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15 September 2005

Particle Cannon. You have a particle cannon. You can use it to destroy...→[More:]
...any word you want. Once a word is destroyed, it can no longer be used in this thread.

Got a word you hate? Vaporize it. Wanna make everyone struggle? Vaporize "it."

post by: Hugh Janus at: 09:11 | 51 comments

I vaporize "vaporize".

posted by taz 15 September | 09:21

Just one? *SIGH* Very well.

Let's begin with "webinar". Thank you.

posted by briank 15 September | 09:39

Blogosphere

posted by eekacat 15 September | 09:54

Signage

posted by warbaby 15 September | 09:56

Am I still allowed to use the word 'vapourise'? Did I just break the game?

posted by veedubya 15 September | 09:57

Zap: Vaporware. Hardware. Software. Wetware. Tupperware.

posted by safetyfork 15 September | 10:17

No, no, no, veedubya.

Don't you get it? You didn't say "vapori--" *spark*

posted by mcgraw 15 September | 10:17

Taz you make me laugh so much. Oh My God.

I pick egregious. WAY overused.

posted by iconomy 15 September | 10:17

Hmm I think I wasn't getting the real flavor of this game, and I picked a word that I would like to see obliterated from everywhere, instead of just from this thread. So I change my pick to the word the.

You can all use egregious again.

posted by iconomy 15 September | 10:21

I choose "posted".

posted by dfowler 15 September | 10:31

What fuck, mate?

Thanks, iconomy. You ruined everything!

*vaporizes the word "word"*

posted by papercake 15 September | 10:33

shit. I meant

*vaporizes word "word"*

posted by papercake 15 September | 10:34

I target "Hugh" and "Janus." zzzZZZAP!

posted by Hugh Janus 15 September | 10:44

Hee. You can't say V word, papercake!

I pick I.

posted by iconomy 15 September | 10:45

Ooops. iconomy meant:

You can't say that thing that begins with V. Geez this is getting hard.

posted by iconomy 15 September | 10:50

Groo obliterates "say."

posted by Groo the Wanderer 15 September | 10:55

taz blitzes "obliterate" and "vapourise" (cheater!)

posted by taz 15 September | 11:14

gaspode sublimates "that"

posted by gaspode 15 September | 11:24

no more "and"

posted by MightyNez 15 September | 11:26

To recap:
vaporize
webinar
Blogosphere
Signage
Vaporware
Hardware
Software
Wetware
Tupperware
egregious (You can't give it back, it's gone).
the
posted
word
Hugh
Janus
I
say
obliterate
vapourise
that
and

posted by safetyfork 15 September | 11:35

Next one to go: you.

posted by iconomy 15 September | 11:53

methinks "go" needs to be zapped; done.

posted by yhbc 15 September | 11:55

"to" = bzzzzzzzzzzrrrrppppt!

posted by papercake 15 September | 12:07

"No"
nuff said

posted by Secret Life of Gravy 15 September | 12:23

"it" plus "is" are hereby canonized.

posted by peacay 15 September | 12:25

I'd like to target the deliberate mispelling of ever as evar as in "best post evar" -- it's getting stale.

posted by alumshubby 15 September | 12:30

Must...not...type...wrong...thing...

posted by Specklet 15 September | 12:39

Can we kill just one usage of a word? Because I like the word "enter" just fine, except when cliché-crutched writers use it to introduce something: "There had never been a ruler in Lower Bathallton, and this had caused quite a bit of confusion over the years. Enter Lord Bonewallow..."

posted by me3dia 15 September | 12:44

alumshubby did a naughty. Oop. Also, me3dia.

posted by taz 15 September | 12:46

"are" = boooooom!

posted by papercake 15 September | 12:50

Some recent entries violate new usage rules. Can we play nice?

Zaps "we" immediately after use above.

posted by safetyfork 15 September | 12:59

Alumshubby misspelled misspelling. Deliberate?

OK...bye bye, to.

posted by iconomy 15 September | 13:33

heh. Papercake blasted "Tee-Oh" already. Particle Cannon = Too hard 2 play 4 me!

Shoots "me" 'n' "2" on my way out.

posted by safetyfork 15 September | 13:47

Grrrr - ok - bye bye . & "

posted by iconomy 15 September | 13:53

Aww, I didn't get it at first.

DO OVERS!!

posted by briank 15 September | 13:56

Scare quotes have died oh dear

Preposition death brings up more serious communicative problems however hmm?

So wave away "as", "for", "so" Oh!

posted by peacay 15 September | 14:05

Please obliterate "do".

posted by agropyron 15 September | 14:05

agropyron, periods = bad! They're on da list

Now, wave bye, obliterate

posted by iconomy 15 September | 14:11

Please forbid bye

posted by agropyron 15 September | 15:48

People:

Using comment space --> forbidding new verbiage (solely forbidding new verbiage, not creating new *sentence*) --> defeats point!

posted by mudpuppie 15 September | 15:56

Edible Energy abrogates "of," further handicapping our lingua franca.

posted by Edible Energy 15 September | 16:41

Edible Energy: your punctuation angers iconomy

posted by agropyron 15 September | 17:42

taz blitzes "obliterate" and "vapourise" (cheater!)
posted by taz 15 September | 11:14

Please obliterate "do".
posted by agropyron 15 September | 14:05

doh

posted by agropyron 15 September | 17:48

punishes ' '

posted by seanyboy 15 September | 18:03

as in <-- space

posted by seanyboy 15 September | 18:04

MetaChat.

posted by Eideteker 15 September | 18:11

penis.

posted by mudpuppie 15 September | 18:43

zaps """

posted by dreamsign 15 September | 23:46

taz nukes ||ZAP|| plus all alternative spellings thereof.

posted by taz 16 September | 02:56

destroys_nukes_plus_destroys_destroys___hahaha

posted by seanyboy 16 September | 03:43

taz eliminates ||PLUS|| y ||ELIMINATE|| --bwahaha

posted by taz 16 September | 04:08

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