We've got one last round to serve up for you, and it's the one where Jen takes her turn as Pagemaster and found a surprisingly Scrabble-valuable word that none of us had heard before! We hack through a lot of fake definitions and snob out over people's tendency to use abbreviations too much, then the final scores are announced. One of us becomes The Winner, and this podcast is basically an uplifting sports documentary. Which is exactly what the world needs right now, isn't it? Also this is the last episode we're doing BUT... still that thing about the world needs this podcast, just go with that message. Plus just like, goodbye forever and stuff.

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OOPT 50th Anniversary Of Trespass Part 5

It's Marshall's turn to pilot a round of Fictionary, and we all know what that means. Why, he's basically a walking contronym because he is both a person of movingly kind ethics and a fiendish master of competitive hijinx. All this can we truly deliver with this here fourth round of this fiftieth Anniversary Of Trespass.

OOPT 50th Anniversary Of Trespass Part 4

We're mid-game here at Of Or Pertaining To, but don't expect a fancy half-time show! No Beyonces will be flouncing around flaming stages on this episode. We have the next best thing, however, in that Kai excavates a uniquely unfamiliar word out of his dictionary and we all get up to trickery and shenanigans about what that word means. Plus there is talk of pizza and disappointing song lyrics. And then special guest Bruce Springsteen emerges from the wings and the crowd goes crazy!

OOPT 50th Anniversary Of Trespass Part 3

We get down hard on this second round of this peculiarly named game ("50th Anniversary Of Trespass"), and it gets ugly in the most beautiful way. But then it gets beautiful in the most ugly way and so everything balances out nicely, see. Bob leads the round as Pagemaster and takes you all the long way toward learning a very cool new word. Also he gets emotional about Minnesota, and maybe kind of not all that emotional about Shakespeare. This episode represents Bob-dynamics at their most extreme; you've been warned.

OOPT 50th Anniversary Of Trespass Part 2

Kai really took us to school when he kicked our cheeks on the 49th Lammy Sand, so he was given the honor of naming the new game. And here it is: the 50th Anniversary Of Trespass! That's the name of this game, although it is a podcast of us playing Fictionary and not really doing anything about Trespass. Liz gets this game started with a familiar-sounding new word, and we talk kind of a lot about pleonasms. Pleonasms you guys! Do we have your attention NOW? Yeah, we THOUGHT so. #pleonasms

OOPT 50th Anniversary Of Trespass Part 1

Coming to you from the beautiful Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota, USA, rising up from the ashes of a community riven by chaos, it's this podcast about word geeks playing their word game! We have another contest in the can which we'll keep dosing out as long as it's possible to keep editing despite the steady barrage of rubber bullets coming from the MPD through our window. This is the beginning of the 49th Lammy Sand, a game named by Kai, and also begun by Kai with a very intriguing new word. We also talk about the problem of conveying sarcasm when texting. Some day people will be perusing podcast episodes undistracted by the pervasive sensation of living on a hot stove of senseless violence, but that's not the case on the day this description is being written.

OOPT 49th Lammy Sand Part 1

Help yourself to this delectable episode! Here's where we deliver the final round of what we've been ungrudgingly calling the 48th Santa Ana Cornhole. Plus we get hopping mad about critical writing, even though some of us do that sometimes! Are we hypocrites? Or are we Hippocrates? Seriously, how come no one ever talks about the similarities between those two words? We've been waiting for someone to bring it up so that we may reply, "I know, RIGHT?"

OOPT 48th Santa Ana Cornhole Part 5

We're back on track now, we promise. Despite the previous episode's lack of such fundamentals as "scoring", we kept playing and kept recording and continued with our scheduled Pagemaster for this episode. It's Kai, and his word is strange. Also we talk about a language topic that is both super interesting and rarely discussed! If anything, it gives one hope that you are still pretty far from running out of interesting things to hear about.

OOPT 48th Santa Ana Cornhole Part 4

Okay, so... well... okay, first of all, HELLO! I mean, of course "hello", right? Always hello. ALWAYS HELLO. But really, just... just a sincere hello from us all. Whatever runs through your head as you listen to the third round of this game we're playing, please do not forget the profound sincerity of our initial greeting. It will help us all to get through the, well, as you're about to hear... You know what? You should probably just listen. Unless this is your first time hearing our podcast, in which case please instead listen to one of the handful of episodes we've released that don't involve utter debacles.

OOPT 48th Santa Ana Cornhole Part 3: Calamity Befalls the Gang!!!

We decided to stay friends and keep playing the game of Fictionary, using modern technology that gives away this moment in history with a telltale elimination of audio frequencies. Zoom, that's what we use now to make this podcast. Just like the white collar workers some of us are, or used to be... Here's the second round, navigated ably by Liz. Plus also you can hear what happens when champions of writing quality are asked what they think of screenwriting. Where else will you hear that, you poor lost soul?

OOPT 48th Santa Ana Cornhole Part 2

We are all locked down in our separate quarters, but we still play this game over Zoom. So here is Zoom audio of us starting a new game! Jen kicks it off with the first round of the nonsensically named 48th Santa Ana Cornhole, plus not only do we talk about the pandemic, we talk about how hard it is to not talk about he pandemic. And now this description is talking about talking about how hard it is not to talk about the pandemic. Which means that last sentence... yeah. We went there.

OOPT 48th Santa Ana Cornhole Part 1

Hi we are diligently sequestered inside your audio device and have produced some new talky wordy play-y stuff for you, don't worry it is safe and you are safe! This is the final episode of what was mischievously named the "47th Wilson's Pullover". Listen in as Bob Pagemasters as mighty a podcast episode as you'll ever hear, or hear about, or share a universe with.

OOPT 47th Wilson's Pullover Part 5

The deeper we descend into the seizure of civilization as we once knew it, the more these episodes, recorded in early March, start to seem like they were created by adorably naive children who had yet to lose their innocence. Join us, won't you, for a nostalgic look at bygone days when we looked forward to public performances, and mirthful poop-humor wasn't tinged with the irony of toilet paper shortages. Also, Kai teaches us about brown!

OOPT 47th Wilson's Pullover Part 4

We always begin each episode with a warning that we are providing strictly NSFW language in our podcast. These days that's not much of an issue because most people aren't working around other people, but Kai really pushes the issue with his word selection when he takes over this round. You'll just have to listen. And since you're probably not in polite company, just crank it up real loud why don't you.

We used to always release episodes on the first of the month, which means we would always have an "April Fool's" episode. But now we just release on Mondays. So this non-canon offering is basically just us hilariously persuading you that it's Monday. Oh my god. You should have seen your face. You were like "it is Monday and it not-is Monday". Everyone will remember you and mock you!

OOPT - April 1, 2020

This is a podcast of people playing Fictionary! Fictionary is the game where you try to guess the actual definition of an obscure word out of a bunch of made-up definitions. This group of pals is good at Fictionary. Especially if you consider definitions like "doublure: a naked chiropractor" or "gosmore: a pony with all four of its feet stuck in buckets" to be authentic-sounding dictionary definitions. New episodes each week!

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