obfuscation_game dosquatch The rules are simple - take what the previous person wrote and make it a little more wordy without changing the meaning. example: I drive the car. I pilot the automobile. I operate various knobs, levers, and controls required to effect proper operation and navigation of a wheeled, land-based people and cargo transporting machine. Ready? go: We all live in a yellow submarine. 040526 ... z the group that includes all of us reside in a submersable of golden hue. 040526 ... dosquatch The present conglomeration of persons surrounding and including myself maintain residence within a sealed xanthic metal cylinder of a subaquatic nature. 040526 ... zeke the collected ascociated self aware entities, like unto me, and overlapping the subset i am in, continue to establish and care for the gathering and resting place contained and enclosed by an impermeable geometric object constructed of a mineral derivative of a particular hue that is in turn subsumed in a fluid medium. 040526 ... The Heretic This sounds like oldephebe. 040528 ... Borealis these particular collected and associated self aware entities, each posessing a particular essence of being, both physical and metaphysical, while extending through emotions and mind waves out into the greater reaches of the universe, each to themselves continue to reside for the time being, in this pill shaped impenetrable by fluids, geometric object whose sole purpose in construction remains unknown to the objects residing within, yet who continue to rely fully upon its value and function. It also happens to be yellow, and submerged. 040528 ... smurfus rex this collective association of carbon-based organisms, constructed through the interaction of deoxyribonucleic acid and various proteins and amino acids, all belonging to the kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Primata, family Hominidae, genus Homo, species Homo sapiens, which is to say exhibiting sentience and self-awareness, exist temporally and spiritually as a group and as individuals and survive through the processes of cardiopulmonary respiration and omnivorous consumption of external and discrete organic tissues and fluids that are normally found within their natural habitat and environment within a watercraft that is dyed to closely match the wavelength of the visible light spectrum that is commonly called "yellow" and is constructed of ferrous metals treated with extreme heat to create what is called "steel" which is sealed in such a way as to allow it to be immersed totally and completely within an extremely high volume of dihydrogen monoxide and which is capable of propulsion through one or more engines operated by nuclear reaction or magnetic convection. 040528 ... HellBentWolf Slave to a foreign will 040529 ... patsy fear_rumsfeld and live 040529 ... smurfus rex is that the next phrase? 040529 ... dosquatch Beats the heck out of me. It's my game and I don't know what they're talking about. Still, I think we've about wrung all there is out of the poor, maligned yellow submarine. Umm, what's next? How about Shakespeare? It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. 040529 ... dosquatch This sequence of words and events has been recited by one of diminishing intelligence and academic achievement, wrought through with the hallmarks of angst and anger and emphatic volume, nonetheless carries with it no significant meaning. 040529 ... mood ring these letters, strung together into words, strung together into paragraphs to create a series of events which the listener could follow and understand, which was related to said listeners by a person whose mental capacities were sub-par, so below average as to be labeled with the term idiot, this series of events was related with fiery words intended to arouse strong feelings within said listeners, and was told in a decibel level far above necessary, in reality had no intellectual value that the said listeners could use to make any connections within their own lives. 040530 ... andru235 the phrases cascade from drop to splash to wave again again i say again make sense make meaning sense of order but will the chaos the chaos the wilderness understand to understand needs more needs less intelligence cannot understand cascade and ebb and ebb so watery so pyrotechnic the passion the pathos the shouting the yelling intelligence cannot understand cannot see cannot here only can feel only feelings can connect us can cascade us the waterfall is not a result of knowledge is not a result of studies the waterfall is truth but cannot be known only felt feel only sensed not known felt only felt only sensed 051129 ... andru235 ***correction*** here = hear 051129 ... oren How about: "It was a dark and stormy night." 051130 ... le dot it was between the hours of sunset and sunrise, and the weather was as described by a famous writer once upon a time (as well as a certain dog in a certain cartoon) - turbulent, with copious precipitation, and with lower levels of luminescence than normally encountered at this time 051130 ... andru235 ennui sets in despite storms rain storms lightning it rains the ennui sets in as it rains it rains it snows hails rains the monsoon the typhoon the monsoon i'm bored the ferocious winds the canine the hair of the dog the winds the winds aeschylus author of the winds the breeze the hurricane the snow the snow the dim luminescence like any sky at this time in these latitudes the sky is obfuscated by nothing in particular 051130 what's it to you? who go blather from