Comments on: Origin of the species

By: mighty red pen

mighty red pen — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:11:32 +0000

Wow, I was sure before we even started that the gold star was going to go to Goofy, but Mr. K sneaks in for the win!

By: Mr. K--

Mr. K-- — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:18:07 +0000

10/10, folks. Though my questions appear to have differed from some of the ones mentioned here.

By: mlmnttlkr

mlmnttlkr — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:09:20 +0000

I got 4 out of 10 as well. Most of them were educated guesses. My second choices on a lot of the others was the right answer…

By: goofy

goofy — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:10:27 +0000

I got 9 out of 10. Some of the etymologies are wrong (as are some of entries in the Online Etymology Dictionary). “bistro” is not from the Russian for “quick”. On the other hand, the wrong etymologies tend to get removed or corrected.

By: TootsNYC

TootsNYC — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:55:41 +0000

I got some of them wrong because I was going for word *origin,* when the question was about “what does it mean.”

Flibbertigibbet, is the one I’m thinking of. The question was, what does it mean. I thought they meant, what did it FIRST mean, so I guessed the “underwater lure” answer.

(though it looks as though that’s the etymology anyway–flebergebet in ME, which apparently meant the same thing then)

By: Editrix

Editrix — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:14:39 +0000

Don’t feel bad, MRP. I only got four right, too. (And I only really KNEW two of them. The other two were shots in the dark.) That game is almost as infuriating as those golf-tees-in-the-wooden-triangle puzzles they have at Cracker Barrel restaurants.

By: mighty red pen

mighty red pen — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:07:13 +0000

Gah! Well, I *did* get sabotage! As if that’s any consolation. Good show!

By: TootsNYC

TootsNYC — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:01:05 +0000

8 out of 10, nyah nyah nyah.

Most were just guesses.

But it was fun!

I got sabotage wrong, but Mr.TootsNYC would have gotten it right; unfort. he came into the room too late to help me cheat.