# Thesaurus **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 19, 2016, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309 "2016-07-19T12:24:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 27
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/521 "2019-12-03T09:24:37Z")
1. It was (expressed poetically, even archaically) that time of day when darkness governed previous to the liturgical celebration of the event that has two conflicting biblical portrayals and completely skewered over 400 politicians that really need to get their stinking fecal matter together not a beast was causing excitement or _a responsive mental state_, not even a device that gets its shit precisely together at a pixel level. And I deleted **penultima** ’s misplaced apostrophe. đŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/522 "2019-12-03T14:35:27Z")
1. It was (expressed poetically, even archaically) that time of day when darkness governed previous to the liturgical celebration of the event that has two conflicting biblical portrayals and completely skewered over 400 politicians that really need to get their stinking fecal matter together not a beast was causing excitement or a responsive mental state, not even a device that gets its _anal semisolid waste discharge_ precisely together at a pixel level. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/523 "2019-12-03T15:36:57Z")
1. It was (expressed poetically, even archaically) that time of day when darkness governed previous to the liturgical celebration of the event that has two conflicting biblical portrayals and completely skewered over 400 politicians that really need to get their stinking fecal matter together not a beast was causing excitement or a responsive mental state, not even a _machine_ that gets its anal semisolid waste discharge precisely together at a pixel level. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/524 "2019-12-03T16:24:42Z")
1. It was (expressed poetically, even archaically) that time of day when darkness governed previous to the liturgical celebration of the event that has two conflicting biblical portrayals and completely skewered \*in excess of twenty score of \*politicians that really need to get their stinking fecal matter together not a beast was causing excitement or a responsive mental state, not even a machine that gets its anal semisolid waste discharge precisely together at a pixel level. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/525 "2019-12-03T17:08:17Z")
1. It was (expressed poetically, even archaically) that time of day when darkness governed previous to the liturgical _observance_ of the event that has two conflicting biblical portrayals and completely skewered in excess of twenty score of politicians that really need to get their stinking fecal matter together not a beast was causing excitement or a responsive mental state, not even a machine that gets its anal semisolid waste discharge precisely together at a pixel level. Grandma got run over by a reindeer 1. _One of my two parent’s mother_ got run over by a reindeer. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/526 "2019-12-03T17:53:36Z")
That’s an awfully short piece of text to work with. 1. _A whole number less than two but more than zero_ of my two parent’s mother got run over by a reindeer. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/527 "2019-12-03T18:02:12Z")
1. A whole number less than two but more than zero of my two parent’s mother got run over by a _hoofed mammal native to the northern climes of Europe, Siberia and North America_. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/528 "2019-12-03T18:02:19Z")
More of a challenge, are you up to it? 1. A whole number less than two but more than zero of my two _parental unit’s_ mother got run over by a hoofed mammal native to the northern climes of Europe, Siberia and North America. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/529 "2019-12-03T18:20:30Z")
1. A whole number less than two but more than zero of my two parental unit’s mother got run over by a hoofed mammal _commonly found in_ the northern climes of Europe, Siberia and North America. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/530 "2019-12-03T18:40:42Z")
Short ones that get longer are better than ones that start out long.đŸ˜‰ 1. A whole number less than two but more than zero of my two parental unit’s _parent of the female gender_ got run over by a hoofed mammal commonly found in the northern climes of Europe, Siberia and North America. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/531 "2019-12-03T18:47:26Z")
1. A whole number less than two but more than zero of my two parental unit’s parent of the female gender got _trampled to death_ by a hoofed mammal commonly found in the northern climes of Europe, Siberia and North America. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/532 "2019-12-03T19:06:18Z")
1. A whole number less than two but more than _a placeholder representing a lack_ of my two parental unit’s parent of the female gender got trampled to death by a hoofed mammal commonly found in the northern climes of Europe, Siberia and North America. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/533 "2019-12-03T21:39:36Z")
1. A whole number less than two but more than a placeholder representing a lack of my two parental unit’s parent of the female gender got trampled to death by a _homicidal cervine_ commonly found in the northern climes of Europe, Siberia and North America. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/534 "2019-12-04T01:03:13Z")
1. A whole number less than two but more than a placeholder representing a lack of my two parental unit’s parent of the female gender got trampled to death by a homicidal cervine commonly found in the _arctic and sub-arctic regions of the third planet from the sun_. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/535 "2019-12-04T01:06:20Z")
1. A whole number less than two but more than a placeholder representing a lack of my two parental unit’s parent of the female gender got trampled to _a lifeless state_ by a homicidal cervine commonly found in the arctic and sub-arctic regions of the third planet from the sun. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/536 "2019-12-04T01:07:34Z")
dupe ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/537 "2019-12-04T01:35:04Z")
1. _An integer_ less than two but more than a placeholder representing a lack of my two parental unit’s parent of the female gender got trampled to a lifeless state by a homicidal cervine commonly found in the arctic and sub-arctic regions of the third planet from the sun. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/538 "2019-12-04T03:20:49Z")
1. An integer less than two but more than a placeholder representing a lack of my two parental unit’s parent of the female gender got trampled to a lifeless state by a homicidal cervine commonly found in the arctic and sub-arctic regions of the third planet from _our local luminous mass of gas._ ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/539 "2019-12-04T12:31:26Z")
14\*. An integer less than two but more than a placeholder representing a lack of my two parental unit’s parent of the female gender got trampled to a lifeless _sovereign political entity_ by a homicidal cervine commonly found in the arctic and sub-arctic regions of the third planet from our local luminous mass of gas. - The number stayed at 14 because 8 got skipped. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309/540 "2019-12-04T14:40:39Z")
1. An integer less than two but more than a placeholder representing a lack of my two parental unit’s parent of the female gender got trampled to a lifeless sovereign political entity by a homicidal cervine commonly found in the arctic and sub-arctic regions of the third planet from our local _star_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thesaurus/760309.md?page=28)