Ah, Hangman, my old friend. I come creeping back to you again, because I can't think of anything else to do for an article right now. But Hangman is just as good as anything, I'm sure you'll agree.
We'll start off, as usual, with non-categorisable words:
@@@ a 'word' followed by the note 'cheat'
Michael Foot
Quick!
Vroom!
Szasz
Clip clop
Samyxs
Helium
Blue things! You have nothing to lose but your blueness!
Waxism
Waxy
He Man and the Masters of the Universe!
Now is the winter of our discontent
Clever Polly and the stupid wolf
I am Vorx the Invader!
Faster, pussy cat! Kill! Kill!
Top dog
Chumpy mumpy
Haemophiliac
Biggo the Base
Tipp Exx
Biiiiiiiiiiillllllllllll Syyyyyyykes! That's my name!!!
Hello Shylock!
Gordon's a fake!
Mrs. Mairpus
Noah built an ark
No he didn't, it's a myth
Yes he did and no it isn't
Monkey
Minsk
Myxamatosis
Kick
Jolly Chops!
Ich bin einer Fisch!
The crucifixion was great!
Bingo bango!
Cutthroat Jimmy
Freezer
The buffalo maker
My face!
Pheromones
Moody old badgers!
Jixxx and quixxx
Let your fingers do the talking
Bay-bee! That thong thong thong thong thong!
Creation of Zion
Zizzy
Ra ra trotters
Zoo
Ozymandias
My He Man manuals were always worthless
And now, categorisable words:
Karkass-oriented words:
Help! Help! It's the karkass brigade!
Zizzum-oriented words:
Zizzum, King of Zixy Wixy Woo
Where's that zizzum?
Schoolwork-oriented words:
Mrs. D'Arcy being our Tudor History teacher
Have you done some work? being a question asked by myself in Hangman form to try to get Peter to do some work
Nope being Peter's answer to the above question
Chi Whitney Wilcox being an amalgamation of three psychological statistical tests, those tests being the chi squared, the Mann Whitney U and the Wilcoxon.
Koba being Stalin's nickname before he changed it to Stalin
Bavarian Gentians being a poem by D. H. Lawrence we studied in English
Trotsky-oriented words:
Hairless Trotsky mobster
Waiter! Get me a Trotsky!
Jammy old Trotsky
Snails! Help me, Trotsky!
Words hastily altered when it became clear the opponent would win:
Benry VIII
Okay. That's quite enough of that. Maybe more later. Okay?