Game OT

Lois gave me the following the game http://www.freerice.com/index.php she
knows I love word games. I did discover a new word - grimalkin
(can I hear the whisper of dictionary pages, hehe) or perhaps I am doing all
you brainy types an injustice, I know I had to look it up .

Bev
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ollie2 kirjoitti:
Lois gave me the following the game http://www.freerice.com/index.php she
knows I love word games. I did discover a new word - grimalkin
(can I hear the whisper of dictionary pages, hehe) or perhaps I am doing all
you brainy types an injustice, I know I had to look it up .

Bev

Tried it for a couple of minutes and made a 300g donation of rice...

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ollie2 wrote:

Lois gave me the following the game http://www.freerice.com/index.php she
knows I love word games. I did discover a new word - grimalkin
(can I hear the whisper of dictionary pages, hehe) or perhaps I am doing all
you brainy types an injustice, I know I had to look it up .

I used to know what that word meant, because someone I knew had that as
her email name. Of course, I have totally forgotten...

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Joyce

To email me, remove the triple-X from my user name. ^..^

wrote:

ollie2 wrote:

Lois gave me the following the game http://www.freerice.com/index.php
she knows I love word games. I did discover a new word - grimalkin
(can I hear the whisper of dictionary pages, hehe) or perhaps I am doing
all you brainy types an injustice, I know I had to look it up .

I used to know what that word meant, because someone I knew had that as
her email name. Of course, I have totally forgotten...

Ah ha! (Just looked it up.) However, you wouldn't have heard "the whisper
of dictionary pages," but rather, the click-click-click of computer keys,
accessing dictionary.com.

And here it is:

Grimalkin:
1. a cat.
2. an old female cat.
3. an ill-tempered old woman.

Remembering this old email friend (we met once, but mostly corresponded
over email because she lived far away), I think the name fits, a bit.
She wasn't particularly old or ill-tempered, at least not with me, but
perhaps with others. But she sure was a cat-lover. She used to regale me
with tales of all her rescue kitties.

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Joyce

To email me, remove the triple-X from my user name. ^..^

ollie2 wrote:
Lois gave me the following the game http://www.freerice.com/index.php
she knows I love word games. I
did discover a new word - grimalkin (can I hear the whisper of
dictionary pages, hehe) or perhaps I am doing all you brainy types an
injustice, I know I had to look it up .

Riiiiight...... like I'm going click on any game link that *you* post here!
I still havent stopped playing Bubbels, thanks to you! :-)

You owe me at least a week of my life! :-)

Yowie

Yowie wrote:

ollie2 wrote:

Lois gave me the following the game http://www.freerice.com/index.php

Riiiiight...... like I'm going click on any game link that *you* post here!
I still havent stopped playing Bubbels, thanks to you! :-)
You owe me at least a week of my life! :-)

A *week*??? Let's see... I've been playing Bubbels since 2004 I think,
so I'm quite sure I've accumulated more hours than just one week's worth.
And I'll bet the same is true for you, too.

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Joyce

To email me, remove the triple-X from my user name. ^..^

wrote:
Yowie wrote:

ollie2 wrote:

Lois gave me the following the game
http://www.freerice.com/index.php

Riiiiight...... like I'm going click on any game link that *you*
post here! I still havent stopped playing Bubbels, thanks to you! :-)
You owe me at least a week of my life! :-)

A *week*??? Let's see... I've been playing Bubbels since 2004 I think,
so I'm quite sure I've accumulated more hours than just one week's
worth. And I'll bet the same is true for you, too.

Yes, its true.

And, like a sucker, I clicked anyway. And was subsequently late for work.
But I did manage to donate over a kilo of rice, and had a maximum vocabulary
rating of 46 (average 42) without cheating.

Yowie

ollie2 wrote:

Lois gave me the following the game http://www.freerice.com/index.php she
knows I love word games. I did discover a new word - grimalkin
(can I hear the whisper of dictionary pages, hehe) or perhaps I am doing all
you brainy types an injustice, I know I had to look it up .

So, does this go on forever or what? You just keep clicking? I guess there's
no way to win or lose. I notice that when you get a word wrong, it will ask
you that word again a few rounds later, before you have a chance to forget
what the real meaning is. It was fun trying to guess the meaning of words
I didn't know. But I finally got sick of playing at 2360 grains.

So does the UN really donate rice when you get a word right? That's pretty
cool.

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Joyce

To email me, remove the triple-X from my user name. ^..^

"ollie2" wrote in message
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Lois gave me the following the game http://www.freerice.com/index.php
she knows I love word games. I did discover a new word - grimalkin
(can I hear the whisper of dictionary pages, hehe) or perhaps I am doing
all you brainy types an injustice, I know I had to look it up .


Grimalkin: a cat

You just put up the URL for my version of bubbles. 3200 grains or rice and
I haven't left the site yet.

DAMN YOU BEV. You are evil and insidious.

Pam S.

"Yowie" wrote in message
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wrote:
Yowie wrote:

ollie2 wrote:

Lois gave me the following the game
http://www.freerice.com/index.php

Riiiiight...... like I'm going click on any game link that *you*
post here! I still havent stopped playing Bubbels, thanks to you! :-)
You owe me at least a week of my life! :-)

A *week*??? Let's see... I've been playing Bubbels since 2004 I think,
so I'm quite sure I've accumulated more hours than just one week's
worth. And I'll bet the same is true for you, too.

Yes, its true.

And, like a sucker, I clicked anyway. And was subsequently late for work.
But I did manage to donate over a kilo of rice, and had a maximum
vocabulary rating of 46 (average 42) without cheating.

Yowie


That's the most vocabulary fun I've had in a long time. Mostly from
reading very dated English novels I suspect.

Charlie was looking over my shoulder, and was of the opinion they were
making words up, only I kept getting them right.

Not that there is anything wrong with his vocabulary, just it doesn't tend
toward the archaic.

Jo