Now that the word game Quordle is taking Glibertarians by storm, here’s my attempt to come up with just the right starting words. For those of you new to Quordle, a brief explanation can be found here. The basic idea is that there are four five-letter words, and you make guesses that apply to all four; the program tells you when a letter is in the word and if it is in the correct position. To succeed you must identify all four words in nine guesses or less.
Obviously you want your starting word or words to be more likely to match the four Quordle words. You can find letter frequencies in the English language, but they may not be the same for five-letter words. They also depend on what dictionary you are using; some are more complete than others. Taking a list of 69,903 English language words that I found on a University of Michigan website, I culled it down to 5,197 words with exactly five letters.
The position of a letter can also be important, since when you get an exact hit it reduces the possibilities considerably. Therefore determining where in the word different letters are likely to fall can also be helpful in choosing your starting words. The results for the 5,197 five-letter words (the last column shows frequencies with duplicate letters removed):
Note that the order changes in a few cases when duplicates are removed – A passes E, R passes S, I passes O, T passes L, H passes P, and J passes Z, but these pairs are very close in frequency anyway, so it doesn’t really matter.
For a starting set of words, we can calculate the total percentage of hits and the frequency of exact hits. As an example, Tundra’s standard starting words give the following total percentages and exact hits:
Note that the total percentages sum over all five positions, while the exact hits count only the position the letter is in.
RATED has the same letters as TRADE, but gets 45.6% for exact hits, as opposed to 44.3% for TRADE, so it looks like swapping out TRADE for RATED could improve your game a little by increasing the total exact hits to 112.3%.
But are there better starting words with different letters? Using exact hits as a guide, the letter A is the most likely 2nd letter, E the most likely 4th letter, S the second most likely 5th letter (after E), and R the third most likely 3rd letter (after A and I). They are also the top two vowels and consonants in overall hit percentage. Therefore a starting word ending in ARES would seem to be very good.
But what first letter to use? S is the most likely 1st letter, but you want to use a different letter to maximize your chance of finding letters. T and L are the next most likely consonants, even though they are not as likely to be a 1st letter as B or C. Using T, L, or C in front of ARES has some issues (see more on this below), and B is not nearly as likely overall. So I settled on D, giving DARES as a first word.
To form the second starting word, the remaining next most likely letters are, in order, O, I, L, T, and N. The only word with those five letters is Nilot (an inhabitant on the banks of the Nile River), which is capitalized and is not recognized by Quordle. (As an aside, Quordle does not allow you to enter a five-letter combination that it doesn’t think is a word.) So I decided to ditch the L and add a C, to get TONIC, since O and N are in their most likely place, I is in its second most likely, and T in its third most likely (not far behind the two most likely).
In some cases, the first two starting words are good enough that you don’t need a third word before trying for exact matches. If a third starting word is needed, the next most likely letters overall are L, U, M, P, and H, respectively, but there is no five-letter word with those letters. Dropping the H for the next most likely letter (Y), we conveniently can form the word LUMPY, with U in its most likely place, and Y as the third most likely letter to end a word. So we end up with starting words:
DARES has more hits and exact hits than RATED. The DARES/TONIC combo has about the same number of hits as RATED/SPOIL, but many more exact hits. LUMPY is only slightly worse than MUNCH. So, overall, DARES/TONIC/LUMPY looks like an improvement over RATED/SPOIL/MUNCH (and of course also over TRADE/SPOIL/MUNCH). DARES/TONIC/LUMPY has all five vowels and the vowel substitute Y, plus the nine most likely consonants.
After looking at more variations, another possibility is
This does better than DARES/TONIC/LUMPY on the first two words combined since it uses L instead of D, and has a better exact hit percentage on all three combined. To maximize just the first word using only E and A as vowels, there’s
although they are not as good through two or three words as the two previous triplets. Also, LARES comes from a proper name (Roman deities), and NICOL comes from the Nicol prism, named after William Nicol. Nevertheless, Quordle does recognize both Lares and Nicol.
Finally, Ownbestenemy tried using STOIC as a starter word. I think LEARN/STOIC/DUMPY is probably the best combo of that type, but only has 101.5% exact hits since a lot of its letters are not in a good position.
There are many caveats to this analysis. First, Quordle my use a different dictionary than I do; for example, they may only use a subset of words that are more common. I found a lot of weird words that I did not recognize among the 5,197 in the list, plus a number that are capitalized (like April) and/or are really acronyms (like ASCII); April and ASCII are not accepted by Quordle. On the other hand, some smaller dictionaries seemed to be missing some common words; one example I found with 3088 five-letter words did not have the words ABATE, ABHOR, or ABYSS, just within the words starting with AA or AB.
Second, Quordle may purposefully use words with less-likely letters, so using a likely hits table as a guideline may not be optimal. After doing a number of practice runs with DARES/TONIC/LUMPY and CARET/LOINS/DUMPY, it seemed to me to be missing more often than it should, but that could have just been an artifact of the small sample size. I very rarely “chump out,” i.e., not find all four words in nine guesses or less, using these two starting combinations.
If people give some of these a try, let me know how well they work for you, and feel free to use the data above to formulate your own strategy. What starting words are your favorites?
I guess I should have submitted a bio. I am a recently retired college professor who now has time for excursions like this one.
LOL I was wondering who in their right mind would put this much effort into it.
I noticed that whiz was doing quite well at Quordle a couple weeks ago but then he was seeded surprisingly low for the championship.
Whiz had an bad week (he even chumped) last week which is how I seeded the tournament.
Yes, I wonder if Quordle starting using words with more obscure letters.
We only have about 2 1/2 weeks of data but the Scrabble Score (which in theory accounts for obscure letters) doesn’t seem to track with difficulty. last week (when you did so poorly) it was 33.71428571, the week before when you led the league (amongst those whom entered scores every day) it was 37.85714286.
Another factor is overlap among the four words.
[Holds up “Nerds” sign used on GlibZoom]
Isn’t having such a sign nerdy?
Dweebish.
I’ve always been a nerd. In high school I hung out in the math resource room during free periods.
Yeah, even though I’m not a quordler (?) myself, it’s a great analysis and well-written piece.
Good work, Whiz!
“If ever oh ever s Whiz there was, the wizard is one because…”
Appreciate that. I’m a physicist, so analyzing things like that is natural to me.
I hope I retire before this crap reaches my profession.
+tilts head like confused puppy*
Is it sad that, though I find it pathetic, I actually understand what they are saying?
It’s all horseshit.
My initial word is LEACH. However, today’s Quordle cheated. “Boney” is spelled “bony.”
Spoiler! 🙂
Don’t care. It’s a cheat.
LIES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkG1J5SZ_kw
That took longer than I expected, and from a surprise source, too!
Why a surprise source??
Ted’S
dammit
Don’t tell Boney M.
I don’t get the appeal.
You’d probably hate Countdown too.
You’ve made that exceedingly clear.
? Im over here thinking “I like gardening. What desert plants will attract and feed more hummingbirds?”
Do you have hummingbirds?
Yes, lots! Many different species, too.
Not sure which types are just passing through and which will stick around, but we are trying to make the yard even more hummingbird friendly with plants, and now I’m looking for a water fountain that won’t be wasteful but will help these amazing creatures.
If Suthenboy shows up, maybe ask him? He feeds hummingbirds. Although Grant Parish is way wetter than where you are.
How long has it been since he last showed?
Anyone know why he’s not been around?
A couple weeks maybe?
He hasn’t commented regularly since last December, he briefly returned for a few days in early March and mentioned some health and family issues, but implied that those problems were better or getting better. Hopefully he’s just been busy or finally got sick of our shit.
My wife make hummingbird “food”, which is basically sugar water. She also puts out suet cakes and has talked about a butterfly bush.
Had to rescue one this evening again. Flew into the garage and trapped itself in the skylight. Happens every year or so.
Duly noted. It’s professional courtesy to not shit on the efforts of others who contribute to the site, even if those contributions don’t interest you.
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that
Bingo
We’ll make sure to not care about your opinions on what other people write and we post, thx.
Should we invite people in to yawn and meh over your stories?
I thought that’s what you hired Bro for.
This is… involved.
When I played lewdle, my starting word was usually “DICKS”.
Huh. It looks like Lewdle now uses six letter words.
They had to change it, no one would admit to only five.
For you.
I don’t use the same starting words every day, especially if I get close to something on the first two guesses, as I figure the next day’s words won’t be similar.
That’s a reasonable approach.
I try to just use the first two starter words — often that’s enough to make it work. Then you get a score of 18 if all goes well. Sometimes (like today), you can get one word on the third guess, but need the third starter word after that; then you get a 19 or 20 (again, if all goes well, which means that you don’t end up with multiple possibilities for one of the words, which happens way too often).
You can get a 10, I believe in you.
While not effective, the best starter word is still “BOOBS”
https://archive.ph/IGcx8
Mammary Monday.
58008 is an even number.
For a two word seed, I sometimes use
IRONY
TAMES
Most of the time I just pick new words each day, though.
Alright, the piteous whining of TPTB for content moved me to unearth an old unfinished post (now feeling somewhat dated, as well) and stick it in the queue.
The check better clear this time, dammit.
Our records show that you have an outstanding balance of $0.00. Payment is past due. You will incur a penalty of 0% per month until paid.
Thanks, RC.
I did AUDIO/RENTS for a long time but I now believe the author deliberately selects for less common letters cuz they don’t work for shit.
I got better results with COMFY/UNDER/TAILS a few times but that kills any chance at getting under the Tundra line.
So I went back to the drawing board and tried a couple sets of double seeds with more consonants and fewer vowels, with mixed results. Better if you luck out, not so good if the author chooses a bogus word.
deliberately selects for less common letters
And non-words.
*glares at RALPH and BONEY*
At least ralph is in my dictionary. That other abomination is not.
It’s a slang for vomit. I don’t know why Trashy hasn’t heard of it.
“I boneyed all over Ralph?”
What you do in the privacy of your own home is your business.
Boneying.
The author of Worldle feels my pain. You won’t find an easier one than today’s.
Well, had a comment, eaten by demons.
Short version: five guesses can cover 25 letters,
which I think you can get all the letters for all the
words, then it’s just anagrams. Since you presumably
need four words, the limit of nine guesses is interesting.
Can you get all 25 in 5 accepted words?
With one vowel per word, and no duplication of letters, I doubt it.
I usually start with AMOUR and TINES or STEIN. I get most of the top letters in the first two, but placement is not nearly as good as other options (80.83 or 69.61) that whiz has calculated.
I almost always start with FRUIT and BEACH.
Aren’t coconut and pineapple too long?
Mango?
Mango.
How did you enter DROIT on the second try instead of, say, ORBIT?
OT: Project Veritas’ latest:
Twitter Senior Engineer Admits in Undercover Video That “Twitter Does Not Believe in Free Speech”
PV seems to be in the “get people to admit to painfully obvious things on record” game. It’s not groundbreaking in the slightest for a twitter employee to admit what is plainly apparent from twitter’s actions.
Has Veritas caused anything more than some slight temporary embarrassment? It’s like the press secretary below, no shame and they don’t really care about even the appearance of impropriety.
Words can be violence, mkay?
Thanks for the deep dive, whiz. This is interesting. Now I have to decide if I try new seed words in the middle of battling with Tundra, or if I wait…
There is a practice option — I used it a lot when I was trying out different combinations.
I decided my new seed word is going to be PENIS.
Excellent.
Now I await ZARDOZ.
You’ll have it dicked in not time!
I used to use CHODE (39.58%) and TWATS (76.76%)
TWATS is 37.18%
My penis is positively enchanting. I have talked to you about my penis, have I not?
ENCHANT has more than 5 letters.
Mr Cannoli uses TARES, BLINK, and DOUGH. I tend to mix it up each day for the first word, then I only allow myself guesses that could possibly be a correct answer for one of the words after that.
Good to see you around again, young lady!
Don’t be a stranger.
PARTY
HOUSE
CLIMB
I don’t think repeating a letter is a good idea in a seed word.If Quordle does r=tend to over use less-ubiquitous letters, that could work well.
That was supposed to be a reply to BOOBS
I had a confuse.
EERIE and AREAR
Whiz,
I found the following list of english words on github: https://github.com/dwyl/english-words/
I wonder how it lines up with the list you found at UMich.
How many were there. That would be a good gauge of completeness. Although Quordle doesn’t seem to use obscure words (ralph notwithstanding!). A lot of the Michigan words are very obscure.
If I understand correctly, the Quordle dictionary is out there. I wonder if the Quordle dictionary could be found?
That would be great!
Is it even a fixed list? Can they add or remove words before the next set gets generated? Are the sets machine generated, or picked by a human?
I can’t speak to Quordle, but Wordle’s list was curated by the human that created the game and is fixed for many months (not sure exactly how many…I believe a year or more). This is so someone playing a downloaded version gets the same words as those playing online. When I first explained this a while back it was the target of one of your many snide comments aimed at word games.
With every thread getting innundated with word game updates, there has been no respite besides simply leaving the site altogether.
My objective with the inquiry now was as an olive branch.
Yes, I’ve been an asshole, will you accept a gesture of reconciliation?
Meh, we get at most 25 entries a day, and Quordlers, being fine, respectable citizens, mostly post in the overnight thread or in the morning links. Sure you get a few degenerates posting Waffle scores but maybe 30-35 puzzle related comments out of 800-1000/day is hardly inundatory.
All of them with big, bright “look at me!” colors that naturally catch the eye amidst the text.
But if we sit here and argue over what constitutes an objective quantum of annoyance, I guarantee it will derail the discussion.
Come, let us seek out the high road. We can’t have wandered far.
I always try to find an existing score to nest my comment under. I figure that makes it easier to scroll past since I don’t sprinkle my score throughout the entire comments section. Perhaps that could be a step in the direction of not annoying everybody.
I appreciate the consiteration, and will end my snide remarks.
This.
This meaning putting a score under an existing comment.
Yes, and that also greatly helps with the score archiving (thank you). And for the record I think the full solution postings are a bit much but it’s a free country and that is why Al Gore invented the scroll wheel.
I like to show the full ‘share’ when I do particularly bad but yeah it’s a bit much.
Viva
La
Waffle!
Harrumph.
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Agreed
About 370000 total words; I haven’t counted the 5-letter words yet.
This is delicious. New press secretary starts with her own identity politics and then falls flat on her face.
What happened to “gender/race/orientation first matter”? This person is unqualified, period.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10822709/Karine-Jean-Pierre-black-gay-immigrant-woman-press-secretary.html
Shameful indeed, although they don’t feel shame.
Nope, no shame. They are on a sacred mission!
I don’t know why autocorrect changed the phrase “don’t matter” to “first matter”
Quite a stretch.
I do. Firsts matter, Haeyk. That’s why.
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Well, she certainly isn’t the first idiot to be up there.
To be fair those questions were racist.
https://archive.ph/cXa5a/6079e6fea89c24f2b8292e4bb0d53fdac8108533.webp
NSFW.
https://thumbs2.redgifs.com/NotableLightblueFrog-mobile.mp4#t=0
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/6otWE/bb49a0398b6a8aab4eb3af9cdc0a5458490306af.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/w4tmH/a7b73569875d55ebf822dc7c87e57e68caf7a581.webp
NSFW.
5 O’clock shadow.
One issue with your analysis. It is my understanding that plurals are (or were) not included in the wordle dictionary. So a four letter word with S at the end is supposedly not a valid option.
That would preclude your TARES, DARES and LARES from being actual options, but maybe they have relaxed the stricture and increased the number of options.
But this would decrease the frequency of S in the 5th place.
I have used DARES and LOINS as words, and it accepts them. So plurals must be in their allowable list. Whether they use a plurals as one of the four is another matter.
This was based on our analysis in the office when wordle wasn’t owned by NYT. So the dictionary could have changed.
The guy in the cubicle next to mine actually built an optimizer in R to minimize the number of tries and to find the best options based on some of these same parameters.
The dictionary he used was someone’s guess on the internet on what was the most likely one being used… Don’t know which one he actually did use.
I hope it’s not the Scrabble dictionary because that one includes all kinds of nonsense.
The Michigan list does too.
I think they’re valid but not chosen. I use RENTS a lot but only to get that S in there.
I don’t think I’ve every seen a plural as a solution word, kind of screws me up if the word is BONUS or something else with an ultimate S because I’ve subconsciously decided that the last letter can’t be S.
Certainly if they never use plurals, that would downgrade using S at the end of a seed word. An actual full list of possible Quordle solutions would help a lot.
I use STARE too start, POUND if that gets no hits. If the only hit is a green E at the end, I go with LOUPE. That gives me a good idea of what I’m working with vowel-wise.
After 3 or 4 guesses though I usually give up and switch to a python script I wrote that generates a list of possible words.
My starting words are normally LEAST and ROUND. I’m always trying to solve a word on my third try.
“It’s a fad like going Goth in the 80s.”. Lol. https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/05/16/seattle-high-school-claims-that-80-percent-of-its-students-identify-as-lgbtq-non-binary-or-transgender/
I have made this argument before.
It is most definitely becoming a fad, though I’d argue that sexual norms are based on culture. I have long had issues with the notion that gays were just “born” that way. That’s not to imply choice in the matter, per se. But you can in fact choose to be engage in homosexual acts. Cultures can normalize such behaviors and they can become quite widespread. This has been observed in various cultures throughout history.
If the Soviets from 50 some odd years ago could see what we are doing to our own culture today, they never even would have bothered any demoralization campaigns or with the propaganda. They could just sit back comfy knowing that the West would rapidly destroy its own culture on its own. Or maybe we are in fact seeing the fruits of their labor come to fruition.
This next generation is going to be in the majority confused, irrational, soft, and just utterly utterly broken.
I’ve mentioned before I went to a Southern Baptist private school (1976-1986), and I remember all sorts of claims that sparked in me a love of conspiracy theories. Except … every one of them has come to fruition. They weren’t all there with Darwin and the scientific past, but mostly they could see the future quite clearly.
Anyway, my English teacher told about when Kruschev stood up and pounded on the podium with his shoe and screaming, “We will bury you!”
Mission accomplished.
I think about that every day.
That’s what Pooh is doing.
Relevant.
3 of the remaining 12 identified as dinosaurs.
OFFS. Even if not fadding… I thought diversity was our strength…? That’s what I learned from Star Trek.
TOS was right because it was real diversity. Different thoughts, different cultures, and all of it available for anyone to try.
I don’t think “going Goth” was ever encouraged by teachers, administrators and parents.
Watching Candy. I can’t unsee Jonah.
I can’t crack your code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Simons
Interesting choice today.
? May 16, 2022 ?
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#globle
This is AWESOME! I’ll stick with my seed words to see how everything shakes out.
Good luck, motherfuckers!
You are all really just lucky that I’m not playing Quordle. The competition would already be over. Losing to me daily would be so demoralizing that the entire fad would pass in the blink of an eye.
Has anybody pointed that Phil Mickelson was crucified for flirting with the Saudi’s because he was glossing over their human rights issues, while NBA players are applauded while cheering on and serving as propaganda tools for the ChiComs? I wonder what’s different there…hm…
It’s 2 AN in Nevada, and the stepdaughter, her hubby, and their 2 kids have arrived at our house. I sent our usual chauffeur to pick them up from the Las Vegas airport so they didn’t have to get a rental car and drive.
They are thoroughly exhausted and on Texas time, so everyone is now tucked in.
My cat, who is very friendly but always shy for the initial meeting has disappeared somewhere in the house. Poor little guy.
Well, I better get some sleep now because it’s gonna get crazy in the next few days.
https://mobile.twitter.com/weirdlilguys/status/1526384508349689856?cxt=HHwWgMC9rfGn564qAAAA
Happy primary day, fellow PA residents.
Ouch.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/05/16/teen-shot-seven-times-west-philadelphia/
I guess we can rule out a police officer as the shooter.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzyfcys1aLM
202m views can’t be wrong. ?
202M commercials?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ATBGE/comments/uqyc5a/had_to_save_this_micro_machine_from_rshitty_car/
O.o
suh’ fam
whats goody
What’s goody is I might be late getting to the gym.
Mornin’ all!
Good morning, homey, DEG,l0, and Sean!
Looking forward to a quiet day at the office – nothing out of the ordinary except one new hire, if she shows. Baseball game tonight, so I HOPE the rain holds off until tomorrow as predicted. For some reason, a bunch of little “incident” symbols all over the local traffic map (though none along my commute route so far, knock wood.) It’s not the weather, so I blame the full moon.
I know there’s been research done that doesn’t support full moon affecting behavior, but at work the other night everyone was in a bad mood or otherwise being a dick and/or cunte.
Was doing alright until last awful, awful final word.
Daily Quordle 113
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quordle.com
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It’s up to Sean to continue the run, at least I got it out of my system before my battle with whiz tomorrow.
Et tu, Hype? Tried it on my desktop this morning to change things up. And went directly to Chumptown.
One of these times, I should actually try drinking my coffee first. So many points left on the table by stupid guesses when I knew what the right word was. I tried to get too cute…
Daily Quordle 113
8️⃣9️⃣
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Yup, that word sucked.
Daily Quordle 113
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The only thing that save it was there only being a handful of non-greyed-out letters at the end.
Avoided Chumptown, but just barely. Guessed the bottom right in one, because so many letters had been eliminated by then.
Daily Quordle 113
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I don’t find carnival shows that sexy but we’re all aware of your predilection for the bearded, fat ladies, Tres.
I cant remember who linked it yesterday, but Im still reeling from Yumi Nu.
You double-bag the body and leave the head exposed.
I hope his professional liability was current and paid-up.
Engineer who designed Sask. bridge that collapsed hours after opening facing disciplinary hearing
That pic screams, “Kegger at my place, bruh!”
Bailey Bridge to transport the kegs.
Wow. That looks like a really simple one (I’m no engineer). The Romans and Chinese built bridges that still stand to this day.
Mornin’, reprobates.
“The RM has alleged that Gullacher and his companies breached their contract because the bridge was supposed to last for 75 years, but only stayed up for a few hours. The lawsuit points out that Gullacher failed “to design and/or construct a bridge that would not immediately collapse.””
LOL. Would not be out of place in the Bee.
Up here a tailings pond at a mine let go. An entire lake of sludge was released into Quesnel Lake, one of the deepest most pristine bodies of fresh water in the world. I can’t be arsed to link to it but google “Mt Polley Disaster”. The engineers done fucked up, bigly.
https://www.mining.com/engineers-disciplined-7-years-after-mount-polley-mine-disaster-in-british-columbia/
Ouch.
“Over 17 million cubic metres of water and eight million cubic metres of tailings effluent — containing toxic copper and gold mining waste — flowed into lakes and streams that served as a drinking water source and sockeye salmon spawning ground in the province’s Cariboo region, CBC reported.”
Yep. Of course the usual suspects are using an outlier in an attempt to shut everything down for Gaia.
Doing for mining what Three Mile Island has done for nuclear power.
Of all the ways to monetize laziness…
Mornin’ Glibbies! Harkening back to the previous post wherein some kid dressed in drag and won the vote for Prom King? Teenaged shit-lords have been pulling this stunt forever. We had a Tracy Flick at my high school and brought her low when we elected a “special needs” kid as student body president. This was in 1980. Little shitheads act like little shitheads every chance they can find. Felt bad for the girl, she transferred away the next year and was actually a friendly sort. Asking 15-16 year olds to take anything seriously is a recipe for disaster.
Steve Smith sighting in Ohio! And only a couple hours from here.
Two hikers claim they’ve spotted scary Bigfoot creature while walking in woods
Hyperbole better duct-tape his ass shut. Specially if Steve Smith wants Claussen Deli Style Hearty Garlic Slices.
Michelle Obama stumping for Dems, lately?
Moved from the dead thread
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One of you lot’s seed words don’t work.
Im done apologizing. I’ve come to terms with feelings I can’t control. Specially when it seems chilly out.
Would smash me some Strawberry.
Yep. I sold my soul for a red-headed roll lo these many decades ago. I want some too but this gentleman first.
I’ll bet you’d smash that for all eternity.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=10LSq_J5ol4
Nah, Id only need 20 minutes.
Who am I kidding? 10 should be more than enough.
When I used to dig The Beatles, I actually preferred that album to Sgt. Pepper’s.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2022/05/16/ukraine-President-Volodymyr-Zelensky-universities-speech/6191652688281/
“The AAU said Zelensky’s administration hopes the leading research universities in the United States can help rebuild higher education in Ukraine.”
I like this. Can we send all our woke studies profs and admins over there?
Apropos – https://youtu.be/KMjYNKED0U0
Just a beer for me, thanks.
Chop Bar Owner Confesses To Using Water From Dead Bodies To Cook Food For Customers For The Past 15 Years
Tres’ spirit animal.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aEIUW5Rslrc
I used to be able to drink like that. Aging out is a helluva drug.
Luckily I tend to leave spirits alone these days. I often mention that I have 15 year-old Tres Ver 2.0 due to Crown Royal.
I know a gay guy who knows what he got drunk on that lead to both of his kids.
Clearly it wasn’t designed and built by the canadian bridge guy.
Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle
That would work in a reboot of “Up in Smoke”.
Ha! We got grounded from seeing that movie when I was14. We got stoned and played hockey. Elder Brother’s weed which was more potent than we were used to. ‘Tis a silly movie, anyway.
Meghyn Kelly brings the fire. https://youtu.be/h6zBywYv9ss
Wife put on the news yesterday and they were flogging the hell out of this. Normally gun control is the angle, but after years of failing to get rid of the 2nd amendment, apparently they’ve decided to go after the 1st amendment instead.
NYC spends $30MM on new homeless shelter.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/16/mta-unveils-stunning-30m-staircase-at-times-square-subway-station/
AYFKM?
OBE, was listening to Rekieta’s stream from last night and heard his toast to you…how many Glibs are supporting him with superchats?