Odd one out?
 

Which is the odd one out, and why? And what does it have in common with the rest?

Don't give it away if you've seen it before and already know the answer. You can still vote, though, because I'm sure nobody whould look to see what everyone else is voting for before casting their own..... and you could be wrong :lol:

i dont know why i chose hijack.

I was gonna choose hijack, but decided canopy was just a noun. Crabcake sounds like it could be used as an adjective in an emergency.

Thread drift
 

Survival:

To help prioritize the necessities of life for any given situation, it's useful to remember that you can survive for about ...

1. ... 3 seconds without ammunition (in a combat situation).
2. ... 3 minutes without air (before losing useful consciousness).
3. ... 3 hours without shelter (in an extreme environment).
4. ... 3 days without water (before losing mobility).
5. ... 3 weeks without food (before wasting into incapacitation).

The Rule of Threes can help you determine what makes the weight cut when applied in order against your present or anticipated situation.

ohhh. I'm a dickhead. I voted and then changed my mind :P

crabcake is not a word.

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

No, it is a delicious, though treyf, snack.

crabcake 'cause it's a compound word

Do you say that kwahft or kwehfft?

Oh wow, I thought it would be long solved by now. Apparently it was on NPR yesterday!

crabcake is not the correct answer.

I knew I'd heard it before, but couldn't remember exactly what it was, so I googled it. Wasn't going to ruin anyone else's fun, though.

I said crabcake cuzz it's the only thing on the list that's edible.

only one person has the right answer at this point, and they did not say why....

I voted stupid. That is me for sure.

I voted first because only one can be first.

Ahhh, clever. That must be it?

I didn't vote. Didn't have the foggiest idea. When smoke started pouring out my ears I gave up.

give up then?

I give up!

don't read below if you're still contemplating it (highlight to see)

They all contain three consecutive letters of the alphabet, quaffed is the odd one out because they are backwards -fed- where as the others are all forwards.

Doh! Bloody hell, I was looking at it from entirely the wrong angle lol :P

Nice one Monnie, that got the grey matter going a little.

Wow. I would give points to Pico for a good answer, though.

I never have been good at those kinds of things. I need to go from Point A through Point whatever...I used to be good at geometry proofs.

My next guess was quaffed. The only word in past tense.

My little Survival ditty was meant to be a hint without giving away too much. It seems that I didn't give away enough.

All have 3-letter alphabetical runs? So quaffed is my guess. It's got the three-letter run in reverse.

ya know, I just ignore anything entitled thread drift if it's not really an appropriate place for a thread to drift, as it were... :lol:

My ceramic teacher showed me this -a father and daughter from the previous class had heard it on NPR and brought it in and they still hadn't worked it out. I laughed because hijack was spelled incorrectly and then got it straight away because of that. I was mighty chuffed with myself :lol:

Silly me -- I just posted without reading the thread. Didn't know the answer had been given. :o

Okay, so I read the answer. However--why is that answer more valid than the several ways crabcake is out? e.g., only compound word, only edible item, only word with a vowel at the end. Very arbitrary!

Because the "unwritten rule" of "odd one out" type things is that all the other have a feature in common that the odd one out does not share. Not being the odd one out is not a sufficient common feature..... e.g. "they are not compound words" "they are not edible". Weak. You might as well argue that stupid is clearly the odd one out because it's the only word that begins with s.

Exactly. The only other explanation that wasn't something too obvious to be the one was Pico's explanation.

It's like the morning radio show's Impossible Question. It'll be something like "These could be as tall as 56 feet" and someone answers "trees" and another answers "walls."

yes, the answer is Stupid. I knew it all along.

:cuss: CRABCAKE IS NOT A WORD :bitching:

maybe not, but crabby is.

All ravens are black.
All non black things are non ravens.
Therefore the sight of a green (non black) apple (non raven) proves that ravens are black.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_paradox

That's so raven!

So then use that as a clue. Why would it be in there, what makes it special in a way that fits with all the others, that would make people overlook it's non-wordness? Because no-one would be lame enough to post and odd-one-out where the answer was that one of the words wasn't a real word, would they?

Sheesh, don't you lot have anything else to worry about? :lol:

here, spot the odd one out:

whine
moan
complain
get on with life
bitch
whinge


:p:

crabcake is a word. It's a compound word.

Try this one:

Hmmph
Flounce
Snit
Pout
Snort


The answer is Pout, because it's the only one where the second letter is O.

:lol:

Well, i liked the question. Because it had me thinking in entirely the wrong way. I was looking at word type and trying to spot patterns, and actually it was to do with letter order. I love stuff like that.

The poll says that Crabcake is correct - so there.

LOL...the poll-ock.

Ditto. I'm rarely correct on these type things, but I like 'em.:)

What? And "clamness is?"

Clams got arms!

I thought they just had a foot?

Sorry. That migh have been a tad obscure :P

It's from the comic strip BC. I tried to google it but could only find the preceding strip in which it is discovered that clams have feet.

The clam later persuades the guy not to spread the word about clams having legs and they shake on it ... and then: "Clams got arms!"

I lawled

"Clams got_____!" re-occurs occasionally w/B.C. We use it with our cat quite often. He sometimes meows and it sounds like he's saying "Nooooo" and then someone will yell "Cats got words!"

I've never been able to find a complete B.C. collection on the web.

There was one character who was known for being clumsy. I think he may have been called so and so The Inept, or something. But the one thing he could do that nobody else could do was make water balls. He'd delicately mould water into balls and set off with an armful of them ... then trip over a pebble and they'd all fall and burst :P

Ahhh I used to love that cartoon.