Can't find the old WU thread, so I'll just make a new one

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:36 pm

But MOTHERFUCKER is.

dmac · Post by **dmac** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:54 pm

cp999 · Post by **cp999** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:14 am

Northern Monkey wrote:Also an anagram of that SLUT I think is not allowed either- hardly that offensive and I would say not as offensive as say COON

Though SLUT is not allowed, by some curious anomaly of censorship SLUTTY is. I cannot always remember which way round some of the censorship is vis-a-vis Word Soup and Word Blox: so mental note to self:
CLIT ok in Soup but not Blox, C*NT ok in Blox but not Soup.

Here is a Word Soup which would be a real challenge even to VBob:

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:54 pm

Blimey yeah, that's nasty, cp.

Got MILQUETOASTS and ILLAQUEATIONS recently in an odd-word hunting session.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:01 pm

MILQUETOAST is beautiful. personally i'd never heard of it but i like the idea. any luck on getting the GROINWAGON included?

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:20 pm

Istenem wrote:MILQUETOAST is beautiful. personally i'd never heard of it but i like the idea.

Possibly my second favourite Americanism after COPACETIC...

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:46 pm

The above screenshot is not dissimilar to some machines on which we have collected several quid. As long as you can still see some letters on some patch of screen, you hve some chance of winning.

From experience, that type of machine tends to be prevalent in bowling alleys.

Got INSECTICIDALLY today. Woo fucking hoo.

As for the swearing censorship, yes they seem only to have censored the most basic swear words out, leaving the longer variants free for us.

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:54 am

Nice one, Ernest.

Yesterday, I got INSTITUTIONAL, ACCLIMATIZED, TRIVIALIZES and, after ploughing in about a fiver in attempts:

XIPHIPLASTRALS

which I claim to be the coolest word played on Word Up thus far.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:26 pm

to know that XIPHIPLASTRALS is in the wordlist and winkle it out is a good effort. kudos Bob.

don't particularly want to go back in to the whole wordlist vs dictionary argument but i had two notable words over the weekend. one was part of 15xx non-clear and gave me great pleasure because of the central Q. the other made me feel a bit sordid because it is not a proper word and contributed to £8.

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:12 pm

HARLEQUINADE is superb!

Is the first machine at Montague Pyke? I remember the ~PUNGENT nicks being there.

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:56 pm

It is like lemonade or cherryade, but of two colours?

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:18 pm

Had a quick go last night myself...

TRANQUILLISES (boring)
TRANQUILLIZES (boring)
INTENTIONALLY (much better)

Annoyingly, I made a slight foul-up on DISPROPORTIONATE and didnt link the O and N. That would've been a 15, even without LY.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 9:48 am

the times has changed its style guide: KHAT is now preferred to QAT

quite right too. you wouldn't dream of spelling KHAN or KHAKI with a Q.
a victory for common sense albeit a small one.

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:37 pm

Istenem wrote:quite right too. you wouldn't dream of spelling KHAN or KHAKI with a Q.
a victory for common sense albeit a small one.

Apart from the fact that the H isn't heard in any of these words.

cp999 · Post by **cp999** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:55 pm

*ponders what "should" be the spelling of TALAQ*