Can you Guess the 100 Most Commonly Used Words?

Ha ha!  Oh man, games are fun.  Don’t you like games?  Don’t you want to play a fun game that helps you think at the same time?  Ha ha!  Of course you do.  Check this out.  It’ll take 12 minutes out of your day but really, what else were you going to do?  Spend time with a loved one?  Work?  Liar.

The game challenges you to name the 100 most commonly used words in the English language in 12 minutes.  Probably you could just look up the words and ace it, but e got our intern to try and after 5 attempts he maxed out at 65 words.  We assume that’s not bad.  He wouldn’t be shot for that, probably, if this were some militaristic future dystopia where society is carefully regulated and only those with the literacy skills to pass this test are allowed to procreate while the failures are tossed into the salt mines with lizard men or experimented on to find out with birth rates are so low and if that goddamn gamma radiation from the lizard man ship is something we can overcome.

Which brings us to our next point.  Sure, this is a fun little brain teaser of a game but isn’t it also just as likely that this is the precursor to a militaristic dystopian future where society is carefully regulated and only those with the literacy skills to pass this test are allowed to procreate while the failures are tossed into the salt mines with lizard men or experimented on to find out with birth rates are so low and if that goddamn gamma radiation from the lizard man ship is something we can overcome?  Goddamnit!

We’re not fooled by the Sporcle website in the least.  Sporcle?  Why not just call it LizardManMotherShip.com?  No one make sup tests like these just to pass the time, that defies logic.  Why on Earth would something like this be done recreationally?  Why on Earth indeed.

The fact is the Lizard Men weren’t really expecting their ship to crash.  They never are.  It’s the Achilles heel of all alien invasion.  They rely on superior technology and the element of surprise to overthrow us but when some lazy ass Lizard janitor leaves his wrench in the flux capacitor, the ship hits some turbulence and the wrench falls right into the engine, the whole ship goes up shit’s creek without an interstellar paddle and bam, you’ve got District 9, right next to the salt mines.  Guess what?  Fuck you, Lizard Men, mine our salt.

So now we’ve got Lizard Men mining our salt, because we need precious, precious salt, and this friggin test of the 100 most common words.  Can’t be long before the government gets wise to the scheme, beats the truth out of a few lizards and then next thing you know idiots like our intern are in the salt mines right along side the Lizard Men.  Well jolly good show.

Anyway, check out the link and do the quiz.  You’ll want to know if you need one of those miner’s hats or not.