BOGGLE: HOUR 5
[[A man and two women are seated around a table]]
Man: Okay, I've got "GLOND." Anybody else? GLOND?
Woman #1: That's not a word
Man: Sure it is! Means "to lie convincingly." Archaic, but it's in the oed.
Man: Do you want me to dig out the dictionary again?
Woman#2: For Pete's sake just let him HAVE it so we can get ON with it
Man: Okay. So from glond I also have GLONDS, as in "he glonds."
Man: Anybody? Glonds?
Woman #2: NO nobody has GLONDS
Man: Okay, then next I have GLONDER and GLONDEE. Also GLONDED, GLONDING, and GLONDT which is of course the purperfect
Man: "He had glondt"
Man: Plus all the variants: "he will have glonden", "he would have ben glondering" ...
Man: No present subjunctive, though, no "K" on the board.
Man: So tallying up all the conjugations, that's eighty-seven points.
Woman #2: You're telling me you got all those but you missed GLONDXHATZOLJLG?
Man: Aw geez! I was staring right at it, too!
{{header: quickly spell WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: So far in this game, Laurence has identified twenty-four previously-unknown terms for 'to lie convincingly.'}}
So far in this game, Laurence has identified twenty-four previously-unknown terms for 'to lie convincingly.'
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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