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7th May 2009

Post reblogged from the ragbag with 26 notes

an amusing pastime

ragbag:

forget fraternity-style games like flip cup, beer pong, and spin the bottle. just break out your favourite thesaurus (mine is this one) and give the following a shot:

There is a…rather amusing pastime, which involves picking a word and its opposite, and then finding a path of synonyms that leads from one to the other, using, say, Roget’s Thesaurus as arbiter. Thus a hopeful person is expectant, hence anticipating, anxious, fearful, and so in fact despairing!

and now you know the secret of how my kid sister and i passed long car rides from margate, new jersey to the nether regions of pennsylvania (we also played spin the bottle).

anyone want to take a crack at getting from impotent to potent (via synonyms NOT pills)?

Anjuli’s Visualizing Synonym Chains project for CS171 did this last year!

The interactive part seems to be down (probably because her partner graduated), but you can rebuild it from the source if you’re interested…

Source: ragbag

  1. plantthoseseeds reblogged this from 2arrs2ells and added:
    and stacy says :::: Impotent Celibate Ascetic Liberated Creative POTENT An Impotent person becomes Celibate, part of a...
  2. 2arrs2ells reblogged this from ragbag and added:
    Anjuli’s Visualizing Synonym Chains project for CS171...this last year! The interactive...
  3. marginalgloss reblogged this from ragbag and added:
    Here I go: Impotent, futile, vain, conceited, pride, glory, fame, consequence, potent.
  4. witless reblogged this from ragbag and added:
    When you’re playing Spin The Bottle with two players, one...your sister, it’s just called...
  5. softculture reblogged this from ragbag and added:
    I wish I could have played this with my siblings, but they were more interested...beating...
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