{"id":11520,"date":"2008-10-07T15:17:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T19:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/10\/07\/11520.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:49:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:49:20","slug":"online-encore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/10\/07\/online-encore\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Encore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My Gracious Host has posted an enjoyable game he calls Online Encore<\/a>. In the Encore parlor game, there is a target word and people are trying to come up with lots and lots of lyrics that contain that word. That game works best with words that are moderately common; ideally, the first half-dozen songs shouldn’t take much memory at all, and then the competition really starts. In Jed’s Online Encore, the point is for the Blogger to come up with a list of really hard<\/i> words, and for the Readers (working as a team) to come up with lyrics that include them. He has listed an atoz, and there are still quite a few targets unhit. YHB has come up with an atoz of target words for Gentle Readers to aim at.
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Score<\/strong>: For each word on the list, YHB has in mind one and only one song that contains the word. Gentle Readers (as a team) get one Bragging Unit for each time y’all come up with the song I thought of, but you get two Bragging Units each time you come up with a song I didn’t<\/i> think of. Up to a maximum of five Bragging Units per word. YHB gets two Bragging Units for having come up with the list. For every word on the list that y’all blank on, I get two more Bragging Units. For any word that y’all can’t come up with any other<\/i> song than the one I had in mind, I get one Braggin Unit. Any Gentle Reader who posts his or her own list gets two Bragging Units. Jed gets two Bragging Units for having come up with the game. Any Gentle Reader who posts for the first time with a guess gets one extra Bragging Unit. Any Gentle Reader who is able to identify an instance where YHB has screwed up the lyrics again gets one Bragging Unit.
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MFQ Rules<\/strong>: Don’t look stuff up and then post it. You don’t have to know the name of the song, but you have to be able to sing (or in this case type) a chunk of the lyric containing the word. It’s better if you sing that chunk of lyric out loud, though, whilst typing. Eight words is the canonical minimum chunk for the Encore parlor game. If you get the lyrics wrong from memory (as I did four<\/i> of my guesses over yonder), there will be Scorn and Derision, but not so bad as if you looked the lyric up before posting. Don’t just make up shit up, please, and if you do, make it worthwhile. Within that construct, I’m going to rule that songs written by Gentle Readers are not<\/strong> eligible, even if you realio trulio wrote a song with that word in the lyric five years ago. I mean, if you did, let me know, because that’s a whole separate set of Bragging Units. All the songs are primarily in the English Language; no score for translations and multilingual puns, except, you know, anyone who does something really clever gets one Bragging Unit and one S&D unit.
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The List<\/strong>: I'll try to keep this up-to-date. If a word is in bold<\/strong>, nobody has come up with nothing. If a word is in italics<\/i>, at least one Gentle Reader has come up with at least one song containing it. If a word is struck through<\/strike>, some Gentle Reader has come up with the song that YHB was thinking of. If a word is both italicized and struck through<\/i><\/strike>, then y'all have maxed out the five BUs available.<\/p>\n\n