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2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner wordle joke
I was watching the 2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner and came across this joke:
And yet, the biggest deaths threats that you received is because there were two Ls in the wordle that day.
[1]
Is this in reference to any specific incident? Was there actually a wordle puzzle with two Ls in the solution and people got worked up over it?
I googled "new york times two ls in wordle" and "new york times wordle death threats" and nothing relevant came up.
I've seen people take it as offensive when the answer proved to be a word in American spelling (particularly since Wardle in British and the game used to be on a British web site). You know, who on Earth could imagine that COLOR was an actual word? (I don't remember what the specific words were.) Now, there are words where British and American versions differ in the number of L's (e.g. TRAVELLER), but I don't know of any that are 5 letters long, so I think this is something else. --
174.95.81.219 (
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02:14, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
People get upset when the Wordle has more than one occurrence of a letter as it makes it trickier to determine the word. I don't think the letter L has a special meaning, apart from it being a reasonably common letter to show up twice in a word.
Matt Deres (
talk)
02:22, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Thank you! Yes, I agree that it's very likely that ALLOW partly inspired the joke. The White House Correspondents' Dinner was April 20th, so roughly a month after the ALLOW puzzle.
Daniel T Wolters (
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00:27, 19 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Why is the [UK minus NI] south-biased?
Some people say north of the line between Norfolk bay and south of Wales bay is already North England, and the bishop ranked #2 after Canterbury who represents the north is only at York, not that far north. Maybe the population distribution of actually far north England is still affected by the ancient threat of Scottish invasion? Then in Scotland the biggest two cities are in the south, Aberdeen's significantly smaller than than either and not that north, Inverness is smaller than that and Wick even smaller. Also only a few million live in Scotland but like 60 million in England and Wales.
Sagittarian Milky Way (
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12:50, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
"Population density is high in the south-east of England, due to the favourable climate and proximity to the capital city of the UK, London. The city has many industries and is a global financial centre".
[2]Alansplodge (
talk)
13:13, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Why not the south-west? I mean the other side of London, near
Winchester. Ticks all the same boxes. Edit: I checked the population densities and they're almost the same, so I guess yes, the rest of the south is affluent and crowded too.
Card Zero (talk)13:21, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
The south-west is more remote from the continent of Europe. You can see the phenomenon in North America - the northern areas of the contiguous states are sparsely populated, but a few miles north over the Canadian border are the huge metropolises, right across the continent, because that is the warmest and most popular part of the country.
79.73.129.243 (
talk)
13:33, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Canadian border metropolises (metropoli?) are fairly close to rather large U.S. cities as well, though. See
Great Lakes megalopolis,
Pacific Northwest (Vancouver-Victoria-Seattle-Portland). Those two urban conglomerations contain the majority of the really large Canadian population centers; excepting the plains cities of Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg, of which only the last is close to the U.S. border, and aren't parts of major megalopolises like the Great Lakes region is. The point is, your really not that correct; most Canadian cities near the U.S. border are parts of larger cross-border megalopolises and not isolated from U.S. population centers. --
Jayron3218:12, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
This 2010 analysis contains a map, which shows the dividing line extending from the Bristol Channel up to the
River Humber, although not including Hull. Worcester is in the north apparently and Leicester is in the south, although, as every self-respecting Midlander knows, they're both in the
English Midlands, which tend to get forgotten in this debate.
Mikenorton (
talk)
14:14, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
That's quite surprising, but that line in Figure 2.2 it's meant to show a "clear North-west– South-east gradient to life expectancy." So not quite the same as the economic North-South thing? (and yes, people do live longer in Norwich - it's so cold in the Winter, people there enter a state of human cryogenesis)
Martinevans123 (
talk)
14:25, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Because UK geography is complicated by the fact that the UK is a country of countries, and while it is a single sovereign state, there is still a place called "England" which is distinct from "Scotland", culturally speaking. But this is not unique to the UK and England. It's possible to speak of northern vs. southern cultural distinctions in a country and separately in one of its subdivision. The
Southern United States and
South Florida can happily co-exist, even though Florida is part of the United States (and many people tend to only include North Florida in the Southern United States, just to confuse the situation even more...) --
Jayron3217:59, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Still, the two articles both suggest that it is the south of England which is the more prosperous, and largely cover the same ground.
Alansplodge (
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19:30, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
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2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner wordle joke
I was watching the 2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner and came across this joke:
And yet, the biggest deaths threats that you received is because there were two Ls in the wordle that day.
[1]
Is this in reference to any specific incident? Was there actually a wordle puzzle with two Ls in the solution and people got worked up over it?
I googled "new york times two ls in wordle" and "new york times wordle death threats" and nothing relevant came up.
I've seen people take it as offensive when the answer proved to be a word in American spelling (particularly since Wardle in British and the game used to be on a British web site). You know, who on Earth could imagine that COLOR was an actual word? (I don't remember what the specific words were.) Now, there are words where British and American versions differ in the number of L's (e.g. TRAVELLER), but I don't know of any that are 5 letters long, so I think this is something else. --
174.95.81.219 (
talk)
02:14, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
People get upset when the Wordle has more than one occurrence of a letter as it makes it trickier to determine the word. I don't think the letter L has a special meaning, apart from it being a reasonably common letter to show up twice in a word.
Matt Deres (
talk)
02:22, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Thank you! Yes, I agree that it's very likely that ALLOW partly inspired the joke. The White House Correspondents' Dinner was April 20th, so roughly a month after the ALLOW puzzle.
Daniel T Wolters (
talk)
00:27, 19 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Why is the [UK minus NI] south-biased?
Some people say north of the line between Norfolk bay and south of Wales bay is already North England, and the bishop ranked #2 after Canterbury who represents the north is only at York, not that far north. Maybe the population distribution of actually far north England is still affected by the ancient threat of Scottish invasion? Then in Scotland the biggest two cities are in the south, Aberdeen's significantly smaller than than either and not that north, Inverness is smaller than that and Wick even smaller. Also only a few million live in Scotland but like 60 million in England and Wales.
Sagittarian Milky Way (
talk)
12:50, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
"Population density is high in the south-east of England, due to the favourable climate and proximity to the capital city of the UK, London. The city has many industries and is a global financial centre".
[2]Alansplodge (
talk)
13:13, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Why not the south-west? I mean the other side of London, near
Winchester. Ticks all the same boxes. Edit: I checked the population densities and they're almost the same, so I guess yes, the rest of the south is affluent and crowded too.
Card Zero (talk)13:21, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
The south-west is more remote from the continent of Europe. You can see the phenomenon in North America - the northern areas of the contiguous states are sparsely populated, but a few miles north over the Canadian border are the huge metropolises, right across the continent, because that is the warmest and most popular part of the country.
79.73.129.243 (
talk)
13:33, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Canadian border metropolises (metropoli?) are fairly close to rather large U.S. cities as well, though. See
Great Lakes megalopolis,
Pacific Northwest (Vancouver-Victoria-Seattle-Portland). Those two urban conglomerations contain the majority of the really large Canadian population centers; excepting the plains cities of Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg, of which only the last is close to the U.S. border, and aren't parts of major megalopolises like the Great Lakes region is. The point is, your really not that correct; most Canadian cities near the U.S. border are parts of larger cross-border megalopolises and not isolated from U.S. population centers. --
Jayron3218:12, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
This 2010 analysis contains a map, which shows the dividing line extending from the Bristol Channel up to the
River Humber, although not including Hull. Worcester is in the north apparently and Leicester is in the south, although, as every self-respecting Midlander knows, they're both in the
English Midlands, which tend to get forgotten in this debate.
Mikenorton (
talk)
14:14, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
That's quite surprising, but that line in Figure 2.2 it's meant to show a "clear North-west– South-east gradient to life expectancy." So not quite the same as the economic North-South thing? (and yes, people do live longer in Norwich - it's so cold in the Winter, people there enter a state of human cryogenesis)
Martinevans123 (
talk)
14:25, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Because UK geography is complicated by the fact that the UK is a country of countries, and while it is a single sovereign state, there is still a place called "England" which is distinct from "Scotland", culturally speaking. But this is not unique to the UK and England. It's possible to speak of northern vs. southern cultural distinctions in a country and separately in one of its subdivision. The
Southern United States and
South Florida can happily co-exist, even though Florida is part of the United States (and many people tend to only include North Florida in the Southern United States, just to confuse the situation even more...) --
Jayron3217:59, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Still, the two articles both suggest that it is the south of England which is the more prosperous, and largely cover the same ground.
Alansplodge (
talk)
19:30, 18 July 2022 (UTC)reply