word up gossip

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:50 pm

NEW SOLO WORLD RECORD

2098

Beat you all to the 2000 mark at the Playhouse, Colchester.

TRANQUILLIZERS and Wetherspoons coffee helped

(They must have cancelled each other out)

tka · Post by **tka** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:44 pm

vaginalbob wrote: TRANQUILLIZERS and Wetherspoons coffee helped
(They must have cancelled each other out)

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:16 am

i had a non-clearance 1682 yesterday and the barmaid was a charming young Hungarian.
anyway a couple of scores: aside from the drab MILLIONAIRES, QUIZZING and a few pleasing 10s,
1808 tyburn, marble arch MEESKITE
1850 hogshead, mayfair MEESKITE
1893 lord moon of the mall, traf sq MEESKITE
but the most elegant word i got was HEREUNTO

oh! is it a pleasure? i'm a meeskite.

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 2:20 pm

Yes but if you got Millionaire and/or Quizzing, you need to report where you got them...

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 2:48 pm

the Q word was part of the 1850
the M word was at the clarence on whitehall. but your website has enough of those words already.

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:11 pm

If you don't like them, don't play them

davejon · Post by **davejon** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:14 pm

Hi guys we managed another 'Quintessentially' i'm afraid at the court on tottenham court road.

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:21 pm

Well done. I make that 3 times now.
Still second place to our TRANQUILLIZING though...

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:53 pm

i was on a course and stumbled upon some new machines in DAVE JON territory.
the metropolitan is a JDW near baker street tube some selct DJ scores:
1811
(another) QUINTESSENTIALLY
JUXTAPOSITIONS
and; this is phenomenal: APPROXIMATIONS

they hadn't made it to the allsop arms nearby but a new name for the leaderboards: JARS with 1842, EMBEZZLES and GODLESSNESS.

for my part the only game i had which troubles the scorers is 1823 including PEPPERMINTS at the north star on finchley road. (i reverted to ISTENEM). good weekends all.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:01 pm

Have sensibly limited retirement from Word Up to those moments when not playing it, I went for a wander in London town after work this evening...

Found a nice little pub tucked away round off of Oxford Street - The Green Man on Riding House St. Word Up (1st edition) well frequented, seemingly by yet another new crew - this time leaving only names ending in 'OUT' eg. TITS OUT, GUSSET OUT etc etc - I heartily approved. All scoreboard places were owned by the crew (inc. 2 clearances) before my arrival and the ensuing five clearances that knocked them into 6th (plus two QUIZZICALs to flatten hi-score word opposition).

Found a Sum Up off Oxford Circus, in The Old Explorer. Hyena top with a 2300ish good effort before 2534 toppled him.

Also knocked MEESKITE off the top with a 1863 in a Hogs Head reasonably close to Oxford Circus. Lots of HULL HULL scores there too - the site of many a tussle, it seems.

tka · Post by **tka** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:14 pm

1st edition? with the £20 JP? Hell even I can do that. But I guess you took a few hundred out

Wish I had found it first.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:16 am

tka wrote:1st edition?

Not with the £20 jackpot unfortunately - just with the old dictionary!

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:35 am

cah. get orrrf moi laaaand. fringes of moi laaaand but it is my most recent pseudonym.

the lure of WU too strong for the overeducated. good to see VB back on the scene after a temporary hiatus. aside from the beer money on SWP how is he earning his crust?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:23 pm

unknownpseudonym wrote:aside from the beer money on SWP how is he earning his crust?

freelancing in a nebulous and generally unhelpful 'project management' stylee.

Did Slough today - only a couple of HYENAs, the rest utterly pre-owned by 'NIK', including some 1600s clearances. Eventually deposed him on all total score boards before running back home. Hope I don't have to go back there again soon.

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:46 pm

That's me now officially addicted to Word Up. Even went down the local today, ignored the puggie and made a beeline straight for the Word Up machine in the corner.

But what's the story with missing words? I can understand words like quo not being there (as in status quo), but what about words like zen, ben, het etc... ?

And no swear words?