Those weird TM words...

Desdamona · Post by **Desdamona** » March 7, 2004 8:44 pm

Has on-line ticket buying become a spelling bee?
I like the fact that TM is making it harder for tickets
to be scarfed up by ticket-buying machines, but are
those really words they have us spell back to them
from the squiggly, grid-filled box?

What are the weirdest words they've had you type?

I just got:
cotise - A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. huh???
flobert - A small cartridge designed for target shooting.
listel - A limit or boundary; a border.
and
mustang - finally, one I recognize!

Gypsy In The Palace · Post by **Gypsy In The Palace** » March 7, 2004 11:10 pm

I agree; those words are words that I had never heard of! But, my biggest problem was that I could not see the words. They were obscured so by all the decoration. I know at least three times in the past two weeks as I've been logging on to get tickets, I had to retype the words.

sailingagain · Post by **sailingagain** » March 8, 2004 12:11 am

SAMOAN

Desdamona · Post by **Desdamona** » March 8, 2004 3:13 am

SA! where've you been?
Long time no read!

And howcome you get cool words from TM to type?

Big Red Parrothead · Post by **Big Red Parrothead** » March 9, 2004 9:47 am

cercus

"Either of a pair of terminal, dorsolateral sensory appendages of certain insects, such as the female mosquito."

Who knew?

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » March 9, 2004 9:52 am

Last year I had 2 browsers open and the words that showed up in the little boxes were THICK and WOOD. Maybe they knew it was me.

ZeroDuval · Post by **ZeroDuval** » March 9, 2004 9:57 am

LIPH wrote:Last year I had 2 browsers open and the words that showed up in the little boxes were THICK and WOOD. Maybe they knew it was me.

nycparrothead · Post by **nycparrothead** » March 9, 2004 5:35 pm

ASSISH

Definition: The way that NYCParrothead has been accused of acting on multiple occasions.

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » March 9, 2004 5:39 pm

nycparrothead wrote:ASSISH

Definition: The way that NYCParrothead has been accused of acting on multiple occasions.

look - it has your picture in the dictionary too!!!!

finzz2dlft · Post by **finzz2dlft** » March 14, 2004 6:21 pm

Words? Those were really words? And here I thought I was just stooopid.

I had something that looked like "Garfrinh". Maybe it's just because I was half awake at the time, but maybe it's a real word. Hmmmmm.

1more · Post by **1more** » March 15, 2004 6:04 pm

OTHMAN

zanth · Post by **zanth** » March 15, 2004 8:07 pm

If you take the 3rd letter of every 5th word it spells "Ticketmaster is Satan"

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » April 8, 2004 10:19 am

I always forget to turn off my firewall, so no pics come up. You can only imagine how happy that makes me when I have to log back on and pray tickets are still available.

fin5 up · Post by **fin5 up** » April 8, 2004 6:51 pm

I have trouble when I try and buy tickets and type in the words I think it's going to say rather than what it really says.

Sidew13 · Post by **Sidew13** » April 8, 2004 6:53 pm

But at least my Scrabble game is improving