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Is it RPS or SPR?

Posted by bbonb <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bbonb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 20, 2026, 9:26:48

nobody says paper, rock, scissors, right?

It's Roshambo*

Posted by Quiz <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Quiz' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 20, 2026, 13:37:24, in reply to "Is it RPS or SPR?"

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nobody says paper, rock, scissors, right?

it is what it is

Posted by IlliniSax05 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniSax05' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 20, 2026, 10:01:04, in reply to "Is it RPS or SPR?"

Why do you hate me, Sammich?

MAJOR UPDATE: "Maybe you're not such a bad egg, Lisle-y"
-Sammich, 1/15/2011

Have you been drinking paint?

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 20, 2026, 13:17:03, in reply to "it is what it is"

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

kinda jarring to see Rob McElhenny's (sorry, Rob Mac's) face there

vs. the super botoxed/plastic surgeried face he has now

Why do you hate me, Sammich?

MAJOR UPDATE: "Maybe you're not such a bad egg, Lisle-y"
-Sammich, 1/15/2011

those commercials with Kumail and him are something else*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 20, 2026, 13:42:21, in reply to "kinda jarring to see Rob McElhenny's (sorry, Rob Mac's) face there "

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vs. the super botoxed/plastic surgeried face he has now

I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to #### it up
I want to watch it come down

It's I-T*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 20, 2026, 9:37:40, in reply to "Is it RPS or SPR?"

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nobody says paper, rock, scissors, right?

Chicken Little poster child

Reminds me of a Lexicon Valley podcast episode on word order from 2023

Posted by Potomac <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Potomac' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 20, 2026, 9:35:49, in reply to "Is it RPS or SPR?"

From the AI summary: In Lexicon Valley Episode 95, "Age, Color, Origin, Material," John McWhorter discusses the strict, subconscious order of English adjectives (opinion-size-age-shape-color-origin-material-purpose). He explains that native speakers intuitively place adjectives in this sequence—e.g., "small old brown French leather bag"—and that breaking it sounds wrong to native ears.

I tried some sample word combinations on my first-grade granddaughter at the time, and she somehow knew that mixing up the order was "wrong." Like it's "ugly red dress" and not "red ugly dress."

https://lexiconvalley.substack.com/p/age-color-origin-material

interesting little original response*

Posted by bbonb <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bbonb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 20, 2026, 10:15:51, in reply to "Reminds me of a Lexicon Valley podcast episode on word order from 2023"

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From the AI summary: In Lexicon Valley Episode 95, "Age, Color, Origin, Material," John McWhorter discusses the strict, subconscious order of English adjectives ( opinion-size-age-shape-color-origin-material-purpose ). He explains that native speakers intuitively place adjectives in this sequence—e.g., "small old brown French leather bag"—and that breaking it sounds wrong to native ears.

I tried some sample word combinations on my first-grade granddaughter at the time, and she somehow knew that mixing up the order was "wrong." Like it's "ugly red dress" and not "red ugly dress."

https://lexiconvalley.substack.com/p/age-color-origin-material

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