# Word Game or Amutterance \*\*ZOMBIE THREADSPOTTING\*\*

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [January 4, 2000, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765 "2000-01-04T17:41:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2000, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/1 "2000-01-04T17:41:00Z")

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This might be an interesting little exercise in experimental etymology. Here are the ground rules. I’ll post a fabricated word at the end of this to get us started.

The next poster must then provide a definition of that word and follow it with their own contrivance. Ready? Good, here ye go.

**Scroticle**

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Easy one-step assembly instructions.  
Pour **Beer A** in **Uncle B**.

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**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2000, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/2 "2000-01-04T17:44:00Z")

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Word game using tiny tiles in the shape of male genetalia.

Amoozing

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**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/3 "2000-01-05T06:00:00Z")

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Amoozing – the only word to describe **imthecowgodmoo**.

## Next word: nerforce.

I thought of a clever new sig line last night, but I forgot it when I woke up this morning.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/4 "2000-01-05T06:07:00Z")

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nerforce:how fast a nerf ball must be traveling to break a lamp! ta-da.  
greelamm

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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/5 "2000-01-05T06:28:00Z")

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What Mary had, after it died and the corpse got moldy.

Primiling.

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Chaim Mattis Keller  
[cmkeller@compuserve.com](mailto:cmkeller@compuserve.com)

“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the  
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be  
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.  
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”  
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective

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**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/6 "2000-01-05T06:31:00Z")

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primiling- the act of quickly putting on make-up…related to pummeling but with a different outcome. 😉

soyull

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/7 "2000-01-05T06:35:00Z")

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**Soyull** - the belt of faecal matter and urine globules ejected from 1970s spacecraft now orbiting the planet.

**Gabsapping**

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I never touched him, ref, honest!

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**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/8 "2000-01-05T06:44:00Z")

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Gabsapping: Tarot for maple trees.

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“Wednesday the 15th - Chris made one of her rare good points today.”  
_Guanolad_

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**Author:** ![Sake\_Samurai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sake\_Samurai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sake_Samurai)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/9 "2000-01-05T06:44:00Z")

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Gabsapping: Using overly emotional rhetoric to appeal to pathos.

**Urinatorial**

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Hell is Other People.

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**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/10 "2000-01-05T06:47:00Z")

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Alright, I’ll overlook a simul-post…I forgot to make up a word anyhow.

Urinatorial: The report and request made by one parent to another when the baby needs a new diaper.

Estrolyte

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“Wednesday the 15th - Chris made one of her rare good points today.”  
_Guanolad_

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**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/11 "2000-01-05T06:48:00Z")

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**Urinatorial** :

Describing any oratory speech given on the 7th planet.

**Scabbinum**

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**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/12 "2000-01-05T06:50:00Z")

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Crap! Don’t want **Chris** to yell at me again so…

**Estrolyte** :

Buxom altar boy.

**Scabbinum**

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**Author:** ![Surgoshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Surgoshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surgoshan)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/13 "2000-01-05T06:57:00Z")

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Scabbinum - the place where fallen off scabs congregate.  
introfuscation

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**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/14 "2000-01-04T19:00:00Z")

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introfuscation

the art of confusing oneself

mangry

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**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2000, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/15 "2000-01-04T19:09:00Z")

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Mangry - A mood Dopers are left in when posed a certain riddle.

**Blobitar**

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Well, shut my mouth. It’s also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling.

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**Author:** ![Dizzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d78d45/32.png) [@Dizzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/16 "2000-01-04T19:10:00Z")

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mangry  
A strong need or craving for males.

twanarium

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Dizzy

_You people have been holding me back long enough! I’m going to clown college!_

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/17 "2000-01-04T19:13:00Z")

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Whoops, time for some maintenance.

Blobitar - A sitar made of pudding

Twanarium - An aquaium displaying twine

**Phobiphore**

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**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2000, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/18 "2000-01-04T19:15:00Z")

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Phobiphore - A fear monger

Trapknee

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Elmer J. Fudd,  
Millionaire.  
I own a mansion and a yacht.

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**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/19 "2000-01-04T19:21:00Z")

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Trapknee: A sand hazard in the middle of a dog-leg hole on a golf course

Feltstrew:

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Live a Lush Life  
Da Chef

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**Author:** ![Mr\_Thin\_Skin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mr\_Thin\_Skin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Thin_Skin)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-or-amutterance-zombie-threadspotting/13765/20 "2000-01-04T19:27:00Z")

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feltstrew: Belly button lint  
hammerlass

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