We haven't had a new word game in awhile. How about a word jumble? You figure out the word and then post a new one for the next person. Okay, now, let's not make the words too obscure or no one will ever be able to figure them out.

TMASIG

Stigma

FRUGEE

LABESLAB

[This message was edited by jerry thomas on Sat Nov 1st, 2003 at 0:31.]

baseball

YOUBALDED

(or, if you prefer, ALBEDOYUD)

[I am not sure if that is right]

GATHIL

ALIGHT

quote:

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"I am not sure if that is right"

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Few of us are ever sure, Kalleh,but we bumble along in the absence of a qualified judge.


FREEEER

Referee

POWRLYDA

WORDPLAY

GELOHILOP

Looks like logophile.

And yes, Abner was correct. It's really a flouting of the unstated no-proper-names-allowed practice but it seemed to follow "baseball" naturally. (Or maybe that should have been "precede"?)

Anyway.

ucilgars (Hofstadter, p.88)

Hofstadter p. 88?

TABUFUELI

quote:

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but it seemed to follow "baseball" naturally. (Or maybe that should have been "precede"?)

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It doesn't for me. Aren't Doubleday a firm of publishers? What is their connection with baseball?

Forgot to post the answer!

TABUFUELI

Beautiful

VIDOINIS

division

MONEYTRIOTRG

TRIGONOMETRY

Abner Doubleday invented baseball. Was it Bob Newhart who had that hilarious sketch of Mr. Doubleday trying to sell it to a game manufacturer?

And re ucilgars: Douglas Hofstadter, three books or so after Godel/Escher/Bach, wrote one which dealt with available programs/problems dealing with artificial intelligence for the computer, and used anagramming as one capacity of the human brain that was worthy of dissecting and trying to reproduce heuristicaly. On page 88 of Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies (Hofstadter, D. R., & The Fluid Analogies Research Group (1995). Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought) he presented that collection of letters, and for whatever reason I found it more difficult than many, hence worthy of offering now.

MADENNU

[This message was edited by haberdasher on Mon Nov 3rd, 2003 at 14:11.]

Oh, Hab, of course I should have known that!

MADENNU

Unnamed

LENGELITNIT

LENGELITNIT

Intelligent

TINMEATANT

attainment??

MADENNU
(Actually, I had another word in mind...much more ordinary than "unnamed")

Altogether too esoteric. When you get it there won't be any question.

ATOGEE

(Aside: can there be soprano gethers and bass gethers too? Is there a Tenorona, PA?)

GOATEE



SUBREDNIS

That must be General BURNSIDES !

STUMPHTONOC

mundane?

STUMPHTONOC

This one is hard! Muttonchops?????

CAINFAT

FANTASTIC! Muttonchops it is. That's a style of facial hair, sort of super-sideburns...I'm sure you can find an illustration without too much trouble; sorry I don't have the time right now.

stevedorress

[This message was edited by haberdasher on Wed Nov 5th, 2003 at 9:11.]

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Originally posted by haberdasher: Muttonchops a style of facial hair, sort of super-sideburns...I'm sure you can find an illustration without too much trouble; sorry I don't have the time right now.

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Here you go.

P.S. about "mundane":

Didn't I say it was "ordinary" and "not esoteric" ?

Wordnerd, thanks; I found this one.

I can't get yours, Hab. Can anyone else? This is the best I can do:

Dessert's over!

STEVEDORRESS is OVERSTRESSED...

How about DIVORCEYS

[This message was edited by Ros on Thu Nov 6th, 2003 at 4:05.]

DISCOVERY

How about CREOSITE (warning: this one _is_ esoteric!)

ESOTERIC


MUSCOISTRUP

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warning: this one _is_ esoteric!

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Um... esoteric?
Or perhaps coteries

For adults only...
INTOVAGINA

OK, Jerry beat me to it.

MUSCOISTRUP

scrumptious

For adults only...

INTOVAGINA

(Remember that old one? "Can you think of a seven-letter word with three "u"s in it" ? It's unusual." Works better spoken than written.)

NAVIGATION

For discriminating appetites everywhere -

PAREUNEIC

EPICUREAN


ALIBAMORINA

Nothing is ringing bells.

Haven't fully proofread these but
--if you're feeling risque it's LABIA MINORA
--if you replace AN with ME it becomes MEMORABILIA
--if you're titled and have a French friend he's a BARONIAL AMI

So far that's all I come up with.

(( "The previous item was .... risqué," he said, nymphatically. .. ))



ONIONBUTTIANINTLAN

[This message was edited by jerry thomas on Fri Nov 7th, 2003 at 18:27.]

"That's easy, by far, though more letters there are," said Edgar poetically.

SOVERAUN

But I still don't have BALIROMANIA unscrambled.

Ravenous

[Oh, my gosh! I worked forever on Jerry's!]

CAPYEARICCI

I may not be following my own rules because it is not very easy; yet you guys have done some very hard ones! Hints are available, if need be!

I would never take pleasure in someone else's misfortune. (Unless, of course, I thought it was thoroughly deserved..)

SUPERFLUITY

HACYTIR

but I still don't have AMINOBARAIL

charity

SPURTUIS

((( "LABIA MINORA" was a misteak. It's two words. Forget it. If you can. )))

((( Also, "TINTINNABULATION" had a superfluity of letters )))

PURSUITS


YAPLOGO

No apology needed.


TFRONTOGE

[This message was edited by haberdasher on Sat Nov 8th, 2003 at 11:27.]

Jerry and Haberdasher have a way of confusing me! [It must be the literalist in me! ]

FORGOTTEN

AANNEGERMTERR

rearrangement

SHADBEERRAH

BASTINA

(Good for you, arnie. Glad you got there before I did. I would have had a _lot_ of trouble with AANNEGERMTERR.)

ABSTAIN


(( "SHADBEERRAH" is obviously an Irish Gaelic expression meaning, "Who poured ale on the caviar?"

ARNEESTHORNT

[This message was edited by jerry thomas on Sun Nov 9th, 2003 at 8:16.]

Northeastern

[though, I also like "Her tone rants" or "Rats enter, Hon"]

Now for those of you, who, like me, want to know the answers (I have a compartmentalized brain, I guess ), here are the 2 discussed above:

CAPYEARICCI.....EPICARICACY

SHADBEERRAH.....HABERDASHER

And, I thought this would be a simple word scramble when I started it!

RAWLBSCEL

Isn't a "screwball" what some people call a "slider"?

Edit: aparently almost, but not quite. For much more than you ever wanted to know about throwing a baseball try this link! (and forgive, if you can, the "orientated" in the discussion of the knuckleball!)

[b]SUPERERS/b]

[This message was edited by haberdasher on Sun Nov 9th, 2003 at 14:38.]

pressure

(or possibly perusers)

GIANTBREELC

CELEBRATING

EYEPIP !