Zugzwang! Totally Creepy!!!!! (^ w ^) <-Pumpkin

(^ W ^)   << That Jack 'o Lantern... Mmhmmmmm

As Promised, I chose a veeeerrrrryyyyy scary word for this week, called a Zugzwang.  And, hold on to your knickers, because your socks are about to be scared off.  Put some gel and hair dye in that hair, because it's about to stand up straight and turn white! Gather your candles, because I'm gonna scare the daylights out of you. Sin quickly, because the living Hell is about to be scared out of you! Have your starch at hand, because you will get scared stiff!  I'm glad you look like a clown because you're about to be scared silly! Is your grave ready? You'll be scared to death!

So, instead of asking the usual people, today I, with permission, interrupted the Odyssey of the Mind class. This is what they said for ZUGZWANG:
Mom: An African Parrot with a Black Head...
Gianni: The sound a rubber-band makes.
Nick: A dumb-ass.
Owen: Like a Sham-wow, a Towel.
Jared: Honestly, I forget what he said...
Megan: A German word for Penis.
Eli: A place in Africa.
Oh, and Allison was here too: A furry animal that eats small creatures.

They got distracted. Not doing that again...

Anyways, they were pretty... Not close at all.

So, anyways, a Zugzwang is a German Originated word that describes a move in chess or checkers in which the move will always end with a death of some sort.  The word originated in Germany, as previously stated, in the 19th century, in an 1858 German Magazine. But it was pretty unofficial then. Almost 50 years later, Zugzwang first appeared in English in a 1905 issue of  Lasker's Chess Magazine. 

The word Zugzwang comes from the German Roots Zug-, meaning pull or move, Zuc- and Ziohan-, which also mean to move, and -Zwang, a suffix meaning Compulsion.  Therefore, Zugzwang literally means a Compulsion to Move.  And it can mean mor--

*I've been pronouncing it wrong. I pronounced it the way it looks, but is really pronounced Tsoog-Tsvang*

--e than just a move in chess.  The term can be used in real-life situations in which everything possible will end badly. How unfortunate. For example...

Say there is a guy. Let's name him Fernando. He hooks up with a girl, let's call her Hope Eath, and Fernando is Christian, and Hope's dad is a terrible guy who believes that only his religion, whatever it is, is so much better than all others and wants the best for his only daughter Hope, a guy who is this same religion. So, when Fernando meets Hope's father, now named Dwight, he can tell that he [Dwight] disapproves. He now wants to break it off with Hope, because he doesn't want to die by toothpicks. (Dwight is a very cruel man.) But, Hope really loves Fernando, and he can't just end it with her. But he is in trouble with the government, so he can't just leave the country.  Also, he can't fly under his own power. So, you could say that Fernando is in some real Zugzwang.  Also, he can't just abandon all Hope. He also can't face D. Eath.  And since he doesn't know of shovels, he can't even dig his own grave...

My word for next week will be Quincunx.

Also, I will briefly explain to you the Googlegänger, but only because I can't explain it in a whole post.