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Identify the Wordienik!!

A list of 30 words by gangerh.

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Well, wrap me in a looroll and call me Mummy!
‘tis the time for ‘ID the ‘nik!’
To quote bilby, who organised it last time round:
“Many thanks to the wondrous efforts of uselessness on the original Identify the Wordie!!. The new game follows the rules of that groundbreaking concept. The aim is to identify Wordies based upon a single word that they choose.”
So, ‘Identify the Wordienik’ follows those rules too. To take part you simply choose a word that you feel applies to/describes you and confidentially submit it to me for me to post anonymously on this list. Then, when I feel we have enough entries, I publish the Wordnik names of all entrants. Then everyone gets a few days to match up the submitted words with the Wordnik. Quite simple, really.
Catch a flavour from the previous two games here Identify the Wordie!! and here Identify the Wordie!! #2.
Note particularly who won the last one. Hah!
So, let’s do it.
Please email your chosen word along with your Wordnik name to idthenik@exuberant.me and don’t worry about your email address being abused – at exuberant.me we fry spam.
Oh! I’m offering up a prize for the winning Wordnik - a specially designed coffee mug with your favourite illustrated sweet tooth fairy on it.
Be great!
gangerh
. . . a grandfather, marketing maven, and actor . . .
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So the game starts.
And anyone with a Wordnik account can join in.
The aim is for you to identify Wordniks based upon a single word that they have chosen that they consider applies to/describes them.
The Wordniks you must identify with the words in the following list are:

bilby
blafferty
chained_bear
dontcry
erinmckean
fbharjo
frindley
frogapplause
gangerh
hernesheir
mollusque
oroboros
PossibleUnderscore
Prolagus
pterodactyl
reesetee
ruzuzu
seanahan
sionnach
Wordnicolina
Wordplayer
yarb

Each of the above-listed Wordniks has confidentially emailed me their chosen word which now appears in this list.
Please enter the competition by submitting a comment in which you link the Wordnik with their identifying word. You may also discuss the reasoning behind your choices if you wish.
Yes, I know there are more words in the list than there are entrants. They’re called cred herrings. And some are less cred than others. Hah!
Be thankful that I didn’t throw a cred herring into the list of entrants – I did consider it.
Remember there’s a prize for the most correct matches!
Note: you do not have to be listed as a Wordnik-to-be-identified to enter. Anyone with a Wordnik account can join in. Just go right ahead!
You have at least 7 sleeps before a closing soon warning but you may post your solution as soon as you wish.
Any questions?
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In reverse order of correct identification then . . . .
dontcry and zuzu - would you like another go? You've got nothing . . . to lose.

Someone who singularly excelled - he only got one right but then again he was the only one to get her right, and the only one to get only one right. Hah! dontcry was correctly identified as queasy by oroboros, who proved to be resistant to the tears.

We have 2 tied with 2.
hernesheir was one of 4 to get the systematic mollusque and one of 3 to get the boggy sionnach.
Prolagus was one of 6 to mediæval the frindley and one half of those that got frogapplause and her mortsafe.

We have 4 tied with three correct IDs.
All 4 got calepinerienne from erinmckean. I'd love to know how because I couldn't find it anywhere but on wordnik and the only place it was listed was on this page.
In addition ...
fbharjo put hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophile together with Wordnicolina, and (perversely) od with yarb.
mollusque saw seanahan rightly as prodigal and blafferty rightly as ascian.
reesetee noticed how frindley has a fondness for the a-e ligature, and chained_bear's fondness for a wodge.
PossibleUnderscore probably overscores here because he got Prolagus down as a one-time slopseller and Wordplayer as the greenhorn that he is, being new to joining in here, and plays a French one. And he was the only one to get these two right.

The present oroboros was only identified correctly by this entrant, who also got erinmckean, chained_bear and was one of only two who got yarb right. 4 for Wordplayer.

Tied with 4 correct - erinmckean, pterodactyl, seanahan, and lunette for ruzuzu is - let's hear it for the frog - frogapplause!!

Also with 4 right answers - seanahan, pterodactyl, chained_bear and the protean reesetee. It's frindley.

Also tied with 4, those being erinmckean, frindley, seanahan, and just one of 3 to get sionnach - is this an excuse for a wodge - it's chained_bear.

Another with 4 tied here is only one of 3 to get pterodactyl. blafferty also got chained_bear, frindley and erinmckean. Pretty good for a newbie.

In 4th place with 6 correct

ascian
wodge
calepinerienne
chrestomathic
systematic
lunette

is .............

sionnach.

And now in first place with 8 correct answers......................................................................................................................................... and play-offs in prospect we have a tie ..........with ...............................................yarb..and........ruzuzu!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And congratulations to pterodactyl with 7 correct answers and a third place.

Stewards inquiry.

I see that there is no adjudication necessary following my blunder in the results analysis, merely an adjustment to the end result.
I applaud ruzuzu - she has accepted, with grace and aplomb, the fact that I failed to apply the same procedure to her listing her own word as I did to others. Purely an error on my part. I would hasten to add that ruzuzu was not seen as trying to gain an advantage by listing her own word, merely playing the game with spirit within the rules. As did some other entrants. I apologise for any grief that has been caused.
This fiasco has added irony as I sought to award ruzuzu none correct initially, based on her splendid spoof entry list late on, as a diversion to the fact that I would be announcing her valid entry as a joint winner. (Oh, and to keep dontcry company.) What a farce!
Still, it did add a whole menu of scenarios as is usual these days in competitive games, of misunderstanding, umbrage, controversy, dissension, incompetence, legal threats, etc. Huge fun really.
So the the final placings are

1st yarb (8)
2nd ruzuzu/pterodactyl (7)
4th sionnach (6)
5th blafferty/chainedbear/frindley/frogapplause/Wordplayer (4)
10th fbharjo/mollusque/PossibleUnderscore/reesetee (3)
14th hernesheir/Prolagus (2)
16th oroboros (1)
17th dontcry (0)

and therefore the Prize Mug is . . . I mean goes to . . yarb. I'll be in touch to arrange design, production, and despatch of this unique trophy, yarb.

Thank you all for being gentle with me.

Comments

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  • yarb Please email your words to idthewordienik13 at gmail dot com! Mar 13, 2013

  • deinonychus I guess I want to be in on this too, even though I might have a disadvantage since I haven't played before... Mar 8, 2013

  • frogapplause I'm in. Where do we send our word? Mar 8, 2013

  • blafferty Oh gosh, it's back! I haven't been on in months! Eek. Mar 7, 2013

  • ruzuzu I thought you were guessing that yarb's word will be brilliant. I think you're both brilliant, so this next game's going to be tough for me. Mar 6, 2013

  • gangerh Oh no! I've done the same as ruzuzu!
    Except that you'd all have guessed me correctly as brilliant. Hah again! Mar 6, 2013

  • gangerh Brilliant, yarb.
    I'm in. Put me down. Most people do. Mar 6, 2013

  • gangerh No 'zuzu - you're not supposed to put your word on here! Don't think I'd have got it anyway - wouldn't have put you down for a 'whatever'. Hah!
    Mar 6, 2013

  • ruzuzu Me! Me! Pick me!

    *ahem*

    I mean... uh, that's cool. You know. Whatever. Mar 6, 2013

  • yarb OK, I'll do it! I'll be getting this show on the road pronto. All interested apply within. Ideas for a trophy? I'm loth to surrender my heavily tea-stained "molotov cocktail waitress" mug, but I'm sure I could arrange for a STF mug of the winner's choosing. Mar 6, 2013

  • gangerh Have emailed yarb asking him to let you know what he wants to happen. Mar 5, 2013

  • ruzuzu No word from his yarbishness (yet). Are you willing to host again? Mar 5, 2013

  • gangerh Hah! 'zu, you are a caution!
    You're probably right if enough 'niks have the appetite.
    While not written in stone it seems that the winner of the previous game is mooted as the runner of the next.
    Perhaps yarb - the owner of the trophy special edition sweet tooth fairy coffee mug
    "molotov cocktail waitress" - should therefore be sounded out.
    But if no-'nik else wishes to run it, then I am happy to do it - gangerhnam-style of course.
    Mar 1, 2013

  • ruzuzu Is it time to try this again? I have a tiara to defend. Mar 1, 2013

  • dontcry *taps foot* May 13, 2011

  • reesetee And for that "easy" one, chained, I thank you. From the bottom of my almost-in-last-place Wordienik heart.

    *flings fuflun-decorated tiaras at fellow contestants* May 11, 2011

  • chained_bear It has taken me six days to read this page.

    Last time I changed my answers at the last minute and got more wrong than if I hadn't changed any. So this time I refused to change any, and look! I am firmly in the middle of the herd.

    *lends extra tiaras to everyone*
    *dons crash helmet with specially-fitted tiara*
    *fufluns around on a unicycle*

    P.S. I chose wodge because it is a delightful word that makes me think of peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches. And what bear doesn't love those? But I also chose wodge because this game is too damn hard for small bear-brains and I wanted there to be at least ONE easy (I thought) entry. :) May 10, 2011

  • frogapplause How about a bouk instead? May 9, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Is a plastic tiara appropriate? May 7, 2011

  • dontcry *sits on the porch anxiously awaiting delivery of awesome prize for most wrong guesses* May 7, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Hooooooraaaaaaay! May 7, 2011

  • pterodactyl Hip hip... May 7, 2011

  • ruzuzu Hooray! May 7, 2011

  • pterodactyl Hip hip... May 7, 2011

  • hernesheir My thanks go 'round to gangerh and all who participated and commented in this annual amusement. May 7, 2011

  • ruzuzu *hugs pterodactyl* May 7, 2011

  • ruzuzu Hooray! May 7, 2011

  • pterodactyl Three cheers for gangerh and his hard work! Hip hip... May 7, 2011

  • pterodactyl *passes the gold tiara to yarb* May 7, 2011

  • pterodactyl *hugs ruzuzu* I'm happy to share second place with you, ruzuzu! Let's get matching silver tiaras! May 7, 2011

  • blafferty I'll have a ruzuzutbeer barrel. May 7, 2011

  • gangerh Make mine a pint of blafferty's irish stout. May 7, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Thanks g! It's been Great.

    *hands 'zuzu tiara anyway* May 6, 2011

  • ruzuzu Thanks for all your hard work, gangerh. This has been super fun!

    So does this mean yarb's buying us all a round at the Verbal Arms? *hopes there's no Clamato there* May 6, 2011

  • ruzuzu Yay, yarb! May 6, 2011

  • gangerh I see that there is no adjudication necessary following my blunder in the results analysis, merely an adjustment to the end result.
    I applaud ruzuzu - she has accepted, with grace and aplomb, the fact that I failed to apply the same procedure to her listing her own word as I did to others. Purely an error on my part. I would hasten to add that ruzuzu was not seen as trying to gain an advantage by listing her own word, merely playing the game with spirit within the rules. As did some other entrants. I apologise for any grief that has been caused.
    This fiasco has added irony as I sought to award ruzuzu none correct initially, based on her splendid spoof entry list late on, as a diversion to the fact that I would be announcing her valid entry as a joint winner. (Oh, and to keep dontcry company.) What a farce!
    Still, it did add a whole menu of scenarios as is usual these days in competitive games, of misunderstanding, umbrage, controversy, dissension, incompetence, legal threats, etc. Huge fun really.
    So the the final placings are

    1st yarb (8)
    2nd ruzuzu/pterodactyl (7)
    4th sionnach (6)
    5th blafferty/chainedbear/frindley/frogapplause/Wordplayer (4)
    10th fbharjo/mollusque/PossibleUnderscore/reesetee (3)
    14th hernesheir/Prolagus (2)
    16th oroboros (1)
    17th dontcry (0)

    and therefore the Prize Mug is . . . I mean goes to . . yarb. I'll be in touch to arrange design, production, and despatch of this unique trophy, yarb.

    Thank you all for being gentle with me.
    May 6, 2011

  • dontcry Pish Posh! Break a leg, gang! May 5, 2011

  • ruzuzu No worries, gangerh. :-)

    Oh! And I keep forgetting to mention how tricky sionnach was with those pronunciations. Hilarious! May 5, 2011

  • hernesheir How posh. May 5, 2011

  • gangerh Sorry all, but Stewards Inquiry will have to conclude tomorrow as have just been asked to rush off to play a posh man in a posh hotel with a posh wife in Coronation Street. Haven't been told yet whether the posh wife is mine or not. Hah! May 5, 2011

  • ruzuzu Awww--thank you, sionnach, but I'd probably be just as happy with a madeupical tiara. May 5, 2011

  • frogapplause @yarb. You're right! Last time several people thought you were the stripper, and this time sionnach was convinced that you were afraid of bodysnatchers (mortsafe). In the future, if a word looks like it's for yarb -- IT'S ME!!!!! May 5, 2011

  • dontcry Wait...seriously? Zero? May 5, 2011

  • sionnach *Makes note to shop for souvenir tiara for 'zuzu.*
    (fortunately, a return trip to Versailles is planned, with my next visitor from back in the U.S.) May 5, 2011

  • oroboros Thanks gangerh...and to all the players; I feel all warm 'n toasty to be among such an erudite and rapscalious crew. w00t! May 5, 2011

  • blafferty I get that impression. May 5, 2011

  • reesetee But...sometimes he is a marsupial, isn't he? May 5, 2011

  • blafferty I put bilby as protean because he sometimes seems like a person and sometimes like a marsupial. May 5, 2011

  • yarb protean seemed appropriate for an actor - though in hindsight not as appropriate as playful.

    Would like to hear the five accents pronouncing professor von schmartzenpanz. May 5, 2011

  • reesetee Congrats, all! And Possible, I join you in shame--before all was said and done, I changed four or five that turned out to be correct after all. Eeesh.

    As for protean, I was attempting a riff on the What Is a Reesetee, Anyhow? goofiness. :-) (Also, it's printed on the t-shirt I was wearing when I emailed gangerh.)

    *indiscriminately flings fufluns* May 5, 2011

  • ruzuzu Um, since yarb's getting the mug and next year's red herrings, I get the tiara, right? May 5, 2011

  • gangerh Mmmm. Interesting. I wouldn't have thought of protean for me. And if I had told you all at some time earlier what I am currently working on, then reesetee could have been accused of throwing in a cred herring of her own. I'm in rehearsals for the UK tour of a play 'The Interview - The Story of the Holocaust' in which I play 5 different character parts, requiring 5 different German accents.
    But I think playful all-encompassing as it also covers teasing, performing as a childrens entertainer, my sporting activities, and it amuses me to amuse.
    It's a revelation to me that I'm not seen as being a man of my word. Hah! May 5, 2011

  • sionnach This was really more fun than the proverbial barrel-o-monkeys. Kudos to gangerh for the exciting, Eurovision-style, nailbiting countdown. And those fiendishly effective cred herrings. And congratulations to yarb and ruzuzu and ptero!
    I guess I will just have to console myself by buying some kind of tacky mug with the Eiffel Tower on it. Because I will be here in Paris for another 7 weeks. Not that I would ever gloat about it; no, not me! May 5, 2011

  • yarb I knew Century Dictionary (for some reason I'm loath to abbreviate this) would be your downfall, ruzuzu. I do like a game of scrabble although I'm long out of practice. May 5, 2011

  • frogapplause So true, yarb! I'll have to add mortsafe to my Tools of the Trade. May 5, 2011

  • ruzuzu And I never would have guessed od for yarb. Though it's a fantastic word (especially for Scrabble), I was sure it was one of the cred herrings. May 5, 2011

  • ruzuzu I know--I had him as protean because Cent. Dict. 3 had "An actor who plays a number of parts in one piece." May 5, 2011

  • yarb For what it's worth, I chose od because I like it and I thought short words would be in short supply. May 5, 2011

  • yarb Yes he did. And playful is another one I'm kicking myself over (I'm kicking my knees, in case you were wondering). Too clever by half. A bit like froggo's stripper in the last one. May 5, 2011

  • ruzuzu Haha--sorry yarb, it's all you! It'll be a good chance for you to torture us with cred herrings.

    Gangerh did a great job this time. What fun! May 5, 2011

  • Wordplayer Since everyone's sharing, here was my strategy...
    1. I matched yarb with od, because it just seemed like a fitting word. This was also how I correctly identified erinmckean.

    2. Chained_bear commented on wodge, while oroboros commented on present. I'm surprised I'm the only one that correctly identified oroboros.

    3. I chose greenhorn with the mistaken assumption that I would be the newest Wordie to enter the contest. However, Wordnicolina was, and that threw a lot of people off guard. Congrats P_U for seeing through the trompe l'oeil May 4, 2011

  • yarb Ruzuzu, I'll take the mug if you'll accept the Sisyphean task privilege of masterminding the next edition a year hence. Incidentally it was the looniness that gave your lunette away to me.

    And I can't believe I didn't get distingue! Shoddy lapse. May 4, 2011

  • yarb I assumed a mortsafe was one of the many tools frogapplause uses to create frogapplause. May 4, 2011

  • blafferty Thanks, mollusque! Me too! May 4, 2011

  • mollusque Blafferty, I'm glad you're casting a shadow now! May 4, 2011

  • frogapplause The definition mentions a crescent, which is only a half moon, right? May 4, 2011

  • blafferty I matched Erin with calepinerienne because I did a desperate google search for the word and her name came up! Now, of course, the search results are flooded with other wordnik comments etc. May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu Thanks, frogapplause. I'm actually only half Latvian... so... half moon? May 4, 2011

  • frogapplause Our little shiny Latvian moon. May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu Well... I also liked lunette because I'm a bit looney sometimes. May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu Oh, yarb can have the mug--if I hadn't put my own word in, he would have totally beaten me.

    I'll arm-wrestle anyone for a tiara, though. :-) May 4, 2011

  • frogapplause I matched Erin with calepinerienne (and I was the FIRST to do so!) because the word looks classy and feminine, which I imagine Erin to be. Her dress-a-day project was something I considered.

    I chose lunette for ruzuzu because it also appears feminine, but mostly I picked it because it was one of the first words gangerh listed ... and I knew ruzuzu was overeager to enter!

    My other two correct guesses were just random good luck.

    As for my own word, mortsafe: Wordies who were privy to some of the details of my childhood, might have guessed my need to feel safe. It also makes sense if one knows (from my blog) that I currently have a Russian bodyguard named Vlad. May 4, 2011

  • pterodactyl In case anyone's curious, I chose "distingue" for my word not because it describes me (it doesn't), but because I'm the only ITW player who lists it (in this list, based on this song from my childhood). May 4, 2011

  • dontcry *makes room for PU on the rhodos* May 4, 2011

  • pterodactyl Wooooooo! Third place!

    *does the Dance of the Happy Pterodactyl*

    Can I have a bronze tiara? May 4, 2011

  • yarb I've just realised that in true Eurovision-fashion, the winner of ID the 'nik is required to compere the next installment. Because this daunting challenge outweighs the allure of the mug, and because it would certainly prolong the agony entertainment, I am happy to continue with a playoff. May 4, 2011

  • blafferty *counts own correct answers*
    *smiles happily*
    *eats fuflun* May 4, 2011

  • gangerh We have a challenge.
    I have reviewed the description of the game and can find no reason there that a player should not enter a word for themselves, as in fact a few did.
    However, when analysing the entries, I worked on the premise that any entry against your own name did not count. Most such entries did not use submitted words and were merely entered for fun.
    I did twice go through the spreadsheet eliminating "own words" as inadmissible, but obviously missed ruzuzu's lunette.
    I am inclined to rule that as an E&OE situation, correct it, and score accordingly, with a new declaration of final places.
    However, I will entertain representations via this page from any participant who wishes to make any within the next 24 hours.
    I will then deliberate and conclude.
    Sincerely
    gangerh May 4, 2011

  • yarb *investigates emergency sources of umbrage* May 4, 2011

  • gangerh Stewards inquiry. May 4, 2011

  • yarb I mean the playoffs would be fun but I'm not giving up on that mug without exhausting every legal avenue first. May 4, 2011

  • yarb But hernesheir didn't get credit for his own word.

    Recount please! May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu If yarb had matched himself with his own word, he would have beaten me. May 4, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Unless you count her own word. May 4, 2011

  • yarb Hang on a minute. As far as I can see, 'zuzu got these right: blafferty, erinmckean, fbharjo, frindley, PossibleUnderscore, seanahan, wordnicolina. It's seven, no? May 4, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore If I had gone with my gut feeling, I would be sitting with a grand total of 10 correct.
    Oh the shame!!

    *joins dontcry in death* May 4, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Do I get a prize for using 6 of the 7 cred herrings?
    You have to admit, that's pretty impressive. May 4, 2011

  • dontcry Nope. Still dead. May 4, 2011

  • gangerh Here's the list

    !cred herring tear-resistant
    !cred herring emordnilap
    !cred herring heartstringsplucker
    !cred herring alexis
    !cred herring balsamaceous
    !cred herring aaaaaaargh!
    !cred herring hidelugged
    bilby harlequin
    blafferty ascian
    chained_bear wodge
    dontcry queasy
    erinmckean calepinerienne 
    fbharjo chrestomathic
    frindley mediæval
    frogapplause mortsafe
    gangerh playful
    hernesheir sinistral
    mollusque systematic
    oroboros present
    Possible Underscore panda
    Prolagus slopseller
    pterodactyl distingue
    reesetee protean
    ruzuzu lunette
    seanahan prodigal
    sionnach boggy
    SonofGroucho
    Wordnicolina hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophile
    Wordplayer greenhorn
    yarb od

    I'll email all players the spreadsheet soon.
    May 4, 2011

  • Prolagus So now we need to come up with one word for ruzuzu and one for yarb? May 4, 2011

  • dontcry Wait...
    May 4, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore *applause*
    *confetti*
    *fufluns all 'round* May 4, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore I think it's ironic how ruzuzu was the first to ask what will happen when there's a tie.

    And now there is.
    May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu *continues to make a grab for the tiara* May 4, 2011

  • yarb I demand a recount. *lawyers up* May 4, 2011

  • yarb I call shenanigans! Surely 'zuzu only has seven correct?! May 4, 2011

  • yarb Not so fast, ruzuzu! May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu Wahoo!!!

    *makes a grab for the tiara* May 4, 2011

  • gangerh And congratulations to pterodactyl with 7 correct answers and a third place. May 4, 2011

  • gangerh And now in first place with 8 correct answers......................................................................................................................................... and play-offs in prospect we have a tie ..........with ...............................................yarb..and........ruzuzu!!!!!!!!!!!!! May 4, 2011

  • dontcry *un-dies*
    gangerh you're cru-elle!
    *re-dies* May 4, 2011

  • yarb It's squeaky bum time. May 4, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore It's not going to me.
    I'm just getting a lollie bag. May 4, 2011

  • gangerh In 4th place with 6 correct

    ascian
    wodge
    calepinerienne
    chrestomathic
    systematic
    lunette

    is .............

    sionnach.

    Did you sort out where the mug isn't going? May 4, 2011

  • gangerh It's finals time!!!! May 4, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore *buys some popcorn*
    *sits back to watch* May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu I shall avenge you, dontcry! May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu Noooooooooooooooooooooo! May 4, 2011

  • dontcry *throws self off porch onto age-ed, gnarly rhododendron*
    Good-bye, cruel wordie...
    *dies dramatically* May 4, 2011

  • reesetee *sigh* I just wasn't up for it this year....

    Congrats to the winners! Good luck sharing the prize. :-) May 4, 2011

  • sionnach So I think I have 5 right, and if fbharjo is chrestomathic, maybe 6.

    But is it enough for the win? And why in hell didn't I put prodigal for seanahan, like the voice in my head was telling me to?

    But I have to go to bed now. May 4, 2011

  • frogapplause GIRL POWER!!! May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu *bats eyelashes innocently*
    *quietly takes notes about sionnach's views re former SSRs* May 4, 2011

  • sionnach What's Eurovision? Is it like American Idol?

    It's got the same cheesiness factor. But the prestige of entire nations is at stake. Purists like myself prefer the old days before the breakup of the Soviet union added about a dozen new entrants.

    The voting is notorious for countries voting either for their neighbors, or deliberately slighting ancient enemies. And Luxembourg always seems to have an inordinate number of votes, given that nobody actually lives there, and the whole country can be rented out for parties. (Or is that Liechtenstein?)

    on edit: Oh, poor sweet innocent 'zuzu, I don't think there's much ambiguity there. May 4, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Yeah- I went to bed last night just after the first statistic came out, disappointed that I was going to miss the results. Now I'm up again (after a very restless night dreaming of this game) and we're still not finished! May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu I'm not sure--that's part of the suspense (for me, anyway). May 4, 2011

  • sionnach This is more long-drawn-out than the finale of "Top Chef, France". And that went on until midnight. It's 10:50pm here now, and I have to be in class by 9am tomorrow. He is tormenting us.... May 4, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore I'm so angry! I had both seanahan as prodigal and blafferty as ascian before I changed it. That would have taken me to five definitely right.

    Congratulations everybody!

    Ruzuzu, is gangerh saying you got absolutely none right?

    Edit: I think I'm misunderstanding what he said. I can see some that you guessed correctly.
    Edit Edit: Hah! So no one guessed your word right.Sorry. My mistake. May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu Exactly--if this were a real game show, right now there'd be some commercials for chia pets and the clapper. May 4, 2011

  • sionnach Time for a shower. Back soon.

    See ... that's just plain ... wrong!
    Gnaws at fuflun anxiously, while wondering where to place mug ... May 4, 2011

  • dontcry *picks peony bud from ear*
    *shuts of gangerh's hot water*
    *snorts* May 4, 2011

  • blafferty *pumps fist twice* May 4, 2011

  • gangerh Time for a shower. Back soon. May 4, 2011

  • gangerh Another with 4 tied here is only one of 3 to get pterodactyl. blafferty also got chained_bear, frindley and erinmckean. Pretty good for a newbie. May 4, 2011

  • yarb sinistral was a tough one to assign; there were four or five possibilities. May 4, 2011

  • blafferty I chose mine for exactly the reason mollusque surmised. Clever creature. May 4, 2011

  • gangerh Also tied with 4, those being erinmckean, frindley, seanahan, and just one of 3 to get sionnach - is this an excuse for a wodge - it's chained_bear. May 4, 2011

  • yarb *applauds* May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu Yay, frog! May 4, 2011

  • hernesheir I chose sinistral, an adjective, because I'm a southpaw, and only occasionally right. May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu I've added lunette to my farriery list, but my favorite definition is Cent. Dict. number 14. May 4, 2011

  • gangerh Also with 4 right answers - seanahan, pterodactyl, chained_bear and the protean reesetee. It's frindley. May 4, 2011

  • blafferty *speechless* May 4, 2011

  • gangerh Tied with 4 correct - erinmckean, pterodactyl, seanahan, and lunette for ruzuzu is - let's hear it for the frog - frogapplause!! May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu What's Eurovision? Is it like American Idol? May 4, 2011

  • gangerh The present oroboros was only identified correctly by this entrant, who also got erinmckean, chained_bear and was one of only two who got yarb right. 4 for Wordplayer. May 4, 2011

  • Prolagus Time to say that I chose slopseller because of my list (adding now!). May 4, 2011

  • yarb This is exciting isn't it? It's like Eurovision, as sionnach says, with all the high camp and none of the Balkanised political skulduggery. May 4, 2011

  • yarb I just looked up calepin. May 4, 2011

  • Prolagus In (old?) French, calepinerie apparently means "A true, just, and precise interpretation, or translation of every single word". (Cf. calepin) May 4, 2011

  • sionnach ooh, goody! I am above average!!! May 4, 2011

  • blafferty Oh my gosh, I got more than 3!
    *swoons, wishing for hydrangeas* May 4, 2011

  • gangerh We have 4 tied with three correct IDs.
    All 4 got calepinerienne from erinmckean. I'd love to know how because I couldn't find it anywhere but on wordnik and the only place it was listed was on this page.
    In addition ...
    fbharjo put hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophile together with Wordnicolina, and (perversely) od with yarb.
    mollusque saw seanahan rightly as prodigal and blafferty rightly as ascian.
    reesetee noticed how frindley has a fondness for the a-e ligature, and chained_bear's fondness for a wodge.
    PossibleUnderscore probably overscores here because he got Prolagus down as a one-time slopseller and Wordplayer as the greenhorn that he is, being new to joining in here, and plays a French one. And he was the only one to get these two right. May 4, 2011

  • hernesheir Merci, merci. May 4, 2011

  • sionnach Le jury du Luxembourg donne deux votes a hernesheir et deux votes a Prolagus... May 4, 2011

  • hernesheir Isn't it rich, Prolagus, aren't we a pair? Only 2 correct. Gosh indeed. May 4, 2011

  • Prolagus Gosh. May 4, 2011

  • blafferty I got more than 2 right!
    *dances jig*
    My expectations were clearly set at just the right level. This gives me so much satisfaction. May 4, 2011

  • gangerh We have 2 tied with 2.
    hernesheir was one of 4 to get the systematic mollusque and one of 3 to get the boggy sionnach.
    Prolagus was one of 6 to mediæval the frindley and one half of those that got frogapplause and her mortsafe.
    May 4, 2011

  • sionnach Oooh! This is like watching the results of the Eurovision Song Contest, except that the stakes are much higher.

    *Still remembers fondly the year (1970) when sweet, innocent, gap-toothed Dana, from County Derry, won it for Ireland with the heart-rendering (sic) ballad, "All Kinds of Everything":

    Snowdrops and Daffodils * May 4, 2011

  • blafferty Crap, I don't think my luck extends to chances that are less than 70% probability. May 4, 2011

  • gangerh Someone who singularly excelled - he only got one right but then again he was the only one to get her right, and the only one to get only one right. Hah! dontcry was correctly identified as queasy by oroboros, who proved to be resistant to the tears. May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu Playful gangerh--I think you're the true winner. Aaaaaargh! :-) May 4, 2011

  • sionnach Well, yarb, I think this question comes up every year, and I believe the probability of getting none right approaches 1/e (where e is the base for natural logs) as n gets larger and larger. So the answer to your question is 1 - (1/e) = roughly 63.2% May 4, 2011

  • yarb Odds of at least one correct at random please, sionnach? May 4, 2011

  • yarb Oooh! That is frankly embarrassing. May 4, 2011

  • gangerh In reverse order of correct identification then . . . .
    dontcry and zuzu - would you like another go? You've got nothing . . . to lose. May 4, 2011

  • gangerh 1 got bilby
    5 got blafferty
    6 got chained_bear
    1 got dontcry
    12 got erinmckean
    3 got fbharjo
    6 got frindley
    2 got frogapplause
    0 got gangerh
    0 got hernesheir
    4 got mollusque
    1 got oroboros
    1 got PossibleUnderscore
    1 got Prolagus
    3 got pterodactyl
    1 got reesetee
    5 got ruzuzu
    6 got seanahan
    3 got sionnach
    2 got Wordnicolina
    1 got Wordplayer
    2 got yarb May 4, 2011

  • gangerh Just before I announce the results here are the words with the number of times used followed by the number of times they were used correctly.

    aaaaaaargh! 9x and 0 correct
    alexis 6x and 0 correct
    ascian 14x and 5 correct
    balsamaceous 14x and 0 correct
    boggy 13x and 3 correct
    calepinerienne  17x and 12 correct
    chrestomathic 16x and 3 correct
    distingue 13x and 3 correct
    emordnilap 14x and 0 correct
    greenhorn 14x and 1 correct
    harlequin 14x and 1 correct
    heartstringsplucker 13x and 0 correct
    hidelugged 12x and 0 correct
    hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophile 9x and 2 correct
    lunette 12x and 5 correct
    mediæval 10x and 6 correct
    mortsafe 12x and 2 correct
    od 7x and 2 correct
    panda 9x and 1 correct
    playful 16x and 0 correct
    present 11x and 1 correct
    prodigal 16x and 6 correct
    protean 13x and 1 correct
    queasy 12x and 1 correct
    sinistral 14x and 0 correct
    slopseller 12x and 1 correct
    systematic 15x and 4 correct
    tear-resistant 12x and 0 correct
    wodge 12x and 6 correct     May 4, 2011

  • gangerh The results are in. Do not ring anything - it'll count for nothing and you may still be charged for it. May 4, 2011

  • blafferty *bites nails* May 4, 2011

  • gangerh 3 of you correctly employed the most number of words, 12 each. Which means you spotted 4 cred herrings out of 7. Well played dontcry, frindley, and frogapplause. Ah, but did you apply them correctly? May 4, 2011

  • Prolagus dontcry, how do we split the mug? May 4, 2011

  • gangerh 4 of you quite correctly equated leather-eared with hidelugged. bilby did send me a word, but it wasn't that one. That one started with me in honour of the marsupial that conducted the last ID game. May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu I nominate yarb to make a horking list (regardless of whether any already exist). May 4, 2011

  • sionnach So, in other words, I was led down the garden path at every turn.

    Come on, gangerh, time to post the results already! You're just playing with us now ......

    Though, with an average of fewer than 4 correct identifications per entrant, maybe there is some hope, just by sheer chance? May 4, 2011

  • yarb Is there a list for hork-puns? If not, should there be? May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu *whispers* The horking.... The horking.... May 4, 2011

  • yarb horking May 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu My second guess for dontcry was queasy because of all the... you know.... May 4, 2011

  • yarb I was suspicious of tear-resistant but it was a case of following the herd. I'd rather be wrong and have company than right and lonely. May 4, 2011

  • gangerh Your choices for dontcry are remarkable - 15 cred herrings and one correct ID. She always strikes me as a nice delicate character, so why there would be resistance to being torn . . . ? When she sent me her word she commented on the list something which could, I thought, have led you all to conclude that her word would be in the last 2 or 3 entered. So I gave her a hand with tear-resistant as a diversion. May 4, 2011

  • frindley So now the analytical suspense is really killing me… May 4, 2011

  • gangerh The most popular cred herrings were balsamaceous and emordnilap, both used 14 times each.
    Which means that each one was only spotted by 3 entrants. May 4, 2011

  • gangerh The most popular word was calepinerienne which was used 17 times. The least popular was alexis used just 6 times. May 4, 2011

  • gangerh We have a total of 66 correct identifications spread across 17 entrants. May 4, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Heh heh heh...
    Ruzuzu got me though!
    (well done) May 4, 2011

  • gangerh PussyGaloreBlunders also gave you his word agsinst his name. But he didn't give you his word that he wouldn't play that way. May 4, 2011

  • gangerh I have to revise the earlier statement about me being the only one not picked out correctly. My spreadsheet shows that the hernesheir apparent was not picked out by anyone else but himself. How cool is that? May 4, 2011

  • gangerh All cred-herrings were put to work, and some worked spectacularly well! May 4, 2011

  • gangerh A quick scan reveals a spooky happening straight away. It seems that all players were sussed out by at least one other player, with the exception of me.
    But 16 of you applied my word to 11 others.
    Wot! No-one sees me as playful? I'm always play-acting.
    (Or was it a conspiracy?) May 4, 2011

  • gangerh Well, the results are tabulated and just need to do a doublecheck for accuracy of data entry and analysis can begin. May 4, 2011

  • blafferty The pleasure of one big wodge is hard to beat. May 4, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore I'm feeling a bit queasy right now. Everyone seems so sure... May 4, 2011

  • Prolagus I forgot to say that my reason for Wordplayer's word is the same as mollusque. May 4, 2011

  • mollusque Here's my reasoning:
    bilby was an ingenue last time around, so I thought that the goings on about the world might make him queasy at times.
    blafferty has been on Wordnik for more than two years, but said very little until recently so ascian seemed appropriate.
    chained_bear likes old stuff like mortsafes.
    dontcry and erinmckean: I went for the obvious connections (not that they were immediately obvious) and hoped the words weren't gangerherrings.
    fbharjo makes different connections than I usually would, which seems sinistral.
    frindley: pandas are friendly looking.
    frogapplause: frogs metamorphose, and so does frogapplause, which is protean.
    gangerh: I judged he couldn't resist a STF, especially with all the double-think going around.
    hernesheir: is balsamaceous because he likes adjectives and has studied plants.
    oroboros: emordnilap, as he collects odd word patterns.
    PossibleUnderscore: harlequin is purely a guess from the remaining unmatched words.
    Prolagus: his sigh from the previous contest has escalated to an aaaaaaargh!.
    pterodactyl: when airborne a pterodactyl is lugged around by its hide.
    reesetee: an editor can be chrestomathic.
    ruzuzu: definitely playful even if that's not her chosen word.
    seanahan: prodigal is another pure guess.
    sionnach: is learning French, which is distingue.
    Wordicolina: Most recent Wordnik among the entrants, so a greenhorn.
    Wordplayer: young word afficionados often start with a love of long words.
    yarb: is often present when the conversation turns to him, even if he hasn't been commenting.
    May 3, 2011

  • frindley I think we should allow gangerh the pleasure of one big wodge. May 3, 2011

  • fbharjo I don't stand under and understand wodges.......that would be od................. I am a playful,prodigal son of the prodigal father no pandarising and withstanding May 3, 2011

  • dontcry *rocks feverishly on porch in anticipation of specially designed coffee mug*
    *feels certain to win*
    *clenches* May 3, 2011

  • fbharjo the ball is in y'all's court
    *no matter how sinistral the spin* May 3, 2011

  • fbharjo who balsamaceously presented chrestomathically correct,tear resistant systematic and queasy hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophiles..(emordnilapally).........(lacks action)



    May 3, 2011

  • ruzuzu I suppose we could keep ourselves entertained by finishing hernesheir's story.... May 3, 2011

  • Wordplayer Wait, so did my last minute changes not count...I'm confuzzled...

    Edit: ..And scared...because I just changed my answers before I read that the contest was over...*hides face in shame*
    IM SORRY!

    2nd edit: I might've just gotten more wrong though, because...normally your gut instinct is right May 3, 2011

  • pterodactyl Shall we now share our secret words, and our reasons for choosing them, or shall we wait for gangerh to divulge them all simultaneously in one big wodge? May 3, 2011

  • pterodactyl Yarb, I saw the same connection as you did, and I came very close to guessing "boggy" for sionnach, but then I changed my mind at the last minute and guessed "sinistral". Turns out he's "boggy" after all, which means I was wrong for the right reason, which is the inverse of being right for the wrong reason, which is much more satisfying than being wrong for the wrong reason. May 3, 2011

  • frindley I took the same line of thinking as ruzuzu when it came to yarb/bray/emordnilap. In other instances I matched words to people who'd listed/commented on them or made expressions of fondness (chained bear/wodge). As for the rest, my rationale doesn't bear scrutiny. May 3, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Oh no! I missed the closing hour!
    :(
    Oh well. Looking back I would have gotten even more wrong if I changed anything.

    *hides face in shame* May 3, 2011

  • hernesheir A hidelugged harlequin, a sinistral slopseller, and a playful panda walk into a bar and present themselves to the greenhorn barkeep named Alexis, who stands behind the fortress of her/his lunette-shaped counter.

    "A pint of your best grog!", shouts the panda, who happened to be in a most mediaeval mood. "What, no shoots and leaves?", asked the chrestomathic tap-puller.

    you help finish the tale, or joke...
    May 3, 2011

  • reesetee Mr. Boggy: I swear by the avian gods that I typed all those lame guesses myself. Not a bird's claw in sight. Can I help it if cats' paws are too fluffy for keyboards?

    Signed,
    R.T. Distingue May 3, 2011

  • ruzuzu Is anyone balsamaceous? It's not me--though I do love the balmy words. May 3, 2011

  • yarb Ha ha! I had sionnach as boggy due to a tenuous Irish - "bog Irish" connection (not that he is any such thing - purely a semantic connection)... May 3, 2011

  • blafferty I went through each word and noted who had listed it, listed it most, or commented on it most. Then the rest was guesswork. May 3, 2011

  • ruzuzu Oh! Sionnach! I'd even seen your "frogblog" list, but I didn't make the connection.

    And Pro... don't you think the Century Dictionary definition for lunette is lovely? I thought it was so lovely that I'd used it as my fourth WotD. May 3, 2011

  • ruzuzu That wodge was the worst--there's a great discussion between chained_bear and reesetee about it, but I think it also showed up in one of pterodactyl's comments on the feedback page. I share Pro's thoughts about the mollusky nature of sinistral. Hidelugged seemed like leather-earred, which made me think of Mr. Marsupial... but I'm not sure whether he'd be that obvious. And yarb's name is not a palidrome but it does make a word when you read it backward, so that's why I matched him with emordnilap.

    Edit: Lord help me. Yarb and bray might seem, in my mind, to be the same word, but they're really, really not. I'm such a braying ass. Sigh.

    Edit of previous edit: No... emordnilap really would be okay. Emordnilap is a different word when it's read from back to front. Jeepers. Now I'm psyching myself out, and the game is already over! May 3, 2011

  • sionnach Well, if frindley isn't alexis, bury me in a bog and call me sphagnovulpine. Y'all are obviously not reading my frogblog, because if you were, you'd know I was staying in the Marais, which means the marsh. I am a boggy froggy right now.

    All my other choices were pure guesswork and/or following ze herd. Except for tear-resistant, which may be a very clever cred herring indeed. And heartstringplucker, which had enough of the STF about it to remind one of gangerh. mediaeval was tempting for chained_bear, but seemed too obvious.

    Installs self next to telephone to await notification of being declared winner, munching on cupcakes and fufluns... May 3, 2011

  • yarb First thing I did was try to identify the seven (c)red-herrings, i.e. the seven words I thought most likely to have been thrown into the mix by gangerh.

    Then there were two or three match-ups that I was certain of, so I filled those in. Then it was a case of eliminating all the "no-way!" combinations and seeing what was left that worked. I also took account of other people's choices, going with the mass of opinion in a couple of cases where I might otherwise have chosen differently. May 3, 2011

  • Prolagus I can tell you why I chose some of the words:

    dontcry - aaaaaaargh! because she joined late and nearly missed the game.
    fbharjo - alexis because, like nearly all fbharjo's comments, it doesn't make any sense to me.
    frindley - mediæval because of her preference for the æ spelling.
    frogapplause - mortsafe because I know she has one.
    gangerh - heartstringsplucker because he wanted to fool us.
    hernesheir - od because it's a simple word with an odd (no pun intended) meaning.
    mollusque - sinistral because... he's a mollusk.
    reesetee - wodge because it sounds madeupical but it's not.
    ruzuzu - ascian because of the lovely CD definition.
    seanahan - present because he is, despite the lack of activity.
    sionnach - hidelugged because either it is a word, but I couldn't find it, or he fooled me again. May 3, 2011

  • sionnach I still think there should have been a rule preventing Wordnikoyennes who are really just birds trained to hunt and peck on the keyboard (you know who you are Madame R.T. Distingue) from passing themselves off as, you know, real virtual people.

    (Written with the bitterness of someone who has wasted countless hours trying to teach Boris and Natasha to type with their little kitty-paws -- they always end up just chewing their little kitty-booties to shreds.) May 3, 2011

  • ruzuzu Phew! So is now the time to share our strategy and try to figure out who's who before the official results come in? For instance, did anyone notice that I listed sneezy for both chained_bear and Wordplayer? May 3, 2011

  • gangerh Game is now closed.
    Watch this space. May 3, 2011

  • blafferty Gaaaaaaah! May 3, 2011

  • sionnach Would it help anybody's decision to change anything, or not, if I told you that a brief scan of entries revealed that all of you were mostly wrong, or mostly right? Mwahahahaha!

    No, it would not. May 3, 2011

  • ruzuzu I'm sticking with what I've got.

    I think. May 3, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Oh bugger. That means I have to remember to get up just before 2AM to make my last minute changes.
    :(
    May 3, 2011

  • gangerh Game closes today in about 9 hours at 5pm GMT/UTC. May 3, 2011

  • ruzuzu Now yarb has me changing my ming. I'm editing my list. Again. May 2, 2011

  • dontcry aaaaaaargh!
    *sniff* May 2, 2011

  • reesetee *playfully accepts dontcry's mediæval coupon and hands her a balsamaceous panda-shaped wodge* May 2, 2011

  • gangerh Will soon be announcing the end of the game. When I do I'll make it a few hours forward so that last minute entries - and alterations - can be made.
    Would it help anybody's decision to change anything, or not, if I told you that a brief scan of entries revealed that all of you were mostly wrong, or mostly right? Mwahahahaha! May 2, 2011

  • ruzuzu Yaaaaaaarb! Now I'm third-guessing. Dang it! May 2, 2011

  • blafferty Wow, this list has a festival-like atmosphere this morning.
    If fuflun were a verb, I think there would be either arm-flinging or unicycles involved. I say unicycle because I am picturing a bear fuflunning all around, just because, chained_. May 2, 2011

  • dontcry *presents coupon to ressetee for slop* May 2, 2011

  • chained_bear *fufluns all around, just because* May 2, 2011

  • sionnach Ping! That was the sound of yarb changing his "ming", muffled by the walls of his mortsafe, natch! May 2, 2011

  • yarb Based on ruzuzu's late change, I've made two of my own. May 2, 2011

  • frindley Oh no, I just thought of the perfect word for me!
    ** Dances around in excited anticipation of the next Identify the Wordnienik competition ** May 2, 2011

  • reesetee *delivers basket of cupcakes, fufluns, and slop to sionnach*

    *continues peddling slop while wearing distingue harlequin costume* May 2, 2011

  • hernesheir Didn't mean to leave yarb off the list! Now I'm all queasy. May 2, 2011

  • ruzuzu Umbrage! Hernesheir didn't list anything for yarb. May 2, 2011

  • sionnach * hugs Prolagus right back *
    * dusts off phony umbrage and winks at dontcry *
    * sits back and wonders what one has to do to get either (a) a cupcake, (b) a fuflun, or (c) some slop around here *
    * enjoys ze mounting tension * May 2, 2011

  • hernesheir bilby - slopseller
    blafferty - distingue
    chained_bear - calipinerienne
    dontcry - alexis
    erinmckean - lunette
    fbharjo - ascian
    frindley - protean
    frogapplause - present
    gangerh - heartstringsplucker
    hernesheir - sinistral
    mollusque - systematic
    oroboros - mortsafe
    PossibleUnderscore - chrestomathic
    Prolagus - panda
    pterodactyl - hidelugged
    reesetee - harlequin
    ruzuzu - balsamaceous
    seanahan - mediaeval
    sionnach - boggy
    Wordnicolina - playful
    Wordplayer - emordnilap
    yarb - queasy May 2, 2011

  • reesetee I thought about doing that, but if I start second-guessing myself, I'll go even more insane than I already have.

    *offers slop to dontcry at a reasonable rate* May 2, 2011

  • ruzuzu Oh! Oh! I'm changing my mind about one of my choices. I'm editing one entry on my list! May 2, 2011

  • dontcry I'm sticking by it. May 1, 2011

  • reesetee Bilby: I too. Allegedly. May 1, 2011

  • Prolagus bilby - protean
    blafferty - distingue
    chained_bear - queasy
    dontcry - aaaaaaargh!
    erinmckean - chrestomathic
    fbharjo - alexis
    frindley - mediæval
    frogapplause - mortsafe
    gangerh - heartstringsplucker
    hernesheir - od
    mollusque - sinistral
    oroboros - playful
    PossibleUnderscore - prodigal
    pterodactyl - boggy
    reesetee - wodge
    ruzuzu - ascian
    seanahan - present
    sionnach - hidelugged
    Wordnicolina - calepinerienne
    Wordplayer - hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophile
    yarb - balsamaceous Apr 30, 2011

  • Prolagus Writing my answers now. Sorry for the delay. Apr 30, 2011

  • Prolagus *hugs sionnach* Apr 30, 2011

  • dontcry 'nach: Don't cry!

    I'm a veg, Danny.
    Let's try this again, shall we...?

    bilby is greenhorn
    blafferty is panda
    chained_bear is mediaeval
    dontcry is me
    erinmckean is systematic
    fbharjo is emordnilap
    frindley is harlequin
    frogapplause is heartstringsplucker
    gangerh is protean
    hernesheir is present
    mollusque is boggy
    oroboros is lunette
    PossibleUnderscore is chrestomathic
    Prolagus is prodigal
    pterodactyl is hippopotomonstrosequipedaliophile (ish)
    reesetee is slopseller
    ruzuzu is playful
    seanahan is ascian
    sionnach is distingue
    Wordnicolina is aaaaaaaargh
    Wordplayer is calepineriennes
    Yarb is wodge
    Apr 30, 2011

  • bilby If anybody wants slopped liver I might be able to sell you some. Allegedly. Apr 30, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Should have been.
    Hah! Apr 30, 2011

  • ruzuzu Um, I don't think chopped liver was an option on the list.... Apr 30, 2011

  • sionnach @dontcry:
    And what am I? Chopped Liver?
    Sob! sob! sob! Apr 30, 2011

  • dontcry I know, I know. I used systematic twice. Damn it. Okay NOW,
    PU is chrestomathic
    Sorry.
    *tears up a bit* Apr 29, 2011

  • dontcry Okay. I'm totally out of time. Just going on gut here:

    bilby is greenhorn
    blafferty is panda
    chained_bear is mediaeval
    dontcry is me
    erinmckean is systematic
    fbharjo is emordniilap
    frindley is harlequin
    frogapplause is heartstringsplucker
    gangerh is protean
    hernesheir is present
    mollusque is boggy
    oroboros is lunette
    PossibleUnderscore is systematic
    Prolagus is prodigal
    pterodactyl is hippopotomonstrosequipedaliophile (ish)
    reesetee is slopseller
    ruzuzu is playful
    seanahan is ascian
    Wordnicolina is aaaaaaaargh
    Wordplayer is calepineriennes
    Yarb is wodge Apr 29, 2011

  • gangerh My weekend is to be two days solid rehearsals so nothing will happen to end the game for at least two more sleeps. Apr 29, 2011

  • sionnach Naw! It's an illusion.
    I have absolutely no idea for most of them.
    But yarb does live in mortal fear of bodysnatchers, that much is true. Apr 29, 2011

  • blafferty Wow, you're so confident. *second guesses* Apr 29, 2011

  • sionnach bilby is hidelugged
    blafferty is ascian
    chained_bear likes a wodge
    dontcry is tear-resistant
    erinmckean is calepinerienne
    fbharjo is chrestomathic
    frindley is alexis
    frogapplause is a slopseller
    gangerh is a heartstringplucker
    hernesheir is balsamaceous
    mollusque is systematic
    oroboros is protean
    possible_underscore is prodigal
    The only Wordie I have actually met in person is sweet, charming, witty, loves animals and is a harlequin
    pterodactyl is boggy
    reestee est distingue
    ruzuzu = lunette (aucune idee pourquoi)
    seanahan is sinistral
    I am sionnach
    Wordnicolina is a greenhorn
    Wordplayer is playful
    yarb sleeps in a mortsafe Apr 29, 2011

  • frindley The suspense is killing me… Apr 29, 2011

  • dontcry I'll get mine in tomorow - promise. Apr 28, 2011

  • frogapplause Who's holding up the works? C'mon, stragglers. Apr 28, 2011

  • frindley Duh! It's tɪə-resistant, not tɛː-resistant. Silly frindley. Apr 28, 2011

  • chained_bear Spreadsheet's done! Not that my results will be any better than they were last time...

    bilby -- sinistral
    blafferty -- hidelugged
    dontcry -- tear-resistant
    erinmckean -- calepinerienne
    fbharjo -- harlequin
    frindley -- mediæval
    frogapplause -- heartstringsplucker
    gangerh -- emordnilap
    hernesheir -- balsamaceous
    mollusque -- I wanted to say emordnilap. I'm gonna say od instead, then kick myself later.
    oroboros -- hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophile. And if it's not, it should be.
    PossibleUnderscore -- chrestomathic
    Prolagus -- panda. Again, if it's not, it should be. As huggable as any extinct lagomorph could be.
    pterodactyl -- mortsafe
    reesetee -- present
    ruzuzu -- slopseller
    seanahan -- prodigal
    sionnach -- boggy
    Wordnicolina -- greenhorn?
    Wordplayer -- ascian?
    yarb -- queasy?
    Apr 27, 2011

  • reesetee I feel birdie. Apr 27, 2011

  • oroboros I actually played Grumpy-dwarf once in a Junior High theatre production. I was well cast. *grumps* Apr 27, 2011

  • bilby You could Chang your Ming, yarb. That's a nice succession. Probably a swordfighting movie in it, too. Apr 27, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Bilby's word is quite possibly the funniest of them all. Apr 27, 2011

  • blafferty Yay!! Apr 27, 2011

  • ruzuzu As you wish. Apr 27, 2011

  • blafferty I feel that sweettoothfairyey should come with brackets.
    Apr 27, 2011

  • ruzuzu With all this new information, I might have to change my answers. Hm.

    Prolagus : sleepy
    blafferty : happy
    chained_bear : sneezy
    oroboros : grumpy
    ruzuzu : dopey
    erinmckean : wordie
    fbharjo : punny
    bilby : bilby
    frindley : frindley
    frogapplause : froggy
    gangerh : sweettoothfairyey
    hernesheir : herney
    mollusque : molly
    dontcry : weepy
    PossibleUnderscore : possibly
    pterodactyl : ptery
    reesetee : birdie
    seanahan : seanahanny
    sionnach : foxy
    yarb : wodgey
    Wordplayer : sneezy
    Wordnicolina : bashful
    sonofgroucho : doc

    edit: oroboros is now "grumpy," which means dontcry has to be "weepy" Apr 27, 2011

  • chained_bear Oh shit, I never finished my spreadsheet. Wait till I get home tonight!! Apr 27, 2011

  • blafferty Darn. And now I know I got at least 2 wrong ... not counting my own, of course. Apr 27, 2011

  • yarb Change my ming? Right, I'll change my ming to "mind".

    blafferty, alas no. Some people just like to be helpful. Apr 27, 2011

  • blafferty Do we get points for correctly identifying our own word? Apr 27, 2011

  • yarb I'm putting this up here but will probably change my ming at some point:

    bilby -- slopseller
    blafferty -- ascian
    chained_bear -- mediæval
    dontcry -- tear-resistant
    erinmckean -- calepinerienne
    fbharjo -- chrestomatic
    frindley -- alexis
    frogapplause -- mortsafe
    gangerh -- emordnilap
    hernesheir -- hidelugged
    mollusque -- systematic
    oroboros -- protean
    PossibleUnderscore -- balsamaceous
    Prolagus -- harlequin
    pterodactyl -- present
    reesetee -- sinistral
    ruzuzu -- lunette
    seanahan -- prodigal
    sionnach -- boggy
    Wordnicolina -- greenhorn
    Wordplayer -- playful
    yarb -- wodge Apr 27, 2011

  • yarb I'm also having trouble with hernesheir. Apr 27, 2011

  • yarb Trickiest wordniks to identify: fbharjo and prolagus. Apr 27, 2011

  • yarb Not much love for alexis, I notice. Apr 27, 2011

  • pterodactyl My guesses:

    bilby -- harlequin
    blafferty -- ascian
    chained_bear -- wodge
    dontcry -- tear-resistant
    erinmckean -- calepinerienne
    fbharjo -- playful
    frindley -- mediæval
    frogapplause -- alexis
    gangerh -- emordnilap
    hernesheir -- heartstringsplucker
    mollusque -- systematic
    oroboros -- protean
    PossibleUnderscore -- chrestomathic
    Prolagus -- prodigal
    pterodactyl -- esquivalience
    reesetee -- slopseller
    ruzuzu -- lunette
    seanahan -- hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophile
    sionnach -- sinistral
    Wordnicolina -- greenhorn
    Wordplayer -- queasy
    yarb -- aaaaaaargh!

    I started out methodically, using the spreadsheets, looking up words, and generally being systematic*. That didn't last long. Most of these are wild, pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey stabs in the dark.

    *Not a hint regarding the word "systematic". Apr 27, 2011

  • pterodactyl *applauds frindley's knowledge of Andrew Clement books* Apr 27, 2011

  • frindley This is infinitely more difficult than I anticipated. I think I shall need to change my chosen word. How about stumped?

    Anyway, my paltry effort, allocation of wild guesses aided somewhat by the use of a spreadsheet and a late swap which I shall probably regret:

    bilby | playful
    blafferty | systematic
    chained_bear | wodge
    dontcry | tear-resistant
    erinmckean | slopseller
    fbharjo | present
    frindley | pen-like*
    frogapplause | lunette
    gangerh | ascian
    hernesheir | greenhorn
    mollusque | harlequin
    oroboros | mortsafe
    PossibleUnderscore | chrestomathic
    Prolagus | sinistral
    pterodactyl | distingue
    reesetee | protean
    ruzuzu | balsamaceous
    seanahan | prodigal
    sionnach | panda
    Wordnicolina | calepinerienne
    Wordplayer | boggy
    yarb | emordnilap

    *At least according to Andrew Clement Apr 27, 2011

  • blafferty *Throws tomatoes*
    Whoops ... good thing there's no one around. Apr 27, 2011

  • frogapplause I want a front row seat for that dirty, rotten cheater's perp walk! Apr 27, 2011

  • blafferty Well, I would never suspect a fellow Wordie/nik of cheating, but you did mention subterfuge ... I don't like being subterfuged. ;) Apr 26, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Haha! Whoops!
    I fixed it. Apr 26, 2011

  • frogapplause Well, frindley is friendly, P_U. Apr 26, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Alrighty! Here we go then...

    bilby- hidelugged
    blafferty- prodigal
    chained_bear- heartstringsplucker
    dontcry- tear-resistant
    erinmckean- calepinerienne
    fbharjo- protean
    frindley- lunette
    frogapplause- alexis
    gangerh- distingue
    hernesheir- harlequin
    mollusque- chrestomathic
    oroboros- boggy
    PossibleUnderscore- panda
    Prolagus- slopseller
    pterodactyl- systematic
    reesetee- aaaaaaargh!
    ruzuzu- balsamaceous
    seanahan- systematic
    sionnach- od
    Wordnicolina- playful
    Wordplayer- greenhorn
    yarb- mortsafe

    Thank goodness for the edit button.
    Apr 26, 2011

  • ruzuzu Frogapplause, did he skip just your name, or your name and the word that describes you? *bats eyelashes and attempts to look innocent* Apr 26, 2011

  • frogapplause oroboros included himself but skipped me!!! All manner of umbrage is taken. Apr 26, 2011

  • gangerh In the event of a tie, 'zuzu, I propose a playoff. I will ask all losing entrants who want to help in the playoff to select a word that they consider applies to/describes each tied wordnik, one for each of them.
    The tied wordniks will have a couple of days or so to match these words with all tied wordniks, including themselves.
    Any further ties can be played off in the same manner until we have a winner.
    Hope that explains what I'm trying to communicate. And also, now I've thought of that, I rather hope we'll have a tie!
    (Or we could just count the number of letters in the words that they got right in the first place.) Apr 26, 2011

  • oroboros Here ya go; I used my favorite method: no-brains.(Edit: whoops! see addition of frogclapping below)

    bilby - hidelugged
    blafferty - calepinerienne
    chained_bear - aaaaaarrgh!
    dontcry - queasy
    erinmckean - playful
    fbharjo - od
    frindley - boggy
    frogapplause - dreamy....uh, oh, no, wait, okay: balsamaceous
    gangerh - sinistral
    hernesheir - ascian
    mollusque - chrestomathic
    oroboros - wiggy
    PossibleUnderscore - heartstringsplucker
    Prolagus - harlequin
    pterodactyl - wodge
    reesetee - distingue
    ruzuzu - prodigal
    seanahan - systematic
    sionnach - protean
    Wordnicolina - greenhorn
    Wordplayer - emordnilap
    yarb - panda Apr 26, 2011

  • gangerh You may like to know that when the time for entries is notified there will be a few hours notice. At the moment that the game ends I will take a print of this page and that will be the version used for assessing the results. Apr 26, 2011

  • gangerh No, no 'ferty - I don't believe that wordnik would have an edit button for cheating ;-} - it's for correcting errors, even deliberate ones, and revising things for the better. Apr 26, 2011

  • bilby Hexadactyls demonstrate but sleight of hand. Treasures beyond belief are surely held in my seven fingers. Apr 26, 2011

  • reesetee As I recall, we had a three-way tie the first time around. We got some lovely parting gift comments on our profiles. :-) Apr 26, 2011

  • ruzuzu So what happens if there's a tie between a few of us (or all of us) who have entered? Apr 26, 2011

  • yarb Just noticed prolagus also provided a spreadsheet - well, there's another one for "systematic", ha ha. Thank you also, p, though I went with the first one I saw. Apr 26, 2011

  • blafferty Wait a minute, wait a minute. Gangerh, do you mean people might go back and _cheat_ by changing stuff?! Gaaaaah! Apr 26, 2011

  • blafferty Glad it's come in handy, yarb! Personally, when I finished filling in what connections I could divine, I found the number of blanks was if anything more daunting than before. Apr 26, 2011

  • reesetee You guys only have six fingers on each hand?

    Wow. Apr 25, 2011

  • yarb Thanks blafferty for the spreadsheet, saved me some toil there. I used to love those logic puzzles when I was a kid.

    I intend to cogitate for as long as I'm allowed, because this is a real noggin-botherer - as the attempts at guessing my word so far suggest. Apr 25, 2011

  • dontcry *panic attack alert*
    *wonders if my orthopedist's waiting room has wifi? Surely I'll kill an hour there Wednesday...* Apr 25, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore 4 sleeps now! Apr 25, 2011

  • blafferty How many sleeps do we have left until the answers are revealed? I am drowning in lack of instant gratification.
    *bites nails* Apr 25, 2011

  • Prolagus 1- Thumb
    2- Index
    3- Piddle
    4- Diddle
    5- Ring
    6- Pinky Apr 25, 2011

  • hernesheir Could Wordnik please employ a palmist, palm reader, hand reader, hand analyst,or chirologist to interpret the hexadactyl image sionnach posted? We're looking for clues here. Apr 25, 2011

  • sionnach Qui??? Moi!!!

    http://www.blackgayblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/six-fingers1.jpg">

    Pas du tout! Apr 25, 2011

  • ruzuzu Sionnach, I do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand, do you? Apr 25, 2011

  • ruzuzu Now, a clever wordnik would put the word into his own list, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the slopseller in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the slopseller in front of me. Apr 25, 2011

  • sionnach And I thought my word was *simple* this time. Apparently not! Apr 25, 2011

  • reesetee No, no; I'm the slopseller? See my list? Apr 25, 2011

  • ruzuzu Ah, and if frogapplause turns out to be lunette, then I'm the true boggy slopseller. Apr 25, 2011

  • Wordplayer By the way, I did sacrifice my word because I had no idea on one of the entrants...(or did I)...
    Apr 25, 2011

  • reesetee Here are my guesses:

    bilby: ascian
    blafferty: prodigal
    chained_bear: wodge
    dontcry: tear-resistant
    erinmckean: calepinerienne
    fbharjo: heartstringsplucker
    frindley: mediæval
    frogapplause: lunette
    gangerh: emordnilap
    hernesheir: chrestomathic
    mollusque: sinistral
    oroboros: harlequin
    PossibleUnderscore: slopseller
    Prolagus: aaaaaaargh!
    pterodactyl: playful
    reesetee: queasy
    ruzuzu: balsamaceous
    seanahan: hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophile
    sionnach: distingue
    Wordnicolina: greenhorn
    Wordplayer: systematic
    yarb: mortsafe

    I dunno...some seemed too obvious and others...*scratches head* Apr 24, 2011

  • reesetee Wait--some of you guys have actual spreadsheets? I was kidding! *worries* Apr 24, 2011

  • frogapplause If ruzuzu turns out to be lunette, I guessed first -- even before she listed it herself!
    As for bilby, I think he's just pouting because several people think that he's a slopseller. Pro is always the hardest for me to figure out. Apr 24, 2011

  • gangerh At least 5. 'cept Pro'. Apr 24, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore How many sleeps do we have left? Apr 24, 2011

  • gangerh mepersonallythinkswordienikchallengersmayhaveforgo
    ttentheireditchocolatebuttonsthiseasterandallthesub
    terfugethatcouldbringtothepartyhah Apr 24, 2011

  • Wordplayer Alright..let's get this over with:

    bilby slopseller
    blafferty harlequin
    chained_bear wodge
    dontcry tear-resistant
    erinmckean calepinereinne
    fbharjo hidelugged
    frindley medieval
    frogapplause boggy
    gangerh emordnilap
    hernesheir systematic
    mollusque distingue
    oroboros present
    PossibleUnderscore chrestomathic
    Prolagus prodigal
    pterodactyl sinistral
    reesetee lunette
    ruzuzu playful
    seanahan mortsafe
    sionnach queasy
    Wordnicolina ascian
    yarb od Apr 24, 2011

  • ruzuzu Easter Bilby--are you offering to help us with your word or all of the words? (It's too late for me, but maybe there's hope for someone else.)

    Would you like some hummus? I got a fresh jar of tahini yesterday. Apr 24, 2011

  • fbharjo Here is my posting:

    bilby slopseller
    blafferty sinistral
    chained_bear mediæval
    dontcry tear-resistant
    erinmckean calepinerienne
    fbharjo ???????
    frindley playful
    frogapplause greenhorn
    gangerh heartstringsplucker
    hernesheir systematic
    mollusque hidelugged
    oroboros distingue
    PossibleUnderscore ascian
    Prolagus prodigal
    pterodactyl boggy
    reesetee wodge
    ruzuzu queasy
    seanahan protean
    sionnach balsamaceous
    Wordnicolina hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophile
    Wordplayer emordnilap
    Yarb od Apr 24, 2011

  • mollusque I agree, ruzuzu. Better to post now. It's too late for me to avoid second-guessing, but at least I can avoid triple-thinking, like pondering what it means that you matched yourself to lunette.

    bilby: queasy
    blafferty: ascian
    chained_bear: mortsafe
    dontcry: tear-resistant
    erinmckean: calepinerienne
    fbharjo: sinistral
    frindley: panda
    frogapplause: protean
    gangerh: heartstringsplucker
    hernesheir: balsamaceous
    oroboros: emordnilap
    PossibleUnderscore: harlequin
    Prolagus: aaaaaaargh!
    pterodactyl: hidelugged
    reesetee: chrestomathic
    ruzuzu: playful
    seanahan: prodigal
    sionnach: distingue
    Wordnicolina: greenhorn
    Wordplayer: hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophile
    yarb: present Apr 24, 2011

  • bilby No last-minute bluffing as I don't intend to submit an entry.

    I suppose if someone wants a clue they could ask me nicely. Bribing me with fried breadfruit also works. Apr 24, 2011

  • ruzuzu I was going to wait for other folks to submit their entries, but I have a feeling there will be some last-minute bluffing and trick-playing, so I'm going to do this now to avoid driving myself mad with obsessive second-guessing. Prolagus, mollusque, oroboros, sionnach, and pterodactyl were the hardest for me to figure out, so I'm sure it'll be all the others I've gotten wrong. (Sorry!)

    bilby : hidelugged 
    blafferty : ascian
    chained_bear : queasy
    dontcry : tear-resistant 
    erinmckean : calepinerienne 
    fbharjo : chrestomathic
    frindley : mediæval 
    frogapplause : boggy 
    gangerh : protean
    hernesheir : balsamaceous
    mollusque : sinistral
    oroboros : heartstringsplucker  
    PossibleUnderscore : panda 
    Prolagus : harlequin
    pterodactyl : present  
    reesetee : aaaaaaargh!
    ruzuzu : lunette
    seanahan : prodigal
    sionnach : systematic 
    Wordnicolina : hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophile
    Wordplayer : playful 
    yarb : emordnilap

    Edited to remove the word "present" and replace it with another.
    Edited again to go back to the way things were before yarb psyched me out. Apr 24, 2011

  • blafferty Ok, I don't know you guys very well, so I think this is the best I can do:
    bilby - protean
    chained_bear - wodge
    dontcry - tear-resistant
    erinmckean - calepinerienne
    fbharjo - present
    frindley - mediæval
    frogapplause - heartstringplucker
    gangerh - emordnilap
    herneheir - systematic
    mollusque - harlequin
    oroboros - mortsafe
    PossibleUnderscore - prodigal
    Prolagus - chrestomathic
    pterodactyl - distingue
    reesetee - lunette
    ruzuzu - playful
    seanahan - boggy
    sionnach - balsamaceous
    Wordnicolina - greenhorn
    Wordplayer - queasy
    yarb - sinistral
    Apr 24, 2011

  • frogapplause bilby-slopseller
    blafferty-systematic
    chained_bear-hidelugged
    dontcry-emordnilap
    erinmckean-calepinerienne
    fbharjo-boggy
    frindley-queasy
    gangerh-sinistral
    hernesheir-chrestomathic
    mollusque-ascian
    oroboros-balsamaceous
    PossibleUnderscore-playful
    Prolagus-od
    pterodactyl-distingue
    reesetee-wodge
    ruzuzu-lunette
    seanahan-prodigal
    sionnach-panda
    Wordnicolina-mortsafe
    Wordplayer-present
    yarb-greenhorn Apr 23, 2011

  • Wordplayer I am too young for these mind games! What have I gotten myself into???!!! Apr 23, 2011

  • fbharjo Know wonder! no Wonder! Apr 23, 2011

  • fbharjo I overscore to underscore?
    I just heard a clap of thunder! Apr 23, 2011

  • dontcry How is she doing that??
    *clears mind*
    That was kinda quick... Apr 23, 2011

  • frogapplause When I post my guesses for "Identify the Wordienik!!", all the words I assign to other people will be crossed off as guesses for my word!! I'm wondering if anyone is planning to pair their word (a sacrifice!) with another player's name in order to be tricky. Oh hecko. I'm just going to do what I did last time... put all the words in a hat. Apr 23, 2011

  • blafferty So far my logic problem-style spreadsheet is looking like a robot. Wheee! Apr 23, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Yeah- same thing happened to me.
    :) Apr 23, 2011

  • blafferty Whoops, thanks. Guess I didn't look far enough before. Apr 23, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore The comments go on the list like in the previous games. Apr 23, 2011

  • blafferty Here is a link to a spreadsheet with the words at the top, logic problem-style. Gdocs messes up the vertical alignment of the words, but you can fix that quick when you download.

    Apr 23, 2011

  • blafferty Do the comments in which we (hopefully) link wordie to word go on the word itself or on the list? Apr 23, 2011

  • mollusque Don't know why, but I'm finding the Australians are the hardest to match to words. Apr 23, 2011

  • fbharjo Don't get stuck in the Pogo no-go Apr 22, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Maybe a lollie-bag at the end of the party.

    Oh boy... this is even harder than I expected.
    *leaves for a siesta in dontcry's peonies*
    One less sleep for me.

    Edit: Incidentally, I am actually very tired but now I couldn't possibly sleep for fear of dreaming about spreadsheets. Apr 22, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Do we get prizes for trying?
    *hopeful grin* Apr 22, 2011

  • dontcry *staggers off porch - lands in peonies* Apr 22, 2011

  • gangerh What, AND seven sleepless siestas? Apr 22, 2011

  • gangerh Gosh, 'gus! An ID the'nik app! Apr 22, 2011

  • dontcry *wears paper bag as a hat* Apr 22, 2011

  • gangerh Perhaps, on reflection, 'tisn't such a good idea to comment too much on how you came to your conclusions when you submit. You might give your rivals clues about others they hadn't had of their own.
    Let's say we allow two or three days after the game closes, and before the results are announced, for those sort of comments - mmmm - could foster an interesting discussion. Apr 22, 2011

  • dontcry *breathes into paper bag* Apr 22, 2011

  • Prolagus gangerh: let's do seven sleeps for most people, and seven sleepless nights for me. Apr 22, 2011

  • Prolagus Feel free to download this spreadsheet for your convenience. Apr 22, 2011

  • dontcry Har!
    *hops onto porch swing*
    1... Apr 22, 2011

  • gangerh I know.
    Prolagus, starting now, let me know when you've woken up for the seventh time. Apr 22, 2011

  • gangerh I hear you, 'cry.
    I understand that different time zones have different numbers of sleeps, so 7 is an at least number. If you do siesta, it'll be at least 14. If you porchdoze twice daily, it'll be at least 21 sleeps. If you have sleep apnea, like me, it'll be at least zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Apr 22, 2011

  • gangerh Sharp as tennis balls you are, 'bl'underscore. Now, doesn't that make it edgy? 'twas ever thus, though. Perhaps see previous games. Apr 22, 2011

  • dontcry *raises hand*
    What time zone???
    *flushes Ambien* Apr 22, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Wait a minute- if we're meant to submit answers by posting a comment, doesn't that mean everyone will be able to see? Apr 22, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Well at least you're not alone ruzuzu! Apr 22, 2011

  • oroboros *You* folks? 'Zuzu, 'member the enemy is us (what we met)! :o) Apr 22, 2011

  • ruzuzu I'm not sure I'll get even one right. You folks are tricky! Apr 22, 2011

  • oroboros Egad! Well, I know I can get at least *one* right!

    *scurries off to pour some Scot's smart-juice over ice* Apr 22, 2011

  • reesetee Yay!

    *scurries off to set up Excel chart* Apr 22, 2011

  • gangerh So the game starts.
    And anyone with a Wordnik account can join in.
    The aim is for you to identify Wordniks based upon a single word that they have chosen that they consider applies to/describes them.
    The Wordniks you must identify with the words in the above list are:

    bilby
    blafferty
    chained_bear
    dontcry
    erinmckean
    fbharjo
    frindley
    frogapplause
    gangerh
    hernesheir
    mollusque
    oroboros
    PossibleUnderscore
    Prolagus
    pterodactyl
    reesetee
    ruzuzu
    seanahan
    sionnach
    Wordnicolina
    Wordplayer
    yarb

    Each of the above-listed Wordniks has confidentially emailed me their chosen word which now appears in this list.
    Please enter the competition by submitting a comment in which you link the Wordnik with their identifying word. You may also discuss the reasoning behind your choices if you wish.
    Yes, I know there are more words in the list than there are entrants. They’re called cred herrings. And some are less cred than others. Hah!
    Be thankful that I didn’t throw a cred herring into the list of entrants – I did consider it.
    Remember there’s a prize for the most correct matches!
    Note: you do not have to be listed as a Wordnik-to-be-identified to enter. Anyone with a Wordnik account can join in. Just go right ahead!
    You have at least 7 sleeps before a closing soon warning but you may post your solution as soon as you wish.
    Any questions? Apr 22, 2011

  • ruzuzu Hey! The entries are all alphabetty.... *consults notes* Apr 22, 2011

  • ruzuzu Thanks, R! *reaches for one of the cupcakes with grape riffles* Apr 22, 2011

  • gangerh ID the'nik is now closed to entries. Apr 22, 2011

  • dontcry Aaack!
    *reclenches* Apr 22, 2011

  • gangerh Last call for entries. Apr 22, 2011

  • reesetee Yes, yes, Spring Sphere Day or some such. But more important is the natal day of R Herself!

    *hands out special batch of Ruzuzu-day cupcakes with candles* Apr 22, 2011

  • dontcry Wabbits? Apr 22, 2011

  • ruzuzu Oh. Wait. You mean that thing with the rabbits, don't you? Apr 22, 2011

  • ruzuzu Hey--who told you it's my bearthday? *looks around suspiciously* Apr 22, 2011

  • reesetee But isn't this the weekend when certain believers are busy celebrating a certain holiday that shall remain nameless? And won't those people be otherwise engaged for a few days?

    Just sayin'. Apr 22, 2011

  • dontcry ...today? Apr 22, 2011

  • gangerh Tomorrow is probably a good day to transition from . . . . Apr 21, 2011

  • ruzuzu Fine, fine.
    *makes new list* Apr 21, 2011

  • reesetee *tosses be-licked cupcakes; makes new batch* Apr 21, 2011

  • gangerh Just room for one more contestant. Not much sleeping before battle commences. Apr 20, 2011

  • dontcry *grins* Apr 20, 2011

  • ruzuzu *snort* Apr 20, 2011

  • gangerh ice licker Apr 20, 2011

  • dontcry *licks icing from all the cupcakes during group hug*
    Apr 20, 2011

  • reesetee *hugs all and sundry*

    Oh, and chained: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect. Apr 19, 2011

  • chained_bear reesetee, I've spent the last few years developing an immunity to adding words to lists. Apr 19, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore Big Heart!
    ♥ Apr 19, 2011

  • ruzuzu *hugs punderscore and sionnach and gangerh and the underground marsupial and everyone in the list and everyone not in the list and everyone reading all these comments now and in the future* Apr 19, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore You know... we haven't had a group hug in quite a long time.
    What better place to initiate one than on the bottom of Identify the Wordienik?
    *hug* Apr 19, 2011

  • ruzuzu Aw, shucks. *blushes* Apr 19, 2011

  • sionnach Nice try, 'zuzu! Too bad that everyone here knows your pure heart and sunny disposition render you completely incapable of guile. Apr 19, 2011

  • ruzuzu Ha! Maybe I should go underground, too--that'll make it harder to guess which word is mine (assuming my word is there already). Apr 18, 2011

  • sionnach Jeez. You really have gone underground down under, floppy ears. Now we can't even send you a friendly pre-Paschal greeting on your profile.

    Maybe that Swensen's murder really is catching up with you after all these years. There must be some reason for the deep cover. Apr 18, 2011

  • bilby You're doing a fine job as the new anchor, gangerh. Apr 18, 2011

  • mollusque He's both. Apr 18, 2011

  • reesetee But it's so simple, sionnach. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: Are you the sort of man who would put the word onto your own list or your enemy's? Apr 18, 2011

  • sionnach "do not comment on your intentions anywhere on this site as most of the words submitted have been published and the sharper participants will pick up on the fact that your word is in the last few listed".

    I'm betting all of the sharper participants have seen "The Princess Bride" and will get totally bogged down in their own mental reverse-reverse-reverse psychology games if they attempt to follow that line of reasoning. Or do I mean reverse-reverse-reverse-reverse psychology games?

    mwahahahaha!
    Apr 18, 2011

  • ruzuzu Whew! Thanks, r. Apr 18, 2011

  • reesetee *hands over a dozen cupcakes* Apr 18, 2011

  • ruzuzu *still clenching* Apr 18, 2011

  • ruzuzu *clenches, hoping for a cupcake* Apr 18, 2011

  • gangerh A word of warning if you're going to take part at this stage . . . . do not comment on your intentions anywhere on this site as most of the words submitted have been published and the sharper participants will pick up on the fact that your word is in the last few listed. Apr 17, 2011

  • gangerh Still room for two maybe three more entrants.
    To take part you simply choose a word that you feel applies to/describes you and confidentially submit it to me for me to post anonymously on this list. Then, when I feel we have enough entries, I publish the Wordnik names of all entrants. Then everyone gets a few days to match up the submitted words with the Wordnik.
    There is a prize to go along with the breathtaking honour of winning.
    See the Identify the Wordienik list page for more details. Apr 17, 2011

  • reesetee *relaxes* Apr 16, 2011

  • dontcry Nom, nom.
    *unclenches*
    Apr 16, 2011

  • reesetee Unclench, unclench! Or you'll never be able to ID the Wordieniks!

    *hands dontcry an unclenched cupcake* Apr 16, 2011

  • dontcry What fun! Can't wait to play! When do we start?
    *clenches in anticipation* Apr 16, 2011

  • reesetee You mean, the way I did on List #2? ;-) Apr 15, 2011

  • Prolagus Is this list complete? If it's not, please don't give any clue about who is missing. Apr 15, 2011

  • sionnach Well, that's the interwebs for you. It's still a mystery why the AT&T support guy in Bangalore can get into my Yahoo e-mail account with the new password, but I can't access it from here, using the same password.

    Thank God for Gmail! :-) Apr 15, 2011

  • gangerh Thanks, sionnach, absolute sense, and that's exactly what I did that didn't work for me. Apr 15, 2011

  • sionnach I had to fiddle with it for a while, but eventually what seems to work is to go to the list in question, then find its exact address in your browser and copy that exactly into the href= part of the relevant HTML syntax. I think the reason that this works, where other possibilites don't, is that Wordnik replaces spaces in the list names with hyphens, as well as possibly making some other changes. If that makes sense ... Apr 15, 2011

  • gangerh I thought that, bilby, so I tried it in Comments and still it wouldn't work for me.
    Apr 15, 2011

  • bilby Links (other than square brackets) might be disabled in list descriptions. Apr 15, 2011

  • gangerh How did you do that 'nach? I used the usual a href etc coding and couldn't get it to work. Apr 15, 2011

  • sionnach Here are links to the previous two competitions:

    Identify the Wordie 2!!


    Identify the Wordie!!     Apr 15, 2011

  • sionnach Squee! Count me in. Furrows brow, ponders list of shiny possible words... Apr 15, 2011

  • ruzuzu Oh! There they are! Apr 15, 2011

  • gangerh Don't know, yarb, I'm just seeing how it goes. I won't close for entries without fair warning, though. Unless we're inundated towards an unmanageable number. Apr 13, 2011

  • yarb How long have I to think of a word, g-love? Apr 13, 2011

  • gangerh Anyone tell me how to make the list links in the description above work? Apr 13, 2011

  • bilby Noobs also take note of the word yarb used to describe himself last time.

    *wraps gangerh in looroll*
    Mummy! Apr 12, 2011

  • Wordplayer Hooray! It's begun! Apr 12, 2011

  • gangerh Even the odd cred herrings, indubitably. Apr 12, 2011

  • yarb Fabulous prize. I'm extra motivated this time.

    Are you going to throw in a few red herrings, too? Apr 12, 2011

  • ruzuzu Yay! Apr 12, 2011

  • gangerh 0 sleeps to 'Identify the Wordienik!!'! Apr 12, 2011

  • fbharjo just in the nik of time! Apr 11, 2011

  • gangerh Only 1 more sleep to ID the 'nik season. Apr 11, 2011

  • gangerh No, no. Any lagging behind, you'll catch up (eventually). Apr 10, 2011

  • ruzuzu Should we be doing anything to prepare for this historic event? Apr 10, 2011

  • gangerh Only 2 more sleeps to ID the 'nik season. Apr 10, 2011

  • gangerh Only 3 more sleeps to ID the 'nik season. Apr 9, 2011

  • reesetee Done! ISTFD will be duly listed, with directions to your place. :-) Apr 4, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore I wanna play too!
    I'm just bursting from my office chair in excitement.
    ;-) Apr 3, 2011

  • fbharjo word -nik word -ie nice! Apr 3, 2011

  • gangerh ID the 'nik is coming soon! Apr 3, 2011

  • gangerh Oh yes please, 'tee! I was trying to remember who had that list.
    International Sweet Tooth Fairy Day is May 10th. Being a virtual event anyone, anywhere can join in. So if you'd like an invitation please go to International Sweet Tooth Fairy Day. Apr 3, 2011

  • reesetee Gangerh, does this mean I'll need to list International Sweet Tooth Fairy Day on my "One Person's Holiday" list? Mar 26, 2011

  • pterodactyl I'm in. Mar 18, 2011

  • ruzuzu Sweet! Mar 17, 2011

  • gangerh OK. I'll set this up soon. Just need to finish planning International Sweet Tooth Fairy Day. Mar 17, 2011

  • gangerh Were you to embrace the concept of poop-slinging, would that make it clinchpoop-slinging? Mar 17, 2011

  • bilby Neither a poop-slinger nor a sling-pooper be. Mar 17, 2011

  • ruzuzu I wasn't informed there might be poop-slinging. What kind of game is this, anyway? Mar 17, 2011

  • chained_bear I'll play, despite my earlier protests, but only if there's no poop-slinging. (bilby...) ;) Mar 17, 2011

  • reesetee Did I miss it? Mar 17, 2011

  • hernesheir ok? Mar 4, 2011

  • Wordplayer I'm in as well Mar 3, 2011

  • madmouth me, too!
    Mar 3, 2011

  • yarb I'm in! Mar 3, 2011

  • ruzuzu I think you should just go ahead and start it, gangerh--people will catch up (eventually). Mar 3, 2011

  • gangerh It's a no, then? Mar 3, 2011

  • ruzuzu Thanks, Pro. Okay, I'm game. Nov 4, 2010

  • Prolagus Instructions of the previous edition. Nov 4, 2010

  • ruzuzu How do we play? Nov 4, 2010

  • fbharjo How about the Wordnikie? Nov 4, 2010

  • gangerh Is it time?
    Shall I do it? Nov 4, 2010