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31 May 09 - 09:12 PM (#2645257) Subject: BS: You don't mean that... From: Joe_F This is a game that was played by graduate students at Caltech around 1960. It strikes me that it is well adapted to the Internet. In conversation, someone happens to emphasize a certain word, and there is a lull afterward. Another participant starts the game by saying "You don't mean that; you mean..." and gives a definition, characterization, or synonym of another word that sounds like the given one, one way or another. Someone else (the first person or a third one) guesses (but does not mention) that word, thinks of one that sounds like that one, and continues "You don't mean that; you mean...". The game goes on until someone is stumped, and only then are the words in the chain revealed. It often turns out that the chain has gone several links beyond the first wrong guess. For instance: I will try to be concise. You don't mean that; you mean repentant. You don't mean that; you mean shorten. You don't mean that; you mean a silly machine. You don't mean that; you mean.... |
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31 May 09 - 09:21 PM (#2645261) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: catspaw49 Say what? I don't mean that, I mean what the fuck? I don't mean that, I mean you're fucked up. I don't mean that, I mean I'm fucked up. I don't mean that, I mean this idea is completely screwed. I don't mean that, I mean you're completely screwed. aw fuckit.........I mean that Spaw |
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31 May 09 - 10:00 PM (#2645271) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: Mrrzy OK, I'll start, since I have no idea what you mean, either! The word is Harken. What do I mean? |
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01 Jun 09 - 01:16 AM (#2645335) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: Little Hawk Spaw has it covered perfectly as far as I'm concerned. Nothing more really needs to be said. Which prompts the question I now ask myself: "Why did I even post here?" God knows. Or does He? Or does She? And if so, then what? And should I apologize for even mentioning the word "God" at all, as it might offend someone? Naw. I always like to quote Mick Jagger in these kind of situations: "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke." |
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01 Jun 09 - 01:18 AM (#2645337) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: goatfell ? |
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01 Jun 09 - 01:30 AM (#2645346) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: open mike what were those grad students on in the 60's? guess you had to be there... "You remind me of a man." "What man?" "The man with the power." "What power?" "The power of Hoodoo." "Who do?" "You do." "Do what?" "Remind me of a man." ... gone several links beyond, indeed. |
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01 Jun 09 - 03:10 AM (#2645375) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: Liz the Squeak I had a farm in Africa. I'll get me coat. LTS |
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01 Jun 09 - 04:07 AM (#2645388) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: GUEST,Joe's Bro The word is Harken. You don't mean that you mean Larrakin |
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01 Jun 09 - 10:27 AM (#2645556) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: frogprince You don't mean that, you mean Grit Laskin |
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01 Jun 09 - 10:35 AM (#2645563) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: jeddy i'm with spaw on this game. ??????????? i do like the alphebet game though song begining with a,b,c etc. awkward annie. i thought i'd add this as i have no idea what the words on the two above posts mean. |
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01 Jun 09 - 12:54 PM (#2645676) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: Bill D Three old ladies driving thru town: #1 says "Windy today, isn't it?" #2 reples, "No, this is Thursday." #3 replies,"I'm thirsty, too...let's stop and have a Coke." |
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01 Jun 09 - 01:19 PM (#2645688) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: Little Hawk #4 replies, "Bloody roight it's cold. That's why I brought me cardigan." |
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01 Jun 09 - 01:22 PM (#2645690) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: frogprince #5: "Lucky you; I haven't had to be carded to get in anywhere for years and years". |
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01 Jun 09 - 01:34 PM (#2645698) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: Little Hawk #6 "Don't you be goin' on about my ears! I 'eard every word you said, clear as a bell." |
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01 Jun 09 - 02:00 PM (#2645715) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: VirginiaTam #7 Clarabelle prefers the clover in the next pasture. |
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01 Jun 09 - 02:03 PM (#2645719) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: frogprince #8: "Not yet; the Doc just gave me somethin' that he hopes will get rid of it". |
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01 Jun 09 - 02:45 PM (#2645752) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: Little Hawk #9: "Recidivists? Carn't stand 'em. They all should be locked up." |
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01 Jun 09 - 02:50 PM (#2645758) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: frogprince Flock of ducks? What flock of ducks? |
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01 Jun 09 - 04:11 PM (#2645822) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: Amos Know a guy who tried to flock a duck once, and had to have it removed by the Fire Department... A |
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01 Jun 09 - 04:18 PM (#2645830) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: heric You don't mean flock. |
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01 Jun 09 - 04:22 PM (#2645835) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: heric #1 Mom! Todd tried to jump over the McAllister's picket fence and . . shteeek . . got a picket right up his ass!! #2 You mean rectum, Johnny. #3 I mean damned near killed him!! |
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01 Jun 09 - 09:09 PM (#2646024) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: Bee-dubya-ell You have a corncob up your ass! You don't mean that; you mean a banana. You don't mean that; you mean a kielbasa. You don't mean that; you mean a baseball bat. You don't mean that; you mean a basketball. |
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01 Jun 09 - 09:29 PM (#2646033) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: olddude flock the ducks he said but really didn't mean it even though he was a mean man but probably meant it find the mean in the number of ducks and if you say it then mean it |
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01 Jun 09 - 10:31 PM (#2646076) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: Joe_F Bill D: No, no, it's two drunks on a train, which has just stopped. "I say, is this Wembley?" "No, it's Thursday." "So am I; let's have a drink." * The example explained: I will try to be concise. You don't mean that; you mean repentant. [contrite] You don't mean that; you mean shorten. [contract] You don't mean that; you mean a silly machine. [contraption] You don't mean that; you mean.... one purpose of a condom. |
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01 Jun 09 - 10:39 PM (#2646084) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: heric Americans don't do ironing. |
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02 Jun 09 - 10:20 PM (#2647059) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: Joe_F You don't mean that; you mean a stooge. |
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03 Jun 09 - 10:27 AM (#2647368) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: jeddy you don'tmean that you mean stool yuk |
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03 Jun 09 - 10:28 AM (#2647372) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: jeddy a quick P.S i think the sun has brought out everyones silly side!!! i meant silly smile |
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03 Jun 09 - 12:23 PM (#2647472) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: frogprince You don't mean that, you mean an egotist. |
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03 Jun 09 - 08:24 PM (#2647827) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: Joe_F I give up. |
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03 Jun 09 - 08:28 PM (#2647830) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: gnu You don't mean that. |
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03 Jun 09 - 08:29 PM (#2647832) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: gnu heric... hehehehe |
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03 Jun 09 - 08:40 PM (#2647835) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: Jeri Joe, it's like herding flesh wounds. |
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03 Jun 09 - 08:55 PM (#2647842) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: frogprince I was actually trying to go with the concept: Silly smile - Smirk Egotist - Jerk Actually I can't imagine anyone really catching on to the game as Joe explained it. Kinda like doing a crossword puzzle created by someone on acid. |
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03 Jun 09 - 09:12 PM (#2647850) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: GUEST,Slag I'm hard of hearing so this is a game I play continually. Now what was that that was said about hard again? |
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03 Jun 09 - 11:05 PM (#2647894) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: heric In the example given, the starting word is the simple two syllable word concise, with its common prefix. Ten people on acid or pot could take a round, and as long as the last guy says a "con" word, it doesn't matter if anybody guessed the interim hidden words. The only way to play accurately would be for everybody to write each hidden word for later scoring, and if you're stoned fat chance that's gonna happen. But if you have a smart ass in the crowd, and in one of the early rounds uses the second syllable -ise/-ite/-act/-tion to craft his hidden word, then uses a "definition, characterization, or synonym" of that, it should fall apart right quick. (Somebody could luck out in an interim round and get back in the groove.) |
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03 Jun 09 - 11:23 PM (#2647900) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: GUEST,.gargoyle Mr. Joe F
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03 Jun 09 - 11:36 PM (#2647910) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: heric What I am trying to explain gargoyle, is that it would have been easy to think you had once been smart playing this game. |
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04 Jun 09 - 12:23 AM (#2647932) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: GUEST,.gargoyle It is always amusing to me...
Lesser ... People without a clue to what is going one around them...befuddled in confusion
Contribute the toughts of other's brillance and insight...play and amusment to:
Lacking the score extra points to put themselves into the game...they believe some "magical chemestry" (which they ... themselves ... with power of self-will never partook) - placed these others on a different sphere....a sphere tainted with chemicals and inferior to their own "reality" of common-place.
Sincerely, |
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04 Jun 09 - 12:39 AM (#2647936) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... From: Little Hawk And then...there are those who are simply too lazy or uninterested to bother figuring it out. |
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04 Jun 09 - 09:07 PM (#2648682) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: Joe_F You don't mean that; you mean plotting your moves on the keyboard. |
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04 Jun 09 - 09:25 PM (#2648693) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: heric I'm not sure if I've been pissing you off, Joe, but I'm not trying to. The concept is interesting and it would have been nice to see it work on a thread but it didn't. Still I believe you had extended sessions where it went a surprsing number of rounds. I'm not saying you were just drunk or stoned and it wasn't working. All I'm doing after thinking on this (and to phrase it in a perhaps less obnoxious way), is conjecturing that extended successful rounds may be related to the group being subconciously attuned to a pattern. If someone is far away from the group mindset, the hidden words they dream up, and the huge source of material(definitions, characterizations, or synonyms) to choose clues from would probably knock the game out earlier. |
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05 Jun 09 - 01:30 AM (#2648765) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: Lonesome EJ This reminds me of Stick Quiz. It'splayed like this: One person gets to hold the stick, and asks each of the others a question. If they get it wrong, he gets to hit them with the stick. Here's an example... Stick man- "What number am I thinking of?" Player- "Three?" Stickman- "No". (whack) This game is lots of fun if you have the stick, and is way simpler than You Don't Mean That. |
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05 Jun 09 - 01:35 AM (#2648766) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: Slag I hope you didn't MEAN THAT, Solo EJ. If you did it could possibly explain your lonesomeness. What you meant was that the one with the stick was stuck. |
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05 Jun 09 - 08:54 PM (#2649567) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: Joe_F You don't mean that; you mean smelled bad. |
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06 Jun 09 - 05:27 AM (#2649745) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: GUEST,.gargoyle You dont mean that...you mean got the rough end.
Sincerely, |
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06 Jun 09 - 06:19 AM (#2649778) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: SPB-Cooperator Tell me if I have twigged the rules. IS it like when you type a word in the thesaurus to get another word, then that word, and finally end up with a total change? |
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06 Jun 09 - 10:32 PM (#2650339) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: Joe_F SPB: No, the word (or phrase) you think of & characterize is supposed to *sound* like the word that the previous player characterized but did not say. See the example in my posting of 01 Jun. However, it seems there are many people whose minds don't work that way. Maybe you have to have been a graduate student. |
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07 Jun 09 - 12:45 AM (#2650369) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: BK Lick As Abe Lincoln famously wrote in reviewing a book, people who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like: (clicky here) —BK |
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07 Jun 09 - 08:44 PM (#2650939) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: Joe_F You don't mean him; you mean Grim Grizzle's church. |
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07 Jun 09 - 11:02 PM (#2651017) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: BK Lick Aye, but a man's a man for a' that. |
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07 Jun 09 - 11:40 PM (#2651031) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: GUEST,.gargoyle Joe F ... With some instruction this could be grand.
Work with me on this....given the example immediately above:
My contribution ROUGH (connection being smooth ended sticks were used for cleaning up A-Hole poop when crapping in the woods before TP)has nothing to do with sounding like a previous word.
Therefore...a better contribution would have been my first choice....SMooth End of the Stick? Because it deals with a stick but is closer to the original sound.
Right?
Sincerely,
JOE-F .... Dude - with 27,000 members to Mudcat we should be able to find "critical mass" for this game...don't give up. |
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08 Jun 09 - 12:51 AM (#2651049) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: Slag 27,000 member?!!! (Man, what an audience!) You can't mean THAT! What you meant was "crustal mess". |
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08 Jun 09 - 01:14 AM (#2651056) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: GUEST,.gargoyle I seldom laugh out-loud....and never in reading Mudcat...but...Slag
You just portrayed the game to me...
BRILLANT ! !
Sincerely,
Waiting for Foe-J's stamp of approval. |
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08 Jun 09 - 09:18 PM (#2651845) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: Joe_F Surely you mean stamp of annoyance! |
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09 Jun 09 - 01:26 AM (#2651966) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: GUEST,Slag No, NO! you can't mean that! You mean stump of approbation! |
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09 Jun 09 - 08:50 PM (#2652786) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: Joe_F One should never cut down an approbation. |
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14 Jun 09 - 06:57 AM (#2656020) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: GUEST,.gargoyle No you don't mean that - the 21st ammendment did cut down prohibition.
Sincerely, |
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14 Jun 09 - 09:24 PM (#2656521) Subject: RE: BS: You don't mean that... (word game) From: Joe_F |