I am thinking of a word. It is a commonplace word. One that you might use on any given day.
If you use it here, you’re dead.
I’ll look at your post. If you’re safe, you’re safe. If you’re dead, I’ll let you know.
What could the deadly word be? It is up to you to find out. Be careful, I am merciless.
And a hint: You see the word on this page.
No clues?
An easy way to play this game would be just not to post, then you know you’d be safe.
[sub]Am I dead yet?[/sub]
He gave a clue. Well, a hint, but that amounts to about the same thing 
How about “word”, dude?
Is that it? Huh, huh?
You only said it four times in your post, so that’s what I’m thinking it is.
You all survive. For now.
Of course, I could just quote your entire OP, and then I’d be dead for sure… but I want to live! Please, God, let me LIVE! I will clean your toilets for an entire week! With my tongue! In the name of all that’s GOOD and HOLY… <uncontrollable sobbing>
C’mon show us what you got. It is quite clear that your word is one of the following:
nonexclusive
irrevocable
printable
or… Jelsoft!
Now send me home in a casket.
let’s see if this gets me offed…
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Tars, I hope you had accidental death insurance.
You’re a goner.
MrVisible slides nimbly out of the shadows, armed with a lexicon of verbal weaponry deadly enough to make most literary critics blanch. Steely-eyed, glass-jawed, and hell-bent on the sort of swift, deadly violence that made his reputation, he locates his target: the ever-elusive Manservant Hecubus.
With a stealth only panthers know, he sneaks sneakily forward…
All that fantastic prose, and you end with “Sneaks sneakily?!?!”
Yipes, I didn’t just kill myself by posting here, did I?
Tars remains the lone victim…for now…
Jonny sits high watching Manservant thread his way through the forum looking for a guest of his to kill.
Suddenly he spots one and he’s off. He goes straight towards his target without mercy. Tars used every word. It seemed like an open and shut case. Who will be next? Is the stench of death drawing close again? Will it be me!
Doggedly, cat-like, MrVisible approaches the lair of the notorious Manservant Hecubus. Not even the air around him is disturbed as he moves through the shadows, not a single cricket ceases chirping in the night.
The warmly-lit suburban home before him seems innocuous enough. Front porch, bay window, veranda, buttresses, communications emplacements, light artillery, heavy artillery, medium artillery, and a two-tank garage. Nothing he hadn’t seen before.
Eluding M.H.'s rigorously-trained Secret Super Ninja Guards with ease, MrVisible sneaks sneakily (a particularly sneaky kind of sneaking, for which MrVisible has a patent pending) to within hearing distance of the dim figures behind the chintz curtains in the bay window.
The plan for world domination he overhears is insane, and needs to be stopped, of course. The carnage planned within the otherwise unimposing living room, as MrVisible crouched listening outside, was unspeakable. But most disturbing of all, they’d anticipated his attack. One word, one finely-honed verbal weapon from his arsenal, was booby-trapped.
And they’d used real boobies.
Tars takes one for the team!!!
Let’s see if I can narrow it down…
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So if Cecil Adams himself pops up to post a message on his own message board in this forum are you going to off him, too? Or is that fate only reserved for non-employees of the Chicago Reader?
It can’t be “Cecil Adams”, can it?
You wouldn’t dare bump off someone for uttering the Perfect Master’s name, would you???
I mean, I can see if we were taking it in vain, but…