The Verbiage Challenge (or playtime with the Word Count Tool app)

 
 

  
"Fantod", yes, you read me correctly, one of the new words now taking up temporary residence in the vocabulary wing of my head.
If you also subscribe to Mr. Webster's daily invasion of your email, then you won't have to go and Google it, or perhaps somewhere awhile back you ran across it somewhere and thought it worthy enough to give it a long term lease. For me personally, it was late in arriving and all the permanent occupants have taken a disliking to it for they feel it presumptuous. *90 words, 70 unique and counting
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Is not this fantastic, *notice how I did not use the contraction of isn, (wait, WOW, isn must be a word somewhere because the counter on this app. gave me credit for it and myself did not even have to add 't to it). Let me go check, back in a minute...……., nope, not a  word, but is it an acorn, I mean acronym, (double WOW, WOW, even acronyms count, and the use of wrong words). This isn't going to be as hard as I thought, IRS, CIA, NSA, CBS, NRC, NRA, OMG, LMFAO, KMA, (question: Johnny. can we count these as unique words? Just checking ahead of time in case.). Never mind, it was a rhetorical question. *215 words, 137 'distinctive'
  
Top this my poets, *gives a sly wink to get over 250 and 150 'different'*
  
262 words, 165 unique, *why not use unique here again, save a synonym for later just in case.... WTF, 'idiosyncratic'.
  
283 words, 176 one of a kind,
*just keeps getting tougher...huh. Raising the bar inch by inch, or for the U.K. side of the pond, mm by mm.
  
Appendage:
(that's right, no it ain't the correct word, but it's a word and it's an individual term applicable to something added on to a larger body of work), and I needed some more unrivaled elements of speech in order to push this past Lord Viddax's post yesterday, actually day before yesterday now that this will be posted tomorrow, of 218 sole word count.
381 words, 232 unique
  
Addendum:
I forgot to mention before I close this out that rowantree's "hourglass" poem had 512 words with 288 unique words, and I'm too tired and frazzled to continue lugging this along in order to reach a word count past what she has already accomplished so I am going to cut this short and hit the hay before my eyes begin to bug out, my cigarette pack is empty and I run low on wine and Southern Comfort. So, I suppose I'll slink down the hall and off into a nightmare and call this quits. Sweet dreams, ya'all.
485 words, 289 unique.  
  
Wink! (make that 290)

Addendum #2
Went back and found wallyroo92, had posted "Super Man's Last Flight" on opening day at 594 words, 294 unique, so had to come back and add a little more verbiage to take the lead with this piece, (definitely not a poem here nor even poetry), just gibberish to see which happens first, my fingers going numb or my brain.

* Probably should hack this into six pieces and take an undeserved break, but before I do I need 16 more appropriate words to surpass 350 and extend it into an entire weeks vacation. now, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, (shit! that didn't work) let's try this, V, IV, IIV, II, 1. (I didn't count)…….Goodbye

Now I'm like, just all fantoded waiting for midnight when I can post this crap and not be disqualified for posting two within 24 hours without an excuse.
*written 2 April, 2019 at 9pm EDT

636, words, 356 unique (of which 636 words were wasted during this write), but, hey...I'm still in the hunt.