Someone came very close to actually guessing the definition of the word in our last post… the word being: ‘taplash’. As I promised, it wasn’t a made up word like I did in the first couple of posts… you know… just to be funny… According to the makers of the real Balderdash game, taplash is a real word, and it means: skunk beer! (They did not say whether or not that is a good thing of a bad thing. Maybe some of you know enough about the new trend of small breweries, or are even brewing your own beer at home, and can tell us if skunk beer is good or bad… I am left in some doubt only because, back in the day, we used the term ‘skunk weed’ to describe very expensive and really, really good types of a certain illegal substance that people sometimes smoke)…
And for out next round of the game, here is another word that is a real word… according to the American Dictionary of Slang. This book was printed in the early 1940’s, so don’t be so sure you know the meaning. The word is:
Fretzer…
Pouring My Art Out 
This is a tool for repairing frets on a guitar!
You are good at this
I just played Balderdash with our company on Saturday. Love that game.
I am crazy good at it.
yeah, and your definitions, like mine, are probably better than the real ones
real definitions suck!
yeah! take that, real definitions, you suck!
That’s telling them
yeah, they don’t scare me
Seems like
I ain’t afraid of no posts
what about poets
well Milton was good but he used to beat his children so…. oh and T.S. Eliot pisses me off.
and Shakespeare used to run around shaking his spear at people…
no he was the one who shakes pear
we need to switch this over to another post… this one doesn’t deserve these kinds of numbers… and shakespeare would work well on the comment post
Well there are a lot of threads we have there that I’ve lost track of what we’re talking about, so pick it up from that point if you want. We can carry all the conversations over there if you want. If I’m not lazy, I can click on my comment and find out what we’re talking about because it goes directly to our conversation, but that’s only on the other posts. It won’t do that on your “Comment Here” post I think because there are too many comments, so impossible to remember sometimes what we’re talking about.
This is why I invented my new cut off signal……… I should have said there has to be exactly 150 periods and any more or less wouldn’t count… Then you would have to count them.
no, I’m not that obsessive compulsive, maybe I’m only suggestive compulsive, maybe I’m a liar and I’d say, “oh yeah I counted them”, when I didn’t bother, but I’m not putting the periods, I’m just liking the replies and moving on, like a ramblin’ blogger. Well that’s if it gives me the option to like, if it doesn’t, the thread’s just dust in the wind, a rolling stone gathers no moss….
Ffs how did you get to five so fast? A fretzer is the tool used to adze the frets of musical instruments to the correct size and depth…
In a real game of Balderdash, people would vote for that… I might even steal it if my family plays again
Seems I’m good at bullshit, anyway!
it’s a gift…
Must be the Irish influence. Or the beer. Or both.
The Irish beer???
Christmas ale. I did a post. Tonight’s were very very strong though… I need to sleep 🙂
wait… you can speak for all of Ireland??? I can barely speak for all of myself.
Ah…. Think I was talking of the Irish Gift of the Gab? Not sure. I’m drunk now.
Have you left a comment on the post where we are trying to break the record for most comments yet? That is a great place to go drunk.
Sorry I went to sleep instead!
Oh well
Klaus Fretzer: an eccentric eighteenth-century German inventor/philosopher from the tiny village of Buxtehude. He is widely thought to have invented the aglet (schuhenbindenhalten). Fretzer was later discredited for laying claim to invention of the umlaut. He died shortly after his final failure–a furry pretzel, called the “fretzel.” “Klaus Fretzer Day” is held every August 17th, in Buxtehude–to commemorate the day he died. It’s customary for revelers to bring ridiculous reinventions of things already invented.
That was simply amazing…
Are you paying attention to this, people???
Pardon my ADD, I haven’t a clue as to the actual meaning.
It is just too bad the real game doesn’t give you cars big enough to get that creative.
I know–maybe I’ll channel my creativity in another direction? It was a good yarn and maybe should be recycled. I can change the last name slightly. I didn’t want you to think I was tinkling on your parade.
My parade is just here for people to tinkle on
Wait… That sounded wrong
If you could be something that would be tinkled on–what would it be? If I were a famous interviewer–that would be a great question. What do you think?
I guess I would be a toilet…
Preferably a tree, because fire hydrants are too cliché.
I just panicked
Fretzer: A sudden borborygmus noise resembling purring ruminations from the ventral portion of a bovine.
no… it isn’t cow farts…
My husband. He frets over everything.
ha
Fretzer (noun) – an ice cube made from frozen seltzer.
… a side dish snack made from frozen pretzels… and belly button lint…
Belly button lint. Mmm. The secret ingredient.
better than pink slime
I agree! Pink slime. Eww.
I put it on toast
Like a grilled slime sandwich?
more or less
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Fretzer?? hmmmm I won’t look these up on the internet that spoils the game so I will guess it is someone that is a hanger of fretz.
It’s how you say “Freezer” when you are cold and your teeth are chattering.
oh yeah… or it might be belly button lint of a certain color.
Or a frozen pretzel
too easy
Also I google the word after I answer so I saw that the taplash is the backwash or dregs of beer. Kinda icky?
well then the makers of the Balderdash game are a bunch of beer-swilling knuckleheads… or ‘flubnards’
hee hee mmm hmmm
oh yeah
Gee… I guess that makes my guess on that word correct. Right, Art?
I guess it does.
ha ha not likely, I think the point is to guess what’s on the card?
There are no real losers… Or winners… As long as we have fun.
Hee heee very politcally correct of you. The squirrels must be sleeping
I gave them some time off
A Fretzer is a German handgun
close… German underpants worn under the liederhossen… or maybe not…
Noooo those are linderkuchen
oh my
;p
wheeeeee
so… the belly button lint made from linderkuchen is called lint-der-smoochen
There you go, you’re almost fluent now
I am almost fluid now..
Then you better run and get something for that
like what… a towel? a six foot four inch tall glass?
Either or will do
phew
I mean, really, I’m not even almost fluent in English.
It’s ok in the states we don’t speak English, we don’t have an official language at all so I can just make it up as I go along and be fine as strawberry wine
I feel better already
Are you stateside? If so, it’s alllll good
I am indeed
No wonder we speak the same language
right… except you can obviously spell… and use grammar… and punctuation… and don’t have crack squirrels leading you astray.
My spelling is erratic and my squirrels prefer Jack Black
not Jack Daniel’s? HA!
Yes, he’s a real sweety
cool