# The Letter Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 20, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593 "2003-10-20T22:28:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 12

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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/221 "2003-11-05T21:03:34Z")

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By Jove, **Mooseman**! Only onions soothe earaches.

Who’s going to try the middle of my full name:

sophiesylviaserena

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/222 "2003-11-05T22:50:29Z")

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Eustace, don’t dawdle yet, tarrying endlessly, dreaming darkly, yet fainting readily. Eulogize Darwin, describing yourself.

So only piranhas have iridescent exoskeletons! Yes, llamas veto in anguish, sewing endless rows encapsulating native animals.

Pale usurpers mangle poets kindling imminent native salvation, questioning unwanted arguments simulating harangues.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/223 "2003-11-05T22:52:01Z")

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Eustace, don’t dawdle yet, tarrying endlessly, dreaming darkly, yet fainting readily. Eulogize Darwin, describing yourself.

So only piranhas have iridescent exoskeletons! So, yes, llamas veto in anguish, sewing endless rows encapsulating native animals.

Pale usurpers mangle poets kindling imminent native salvation, questioning unwanted arguments simulating harangues.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/224 "2003-11-05T22:54:30Z")

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Sorry about the double post and forgetting to put a word…

Going with the stream of things, **dwalin**!

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**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/225 "2003-11-06T00:06:00Z")

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Don’t we all like inebriated numerologists?

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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/226 "2003-11-06T05:16:17Z")

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451 young, unwed guys take liberties in undeveloped Quito.

Kudos for your masterly explication of my name, **dwalin**!

If you don’t want to use my userID, how about **explication**?

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**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/227 "2003-11-06T06:15:38Z")

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**explication** :

Every xray proves lice in cats are totally invisible on nightclothes.

**chinadoll**  
Did I just hear something about inebriated numerologists? :::ears perk up:::

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/228 "2003-11-06T06:19:45Z")

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Evil Xerxes penned long, incomprehensible cantos about terrifyingly iconoclastic old Nubians.

[b}Sternvogel\*\*

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**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/229 "2003-11-06T15:14:44Z")

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Stop thine eternal rant! No votary getteth esoteric language.

Methinks I woke up on the wrong side of the 14th century this morning.

A tip o’ th’ hat to **dwalin** for the _tour de force du jure_.

Since **EddyTeddyFreddy** has done me [brief pause while moronic moose wipes vaguely lecherous smirk from his face], and since **Blonde** has been overlooked, the password is:

Blonde

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**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/230 "2003-11-06T15:19:23Z")

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Er, should be . . ._oft_ getteth esoteric language.

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**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/231 "2003-11-06T15:33:01Z")

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Bring little ornaments, not dead eels.

Ok i want someone to do me now! :dubious:  
**Krys92gp**

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**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/232 "2003-11-06T21:56:20Z")

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Kohlrabi rates you say? 92 gardeners polled.

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**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:** [November 7, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/233 "2003-11-07T02:36:30Z")

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By the way, if your username’s already been done… you can always select from the vast pool of usernames we have here at our disposal. I don’t think we’ll run out of the, and it’ll screw up everyone’s vanity searches if they do those. _evil grin_

**BJMoose** : If you think **EddyTeddyFreddy** has too many cats, you should try my old friend Elizabeth’s menagerie of cats… she had 16 at one time. Thank goodness I kept the newsletter she sent me with photos of all her cats… otherwise, I’d never remember all the names.

**MommaCatIndianaWillowMaxwellCallieBonesTuxedoArielleTigerMollyMeggieEricCocoSkippyTeddy**

Note: This is a challenge… if you don’t want to do this, here’s an alternative. Still, I’d like to see **dwalin** or someone else do that big long string… if it doesn’t make your brain explode, that is! 😉 😃

**dantheman**

F\_X

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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/234 "2003-11-07T04:36:43Z")

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Man, oh, man! My ardor can’t adjust to infinite name dreadlocks, inevitably nneding dynamic impetus as new agonies whomp into leaden life.

Oh, wow – made an X-Acto – well, even leaving likely candidates alone, listing limited ideas eventually bores one.

No, even saying “Try!” upsets Xanthippe, ending dourly on a riuhless invasion. Evil lords lead eager trolls into gorges . Ermine robed monarchs oversee lollygagging ladies, young maids, endlessly giggling.

Gosh! I’m exceptionally excited regarding increased comfort. Couches of cushy outline soothe knackered images.

Please, please – your tribute earned? Did do yarely?

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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/235 "2003-11-07T04:38:32Z")

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Phew! I think I’ll go lie down now. 😉 Merely pointing out the typo in the third paragraph – _riuhless_ should of course be _ruthless_

**Davebear**

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**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/236 "2003-11-07T16:32:06Z")

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Dopers are very earnest blokes, always assaying redundancies.

(Better than my first effort, which ended with the exhortation “Eat a roach!”)

**ETF** , you’ve given me a title for my never-to-be-published biography: _Whomping Agonies_.  
**Slug Signorino**

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**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/237 "2003-11-08T15:46:28Z")

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Satire loosens up guys. 'See I’m generally not ornery, rarely, if nobody’s outspoken.

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**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/238 "2003-11-10T18:54:14Z")

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Ack! Should be “ever” sted “always” in my previous answer.

Since this thread seems to wafting towards the graveyard, and **quiltguy154** made no suggestion, I’ll suggest a username that almost certainly cannot be fairly played: **Maxxxie**.

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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/239 "2003-11-10T20:31:52Z")

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Movie: “Annie’s XXX Instructive Erotica.”

**LifeOnWry**

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**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208593/240 "2003-11-10T20:36:23Z")

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Living is fairly easy, or not. Why ruin yours?

**Polycarp**

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