "2003-06-21T15:16:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Trickle-down economics in 28 words. Well, the rich folks get more tax breaks. In THEORY they make more products, which means more jobs, whic means more money for the lower classes. (a note: I am fuzzy on the theory itself, so my answer may actually be WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!) In Spring, a young man’s fancy slowly turns…in 44 words. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/192 "2003-06-22T14:39:54Z")
…to the same thing it turns to every other time of the year. Love? I think not. More like … (ya know, I feel sadly unqualified to address this, being a middle-aged woman, but I’m gonna take a whack at it [so to speak] … boobies. Your mom’s best recipe: 15 words. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/193 "2003-06-22T20:12:27Z")
Eggplant parmigiana, with exactly the right amounts of eggplant and parmigiana. And a good sauce. You people sure you can handle another topic from me? 😉 Tell me when and how the weather in the Northeast will return to normal in 43 words. Be creative! ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/194 "2003-06-24T01:01:36Z")
After an extremely rare Nor’easter on the 4th of July drops 3 feet of snow, the Northeast will finally settle down to sultry 100+ degree days with 90+ percent humidity replete of disease carrying mosquitos until November when another Nor’easter hits the Northeast. Describe any “hole-in-one” you have experienced in life in 28 words… ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/195 "2003-06-24T01:43:25Z")
Lying across the table- tackled by this pretty girl- we’ve been flirting for a week. She pulls her tongue from my mouth- “Take me home. Fuck me. NOW.” Describe your first adult experience with extreme weather conditions in 16 words. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/196 "2003-06-24T05:55:22Z")
Rained so hard that I was soaked just walking down the block. Went home, had cocoa. Describe an encounter with a wild animal in 26 words. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/197 "2003-06-24T07:23:12Z")
Lying across the table- tackled by this pretty girl- we’ve been flirting for a week. She pulls her tongue from my mouth- “Take me home. Fuck me. NOW.” 😃 Okay, so that’s 28 words. Still took care of itself nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/198 "2003-06-24T07:33:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tikki \* > \*\* > Describe an encounter with a wild animal in 26 words. \*\* Racoon looks up with expectant eyes. “Shoo,” we say. It tracks us, and underbrush rustling suggests it has friends. Under duress, we drop taffy. Racoon has problems chewing. Describe the most irritating incident you’ve had with a stranger in 40 words, separated into two disctinct “acts” of exactly 20 words each. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/199 "2003-08-30T21:04:19Z")
I was on a rolley chair, I backed up to get something out of the printer and banged into someone. On the way back, I accidently banged into him again. First time, gave me a look. Second time: “Watch it” Sum up what this board is all about, and describe it’s purpose in 7 words. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189/200 "2003-08-30T21:28:30Z")
Fighting ignorance, except when persecuting righteous conservatives. 🙂 Chastise me for making such a blatantly partisan statement in an inappropriate forum in 23 words. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-describe-y-in-x-number-of-words-challenge/182189.md?page=11)