{"id":920,"date":"2007-02-03T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=920"},"modified":"2007-02-03T07:00:54","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T12:00:54","slug":"shiritori-word-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Shiritori Word Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still working on Word Loops<\/a>. I like the Japanese term “Shiritori”, which Steven<\/a> proposed. I’m not sure it’s technically correct. From the way I read how a Shiritori is played, it uses the last “part” of a word, but my understanding of Japanese language is too crude to take that any further. At any rate, Shiritori is a better term than “thingy”.<\/p>\n

You can take the movie Blondes Prefer Gentlemen<\/a> and the movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes<\/a> and make a stupid little two-element loop.<\/p>\n

Not very interesting.<\/p>\n

Someone else suggested a one-element loop: Duran Duran. Ha ha.<\/p>\n

I did manage to close the loop on the one from the previous post, but I needed a little help from IMDB<\/a> to come up with “Blue Water, White Death” as well as “Gentlemen of the Hunt”, neither of which I’ve ever heard of.<\/p>\n

So here is my 29 element Shiritori Word Loop, which started with Paris Hilton:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Paris Hilton\n<\/li>\n
  2. Hilton Hotel\n<\/li>\n
  3. Hotel California\n<\/li>\n
  4. California Girls\n<\/li>\n
  5. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun\n<\/li>\n
  6. Fun With Dick and Jane\n<\/li>\n
  7. Jane Eyre\n<\/li>\n
  8. Eyre Affair\n<\/li>\n
  9. Affair to Remember\n<\/li>\n
  10. Remember the Titans\n<\/li>\n
  11. Titans of Justice\n<\/li>\n
  12. Justice League\n<\/li>\n
  13. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen\n<\/li>\n
  14. Gentlemen of the Hunt\n<\/li>\n
  15. Hunt For Red October\n<\/li>\n
  16. October Sky\n<\/li>\n
  17. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow\n<\/li>\n
  18. Tomorrow People\n<\/li>\n
  19. People are Strange\n<\/li>\n
  20. Strange Days\n<\/li>\n
  21. Days of Thunder\n<\/li>\n
  22. Thunderball\n<\/li>\n
  23. Ball of Fire\n<\/li>\n
  24. Fire in the Deep\n<\/li>\n
  25. Deep Blue\n<\/li>\n
  26. Blue Water, White Death\n<\/li>\n
  27. Death be Not Proud\n<\/li>\n
  28. Proud to be an American\n<\/li>\n
  29. American Werewolf in Paris\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I could easily pad this list in a few spots. In particular, there are several movie and song titles that go “People [something] People”, and so I could chain them all together and stick them in right before “People are Strange”. I was trying to stick to famous movies and top 40 songs (from any time period) and other things that should be easily recognized by the average English-speaker. Making a “themed” list – such as anime, song titles, might be interesting. <\/p>\n

    Anyway, I’m done with this for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’m still working on Word Loops. I like the Japanese term “Shiritori”, which Steven proposed. I’m not sure it’s technically correct. From the way I read how a Shiritori is played, it uses the last “part” of a word, but my understanding of Japanese language is too crude to take that any further. At any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}