A different word game

raisindot

I didn't invent this, but I have posted this as a topic on a couple other forums. The best version lasted four years and 2,000+ posts.

Anyway, it works like this: I post a sentence with a word in bold. The next person posts a new sentence where can either 1) change one letter to the word and, if you wish, rearrange the letters to make a new one; 2) add one more letter and arrange the existing letters to make a new word; or 3) subtract one letter from the word (WITHOUT adding another letter) and rearrange the existing letters to make a new one. We try to stay away with proper nouns and names of people, states, etc. just so it doesn't get too easy. It's pretty challenging, especially when you qs and zs in there. And you don't want to create a word that's nearly impossible to change because that makes you need to reboot. But it's fun vocab test. And we gots tons of smart people around here. So, I'll post the first few so you can see how it works.

I really like to smoke cigars

raisindot

I think it's tragic that the federal gummint wants to legislate premium stogies

raisindot

When someone gives me cigars I feel very happy. (Okay, this violates the rule since it uses a word that was done before, but too late to change. Try not to do this if you can)

raisindot

When a box of Hemingways graces my mailbox, I feel like a new person.

raisindot

When I once found what I thought was a beetle in my humidor, it gave me quite a scare.

rburke1129

I smoke outside to stay in my wife's good graces.

Amos_Umwhat

To not be would be scarey

rburke1129

Sorry for the dupe word. I was working on it before the Hemingway post.

Puff_Dougie

This game is great for yackers.

raisindot

I've heard that meat packers are also very good at this game.

WaltBasil

raisindot:

I've heard that meat packers are also very good at this game.

Some call me a Spanker.

Bob_Luken

WaltBasil:

raisindot:

I've heard that meat packers are also very good at this game.

Some call me a Spanker.

Do you consider tomorrow's pranks while you spank 'er?

raisindot

And what happens if she out ranks you?

Bob_Luken

Then she could spank you.

raisindot

Hopefully not with my good frying pans.

WaltBasil

Hopefully not while I nap.

Bob_Luken

Pans, as weapons, span the test of time.

WaltBasil

Bob Luken:

Pans, as weapons, span the test of time.

Like sand through the hourglass.

raisindot

Or ants crawling through my kitchen.

Amos_Umwhat

Ooh, I can't stand that!

raisindot

Yeah, between them and the clouds of gnats flying around from June through October having three foot of snow to deal with ain't so bad.

rburke1129

Do they still make Tang?

Puff_Dougie

Only in giant packets.

Jetmech_63

Dupe

Jetmech_63

I read that while taking a dump

raisindot

I think I'd prefer taming tigers than drinking Tang again anyday...

Bob_Luken

Speaking of tang, do any of you remember a space food product marketed to kids back during the late 60s early 70s ? I remember having some of these. It was shaped and packaged similar to a slim jim but was really more like a long tootsie roll. (I'll go look it up.)

Haha I found it on wikipedia!

Space Food Sticks are snacks created for the Pillsbury Company in the late 1960s A forerunner of energy bars, Space Food Sticks were promoted by Pillsbury for their association with NASA's efforts to create safe, healthy and nutritional space food. Capitalizing on the popularity of the Apollo space missions, Pillsbury marketed Space Food Sticks as a "nutritionally balanced between meal snack". Fourteen individually packaged sticks were included in a box, and came in six flavors such as peanut butter, caramel, and chocolate.

Maybe some company is still MAKING them.

Holy Crap! They've got the old TV ad on youtube!

raisindot

I remember those Space Sticks, and I think I somehow convinced my mother to buy them, although how Pillsbury was able to convince anyone that these things were healthy remains an enigma.

Amos_Umwhat

raisindot:

I remember those Space Sticks, and I think I somehow convinced my mother to buy them, although how Pillsbury was able to convince anyone that these things were healthy remains an enigma.

I just can't imagine.

Bob_Luken

You ever imagine trying to go to the bathroom in zero gravity where EVERYTHING flies EVERYWHERE!

Sorry. Takes me a while to hit enter sometimes.

raisindot

I think I spent hours trying to figure out how to get out of this vocabulistic trap, until applying an imaging technique finally helped.