I didn't even read the post before I started mentally filling in all of the blanks with "my penis" or just "penis" as appropriate.
I want to add some kind of context to that, to avoid seeming like I'm just puerile, but nothing really comes to mind besides the general "what is wrong with me?" kind of thing that's just signalling and not really helpful for anything.
"[My penis] is truly part of you" sounds like a typical line from hentai. Trust me, I'm an expert.
I didn't even read the post before I started mentally filling in all of the blanks with "my penis" or just "penis" as appropriate.
I saw this comment before I saw the post. Now nothing but "my penis" seems to fit any of the blanks! (The Alcor example actually sounds like a compelling argument when filled in that way!)
Interesting fact about the original game is how useful the "vulgar" white cards are. Sure, you can fill just about any slot with "penis" or "full frontal nudity", but then you realize that about 25% of the white cards are vulgar, for any given round, at least one person will use one. It gets old pretty quick. Pretty soon you realize you need to reserve them for when they actually fit really well.
Yes, always reserve your penises for when they actually fit really well.
Oh, I'm totally getting downvoted to hell for this.
I did the same, but with the Youtube Poop pronunciation "PINGAS". And other YTP staples like "Gay Luigi" and "DINNER". This shit's bad for me, I'm telling you.
("You know what they say: one person's PINGAS is another person's DINNER.")
('Never go in against the King when DINNER is on the line.")
("TOAST is highly correlated with TOASTERS.")
"I can handle _____, because I am already enduring it."
As an aside, this post reminded me to get a copy of CAH printed, which I have now done.
Black cards:
________-less Decision Theory strictly dominates Timeless Decision Theory._______________ is incosistent with __________________ and _________________" is true if and only if ________White cards:
Hmmmm...
I think "Bleggs" and "Rubes" are almost strictly better than spelling out "Blue Eggs" and "Red Cubes" in this case.
Black cards:
I will not fear, fear is the mind destroyer, fear is the little death that brings __.
The Center for applied rationality was forced to retract the kata on __.
When the singularity occurs, the first thing we'll do is get rid of ___.
Never go in against _ when _ is on the line.
The thing most likely to wipe out humanity in the next 50 years is __.
We're optimistic about the economy now that the Secretary of the Treasury has been replaced with _.
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with _ to enslave them.
_ is the last refuge of the incompetent.
White Cards:
Scope Insensitivity.
A Trillion Ems.
Sending money to people claiming to be building god.
Edit: underscores act weird for some reason.
"That which can be destroyed by being a motherfucking sorceror should be"
Brilliant!! x'D x'D
(This might make a good slogan for pure NUs …)
I have taken the liberty of implementing this card list on CardCast, a free implementation of Cards Against Humanity-like games for Google Chromecast which also has the advantage of being publicly browse-able to print card lists from or use card lists in other online implementations of the game like Pretend You're Xyzzy. Just thought you might want to know.
This should happen on physical cards. If they're handed out for free, it's within the CAH license, and it even shouldn't be hard to do it in such a way that it's immune to the license.
BTW, I'm a fan of having the actual fill-in-the-blanks somewhere in the deck - hooray groanworthy literalism!
Blarg. Your first three ideas for black cards were exactly the same as my first three ideas for new black cards, and in the same order even.
I'll add some of these to my set.
I'm not posting mine yet because I want them to be a surprise. :p
This is awesome. If you arranged for a deck to be printed I'd buy it. If not I may try and get them printed on my own.
Most of the fill in the gaps ones are throw away lines or phrases that happen to be seen on less wrong. They're incidental to less wrong. They're even more incidental to rationality. wtf yo? Also, Why would you be familiar enough with them for this to be fun?
If the game requires no familiarity with the phrases that last part doesn't apply but I'm still worried by the possibility you'd all have the actual exact words memorised. Do you?
I recognize most of them, and could probably get the exact words right.
I fail to see the problem with this.
I' love to get your guy's feedback. Which of these do you find humorous or think would work? Which ones are meh? I'm sorry if some of these are actually from the game. Sometimes I forget which ones I made up.
Cheers!
White:
The Flying Spaghetti Monster
Simply walking into Mordor
Accidentally turning on your lightsaber when its still clipped to your pants
Taking the Hobbits to Isengard
Scalding Flatulence
Proposing at McDonalds
Obama's Birth Certificate
Teenage Mutant Celibate Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Janitors
An Unconquerable desire to date Asians
Accidentally using poison oak as toilet paper
Baby's first handgun
Newd Gingrich
Gentle Smooches
Mr. Bigglesworth
The brown note
A frank appraisal of my looks
Giving birth in a bathtub
Asking a lady if she's pregnant when she isn't
Pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows
Nyan Cat
Rebecca Black
Gangnam Style
Tea and Crumpets
Bed Bath and Beyonce
Alien Eggs hatching in my stomach
Ron Paul workout video
Sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads
Pepto Bismol Milk Shake
Men using Emoticons
A swift kick to the butt
Eating a gallon of ice cream after being dumped
Bungee jumping out of a helicopter
Eskimo Kisses
Backne (Back Acne)
A man with six fingers on his right hand
Saying "That dress makes you look fat"
Shuffling everyday
My overactive bladder
Puppies dressed as Kittens
An enormous adam's apple
A Pikachu-fur Rug
Pikachu's head mounted on a plaque on your wall
Taxidermied Pikachu
Wolverine knitting a scarf with his claws
Swallowing a spork
Shaving my legs with a rusty razor
Doing the worm on hot coals
Female Body Builders
Internet Trollz
Getting turned down because "they have to wash their hair".
A Spanish Speaking Dolphin
Cheating at Candyland
A quesadilla that cures ADD
The sound of a mustache's voice
A Submarine with screen doors
Glitter
Bertie Bott's every flavor beans
Beating the final boss
Missing my 5 year old's tee-ball game
Grenades disguised as Baby Pumpkins
Laughing at jokes you don't understand
Dealing with sadness by shoe shopping
Tying cat's tails together and using them as nun-chucks
Frighteningly uneven spray tans
Gag-reflex inducing body odor
Fashionable lumberjacks
Gandalf enjoying a senior citizen discount at IHOP
Harry Potter in the moonlight
Crying crouched and fully clothed in the shower
Ben and Jerry's Batman flavored Ice Cream
A Toddler-sized shark cage
Mormon disco ball
An oil painting of circus clowns storming the beach at Normandy
Black Cards:
If I were a wrestler, my ring name would be (Player's first name) _ (Player's last name)
Where do babies come from?
What do I dream about?
If I could choose my cause of death, it would be due to __
My favorite meal is a piping hot bowl of _, and a cool glass of _.
Luke, I am your _
The most unhealthy item on the McDonald's menu is the__.
Why won't anyone go out with me?
What is the next Happy Meal Toy?
My mother never taught me about ___ so that's why I don't own ___.
I'd love to watch the battle of __ vs. __.
With my dying breath, I want my final words to be "I see __ coming to take me away to _."
Yoda's darkest secret is ___.
Why do bad things happen to good people?
I can't wait for the new X-Box to come out so I can play that new game called __.
My favorite way to cool off is _.
There's nothing LW-specific here.
(This post won't make much sense if you don't know about the game Cards Against Humanity. Fortunately it has a web site. If you know the game Apples to Apples, well, CAH's gameplay is almost identical to Apples to Apples ... but the cards range from snarky to perverted to shockingly un-PC.)
After the LW meetup in Mountain View yesterday, the idea came up of a Less Wrong expansion set for Cards Against Humanity ... with a roughly Shit Rationalists Say theme, with a little help from Eliezer Yudkowsky Facts. Regardless of whether this ever happens, we felt the need to share the pain with the rest of the community.
These are meant to be mixed with the standard deck. Hence, the completed phrase "That which can be destroyed by being a motherfucking sorceror should be" is a clearly winning combination, as is "Why am I sticky? Grass-fed butter."
Black cards: