there’s a lot of words out there that are actually abbreviations for other words does link know those let’s play the game about it good mythical morning today’s episode is brought to you by the red links store or go to rhettandlink.com/store and then spend all of your life saving is that simple thanks for supporting internet a material at large buying our stuff it’s worth it that’s the rhett and Link financial plan good reeling dead comma spend all your money okay link you’re a smart kind of guy yeah kind of as opposed to a kind of smart guy yes I’m a smart kind of guy and as you know if you watch good mythical morning on a regular basis you know we like to test one another play a game of wits and see how well we can do and if you do well enough you get something well I found this article that was basically there are a bunch of words out there that you may use in everyday conversation that are actually old I don’t look at the answers all your little sneaky look dude I was not laying it with a partition up you’re cheating already I was not okay and some of these words that you use on a regular basis are actually abbreviations for other words and you’re like oh I guess I didn’t know that I didn’t know that many of these when I looked at these I know that and so what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna say these words and then I’m gonna ask you to give me the word that they are actually short for the original word that has now been shortened yeah so I like to call this the super word game of abbreviations and here’s how it’s gonna work there’s these are not easy I don’t know how many I got when I went through but I got a minority correct okay and so there’s 15 I’m gonna go through you get five okay you win if you get less than five you lose and here’s what happens if you lose if you lose for the next episode of good mythical morning you must wear this dunce medal okay it’s pretty high dollar it looks like you took a super note metal and then put a piece of paper over top that’s what I did and wrote get a problem with my production design and if you win get five or more correct you get an awk mmm this is not what I talked about yesterday which is a whale and a hawk together this is awesome word no er its abbreviation get it I do Rhett thanks for you know really putting heart and soul into this should I go ahead and put this one on Shh you can put both of them along take off the one that you lose no I’m not I’m not gonna put the Gunson off ever alright link your 400 and here’s before we get going a lot of you may not know this but Jason the man behind the camera it also has some pretty nice chops when it comes to voiceover so we decided that we would give him an opportunity to repeat the word just in case you are link did not hear it I thought when he repeats it he’s gonna repeat it in a very movie trailer voice dramatic voice okay I like that link so I’m gonna go very non dramatic when I say it your first word is taxi cab taxi cab that’s good Jason what is that short for I don’t know nope you know what I dunno taxidermy cabin because taxidermist historically didn’t drive so they had to get people to take them to their cabins you know what that sounds true but it’s wrong there’s actually taximeter cabriolet okay happy la that’s a desk like a Chevy Chevy vehicle yes I think AB really alright so I’m not winning yet uh emoticon Yee modicon I think I know this one uh this is one of the ones I didn’t know emote meaning to convey emotions plus icon meaning to to make something a visual representation or something emote plus icon or emotion plus icon okay yeah it’s a motive icon or emotion Ike okay got it I’m gonna give you that one of course I got it chortle chortle definition please you know it’s like when your your your laughing mmm you oh you’re totally giving it away Thanks chuckle and snort you know is that it did I get it yeah no I think I got it this is more difficult this is one that I was like you know I think that is right but I’ve never thought about it maybe I’m just an idiot smog smog smoke and fog equals smog you knew that already yeah yeah I’m a California can man hold on you’ve already got three right yep killing it baby you want to turn it off oh nice let me go ahead and put this on I’ll get ten right maybe I’ll get 10 right just the same metal as the other one I just put a different thing on the front next question Velcro velcro what’s it short for oh the very first podcast we ever did was dedicated to the history of velcro so I should know this I know that it’s Swiss for Bell velvet velvet hook because they hook is actually the French words for velvet and hook of alors and okay velour in crochet yeah we okay I’ll give you a half point what because I over I said Swiss well you didn’t say the original right fine like the wrong language fine there’s no way there’s absolutely no velvet you’re not gonna get fired let’s change it you need to get eight okay I’m that good because I mean you’ve got four and a half already right three a half yeah uh fan fan okay this one’s easy fanatic correct okay motel Motel hotel Hotel Holiday Inn say what I do not a trick question there’s no it’s not sure for anything yeah be kid motor hotel actually no really yeah a motorists hotel or a motor hotels a motel well you’re gonna live right in your room can’t win them all did you know that Microsoft Microsoft the way you say it makes it not sound like a computer company and makes it sound like well something in a movie you’ve got to get six right microscopic software micro computer software my car what computer man you know like little teeny computers all right whatever okay movie movie I actually know this one moving picture correct the f4 and a half just like a talkie if I was a movie where the there was sound that’s called y’all gotta get seven in order to win what I make the rules you also make the metals and they suck car car car to mobile carriage oh dang it pixel pixel uh this is it derives from the Spanish shortened word El Peaks which is short for El picks a door which means little dot means picture element pictures no X in picture or element well you know it’s like hey take some pics man take a pics of me Oh take your pick you take some pics P I see s after a while I just changed the p IX and then it’s just like hey man take just a little element of a pic of me you see what happens people pixel tune in and you learn something and you can seem smarter to your friend you’re not smarter but you can seem smarter to your friends yes oh thanks too much smarter thanks to us being smarter is not important what say thanks to them thanks to them thanks to us vitae banks to us vitamin vitamin no I don’t I didn’t know this one I think I’d know it if you know I take a lot of supplements he doesn’t never say this on that vital minerals mmm nope I really thought that was it dude the vital amine what am i any that’s another abbreviated word nose it’s like that worm tunnel of abbreviate no it’s Japanese animation man what you don’t know I would it looks like anime okay what’s the next one how many do I have to get right now like I’ve already won but you listen you you’ve got to get one out of the next three right to win okay bit bit you know use it in a sentence uh give me a little bit of that ice cream you got left so it’s not like like I’m bit in a fight it’s a bit like oh hey man could you send me over that file that’s approximately 700 bits I think it’s I think it’s a shortened version of the two words small and bite B y te small bite is a bit sub byte sub byte binary Plus digit binary digit shoulda known that now you’ll get this one okay snark snark I think I don’t know Shh it’s shark but the way it’s shortened is they lopped off the top of the H that’s how it shortened it sure just shortened fizzy snide remark it’s obvious once you say it but I’m sure you didn’t know that beforehand okay for the win cyborg cyborg ah I burped chronic Borg well you really went downhill then cybernetic organism like hanging organism you know what you got a Borg you got what I told you you would get at the very beginning you mean that so you get to be an awesome word knower and awk if you will you can wear that for as long as you want but at least the next episode congratulations link you’re smarter than you look I know shorten words and now you do two things later dinosaurs at the end of your life I would eat you right now I’m a t-rex I’m a contour but I’m so old I have no Casey I’m too please t-rex I think in my life well there’s a couple of ways of interpreting this one is that we’re old dinosaurs which is funny but a better one is that we’re at the end of the era of us 65 million years ago oh so we’re old but it’s also about to be extinct lies by an asteroid that what is that it’s getting bigger very bright and hot I’m gonna take a bite out of used in testing predicate killers dinosaurs at the end of their lives