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Bluffing game - just found a terrific word for the game: ARSEVERSE

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October 12, 2008, 15:33
BobHale
Bluffing game - just found a terrific word for the game: ARSEVERSE
I hope no one minds if I jump in here but I just came across this word and thought, "I have to use that for the bluffing game."

Answers in the usual place please.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
October 12, 2008, 15:46
<Proofreader>
Mine is wending its insipid way to somewhere in the Motherland.
October 14, 2008, 18:04
Valentine
I'm almost sure I've seen this word before, but I sure can't place it.

Great word for this game. I'll send mine ASAP.
October 14, 2008, 18:12
<Asa Lovejoy>
Given the myriad people I now see with tattooed slogans, I don't doubt there's plenty of arse verse out there.
October 17, 2008, 02:58
BobHale
And so far we have Proofreader, Kalleh, Asa, arnie, Valentine, Stella, my own humble red herring and the real definition.

Any more? Suggestions will be posted tomorrow for your perusal.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
October 17, 2008, 19:21
<Asa Lovejoy>
I'll likely miss it since I'll be out of town. So, I'll pick #4 - whatever it is! Wink
October 17, 2008, 21:19
Kalleh
Bob, I have a simple request. Could you please put my daffynition in the #4 slot? Thanks so much. Wink
October 18, 2008, 19:00
bethree5
#4warned is #4armed.
October 18, 2008, 19:10
<Proofreader>
#4armed = 0.5octopus
October 18, 2008, 19:16
jerry thomas
#4armed = .666 insect.
October 19, 2008, 05:21
BobHale
Here then is this week's collection of suggestions for this unlikely sounding word.


1. doggerel

2. stern-first, backwards; describes orientation of craft (chiefly barge) maneuvering into slip (naut. slang)

3. Fear of walking backwards

4. Backwards

5. Low Victorian slang for "Hell", also used as general expletive.

6. Writing by the artist on the back of paintings.

7. A magical spell to prevent burning

8. dull, lacking shine

9. A canard or faux pas

10. A particularly raunchy limerick.

11. Stubborn, allegedly from the perceived difficulty in persuading an ass (donkey) to walk backwards

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"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
October 19, 2008, 05:48
<Proofreader>
The French collaborator, standing on the faldstool with a nous around his neck, would pray loudly to God for assistance but all that would issue from his mouth would be #1.
October 19, 2008, 12:36
stella
I'm persuaded by #11.
October 19, 2008, 15:52
bethree5
An arseverser late of Ol’ Arseverse
Arseversedly thought of an arse-curse
On the arseverse side
Of his oeuvre with pride
To inscribe on his arse in the transverse.

Now all the divils down in Ol’ Arseverse
Rose up to give him an arse-curse:
“We’ll see you arse-first
‘Til yer arses-drawn hearse
Twelve circles of Arseverse traverse!”

Tho the arseverser harbored perverse
Desires to commit this arseverse
He was somewhat arseverse
His arse to immerse
In the Styx, so he chose to arseverse.
* * * * * *

I'll have #5, pliz.
October 19, 2008, 17:09
Kalleh
Number 8.
October 19, 2008, 17:39
<Proofreader>
A Siamese twin from Arseverse
Had a brother, extremely perverse,
Who just curled up and died
And now lies just inside
While his twin bro' runs ‘longside the hearse.
October 19, 2008, 17:52
jerry thomas
A contortionist, very perverse,
Tried to mime meaning for "arseverse."
He was in a position
To need a physician,
Or a kinesiologist nurse.
October 19, 2008, 18:57
<Proofreader>
This injured contortionist falleh
Cried out in pain and he said, “Walleh,
I will need a good nurse
To help offset this curs-
Ed pain. Looks like a job for Kalleh.”
October 20, 2008, 06:56
arnie
Number 2 for me, please.


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
October 20, 2008, 07:51
BobHale
So far we have a 1, an 11, a 5, an 8, and a 2 and a 4 from Asa EVEN before any definitions were posted.

Any takers for 3,6,7,9 or 10?


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
October 20, 2008, 10:44
Valentine
I'll go for #1.
October 20, 2008, 10:54
BobHale
Answers will be published sometime tomorrow, assuming my head clears enough by them to sort it all out.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
October 21, 2008, 08:09
BobHale
1. doggerel

both proofreader and Valentine chose bethree5's low verse as their answer

2. stern-first, backwards; describes orientation of craft (chiefly barge) maneuvering into slip (naut. slang)

and arnie reversed into bethree5's other definition

3. Fear of walking backwards

stella backed out of fooling anyone with this definition

4. Backwards

Kalleh's straightforward, or perhaps straightbackward, definition spookily fooled Asa even before he read it (See, you only have to ask and I obey!)

5. Low Victorian slang for "Hell", also used as general expletive.

bethree5 may well utter an expletive at being fooled by the first of two that I made up, but it won't be "arseverse"

6. Writing by the artist on the back of paintings.

The writing was on the wall for this one, which fooled nobody

7. A magical spell to prevent burning

for a change nobody got the real definition which comes from Thomas Wright's Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English (1857) where the word is defined as "A pretended spell written upon the door of a house to keep it from burning". I have no idea why the spell should be "pretended".

8. dull, lacking shine

arnie's definition shone for Kalleh

9. A canard or faux pas

Asa's canard or faux pas was one of his rare faux pas, fooling no one.

10. A particularly raunchy limerick.

proofreader's raunchy limerick just wasn't raunchy enough to lure anyone in

11. Stubborn, allegedly from the perceived difficulty in persuading an ass (donkey) to walk backwards

I persuaded stella with the second of my own offerings.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
October 21, 2008, 11:54
Kalleh
Congrats, Bob! It is hard to spoof these esteemed Wordcrafters!
October 21, 2008, 13:01
<Proofreader>
Did someone win?
October 21, 2008, 14:00
arnie
quote:
I have no idea why the spell should be "pretended".

Probably he didn't want readers of his dictionary to think he believed it was real.
quote:
Did someone win?
Bob, I suppose, since he found a word that no-one knew or even guessed. Well done Bob! Smile


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
October 21, 2008, 20:53
stella
Yes, go again, Bob. I think I'm getting the hang of this game now! Big Grin
October 25, 2008, 08:58
<Asa Lovejoy>
I'm baaaaaaaack, and would have voted for #5 had I been here. Well done, Bob!