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#1 2011-04-12 19:49:07

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What Gobo really is...

http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/images/Gobo1.png

gobo

(n.,)a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

Well done.... WHY?  roll

Discuss this and other oddities in word spelling/definition, inside or out of Scratch.

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#2 2011-04-12 19:51:13

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Re: What Gobo really is...

What was the Scratch Team thinking?  yikes

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#3 2011-04-12 20:15:20

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Re: What Gobo really is...

m'kay...


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#4 2011-04-12 20:16:01

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Re: What Gobo really is...

TheGameMaster1231 wrote:

What was the Scratch Team thinking?  yikes

Maybe they just made up a random name  tongue


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#5 2011-04-12 20:16:17

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Re: What Gobo really is...

Gobo is...

A orange living coral reef.


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#6 2011-04-12 20:26:32

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Re: What Gobo really is...

geohendan wrote:

Gobo is...

A orange living coral reef.

Coral is alive, and can be orange.


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#7 2011-04-12 21:09:09

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Re: What Gobo really is...

illusionist wrote:

geohendan wrote:

Gobo is...

A orange living coral reef.

Coral is alive, and can be orange.

So gobo is a soft fabric coral reef used for covering camera lenses. Tres interestent, mon amie.


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#8 2011-05-04 15:18:17

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Re: What Gobo really is...

geohendan wrote:

Gobo is...

A orange living coral reef.

Oh  tongue  I thought they just made up a name


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#9 2011-05-04 15:22:06

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Re: What Gobo really is...

The word "hack", old sport, has about 15 different violent definitions according to my Random House College Dictionary

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#10 2011-05-04 15:23:47

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Re: What Gobo really is...

geohendan wrote:

Gobo is...

A orange living coral reef.

What in the world are you trying to say? Gobo is a hedgehog and only a hedgehog.

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#11 2011-05-04 15:26:11

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Re: What Gobo really is...

Gatsby wrote:

The word "hack", old sport, has about 15 different violent definitions according to my Random House College Dictionary

In the Oxford english dictionary, "set" has 464 definitions, the most definitions a word has ever had.

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#12 2011-05-04 16:18:36

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Re: What Gobo really is...

i always thought it was an yellow hippo
guess not


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#13 2011-05-04 16:21:02

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Re: What Gobo really is...

cuddlycub wrote:

i always thought it was an yellow hippo
guess not

He's a yellow hedgehog-hippo hybrid, I believe.

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#14 2011-05-04 16:23:02

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Re: What Gobo really is...

werdna123 wrote:

cuddlycub wrote:

i always thought it was an yellow hippo
guess not

He's a yellow hedgehog-hippo hybrid, I believe.

No he's coral  tongue


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#15 2011-05-04 16:23:39

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Re: What Gobo really is...

I thought it was just a gobo

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#16 2011-05-04 16:29:37

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Re: What Gobo really is...

werdna123 wrote:

cuddlycub wrote:

i always thought it was an yellow hippo
guess not

He's a yellow hedgehog-hippo hybrid, I believe.

makes perfectly good sense


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#17 2011-05-04 16:45:11

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Re: What Gobo really is...

kimmy123 wrote:

werdna123 wrote:

cuddlycub wrote:

i always thought it was an yellow hippo
guess not

He's a yellow hedgehog-hippo hybrid, I believe.

No he's coral  tongue

A common misconception.

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#18 2011-05-04 16:53:17

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Re: What Gobo really is...

Did you know that 'ough' can be pronounced 8 different ways?


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#19 2011-05-04 16:54:46

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Re: What Gobo really is...

werdna123 wrote:

kimmy123 wrote:

werdna123 wrote:


He's a yellow hedgehog-hippo hybrid, I believe.

No he's coral  tongue

A common misconception.

It's my opinion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tongue


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#20 2011-05-04 17:03:56

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Re: What Gobo really is...

I always found the Gobo to slightly resemble my math teacher


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#21 2011-05-04 17:10:51

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Re: What Gobo really is...

Gatsby wrote:

I always found the Gobo to slightly resemble my math teacher

The gobo is my math teacher.

Huh.


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#22 2011-05-04 17:37:18

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Re: What Gobo really is...

LOL! Nice going, Scratch. XD


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#23 2011-05-04 17:43:40

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Re: What Gobo really is...

Well, it works.  lol


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#24 2011-05-04 17:55:30

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Re: What Gobo really is...

I don't know if anyone else knows this but Scratch means to rub an itchy spot. Your minds have just exploded.

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#25 2011-05-04 19:39:12

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Re: What Gobo really is...

Shadowsonics wrote:

Did you know that 'ough' can be pronounced 8 different ways?

no


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