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TSG Report 8

Fun Game!
The First Fifty-thousand Posts

by 'oscar51'

July 2003

Dedicated to SexyTech who started the thread
and to
hewee who posted the challenge

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The challenge that motivated me to do this study was posted by Tech Support Guy™ member "hewee" in the Random Discussion thread "Fun Game!", post #7871:

"This is now the biggest thread for replies. Tell me
just what you have all learned from this thread."

OK, hewee, I'll do that. Here are ten things I have learned from this thread.

1

50,000 of any thing is a lot of that thing.

To collect the data used in this report, I downloaded the first 50,000 posts in Fun Game! This download exercise generated about 212Mb of html files on my computer's hard disk. These files were then filtered to extract for each post (1) the member name of the person who submitted the post, (2) the date and time of the post, (3) the post number relative to the first post in the thread, and (4) the words in the post relevant to the purpose of the thread. This filtering exercise resulted in a 2.8Mb text file with 50,000 lines, one line per post, that contained the input data used to calculate and tabulate the information reported below.

2

To be able to make any sense out of the information in this report,
the reader must know something about the purpose of Fun Game!

To state the obvious, the thread Fun Game! is a game where any TSG member who wishes to participate is invited to submit a two-word post according to the following rules: (1) The first word in the post must be the same as, or closely related to, the second word in the previous post. (2) The second word in the current post can then be any word related to the first word. (3) There must be no implied word(s) between these two words -- although this rule was frequently ignored. The "goal" of the game is to enjoy a meandering trip through the grammatical and syntactical idiosyncrasies of the English language with no specific end goal in mind -- a very typical "goal-less" thing to do in our "post-modern" reconstructive world of feelings. (If that sounds to you like double-think, perhaps your name is Winston....)

3

After spending some time looking through the first 50,000 posts,
I believe that the "goal" of the game has been accomplished.

To support that statement, and to edify those of you who might not have looked at this thread, here are some typical sequences that illustrate the progress of the game. Each line in the following examples gives the name of the member who submitted the post, the post number, and the two-word text or "word pair" that was submitted with the post. We'll start simply.
  hewee          4002 hold me
  Pat C          4003 me alone
  JewisHeritage  4004 alone again
  angelize56     4005 again why
  hewee          4006 why me
  Pat C          4007 me again
  angelize56     4008 again too
  pyritechips    4009 too soon
  Pat C          4010 soon as
Get the idea? The next sequence is a bit more sophisticated and contains two minor breaks in the flow. I'll have more to say later about breaks in the game.
  combsdon      10762 point man
  Tuppence2     10763 man monday
  hewee         10764 monday morning
  Tuppence2     10765 morning blues
  john1         10766 Blues quartet
  Tuppence2     10767 quartet modulates
  littlemar     10768 modulating sonnets
  tantap        10769 sonnets Shakespearean
  SexyTech      10770 Shakespearean Festival
  Prrebel       10771 Shakespearean tragedy
  Prrebel       10772 Festival atmosphere
  tantap        10773 atmosphere stratosphere
  Tuppence2     10774 stratospheric winds
  littlemar     10775 winds swirling
  Tuppence2     10776 swirling vortex
  tantap        10777 swirling upwards
  littlemar     10778 upward draft
And the next sequence enlightens us semi-literate Americans on some earthy UK vocabulary. The comments in parenthesis are by the member who submitted the post.
  hewee         12240 watch game
  tantap        12241 game rules
  Tuppence2     12242 rules stink
  hewee         12243 stink poo
  Tuppence2     12244 poo pongs
  pvc9          12245 pongs what (Couldn't figure that out)
  tantap        12246 what are
  pvc9          12247 are ok (Better now)
  tantap        12248 ok right (Any idea how hard that is)
  pvc9          12249 right again (That was a very very hard one)
  Tuppence2     12250 again they
  Tuppence2     12251 they reek (Pong means to smell in the UK)
  pvc9          12252 reek where (OK thats better)
  Tuppence2     12253 reek Scottish-speak
  pvc9          12254 Scottish what (But I thought reek = smoke or fumes)
  Tuppence2     12255 what nonsense (Reek is a good old Scottish word for a
                      foul atmosphere, so hence Scottish-speak for smelly)
Thanks, T2; nice to now that. But we Americans are no slouches when it comes to goofy-speak. Consider the following sequence:
  hewee         17101 daddys home
  SyscoKid      17102 home field
  Tuppence2     17103 field vole
  angelize56    17104 vole ofit
  Tuppence2     17105 (Is that a foreign language)
  angelize56    17106 (Pronounce it out - vole ofit - full of it - hee hee)
Groan....

The game has several romantic sequences. Here is one of the more subdued exchanges. If you want to read some of the juicier ones, you'll have to find them yourself; I won't tell you where they are. Member names have been omitted to preserve tranquility. The comment in square brackets was inserted here by me.
  he            33049 spoken softly
  she           33050 softly smiled
  he            33051 smiled sweetly
  he2           33052 smiled warmly [Interloper: Be Gone!]
  she           33053 sweetly said
  he            33054 said seductively
  she           33055 seductive eyes
  he            33056 eyes beautiful
  she           33057 beautiful face
  he            33058 face me
  she           33059 me here
  he            33060 here always
  she           33061 always smiling
  he            33062 smiling broadly
  she           33063 broad shoulders
  he            33064 shoulders tense
  she           33065 tense talking
  he            33066 talking softly
  she           33067 softly whispers
  he            33068 whispers in
  she           33069 in secret
Whatever.... These are enough examples to give you the idea of Fun Game!

4

The technical challenge -- if it can be called that when doing fluff
like this -- was to design a pattern-recognition scheme that would
automatically pick out the relevant word pair from each post.

If a post contained only two words separated by a space, the pattern-recognition task was simple. But if a post contained a comment or a question in addition to -- or in place of -- a word pair, the task was harder. And even if a post contained only a word pair, the two words might be surrounded or separated by a generous amount of miscellaneous punctuation and various happy faces or other graphics. All of these complications had to be dealt with and the learning curve was sometimes bumpy, but I eventually compiled a collection of patterns that automatically found all but a few hundred of the word pairs. I then had to resolve these doubtful pairs by hand, but that was not as difficult or as time consuming as it might sound.

Note that I do not claim here to have found all the word pairs; but I do claim to have found enough of them to make the numbers reported herein believable. Some of these numbers are, in general, as follows:
  Time elapsed to reach 50,000 posts:   10-months 22-days 7-hours 17-minutes
  Number of TSG members participating:                    277 (<0.5% of >60K)
  Participating members who submitted >1000 posts each:        14 (5% of 277)
  Number of posts submitted by those 14 members:       36,211 (72% of 50,000)
  Participating members who submitted <10 posts each:        152 (55% of 277)
  Number of posts submitted by those 152 members:        413 (0.8% of 50,000)
  Participating members who submitted only one post: 80 (included in the 152)
  Number of posts containing word-pair entries:        47,265 (95% of 50,000)
    The other 2735 posts were discussion, chit-chat, and tomfoolery.*
  * Probably a good word to describe this whole effort.
5

The top six posters together made 25,579 posts,
slightly more than one-half of the first 50,000 posts.

The following table shows the number of posts made to Fun Game! by the top six posters, the number of these posts that contained a word pair, the number of posts that did not contain a word pair, and the date the member made his/her first post to this thread.
    Member          Posts  Pairs  Other  First post
  --------------    -----  -----  -----  ----------
  hewee              7829   7370    459  07-24-2002
  angelize56         5162   4668    494  07-24-2002
  Tuppence2          4458   4030    428  09-05-2002
  anlore2001         3235   3213     22  12-12-2002
  Pat C              2518   2374    144  07-24-2002
  sweets1981         2377   2338     39  10-27-2002
  --------------    -----  -----  -----  ----------
         Totals:    25579  23993   1586
Note: FYI, the complete list of all 277 members who participated during the first 50,000 posts is given in the Appendix at the end of this report (search for 5A).

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The top six posters used many of the same words -- again and again.

To illustrate the "degree of repetitive word usage", i.e., how many times the same word was used, here are the ten words used most frequently by each of the top six posters. The number to the left of each word is the number of times the member used that word in a post. Notice that several words (e.g., "now") occur in more than one list. Because these are the members who posted most frequently to Fun Game!, this multiple occurrence of the same word in these most-frequently-used-words lists may be due to the fact that these members are responding to each other. Or, maybe, they just think alike.
     hewee       angelize56  Tuppence2   anlore2001  Pat C       sweets1981
     ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
  1  202 now     55 time     49 now      84 time     33 now      36 up
  2  156 me      53 out      42 to       52 up       29 here     34 of
  3  147 here    51 now      38 for      44 down     23 too      31 me
  4  107 time    49 me       30 on       42 out      22 forever  30 here
  5   92 good    47 here     26 well     42 me       21 again    28 to
  6   88 again   47 up       24 good     39 again    21 time     26 town
  7   83 up      46 again    21 too      35 now      20 away     26 for
  8   76 on      42 too      20 out      32 side     18 man      24 happy
  9   68 what    39 what     19 of       30 always   18 up       23 out
 10   61 over    38 over     18 hewee    25 playing  17 house    21 eyes
And, more generally, here are the 49 words used most frequently (100 or more times) by all the 277 members combined. The number to the left of each word is the number of posts in which the word occurred. Notice that this list includes all but three of the words in the previous table.
   1 1062 time   478 down   322 you    218 town     137 going
   2 1040 now    474 on     305 where  212 man      131 who
   3  943 up     457 to     293 gone   206 around   130 late
   4  935 me     408 away   250 house  202 day      128 line
   5  786 here   379 off    240 home   200 fast     122 broken
   6  776 again  374 of     237 well   199 forever  112 happy
   7  655 out    367 for    234 there  184 times    109 yes
   8  531 what   358 too    229 fun    172 people   102 pat
   9  528 good   339 night  226 side   171 hewee    102 long
  10  526 over   337 game   221 love   153 done
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Some TSG members are not shy about using long words.

For example, here are the twelve longest words that were posted and the member who first used them:
  accomplishment   (LightningBolt)
  alphabetically   (littlemar)
  coincidentally   (angelize56)
  malfunctioning   (anlore2001)
  pseudonymously   (deuce)
  transportation   (SexyTech)
  uncontrollable   (moonmist)
  uncontrollably   (TW56)
  compassionately  (joe2cool)
  congratulations  (Tuppence2)
  retrospectively  (Tuppence2)
  surreptitiously  (barfly)
Note that this list does not include the long pseudo-words from those fun posts like
  Needhelpnow getinthechatroomnow (Moby)
  hellooooooooooo I'm waiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttiiiiiiiiiiggg!!! (tantap)
  ggrrrrrrrrrrrrreat feeeeeeeeeliiiinnnnnnnng (hewee)
Nor does this list include the mother of all word pairs and its reply:
  disclosed Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies (rstanley)
  Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies performed (Tuppence2)
Note: The posting sequence that includes this exchange is given in the Appendix below (search for 6A).

I think I'm missing that body part; I remember having a really bad gut ache....

8

The existence of a large group of related items in the TSG data base
will sooner or later cause certain statistical tables to be generated
showing the relevance or irrelevance of those items to daily life.

The following table shows a time-history of the first 50,000 posts to Fun Game! The column labeled "Posts" shows the number of posts made during the indicated month. The column labeled "Total" is the cumulative total number of posts. The column labeled "First" is the number of first-time posters during the indicated month.
  Mon Year  Posts  Total  First
  --------  -----  -----  -----
  Jul 2002    679    679     42 (The first post was made on 07-24-2002)
  Aug 2002   5391   6070     26
  Sep 2002   8140  14210     23
  Oct 2002   4700  18910     25
  Nov 2002   3588  22498     14
  Dec 2002   3262  25760     24
  Jan 2003   3578  29338     17
  Feb 2003   3970  33308     23
  Mar 2003   6134  39442     28
  Apr 2003   4657  44099     19
  May 2003   4039  48138     25
  Jun 2003   1862  50000     11 (The 50Kth post was made on 06-15-2003)
The first 50,000 posts were made on the following days of the week (referenced to PDT; see next table) ...
  Day  Posts    %
  ---  -----  ---
  Sun   6608   13
  Mon   6885   14
  Tue   7641   15
  Wed   7076   14
  Thu   6772   14
  Fri   7795   16
  Sat   7223   14
  ---  -----  ---
  Tot: 50000  100
... at the following time of day. Note that this time-of-day table is referenced to Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), my time zone during July. If you live in a different time zone, you can slide the numbers up or down appropriately. This adjustment would affect the previous table slightly, but I wouldn't worry about it.
       PDT      Posts    %
  ------------  -----  ---
  0000 to 0100   1422    3
  0100 to 0200    943    2
  0200 to 0300    585    1
  0300 to 0400    698    1
  0400 to 0500    922    2
  0500 to 0600    872    2
  0600 to 0700   1355    3
  0700 to 0800   1678    3
  0800 to 0900   1921    4
  0900 to 1000   2004    4
  1000 to 1100   2089    4
  1100 to 1200   2469    5
  1200 to 1300   3026    6
  1300 to 1400   2806    6
  1400 to 1500   2181    4
  1500 to 1600   2277    5
  1600 to 1700   2844    6
  1700 to 1800   2809    6
  1800 to 1900   2578    5
  1900 to 2000   2450    5
  2000 to 2100   3354    7
  2100 to 2200   3993    8
  2200 to 2300   2658    5
  2300 to 2400   2066    4
  ------------  -----  ---
  Total posts:  50000  101 (Different from 100% due to rounding)
Because of the basic idea behind Fun Game! -- make short, two-word responses to previous posts -- it might be expected that each post would be submitted rather quickly following the previous post. This expectation turned out to be true. The following table shows that 80% of the posts were submitted within ten minutes after the previous post and 97% within one hour. The maximum time between posts, i.e., the longest delay without a reply, was 10 hours, 2 minutes.
  Elapsed time:        Posts    %
  -------------------  -----  ---
  10 minutes or less:  40092   80
  11 thru 20 minutes:   4723    9
  21 thru 30 minutes:   1884    4
  31 thru 40 minutes:    874    2
  41 thru 50 minutes:    621    1
  51 thru 60 minutes:    381    1
  -------------------  -----  ---
     during 2nd hour:    957    2
     during 3rd hour:    271    1
     during 4th hour:    108    0
     during 5th hour:     44    0
     during 6th hour:     19    0
     during 7th hour:     13    0
     during 8th hour:      6    0
       Over  8 hours:      6    0
  -------------------  -----  ---
     Total intervals:  49999  100
To take a finer cut at the interval between posts, consider the next table.
  Elapsed time:     Posts   %
  ----------------  -----  ---
       00 minutes:   5384   11
       01 minute :   8659   17
       02 minutes:   7601   15
       03 minutes:   4352    9
       04 minutes:   5314   11
       05 minutes:   1823    4
       06 minutes:   1966    4
       07 minutes:   1205    2
       08 minutes:   2162    4
       09 minutes:    753    2
       10 minutes:    873    2
  Over 10 minutes:   9907   20
  ----------------  -----  ---
  Total intervals:  49999  101 (Different from 100% due to rounding)
The first two lines in this table show that 5384 posts were made in the same minute as the previous post and 8659 posts were made in the following minute. Thus 14043, or 28%, of the posts were made within one minute or less of the previous post. Let me elaborate a bit on the implications of this observation.

The value of time associated with each post in the TSG forums is given only to the nearest whole minute. Therefore it is not possible to resolve the time increment between posts to an increment of less than one minute. Normally this limitation creates no problems because the basic nature of a help forum implies that a significant amount of time would elapse between replies while the helpers think about how best to answer a particular question. However, in a thread like Fun Game!, there is usually not much thinking to be done and one of the challenges of the game is to see who can be the first member to reply to the most recent post. This "race to post" causes many of the posts to appear as if they were made simultaneously, i.e., they have the same value of time. As noted above, 5384 or 11% of the posts show this phenomenon. About all that can be deduced from these posts is that the order in which they are displayed on the screen represents the order in which they were added to the TSG data base, a procedure based on a least count on one second, not one minute as might be thought based on displayed time. Because post time to the nearest second is not available on the TSG display, nothing more can be done about this situation.

However, because nothing more can be done does not mean that nothing more can be said. So I'll say a few more things about the Fun Game! posts that show the same times.

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Every game has its side shows.

Frequently two or three posts with the same first word but a different second word were made within the same minute. Usually when this happened, the game would be paused while the members sorted out among themselves which pair to use to continue the game. Here are some examples. Times are PDT.
  Pat C          2:27pm    42 wet blanket
  gbrumb         2:27pm    43 wet tshirt

  Pat C          7:57am   159 up front
  Gibble         7:57am   160 up yours*

  angelize56     9:46am   201 water tower
  littlemar      9:46am   202 water ski

  Pat C          7:57am  1758 pillow talk
  littlemar      7:57am  1759 pillow fight

  tantap        11:00pm  4610 gone away
  deuce         11:00pm  4611 gone fishin
  LadyLisa      11:00pm  4612 gone wrong

  hewee          9:46am  5251 upset guys
  Gibble         9:46am  5252 upset mary
  pvc9           9:46am  5253 upset about

  tantap         6:42am  5504 messy hair
  hewee          6:42am  5505 messy game
  littlemar      6:42am  5506 messy clothes

  hewee          4:42pm  6905 green hair
  Pat C          4:42pm  6906 green grass
  eddie5659      4:42pm  6907 green fields
* This word pair was submitted by various members 35 times during the first 50,000 posts.

Note: I have refrained from commenting on the associations expressed in these posts, but I will say here that a shrink might have some fun making gender-related comments about some of these groupings.

Occasionally two posts with identical word pairs were made within the same minute. This happened 86 times. For example:
  mtbird         6:09pm   554 hat rack
  princesschic25 6:09pm   555 hat rack

  LadyLisa       9:50pm  1699 only you
  dobhar         9:50pm  1700 only you

  hewee          8:11pm  1865 doll face
  gbrumb         8:11pm  1866 doll face

  littlemar      1:00pm  3701 EEK mouse
  SexyTech       1:00pm  3702 EEK mouse

  deuce         11:28am 10849 abuse nobody
  Rep           11:28am 10850 abuse nobody

  angelize56     2:43pm 29868 swallowed whole
  sweets1981     2:43pm 29869 swallowed whole

  jackal969k     1:05pm 44231 chocolate bunny
  littlemar      1:05pm 44232 chocolate bunny
One time, and one time only, three posts with identical word pairs were made within the same minute. Here is the sequence. Comments in parenthesis are by the members.
  pyritechips    9:02pm 28691 wire cutters
  RT             9:03pm 28692 cutters brand
  combsdon       9:04pm 28693 brand name
  Jonesiegirl    9:04pm 28694 brand name
  pyritechips    9:04pm 28695 brand name
  sweets1981     9:04pm 28696 name thief
  Jonesiegirl    9:05pm 28697 (***Ack!*** Don beat me)
  combsdon       9:06pm 28698 (yikes, some great minds workin tonite)
Sometimes -- and this was very unexpected by me -- three posts made within the same minute showed a normal progression of the game. For example:
  Gibble         8:43am   176 race car
  Pat C          8:43am   177 car rally
  SexyTech       8:43am   178 rally race

  jaks          10:58pm  4604 players choice
  LadyLisa      10:58pm  4605 choice words
  hewee         10:58pm  4606 word gone

  Tuppence2     11:30pm 10211 saddle hard
  SexyTech      11:30pm 10212 hard ride
  jaks          11:30pm 10213 ride rollercoaster

  Pat C          1:33pm 15072 fast exit
  Tuppence2      1:33pm 15073 exit open
  angelize56     1:33pm 15074 open house

  anlore2001     7:13pm 40789 rising up
  moonmist       7:13pm 40790 up tight
  angelize56     7:13pm 40791 tight skirt
The implications of this phenomenon are interesting. For this to happen, the first post would be made, then immediately seen by a second member who would respond with a post that, in turn, would be immediately seen by a third member who would respond with a post, all within the same minute. It is highly unlikely that anyone would have predicted that such a thing could happen, yet it did, multiple times. All I can say is that the members must have been very motivated and very busy clicking their refresh buttons.

Four posts were made within the same minute 86 times. Five posts were made within the same minute nine times. And there were three incidents of six posts made within the same minute. Here are those three groups of six posts. Comments in parenthesis are by the members.
  pyritechips    9:38pm  3582 gone nuts
  deuce          9:38pm  3583 gone home
  Pat C          9:38pm  3584 (Why is this getting so confusing?)
  combsdon       9:38pm  3585 gone away
  deuce          9:38pm  3586 ware house
  deuce          9:38pm  3587 away house

  hewee         11:37pm 10228 (Break time for me)
  SexyTech      11:37pm 10229 tedded tattered
  tantap        11:37pm 10230 ted-e bear
  SexyTech      11:37pm 10231 tattered Mulder
  tantap        11:37pm 10232 tattered bear
  Tuppence2     11:37pm 10233 bear claws

  Tuppence2     11:02pm 15495 top notch
  hewee         11:02pm 15496 top down
  Pat C         11:02pm 15497 notched in
  Aishdan       11:02pm 15498 notch belt
  hewee         11:02pm 15499 in side
  Tuppence2     11:02pm 15500 notch wood
These sequences do not show uninterrupted game progressions, but they do demonstrate that the "race to post" was alive and well early in the game. There were no instances of seven or more posts made within the same minute.

And one last thing I learned...

10

This was fun.
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Appendix

5A

TSG Members Who Posted To Fun Game! During The First 50,000 Posts

The following table lists by descending order of number of posts the 277 TSG members who submitted one or more of the first 50,000 posts to Fun Game! The columns from left to right show the member name, the total number of posts the member submitted, the number of those posts that actually contained a word pair, the number of posts that did not contain a word pair, the date the member first posted to Fun Game!, and the ranking of the member in the order he/she made his/her first post. For example, member "hewee" made a total of 7829 posts of which 7370 contained a word pair and 459 did not. His first post was made on July 24, 2002, and he was the 11th member to make a post to this thread. The other lines may be interpreted similarly.
    Member          Posts  Pairs  Other  First post  Rnk
  --------------    -----  -----  -----  ----------  ---
  hewee              7829   7370    459  07-24-2002   11
  angelize56         5162   4668    494  07-24-2002   15
  Tuppence2          4458   4030    428  09-05-2002   72
  anlore2001         3235   3213     22  12-12-2002  138
  Pat C              2518   2374    144  07-24-2002   13
  sweets1981         2377   2338     39  10-27-2002  115
  pvc9               1674   1513    161  08-27-2002   65
  moonmist           1577   1532     45  03-01-2003  196
  littlemar          1430   1407     23  07-24-2002    6
  boyoh53            1329   1308     21  11-29-2002  129
  joe2cool           1284   1272     12  07-24-2002   23
  tantap             1242   1088    154  07-24-2002    4
  GoJoAGoGo          1068   1064      4  04-11-2003  226
  SexyTech           1028    995     33  07-24-2002    1
  deuce               668    604     64  08-07-2002   45
  flrman1             626    618      8  05-03-2003  242
  puter hater         487    474     13  12-03-2002  132
  n2gun               458    457      1  11-17-2002  126
  Toddles18           433    430      3  12-17-2002  146
  combsdon            386    367     19  08-22-2002   62
  pyritechips         385    374     11  08-17-2002   56
  Moby                384    323     61  07-28-2002   31
  Brlailea            367    319     48  11-22-2002  128
  jackal969k          348    342      6  04-25-2003  239
  SyscoKid            346    343      3  07-24-2002    9
  chalky              337    337      0  03-26-2003  218
  Gibble              333    330      3  07-25-2002   26
  Jonesiegirl         322    273     49  10-22-2002  113
  LightningBolt       318    317      1  11-16-2002  124
  tatersgranny        317    316      1  02-10-2003  183
  pronute             278    272      6  02-19-2003  192
  Sooky 47            274    266      8  04-21-2003  235
  paperlace           269    250     19  09-08-2002   78
  Shadow Bea          264    251     13  10-10-2002  102
  LadyLisa            249    244      5  08-02-2002   43
  $teve               249    245      4  12-22-2002  149
  Alfie_UK            231    229      2  05-18-2003  253
  Firejay             230    230      0  07-24-2002   10
  eddie5659           192    187      5  09-03-2002   69
  rivincarn           190    190      0  03-27-2003  219
  gotrootdude         184    180      4  03-05-2003  197
  bigh47              183    171     12  07-28-2002   32
  techchic            179    107     72  10-01-2002   92
  jaks                176    171      5  08-08-2002   46
  mtbird              174    171      3  07-24-2002   18
  Party Boy           153    150      3  12-06-2002  134
  barfly              149    145      4  03-31-2003  222
  Deke                126    126      0  01-20-2003  167
  AbvAvgUser          125    124      1  12-20-2002  147
  RT                  123    116      7  07-24-2002   21
  GreenIs             118    110      8  08-15-2002   52
  mischiefschild      114    113      1  07-25-2002   29
  Dark Star           110     82     28  07-24-2002   12
  websurfer_70        102     88     14  11-10-2002  119
  MadDogMugsy         102    101      1  11-14-2002  121
  caliansa2            97     97      0  02-01-2003  173
  TW56                 92     92      0  10-11-2002  106
  ajdupont             81     73      8  09-05-2002   74
  LANMaster            80     79      1  01-07-2003  156
  bopdude              71     71      0  03-16-2003  207
  dobhar               70     69      1  07-29-2002   39
  Super-D-38           66     57      9  10-19-2002  111
  stone66              64     61      3  12-16-2002  143
  ChrisJ               57     57      0  02-03-2003  174
  faith                55     51      4  08-26-2002   64
  belenus              55     55      0  02-04-2003  175
  THoey                54     51      3  01-21-2003  169
  shortnpretty         53     48      5  03-24-2003  215
  Talamasca            53     51      2  04-07-2003  225
  Foamer               53     51      2  06-03-2003  270
  Aishdan              46     42      4  10-02-2002   94
  brendandonhu         45     43      2  08-24-2002   63
  diablo666            45     41      4  12-15-2002  141
  AcaCandy             43     41      2  08-13-2002   51
  cjreed64             42     41      1  07-24-2002   22
  jandsb               42     34      8  09-11-2002   80
  mopargirl            41     37      4  10-10-2002  101
  Nob                  39     35      4  08-15-2002   53
  GhettoBuddhist       39     31      8  05-08-2003  244
  KEITHANTHONY         37     27     10  05-04-2003  243
  john1                33     30      3  07-24-2002   17
  DoyceJ               33     31      2  07-29-2002   37
  Needhelpnow          33     29      4  08-11-2002   49
  jett_30032           33     29      4  12-11-2002  137
  macataq              31     30      1  08-05-2002   44
  Mike C UK            31     28      3  09-25-2002   87
  bradofcanada         31     25      6  11-15-2002  123
  valley               31     29      2  12-15-2002  142
  rstanley             29     26      3  11-17-2002  125
  wguido               26     25      1  01-18-2003  166
  mindpilot            26     25      1  03-24-2003  214
  Gabriel              26     25      1  05-12-2003  249
  RandyG               25     25      0  07-24-2002    8
  princesschic25       24     23      1  07-29-2002   38
  p51                  24     24      0  09-18-2002   82
  JewisHeritage        23     21      2  08-22-2002   61
  Gary R               23     23      0  02-17-2003  190
  Circe                23     22      1  02-26-2003  194
  Etregen              22     22      0  12-02-2002  131
  kokain5              21     17      4  12-17-2002  144
  cammi                19     18      1  02-18-2003  191
  zeddy                19     19      0  05-22-2003  255
  Prrebel              18     16      2  08-19-2002   58
  brinkly97            18     17      1  10-07-2002   99
  T2's Sister          18     15      3  10-11-2002  104
  jjb                  17     17      0  08-29-2002   67
  steamwiz             17     12      5  10-12-2002  107
  Rep                  16     16      0  08-18-2002   57
  cadaver queen        16     13      3  12-13-2002  139
  Al-Firdaus           16     16      0  06-07-2003  272
  BTex                 14     14      0  07-25-2002   24
  busterdog            14     14      0  07-30-2002   40
  jerricho             14     14      0  08-13-2002   50
  silkylady            14      9      5  11-30-2002  130
  Crazychik            13     13      0  03-25-2003  216
  snoopy49ers          12     12      0  12-27-2002  152
  tammy3me             12      9      3  03-07-2003  198
  blonde4labonte       12     12      0  05-27-2003  258
  ComputerFix          10      9      1  07-31-2002   42
  Cadderly             10     10      0  10-03-2002   96
  Chris A              10     10      0  11-15-2002  122
  pakiya               10     10      0  03-28-2003  221
  rocknchic            10      8      2  04-29-2003  241
  richardcory          10     10      0  05-28-2003  261
  webfish              10      9      1  05-30-2003  266
  gbrumb                9      9      0  07-24-2002   14
  angelizekid           9      9      0  09-06-2002   76
  BlueLightnin          9      9      0  12-03-2002  133
  caliansa              9      9      0  01-21-2003  168
  PaveFE                9      9      0  02-05-2003  177
  Denim                 9      9      0  03-14-2003  204
  Ian291                9      9      0  03-28-2003  220
  Eccentric             9      8      1  05-27-2003  259
  gws226                9      9      0  05-29-2003  262
  Bigfysh               9      9      0  06-03-2003  268
  blackheart            8      8      0  07-28-2002   36
  MoparDave             8      6      2  09-12-2002   81
  bhav                  8      8      0  02-10-2003  184
  g-whiz                7      7      0  08-09-2002   47
  lobstafari            7      5      2  10-11-2002  105
  Endemix               7      7      0  01-09-2003  160
  NameTooLong           7      6      1  02-11-2003  185
  ecogrrl               7      7      0  05-29-2003  263
  ksuwyldkat            6      6      0  07-24-2002    2
  rhettman5             6      6      0  07-24-2002    7
  imustbeanidiot        6      5      1  08-10-2002   48
  ozonebfree            6      6      0  09-05-2002   73
  MarzoVerde            6      4      2  01-07-2003  157
  strike!               6      3      3  01-07-2003  158
  singman               6      6      0  03-21-2003  212
  Mulder                5      3      2  07-25-2002   27
  marcus77              5      5      0  07-25-2002   28
  lyrical               5      5      0  08-30-2002   68
  cwolfe98              5      5      0  09-04-2002   71
  Doomsday123           5      5      0  09-26-2002   89
  rugrat                5      5      0  10-25-2002  114
  Firediver             4      4      0  07-31-2002   41
  Xephar                4      1      3  09-03-2002   70
  mishkan               4      4      0  10-06-2002   97
  tattoo                4      4      0  04-05-2003  224
  brindle               4      4      0  05-08-2003  245
  terryxp               3      2      1  07-24-2002    3
  cindyoh               3      3      0  07-24-2002   19
  Tygergal              3      3      0  07-24-2002   20
  WingRider             3      3      0  08-16-2002   55
  cybertech             3      3      0  08-20-2002   60
  TPD                   3      3      0  09-24-2002   86
  sinterklaas           3      3      0  10-03-2002   95
  TooToby               3      3      0  10-12-2002  108
  Snikk                 3      2      1  10-30-2002  116
  DaNNeH'               3      3      0  12-17-2002  145
  clearcmoskid          3      3      0  12-23-2002  150
  phil_will666          3      3      0  03-20-2003  210
  happy wander          3      3      0  03-20-2003  211
  MolsonMan007          3      3      0  03-23-2003  213
  mrosehutchinson       3      3      0  03-25-2003  217
  angelndiskys          3      3      0  04-17-2003  230
  ThePal                3      3      0  04-19-2003  233
  rmay635703            3      3      0  05-11-2003  248
  sdc                   3      2      1  06-01-2003  267
  uv428                 3      3      0  06-11-2003  275
  Ianthepig             2      2      0  07-27-2002   30
  eggplant43            2      2      0  09-05-2002   75
  auzzie_angel          2      2      0  09-11-2002   79
  Greenseason           2      2      0  09-29-2002   91
  TekBonkerz            2      2      0  11-03-2002  117
  madox                 2      1      1  11-18-2002  127
  cybergum              2      2      0  12-14-2002  140
  frostyrootbe          2      2      0  12-20-2002  148
  Stoner                2      2      0  12-30-2002  153
  Jest8                 2      2      0  02-07-2003  179
  Politicaldog          2      2      0  02-13-2003  187
  Boo_Compaq            2      1      1  05-09-2003  246
  brutus                2      2      0  05-14-2003  250
  xgerryx               2      2      0  05-25-2003  257
  HexStar               2      2      0  06-03-2003  269
  ComputrSucky          2      2      0  06-14-2003  277
  kilowatt1             1      1      0  07-24-2002    5
  John V Burns          1      1      0  07-24-2002   16
  tc4hi                 1      1      0  07-25-2002   25
  hif123                1      1      0  07-28-2002   33
  casper03              1      1      0  07-28-2002   34
  monted                1      1      0  07-28-2002   35
  -{KoS}korgul          1      1      0  08-16-2002   54
  Jody                  1      1      0  08-19-2002   59
  TypeSK                1      1      0  08-28-2002   66
  hijo de vato          1      1      0  09-06-2002   77
  daybo                 1      1      0  09-21-2002   83
  SpotMaxDog            1      1      0  09-22-2002   84
  hermit                1      1      0  09-23-2002   85
  LONGHAIR              1      1      0  09-26-2002   88
  Money Pit             1      0      1  09-28-2002   90
  gethedge              1      1      0  10-01-2002   93
  ACE007                1      1      0  10-07-2002   98
  edwood                1      1      0  10-08-2002  100
  little s              1      1      0  10-10-2002  103
  bassetman             1      1      0  10-12-2002  109
  tpo9595               1      1      0  10-18-2002  110
  true_caucasi          1      1      0  10-20-2002  112
  Ethmer                1      1      0  11-06-2002  118
  lori61298             1      1      0  11-11-2002  120
  alien                 1      1      0  12-09-2002  135
  davisshaver           1      1      0  12-11-2002  136
  rickvo                1      0      1  12-25-2002  151
  dagiftolife@          1      1      0  12-30-2002  154
  RPT                   1      1      0  01-06-2003  155
  Tamarrus              1      1      0  01-09-2003  159
  Matrikx_              1      1      0  01-10-2003  161
  Tipacanoe             1      1      0  01-12-2003  162
  brbpab94              1      0      1  01-12-2003  163
  ccl                   1      1      0  01-16-2003  164
  coderanger            1      1      0  01-16-2003  165
  Doberman              1      1      0  01-23-2003  170
  andygev33             1      1      0  01-25-2003  171
  Huon                  1      1      0  02-01-2003  172
  Darg_mals             1      1      0  02-04-2003  176
  chevbowtie            1      1      0  02-07-2003  178
  greenking             1      1      0  02-07-2003  180
  jimi                  1      0      1  02-07-2003  181
  bpinkard              1      1      0  02-10-2003  182
  Womble4eva            1      1      0  02-11-2003  186
  Spop                  1      1      0  02-13-2003  188
  xXTiKiXx              1      1      0  02-16-2003  189
  Saj                   1      1      0  02-20-2003  193
  jqrich                1      1      0  03-01-2003  195
  Falconess             1      1      0  03-08-2003  199
  JustDaz               1      1      0  03-08-2003  200
  cannrobbo             1      1      0  03-09-2003  201
  AlbertB               1      1      0  03-09-2003  202
  Empty2                1      1      0  03-10-2003  203
  wdfndn                1      1      0  03-14-2003  205
  Chuck2                1      1      0  03-15-2003  206
  rug                   1      1      0  03-18-2003  208
  Voodoomelon           1      1      0  03-20-2003  209
  yomaddog              1      1      0  04-05-2003  223
  *yur_daddy*           1      1      0  04-13-2003  227
  tobster               1      0      1  04-14-2003  228
  Scaredykat            1      1      0  04-15-2003  229
  antares               1      1      0  04-19-2003  231
  jerkday               1      1      0  04-19-2003  232
  Timichio              1      1      0  04-20-2003  234
  bazzup                1      1      0  04-21-2003  236
  IT_Maniac             1      1      0  04-23-2003  237
  tdh2112               1      1      0  04-23-2003  238
  obi wan               1      1      0  04-27-2003  240
  sifter                1      1      0  05-11-2003  247
  aineo                 1      1      0  05-14-2003  251
  mmj788                1      1      0  05-17-2003  252
  Tumang2k              1      1      0  05-22-2003  254
  rwnewson              1      1      0  05-24-2003  256
  sLiPkNoT515           1      1      0  05-28-2003  260
  parrotplay            1      0      1  05-30-2003  264
  bistro                1      1      0  05-30-2003  265
  tomea                 1      0      1  06-06-2003  271
  sirloin_alot          1      1      0  06-07-2003  273
  A Hawk                1      1      0  06-09-2003  274
  EDD32                 1      1      0  06-13-2003  276
  ---------------   -----  -----  -----  ----------  ---
          Totals:   50000  47265   2735
6A

Sequence That Includes Longest Word

Here is the sequence that includes the longest word submitted to Fun Game! The comment in parenthesis is by member rstanley.
  LadyLisa      11:54pm 21351 banana split
  hewee         12:01am 21352 split peas
  LadyLisa      12:06am 21353 pea soup
  hewee         12:18am 21354 soups ready
  LadyLisa      12:31am 21355 ready meal
  hewee         12:36am 21356 meal good
  LadyLisa      12:55am 21357 good night
  Tuppence2      1:41am 21358 night freight
  n2gun          3:28am 21359 freight train
  LightningBolt  3:59am 21360 train ticket
  rstanley       4:02am 21361 ticket abandonment
  Tuppence2      4:11am 21362 abandonment occured
  rstanley       4:21am 21363 occured nomothetic
  Tuppence2      5:13am 21364 nomothetic phenomena
  rstanley       5:29am 21365 phenomena theoretical
  n2gun          5:30am 21366 phenomena disclosed
  Tuppence2      5:31am 21367 disclosed regulations
  n2gun          5:33am 21368 regulations outdated
  rstanley       5:34am 21369 disclosed Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies
  rstanley       5:36am 21370 (Ok no more restroom breaks for me)
  Tuppence2      5:41am 21371 Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies performed
  n2gun          6:09am 21372 performed brilliantly
  Tuppence2      6:22am 21373 brilliantly diagnosed
  n2gun          6:48am 21374 diagnosed anorexic
  Tuppence2      6:50am 21375 anorexic condition
  n2gun          6:53am 21376 condition critical
  Tuppence2      6:55am 21377 critical mass
  n2gun          6:59am 21378 mass hysteria
  angelize56     7:48am 21379 hysteria near
  n2gun          7:53am 21380 near completion
  Tuppence2      7:53am 21381 completion here
  n2gun          7:56am 21382 here now
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