Forum: Games and Sports

Of these 2 women, who's lifting ability is more impressive: Stephanie (6'5, 250 lbs) Benchpress: 265 lbs for 35 reps Squat: 470 for 15 Deadlift: 700 for 5 Legpress: 950 for 5 Amanda (5'4, 140)

"You're goddamned right you fat pig, and if you look at my window one more time with your disgusting neighbors, I'm going to make scrapple out of your white ass."

I'm sure there's one like this already, but I don't see it. Someone can add to my current repertoire of: (i) pretending to get my 100 good-form pushup/presssups in -- meh, my biceps and pecs get enough. It's not that many, but I need them to...

If a guy is a 3-sport athlete, would he plausibility play these positions: Cornerback Shooting Guard Third Baseman

And off we go.... dope

So for opening day and beyond while we await the season, a list of movies to tide of over? Bull Durham Eight Men Out Field of Dreams A League of their Own Major League Pride of the Yankees Bad News Bears (original) Sand Lot

I'll start us off kneecap

Well, why not? Let's start off with.... maple

I like these kind of games. To start us off: letter

This is like mastermind or whatever with words. I have chosen a word and replaced all the letters with blanks. Look, there it is! -------- You have to find out what the word is. In order to do that you must post a word with the same number...

Besides "nigger", name an offensive term for black people

In this game: come up with an answer, to which the next person names the category said answer might plausibly be from. After which they give their own answer, and so on.

SHAMELESSLY ripped off from a board that shall not be named. Looked fun, though, so here we go! Name a category that includes at least 5 items. Next person has to name 5 things in the category (NO GOOGLING, PEOPLE), and then post another...

I'll get us started. grin

Apathy

I'll write a haiku, Use the previous haiku's Last line to start yours. --------------------------------- That one's hard to start with, so I'll make an easier one. Mellophant haiku

What should her code name be?

5 stranded castaways...

The words have to start with the letters, in the order they are given. Post the sentence, and give another 5-letter challenge. Here's the first one: E P N T L

OK, when chate flatlines, we sometimes get into this thing where one person posts a random (usually) 4-letter word, the the next poster changes one letter (and one letter only) to create a new word. This thread might sink like a stone, but eh. ...

A B - June 2012, July 2012 C - July 2012 D - June 2012 E - May 2012

The rules: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botticelli_(game) A previous SDMB thread, so you can see how it goes: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=626545 House rules: Please label indirect questions "IQ," and when you've...

OK, I had a brainwave and chose to try it out. I'll start with a partial sentence (a question), which can be completed by the next poster. Said poster answers the question they just completed, then supplies their own partial sentence... hopefully,...

Yeah, so I was reading *Daniel Deronda* by the notoriously ugly George Eliot (according to Virginia Woolf and Henry James). James was not far off when, I think he applied the words "loose baggy monsters" to Eliot's novels. And he was such a bitchy...

...lives within 500 miles of his or her birthplace.

Give the first word that pops into your mind when I say... Red