Dave Lister’s Smeglewhack Adventure

[Podey]

Whilst searching for something earlier, it occurred to me there must a Dave Gorman-esque game in trying to find words that produce only one hit on the SmegaDrive. 

Anyone up for playing? 

Nearest I came (without going down the obvious “celebrity names” route) was two scenes with ‘Medium’.

Topic

[Flap Jack]

Necklace.

Lemoplathinominecathorylite and cesiumfrancolithicmixialibidiumrixydixydoxydexydroxide. (OK, OK, I know these don’t really count.)

A double – libido and drought.

[Flap Jack]

Realised after posting that last one that jewellery is actually a good shout. Last one’s a two-fer.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Given the premise of the show, interstellar has only been said once 

[Warbodog]

Holographic

[Flap Jack]

Given the premise of the show, interstellar has only been said once

And yet it’s been included twice in this thread. 😉

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[Technopeasant]

A triple! Offspring, village, and weathergirl.

Not to burst your bubble, but…

[clem]

Does it still count if it’s said twice in the same unedited caption?

Another example of that:

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

The very first line of the show

if you don’t count descriptions 

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Carousel 

[Flap Jack]

Not to burst your bubble, but…

Hey, I don’t see “weathergirl” in that caption. What, you don’t trust the Smega-Drive to know the difference?

[Technopeasant]

One is a girl into weather, the other is a girl made of weather.

[Warbodog]

I sometimes need three Smega Drive frames to pick up on the casual sexism in Red Dwarf and society. “Weather girl” ffs!

[Technopeasant]

“Barmen”

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Is Arthur Smith really saying “Jingle Bells” here?

Is backward and forwards count as their own unique whacks, then jingle and bells are both 

[Ben Saunders]

jags, milky

[Dave]

milky

[Danny Stephenson]

You all surprise me by what you use the SmegaDrive for!

[Technopeasant]

Suprise or horrify?

[Moonlight]

Danny invents the alphabet and he’s surprised people are writing deranged things with it.

[Danny Stephenson]

[clem]

Pigeon

Blueberry

Communion

[clem]

Is Arthur Smith really saying “Jingle Bells” here? 

How odd. That bit isn’t even reversed though is it? I mean he just does it manually, as it were, like ‘Erskip’ for bitter. So did Arthur Smith/Rob and Doug work out what ‘jingle bells’ sounds like backwards, and put it in just as a weird non sequitur. Or is it just a strange coincidence that the best way to say ‘Same again’ backwards is to say jingle bells?

Edit: That wouldn’t make sense, because of course he doesn’t say jingle bells, not forwards anyway. Might have to check Backwards – Forwards to see what it actually sounds like. 

[Ian Symes]

Yeah, Arthur Smith can sing Jingle Bells backwards. Exhibit A: https://youtu.be/amTL_JkN81E?t=571

[clem]

Well, what a poor sad life HE’S got. Bollocks to him!

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Yeah, Arthur Smith can sing Jingle Bells backwards. Exhibit A: https://youtu.be/amTL_JkN81E?t=571

That’s all well and good. But that isn’t what he says in the episode.

as Clem points out it’s Arthur saying Erskib, not “bitter” reversed

[Podey]

Communion

Surely “splash-a”, too?

[clem]

Surely “splash-a”, too?

But hey, you invented the game so if you say it counts then it counts :) 

[Ian Symes]

That’s all well and good. But that isn’t what he says in the episode.

as Clem points out it’s Arthur saying Erskib, not “bitter” reversed

We’re getting confused between two different lines in the same bit. When Lister asks what he’s drinking, he does indeed say “erskib”. But then when he’s undowned his pint, he says to the barmaid the words “jingle bells” backwards, which is subtitled as “same again”. 

[Danny Stephenson]

That’s all well and good. But that isn’t what he says in the episode.
as Clem points out it’s Arthur saying Erskib, not “bitter” reversed
We’re getting confused between two different lines in the same bit. When Lister asks what he’s drinking, he does indeed say “erskib”. But then when he’s undowned his pint, he says to the barmaid the words “jingle bells” backwards, which is subtitled as “same again”.

I will admit to being a bit of a smart-arse here with this, but after finding out that the Smegadrive/subs are being used legitimately for the hard of hearing. I may have to stop pulling this shit.

[RunawayTrain]

… but after finding out that the Smegadrive/subs are being used legitimately for the hard of hearing.

 what did you think they were for?

[Technopeasant]

Pigeon

Also “clay” I think you’ll find.

[Technopeasant]

And indeed “perched”.

[clem]

Also “clay” I think you’ll find. And indeed “perched”.

Huh.

Another instance of twice in the same caption and nowhere else. 

(Although there is this)

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Contender for most unique words in a single frame

Convict (convicts & convicted come up once each)

Inbred

Retarded (unfortunately and thankfully)

Sheepshaggers (and by extension shaggers)

[Technopeasant]

Definitely not the only reference to shagging sheep though.

[RunawayTrain]

R*tarded (unfortunately and thankfully) 

Although there is this

(Apologies if people hate the censoring but I can’t bring myself to put the slur in full on a screen in any context)

[clem]

Dill

Asparagus 

Jackass 

[Moonlight]

Jackass 

Debatable.

[clem]

Debatable. 

You don’t get that by searching for ‘jackass’. Isn’t that the game, as per Podey’s original post?  The word ‘porter’ only appears once, here:

But searching for it also brings up several instances of ‘teleporter’ and ‘transporter’, so it’s not a true Smeglewhack, I’d argue. 

[Unrumble]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Flamingoed

[Renegade Rob]

Does “Armageddon” count or is it a proper noun? They only say it once, as in, “Transmit the Armageddon Virus!”

Also, dingleberry from Backwards. A very specific, one-time insult.

[Podey]

This isn’t ‘Countdown’ (hell, we ain’t even ‘Cats Does Countdown’!), proper nouns are in. 

[Renegade Rob]

You get two for one with a single quote: potpourri and depilatory. 

[Nick R]

Cheque: 

[Nick R]

Jeep:

[Technopeasant]

“T-72” and “WW2”

[Technopeasant]

“Nuremberg” isn’t a Smeglewhack. Two seperate occurances.

[Technopeasant]

“Gender”, “ambiguity”, and “gender ambiguity”

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