# What gives? (Alphabet Game) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 19, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017 "2008-04-19T16:39:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017/61 "2008-04-23T05:29:54Z")
(actually, I did search, to see if there was a scifi flick or comic book I had overlooked 😃 ) Well, I had a loo-ooong workday during which to think of this; and it _almost_ makes sense: A banishment can digress elicit frightful guests however it jibes, keep less _magnificence noblesse_ or prohibit quiet rest solicit truthfullness ultimately, versus whatever X-ed-out your zest. ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017/62 "2008-04-23T12:01:04Z")
Wow! Brujaja that’s great. After struggling with my limerick-with-bad-rhythm, you pop out a gem! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017/63 "2008-04-23T12:14:11Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] (actually, I did search, to see if there was a scifi flick or comic book I had overlooked 😃 ) Well, I had a loo-ooong workday during which to think of this; and it _almost_ makes sense: A banishment can digress elicit frightful guests however it jibes, keep less _magnificence noblesse_ or prohibit quiet rest solicit truthfullness ultimately, versus whatever X-ed-out your zest. [/QUOTE] Quite nice. The Poetry Gold Donut now passes to **brujaja** for a spell. More on the “bruja” thing. Just asking. There’s a Manuel (or Miguel) de Falla piece called “El Amor Brujo” which (on the album cover anyway) was translated either The Love Magician or Love, The Magician. That’s the extent of my “knowledge” concerning “bruja” until yesterday when I got the impression that it must have at least one more potential meaning than magician. That said, and mixing languages, “bruja ja” could be taken to mean “sorceress, yes” at the very least. Is any of that intentional or is “brouhaha” all you meant? BTW, I just saw the thread about Rocket Surgery yesterday when it returned to the New Posts list. You were really cranking out some good stuff there for a while. I wish I had seen that thread when it was younger. I love those things, too. Not quite ready for that list are the Polish Proverbs I saw long ago: A fool and his gold weigh more than just the gold It is better to wear out your slippers dancing than to have your feet cut off He who casts no shadow knows no shame A tall man on horseback can look down on a short man on the ground There are only three things in life that are certain: marshmallows, orangutans, pillows and chairs Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on you, fool me three times, … It is far better to sit idle than to do nothing at all I have more… ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017/64 "2008-04-24T04:24:45Z")
**Zeldar** : Honestly, I knew “bruja” was Spanish for “female magic practitioner of some kind”; but I’d forgotten that most cultures make a distinction between a straight-up witch, and that nice \*curandera \* down the street. So, it is only long after selecting the name on a semi-impulse that I became aware that a bruja is not exactly perceived as a “good witch”. The funny thing is, although I am an animist in terms of religion, I am not overtly witchy, not at all. I never could stand the type of girl who goes around being all oodgie-woodgie and talking about “The Goddess”, just to get attention. (We have lots of those in California.) See, I had the same (another) username everywhere I go, all over the net, since 1997. I still like that name, but it was time for a change. My other choice was “djinni sequoia”; which I might eventually switch to here. It’s a play on “je ne se quois” – “I don’t know” in French. That would be really funny, because I’m a great big know-it-all! I love this Polish Proverb especially – “It is far better to sit idle than to do nothing at all.” There is a difference. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017/65 "2008-04-24T10:46:29Z")
Thanks for the additional data on your handle, **brujaja**. I think the other “yo no se” option would be a good one to switch to if the current one stales up on you. Speaking of old handles, when I was fooling around on those BBS’s in the 80’s, my handle was One Person, which, as things are prone to do, got shortened to OP and eventually Opie. Whenever the BBS crowd would get together for what, in those days, passed for a Dopefest, I was always Opie and it still resides on my Johnny Carson styled coffee mug sitting here beside me. The weird thing about the pre-internet BBS’s (unless you were there to form your own opinions) was that all the bullshit that’s now touted as “New Wave” by up-and-comer types was already getting to be old stuff when the true internet arrived. Quantum Link (or Q-Link) was a Commodore based national BBSish thing until it got bought up by AOL! I was a paying member of Q-Link for less than a month. (Before you go quoting the Q-Link to AOL part of this, you might want to check the facts for accuracy. It’s just something I heard and never checked myself for accuracy.) Anyway, rambling was easy then and I learned to capitalize on a tendency to do so. Why don’t you propose a challenge or new direction for this thread? Anything goes, as far as I’m concerned. It seems to have attracted just a few of us. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017/66 "2008-04-24T16:53:37Z")
I didn’t get into computers until a bit later, but my brother was one of those guys at Cal Berkeley they called the Homebrew Society. He went on to write a program or two. 😉 Well, I always liked "before & after"s. You know, two phrases where a common word ends the first phrase and begins the second. The classic example is “bi-polar bear”. Message in a bottle blond. On top of the world domination. Victoria’s secret code ring. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017/67 "2008-04-24T16:59:34Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja] I didn’t get into computers until a bit later, but my brother was one of those guys at Cal Berkeley they called the Homebrew Society. He went on to write a program or two. 😉 Well, I always liked "before & after"s. You know, two phrases where a common word ends the first phrase and begins the second. The classic example is “bi-polar bear”. Message in a bottle blond. On top of the world domination. Victoria’s secret code ring. [/QUOTE] Nice! Roy Rogers and Hammerstein A Long Day’s Journey Into Night Of The Hunter Don’t Be Cruel Intentions A Farewell To Arms And The Man Who Came To Dinner Stuart Little House On The Prairie Home Companion They Call The Wind Mariah Carey Grant ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017/68 "2008-04-24T18:34:46Z")
Ooooh, you’re good! I love “Stuart Little House on the Prairie Home Companion”! Ummmm…monkey see no evil. Home on the Range Rover. Lightspeed kills. Hurry back and forth. Go, and sin no more the merrier. Hard Day’s Night of the Living Dead in the water. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017/69 "2008-04-24T18:40:23Z")
Deacon Blues in the Night of the Iguana Jailhouse Rock-a-bye My Baby Love is a Many Splendored Thing Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On The Good Ship Lollipop Call of the Wild at Heartbreak Hotel California Dreaming ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017/70 "2008-04-24T21:46:09Z")
::numenous shiver:: I see I am in the presence of greatness. one of these Days of Future Past participle. sixty nine to five oh one anna’ two by four one one on one (69, 9-5, 501, Lawrence Welk, 2x4, 411, 1 on 1) Rolling Stone Poneys? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017/71 "2008-04-24T22:00:11Z")
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Galahad Gone with the Wind in the Willows Weep for Me and My Shadow Killing Me Softly With His Song Sung Blue Moon Over Miami ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017/72 "2008-04-25T01:47:42Z")
I should have known better late than never say never. Left out on a limb from limb. Bat from hell you say what. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017/73 "2008-04-25T11:59:01Z")
Needle in a Hey, There’s A Place For Us Down to the Last Train To Clarksville When You Wish Upon a Starbucks You Asked For It Might As Well Be Springtime In The Rocky Mountain High Noon Take Me To Your Leader Of The Packrat Dance With Me Henry Ford Fairlane Would You Like To Take A Walk On The Wild Sidewalks Of New York State Of Mind Over Matter ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017/74 "2008-04-25T16:24:47Z")
Before-Middle-and-After from musical theatre: Anyone Can Whistle Down the Wind In The Willows ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017/75 "2008-04-26T06:03:01Z")
Singin’ in the Raindrops keep falling on my Head over heels in love heart attack dog tough love nest Old Spice Girls selloutcast cold shoulder pads [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gives-alphabet-game/446017.md?page=3)