thread disappeared?

[Istenem]

where has the word up gossip thread gone?
pity if we have lost it.

anyway Ernest/Cecil pointed out that i've been quiet lately so i had a go on WU in elephant yesterday. it has reaffirmed my belief that SOWPODS is irresponsible.
the only quiz machine is a titbox in the rockingham arms where i got DESTITUTENESS [sic] as part of a 1972.

a word which appears in no proper dictionaries. everybody knows that the noun is 'destitution'. no doubt it can also be pluralised

in other news the ridiculously named camel & artichoke in lambeth yielded a gamesnet with the proper WU wordlist and REQUISITIONED.

[dangerous]

Probably something to do with the old dictionary word up being shabby, and the new one reigning supreme.

[Istenem]

Probably something to do with the old dictionary word up being shabby, and the new one reigning supreme.

nope, i'm afraid you couldn't be more wrong.

[Ernest W. Quality]

Scores added, with sic

[jonesey]

Coincidentally was in the Camel and Artichoke for an hour last week - suspect my time at top of WU charts was disappointingly short (guess my best was 1700 odd). By another coincidence I used to live round the corner from the Rockingham Arms - was having a quiet pint one night when the landlord offered me free beer if I looked after the pub while he went out for a couple of hours.

Anyway this should be a thread about Word Up scores, not dull anecdotes - sorry...

[Istenem]

just noticed from the cambridge site that Bob (team Bob?) has been marauding around pubs in the north. you poor git having to go to hartlepoo; that is the grimmest place i have ever visited.
anyway bravo on the graffiti you have sprayed on their machines, no doubt they will use google to find out and we'll have a better idea of the quality of play up there.

the reason i was looking at the site was that i'm sure i had ILLIQUIDITY on the titbox version and was wondering if i'd submitted it. think it was somewhere in the city but i don't much fancy going back there either.

[roberto la vigna]

no doubt they will use google to find out and we'll have a better idea of the quality of play up there.

Well, we found out that the anonymous whiz who had taken Nottingham pre-tournament was rampant oop North - two thirds of the itboxes we hit had her 'name' (ie. 'WORDUP') at the top with, typically, a 1100ish and two 1800/1900 clearances (a strangely consistent pattern). The best score of hers that we saw was just over 2000, so she hadn't got much better since we last encountered it. Where WORDUP had stopped at a machine for longer, the scores were, on average, worse: in her element a smash-and-grab merchant rather than a propping-up-the-box-sadsack, it seems.

All her WU scores were topped without much fuss.

There was more than enough evidence that she is the premier Boggle player: 1910 was the highest score we found on the gamesnets - truly, the mind boggles (HARGH HARGH HARGH). The Boggle scores appeared to have been achieved through superhuman filthing - 150+ words per game with none more than 6 letters long. Mid 5000s on Word Cube were also spotted.

We also saw a 'BRI L LINK' on one WU scoreboard (there were lots of 'BRI NUFC's about).

[Istenem]

interesting results from the recce. how do you know that the mysterious WORDUP is a flossie though?

[Ernest W. Quality]

Any self-respecting man would post a pseudonym of some sort.

[QuizMaster]

Doesn't it print WORDUP if you pout a naughty word in?

Maybe she entered 'Bob is a cunt' as her real name

[Ernest W. Quality]

Doesn't it print WORDUP if you pout a naughty word in?

True, but it's pretty easy to think of a spelling variation or something to get past the filter.

[grecian]

where has the word up gossip thread gone?
pity if we have lost it.

Looking at an old thread I think all (old) VB's posts have disappeared - not sure how, or why, he did that. Maybe by the same token all threads started by old VB have disappeared as well? Pity if so.

[Istenem]

so mebbe if VB rearises it will come back?

come along dearie, remember your old password.
(or PM admin asking if you can get a new one)

[roberto la vigna]

Enjoyed CUNNILINGUS and BUKKAKE tonight (despite the latter being deemed unacceptable).

Also got OPSONIZING and CUNEIFORM - both were drum-and-bass-night assisted.

[angie]

After a brief flurry in Bristol, ANGIE has vaulted to joint-top of the WUGM words list with a QUIZZICALITIES in the Epi. A few other minor website entries will be passed on to EWQ anon.