Scrabble Gram suggests naughty answer

A BB Reader says: "This is an actual Scrabble Gram that ran in the Washington Post last Friday. The set of first tiles seem to suggest a very dirty answer. I'm not sure how it got past their editor. (The real answer, of course, is entirely G-rated)." Link

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fylateri

wtf is dirty about buttsex? i mean, asides the obvious…
mujadaddy

Scrabble Gram suggests naughty answer

Isn’t it your own filthy mind that has suggested the answer? It’s the poor scrabbler who blames the clues… :P
semiotix

Katydid whatnow?!

Seriously, though, this needs to be reported to the NSA.
Prufrock451

And now Allied High Command may have to cancel Operation Buttsex!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/03/nxword03.xml
risser

You know, the bottom one can be arranged to say “depoops”. That’s kind of dirty.

Also, #2 could be a “tad diky.” Or a celebration of “Dikt Day”.

Hooray for dirty anagrams!
Zan

Just in case you don’t believe it’s real, you can click on “January 25 Scrabble” at http://www.whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_puzzles to see it for yourself.
Zan

Just in case you don’t believe it’s real, you can click on “January 25 Scrabble” at http://www.whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_puzzles to see it for yourself.
Paul Coleman

Prufrock451…That’s a great link.

Loose lips…what is it that they do again?
NE2d

“The real answer, of course, is entirely G-rated”

And how exactly do you know that “subtext” is the “real” answer?
minamisan

now, for the rest of my life, every time i hear someone use the word ‘subtext’…
n

SURPRISE SUBTEKST
Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

Antinous, just tell me you get the joke, so I can die happy.

JCNemchek, that’s admirably tidy. Thank you.
Jason McIntosh

http://jmac.org/images/subtext.jpg

Also, #8 Prufrock – Bwahahaha!
Antinous

Some people think that no matter what’s being said to them.
musicpsych

#25, that was awesome. I like how you didn’t explain it, either – I earned my treat…
Matthew Miller

I don’t get it — what’s naughty about “Best Tux”?
boukenpurple

Remember: You can’t spell subtext without buttsex.
pffft

boingboing has some of the funniest comments in the blogsphere. why is that?
Antinous

Teresa,

You can almost sing that to the tune of “Have an Eggroll, Mister Goldstone” from Gypsy.
Takuan

drugs
Anonymous

The NY Magazine’s crossword editor, who’s great, will once in a while use the clue ‘poop out’ for a 4-letter word. The real answer is ‘tire’ but I always think of a certain transitive verb…
Anonymous

Oh THANK you! I saw this in my local paper (work copy), and no one else I mentioned this to had seen the paper that day. Now I have a link to prove that this actually exists.

I saw “buttsex” right away, and couldn’t for the life of me get past that to work out the “real” answer.
Antinous

Specifically, Salvia divinorum cut with mushrooms from Helsinki.
Sowey

This is where the “rack” boxes are making sense.

Boxes, that you need to…. fill.
jonathan_v

I think the author was trying to use subtext to talk about buttsex.
cronopio

This sketch from ‘A Bit of Fry and Laurie’ (that’s Hugh Laurie, now known as House MD) is about a similar predicament.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1VXQa0BRdA
Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

Grow a penis,
Spiro Agnew,
or a spewing
orange wisp.
—
Spiro Agnew
gains power
sawing rope.
Paws region.
Rigs weapon.
Wipes organ
wi. peon’s rag.
Wrongs a pie,
pawing sore
Signora Pew.
addrake

“People who annoy you”

N_ggers

(It’s from south park everybody)
Antinous

You, sir, are no Trey Parker.
ehkca

Now that I’ve seen the dirty answer I can’t for the life of me see the proper one.
acohn

I think the correct answer is “subtext.” Not that that doesn’t make the incorrect one funnier…
gerta

Ha! I first thought the dirty answer, then realized it was supposed to be subtext. But that makes the dirty answer even funnier.

Sad it isn’t spelled with the “secks” suffix (or sufficks?). Scrabble doesn’t roll with the new kids.
jcnemecek

Ahem…I went back and fixed my math. You’ll see it in any image that someone takes from my site from now on. Thanks to those who noticed it.

I was waaaay too busy laughing and waiting for my husband to show up so I could show the puzzle to SOMEONE that I must have lost my ability to add :)
macisaguy

and they say video games are a bad influence on kids…
Bat Guano

The first I thought of was SEXBUTT and now I can’t stop tittering.
Anonymous

I recall a Jumble cartoon where the word solution was supposed to be “spine” but that’s not the word I came up with. I’m still laughing, but then, I am easily amused.