xkcd

by **eggdudeguy** » Mon May 30, 2011 6:23 am UTC

Inspired by reddit feats like http://i.imgur.com/DVIRB.png, I think we can make this "you're thinking of" an actual forum game.

For those of you who didn't read the link, it goes like this (minus the italic help guides, of course):

Kindle. (Starting word)
What, to light a fire? (Initial misunderstanding)
You are thinking of kindling. Kindle is a kind of hollow chocolate egg which contains a plastic toy. (The start of infinite clarifications)
No, that's a Kindler Egg. Kindle is a grade level in school for young children. (The follow up answer, with a setup for the next one.)
No, that's kindergarden. Kindle is a mall doll that accompanies Barbie. (And it continues for a long time, or at least until we want to restart.)

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Forum.

by **cjdrum** » Mon May 30, 2011 8:23 am UTC

Oh, an ancient cinema thingy.

by **SmoothBlade** » Mon May 30, 2011 4:15 pm UTC

Wow u already broke it, your supposed to pick a word very close to it, not an alternate definition of the word. Lets see if this can be fixed

No, that's the Foro Romano, a forum is a paper you fill out to, usually for legal or government purposes.

by **eggdudeguy** » Mon May 30, 2011 5:20 pm UTC

No, that's a form. Forum is an emotional state where you feel like nothing available to do is fun.

by **Lazar** » Mon May 30, 2011 5:35 pm UTC

No, that's forlorn. Forum is a holiday celebrating the deliverance of the Jewish people from the evil vizier Haman.

by **musicman99** » Mon May 30, 2011 7:24 pm UTC

No, that would be Purim. Forum is an adjective describing something that is not native to a country.

by **Nat** » Mon May 30, 2011 10:42 pm UTC

No, that's Purim. Forum is a positive real-valued function on a complex vector space that respects multiplication by scalars and induces a metric by differences.

by **SmoothBlade** » Mon May 30, 2011 11:52 pm UTC

No, thats a Norm... i think.... anyway, a Forum is somebody's manners and behaviour, generally good behavior and proper manners.

by **cjdrum** » Mon May 30, 2011 11:58 pm UTC

No, I'm pretty sure you mean form. Forum means something's for a pirate's drink.

by **SmoothBlade** » Tue May 31, 2011 12:50 am UTC

(it was decorum, but i forgive you)

No, that's rum. A forum is when 4 people engage in sexual intercourse.

by **Gypped** » Tue May 31, 2011 1:43 am UTC

No, that's a foursome. A forum is a barricaded outpost.

by **cjdrum** » Tue May 31, 2011 2:04 am UTC

Nah, you're thinking of a fort. 'Forum' is the opposite of 'aft'.

by **eggdudeguy** » Tue May 31, 2011 3:15 am UTC

No, that's "forward". A forum is a mass of small bubbles formed on or in liquid.

by **dontthrowpooh** » Tue May 31, 2011 3:30 am UTC

No that's foam. A forum is an appendage attached to the elbow and wrist.

by **cjdrum** » Tue May 31, 2011 3:31 am UTC

No, that's foam. Forum is the name of the character with a precious ring.

by **SamaraLexx** » Tue May 31, 2011 4:49 am UTC

That's forearm and Golum (those two things aren't even closely related to each other!) A forum is like, a group of people that sometimes votes on things and makes decisions for a larger group.

by **Felstaff** » Tue May 31, 2011 11:22 am UTC

No, that was the Romans. A forum is a person engaged in agriculture who raises livestock for food and grows produce and grain.

by **eggdudeguy** » Tue May 31, 2011 5:02 pm UTC

No, that's a farmer. A forum is a person who leads or represents a group; most commonly a group of musicians.

by **krucifi** » Tue May 31, 2011 5:42 pm UTC

No thats a Foreman, a forum is an egyptian king

by **Lazar** » Tue May 31, 2011 6:45 pm UTC

No, that's a pharaoh. A forum is when you have a sufficient number of members present to conduct official business.

by **Jumble** » Tue May 31, 2011 6:49 pm UTC

No, I think you mean a quorum.~~A forum is the part of your body between your elbow and your wrist~~ (Bollocks, we've done that one.

Forum is what a hesitant golfer shouts when he hits a dangerous ball.

by **FCN** » Tue May 31, 2011 7:04 pm UTC

No, that's fore! Forum makes Scotch tape and Post-it notes.

by **Jumble** » Tue May 31, 2011 7:10 pm UTC

No, that's 3M (well played, by the way! [& a hesitant golfer yells 'Fore! umm...']}.

Forum is the battle cry of the the Kings 1st Cavalry of the tiny kingdom of Um.

by **Kromix** » Tue May 31, 2011 8:27 pm UTC

Sadly, the yell is For our Um! you might have been thinking of some plants common to New Zealand...

by **SlyReaper** » Tue May 31, 2011 8:45 pm UTC

by **SmoothBlade** » Tue May 31, 2011 9:39 pm UTC

No, That's a fern, Forum is a republican running for president in the USA.

by **eggdudeguy** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:04 am UTC

No, that's Santorum. Forum is a common first name for girls.

by **dontthrowpooh** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:09 am UTC

No that's Farah, forum is the part of a golf course between a tee and the corresponding green.

by **cjdrum** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:23 am UTC

No, that's the fairway (right?). Forum is the thing that comes before afternoon.

by **Felstaff** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:41 am UTC

No, that's me on a weekend, a forum is a large group of amoeboid protists with reticulating pseudopods, fine strands of cytoplasm that branch and merge to form a dynamic net.

by **SlyReaper** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:45 am UTC

No, that's Foraminifera. Forum is all of the animal life of any given region or time.

by **Felstaff** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:05 am UTC

No, that's fauna. Forum comes from the Latin for "right, proper"

by **existential_elevator** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:28 pm UTC

No, that's decorum. A forum is a loop, or part of a curve terminated at both ends by the same node.

by **Kromix** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:16 pm UTC

No that's a folium, a forum is a support where a lever pivots.

by **SlyReaper** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:35 pm UTC

No that's a fulcrum, Forum is a programming language from the '50s.

by **Phrozt** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:59 pm UTC

No, that's fortran. Forum is how someone feels when they are lonely and sad.

by **Nat** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:07 pm UTC

no, that's forlorn. forum is how someone who lacks confidence says the minimal number of colours required to colour a planar graph.

by **FCN** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:55 pm UTC

No, you're thinking of "um, four?" Forum refers to the widely accepted interpretations of a fictional world that are not definitively established by the original work.

by **BurningLed** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 2:06 am UTC

No, that's fanon. A forum is something which is to be given to a 6'0 actress whose surname is Thurman.

Also, I support the idea of changing it at each pagetopper.

by **SmoothBlade** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 2:14 am UTC

No, that's Uma. A forum is a internet message board where users can post and reply to threads. I couldnt think of anything, sorry.

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