Board 8 > Important Scattergories questions.

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1. E for "Terms of Endearment." Someone put "Em," as in a nickname for someone whose first name starts with M. Everyone told him to shut up. Who was in the right?
2. N for "Things that are smaller than a fist." I put "Nards" because I thought that was slang for testicles. We used Google to confirm that it's not, but it is a type of plant that is indeed smaller than a fist. I got this one through because another person had put down a band name by guessing that something like it must exist, so if you accidentally guess a plant's name then that should also count, but had the first ruling not been made, should Nards have passed?

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Should've gone with nuts or nads

Em could be seen short for Emily, so if he had argued that, maybe. His actual argument was dumb.

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1. Should not count
2. I guess you could count that, but I would roll my eyes at you

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The answer always is "the group" imo. An important part of the game is lawyering your answers so if someone failed to do so, I'd say the group is right. If I had a vote.

1) "Em" is not a nickname for someone who's name begins with an "M". I've never heard Michael or Mary or Moe ever called "Em", ever. And, if you were to call them that, I would think you are calling them "M" not "Em" because the M is for the first initial and you just spell that "M".

If this person said "Em" was a term of endearment for someone named "Emily", I would be more inclined to give them the point.

2) The way I do it is you need to defend your answer. So if you defended it that way, and we looked it up and it was defensible for a different reason you did not give, I wouldn't give you the point. Your friend's reasoning was "this must be a thing that exists" while yours was "this is a different specific thing that exists" so it is different anyway imo. I wouldn't have voted to give your friend the point either, because guessing nonsense and making us google it every time sounds exhausting.

(Also I do think nards is slang for testicles. How did we both think this made up word had a specific meaning?)

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Critical hit to the nards

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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nard

Etymology 2
Alteration of undefinedundefined (testicles) or undefinedundefined (gonads).
Noun
nard (plural nards)
(US, 1980s, slang, usually in the plural) Testicles.
The soccer ball hit me right in the nards!
Synonyms
(testicles): balls, nuts

You didn't google this hard enough imo.

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Like the first entire page of search results is "yes this means balls".

What did you guys google?

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Suprak the Stud posted...

Like the first entire page of search results is "yes this means balls".

My first page of google search is about 50/50 balls + the plant, but yeah it clearly means balls.

But to answer your question: If you accidentally guess something that exists, then I would count it, but like jcgamer I would roll my eyes at you.
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This must be the name of a band is extreme BS. I would make you prove that you actually know something about any obscure band that you propose as an answer.

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Suprak the Stud posted...

The answer always is "the group" imo. An important part of the game is lawyering your answers so if someone failed to do so, I'd say the group is right. If I had a vote.

1) "Em" is not a nickname for someone who's name begins with an "M". I've never heard Michael or Mary or Moe ever called "Em", ever. And, if you were to call them that, I would think you are calling them "M" not "Em" because the M is for the first initial and you just spell that "M".

If this person said "Em" was a term of endearment for someone named "Emily", I would be more inclined to give them the point.

2) The way I do it is you need to defend your answer. So if you defended it that way, and we looked it up and it was defensible for a different reason you did not give, I wouldn't give you the point. Your friend's reasoning was "this must be a thing that exists" while yours was "this is a different specific thing that exists" so it is different anyway imo. I wouldn't have voted to give your friend the point either, because guessing nonsense and making us google it every time sounds exhausting.

(Also I do think nards is slang for testicles. How did we both think this made up word had a specific meaning?)

nards
1. vulgar slangThetesticles.

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1. Yes if they said it was short for Emily. No, if it's short for an M-name.
2. Nards is correct. You guys suck at looking stuff up, as has been pointed out already. But since that had not been discovered, I would be inclined to keep it if we had looked it up and it was a thing. I can see how other groups might not, though.

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I've seen Nards used as slang for that. We (my family) always made fun of Menard's when I was younger by calling it "the Nards"

I would count Nards.

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Anagram posted...

I put "Nards" because I thought that was slang for testicles. We used Google to confirm that it's not

I am fucking REELING over this

guys, it's anagram. if anybody would somehow just completely fuck up a google search, it'd be him

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I am probably more familiar with Anagram than any of you and I still can't believe he google searched 'nards' and did not find the slang definition for testicles