Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Warning: This Posting Can Cause Addiction

I have recently discovered the pleasures of GoogleWhacking.

It's not what you think.

The concept is deceptively simple: type two completely unrelated words into Google and hit search. You will have achieved the coveted "pure whack" if your words produce exactly one result. It's hard. Really hard. Almost as hard as scoring 830 points in Scrabble.

I spent a good twenty minutes typing in the most obscure words in my vocabulary (ex. titmouse and connubial), but couldn't even find a combination that produced less than 10 pages of results.
Nabokovian and Chiclet produced one result, but was disqualified because neither word is in the official GoogleWhack dictionary (go figure).

It's on, bitch.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

No quotes right? it would be way easier if quotes were in play. I could go look this up in the link. yeah, that's what I'll do.

Unknown said...

true. no quotes.

how are there 875 results for dinoflagellate propellor?

tediouscharm said...

Is dinoflagellate an adjective? Adjectives are bad. So are adverbs. Try nouns. Nouns are better.