Quote - > Quote - > Quote - Also I played A LOT of text-input adventure games which forced me to build up a vocabulary...

 

But how often do you find "I must brush my hair with the hedgehog, in order to get the conductor to let me board the bus into the past where I can prevent my neighbour from killing the Wumpus" useful?

 

When reading Terry Prattchet's Discworld books?

 

Nope. It's part of the solution to a, near 20 year old, text adventure called Humbug. Still available here: http://www.grahamcluley.com/humbug.html

Humbug was a big thing in my bit of the UK in the early '90s. I just used to lurve the ridiculous conversations it gave rise to.