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Game: Uniquely identify yourself with a minimum word count
04-08-2017, 11:40 PM
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Game: Uniquely identify yourself with a minimum word count
Sometimes I come up with games I find interesting.
This one goes like this:
There are roughly 7 billion people alive on this planet. Uniquely(*) identify yourself with the fewest number of words without using obvious identifiers like your name or social security number. Alternate form is to come up with a famous person who can be described in the fewest number of words.
I'll go first: Princeton dropout, Idahoan, bagpiper. 4 words.
Alternate form: Michael Phelps, 23 Olympic golds. 3 words. Mohandas Ghandi, the Mahatma. 2 words.
(*) Obviously one can't know for sure if a description is unique. Use your best guess; it's just a game.
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04-09-2017, 03:02 AM
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Man who posted this.
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04-09-2017, 07:48 AM
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04-09-2017, 08:23 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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04-09-2017, 08:25 AM
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04-09-2017, 09:32 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Peripatetic.
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04-09-2017, 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by ls99
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So, we'll wait for you to post everyone else's unique identifiers. 
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04-09-2017, 09:53 AM
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04-09-2017, 11:00 AM
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I think folks are shooting for brevity over truly unique. Lcountz sounds like someone I knew in Alaska and nemo2 sounds like one of my uncles.
Here's my best effort- thesis: designed first American ultra-high performance concrete road bridge. 10 words.
Or- Iowan chess contender, West Point 2000 graduate. 7 words. Or is it 8, since 2000 is spelled 'two thousand'?
Alternate- Neil Armstrong: first Moon walker. 3 words. Yuri Gagarin: first spaceman. 2 words.
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04-09-2017, 11:34 AM
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Navy 81 Yale Law 92 - three words and two numbers, but only one of me.
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04-09-2017, 11:41 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cooch96
I think folks are shooting for brevity over truly unique.
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What I find interesting is the choice by some to post descriptions of 'what they are', while others choose to post 'what they've done.'
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04-09-2017, 11:50 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Huston55
What I find interesting is the choice by some to post descriptions of 'what they are', while others choose to post 'what they've done.'
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But, but...we're told "You Are What You Eat".
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04-09-2017, 11:51 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Huston55
Peripatetic.
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You have come a long ways from the Lyceum. 
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04-09-2017, 12:42 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemo2
But, but...we're told "You Are What You Eat".
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Well, in that case, "BBQ & Beer"
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04-09-2017, 01:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Huston55
What I find interesting is the choice by some to post descriptions of 'what they are', while others choose to post 'what they've done.'
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But none of the "are" posts are unique, except possibly our omniscient poster.
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04-09-2017, 01:22 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cooch96
But none of the "are" posts are unique
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We are, each of us, uniformly ununique.
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04-09-2017, 01:28 PM
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04-13-2017, 08:30 PM
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04-13-2017, 09:17 PM
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N36.99308 W102.0421 5:46pm 04/03/2017
I was the only person at this latitude and longitude at this time on this date. Not really 4 words but close
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04-13-2017, 09:28 PM
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"xx law valedictorian 1985." Or, likely, "800 xx Law."
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