Ship of Fools: Read the Rules Already!

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Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

Simple word game. Each post must contain one word which is NOT, in any way, connected with the previous one.

Word dissociation, if you will.

Kitten

[ 11. February 2013, 06:27: Message buggered about with by: Ariston ]

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

I've played this before! It's the antithesis to the Tennis-Elbow-Foot Game,

Trolley-bus.

[ 06. February 2013, 11:25: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

I'm sorry, BT, but back in 1934 my Grandmother got a new kitten and brought it home by trolley-bus.

Neutrino

Posted by The Great Gumby (# 10989) on :

Chrysanthemum

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

Appoggiatura

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

Elephant

Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :

offhand

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

Cleft

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

Fidget

Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :

daffodil

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

Mastication

Posted by Drifting Star (# 12799) on :

Sorry Karl, but my grandmother once used daffodil bulbs in a stew instead of onions, and although the family didn't continue for long after the first mouthful, mastication was undertaken.

Steeple

Posted by pimple (# 10635) on :

addendum

Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :

Gallium

Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :

Sorry- Gallium is named after France whose symbol is the cock and a weathercock might be an addendum to a steeple.

Flange

Posted by Stick Monitor (# 17253) on :

Sorry Albertus but Gallium Nitride is used in semiconductor flanges.

ant

Posted by Smudgie (# 2716) on :

Stick Monitor, didn't you remember that ants get everywhere, even on your flanges.

penury

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

kick

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

illumination

Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :

Sorry Lyda*Rose, but part of the problem with the Super Bowl was lack of illumination for the kick.

walrus

Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :

Garklein

Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :

Rules ruling from On High! Cue the trumpets!
Alright, it's not enough to simply pick two words that have nothing to do with one another. That's boring/a project for those who can find random word generators. No, the real trick to this game is that you have to show that the last two words, are, despite supposedly valiant efforts before you, actually related. Otherwise, all you have is a lame list thread, and not even the Heavenly Hosts want another one of those.

So bring forth the rationalizations! Make those leaps of logic! Defy all sense and reason! It's good training for becoming a philosopher, trust me on this one.

And I'm seriously digging those trumpets. I think I may just keep 'em.

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

You ever listened to a Garklein for longer than a few seconds? You will make a noise like an enraged walrus being kicked.

I trust that is sufficiently illuminating.

Dark Matter

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

Does it matter that I am in the dark on the meaning of Garklein?

racing

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Does it matter that I am in the dark on the meaning of Garklein?

racing

Hmmm. I believe that a team of scientists under a mountain in the alps are racing towards discovering particles of Dark Matter.

You should be grateful to be unfamiliar with the Garklein. It's a recorder an octave above the descant. That means its lowest note is a piercing C two octaves above middle C.

Boa Constrictor

[ 07. February 2013, 09:50: Message edited by: Karl: Liberal Backslider ]

Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :

Supererogation

Posted by Smudgie (# 2716) on :

Albertus, may I draw your attention to this hostly post from Ariston which just introduces a little more structure and creativity into the game rules (and thus also saves the thread from an untimely death!)

In the meantime I'll do a demo below, using your new word.

Smudgie
(standing on tiptoe on the special hosting rock)

(Hastily edited because it's very embarrassing when a newbie host makes a basic coding error and she'd never hear the last of it from her co-hosts!)

[ 07. February 2013, 11:11: Message edited by: Smudgie ]

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

I challenge the last two words as I can see a connection.

Superogation must surely be involved if a friend asks you to look after their pet Boa Constrictor while they go swanning off on holiday.

Therefore:

Hadron Collider.

Posted by Smudgie (# 2716) on :

Post deleted to avoid confusion.

Carry on to prove that there actually is a connection between supererogation and Hadron Collider

[ 07. February 2013, 11:17: Message edited by: Smudgie ]

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

Really, it's fairly obvious. When the LHC was first turned on, it developed faults. Techies worked around the clock to get it up again - clearly an act of supererogation.

Therefore Chloroplast

Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :

Surely the Hadron Collider was built to discover the Higgs Boson particle, the underpinning for all matter (I'm positive some more knowledgable shipmate will correct me if I'm wrong) and is therefore connected to everything in the universe... including chloroplasts.

windchime

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

Now I think it is going to be very hard indeed to think of something which cannot in some way be associated with that.

What about Duck-billed Platypus?

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

AiE - I congratulate you on your tenuousness.

I note a similarity between a windchime and the corks hanging from the traditional Australian hat - Australia of course being the home of the Duck Billed Platypus, so no points there.

Table

Posted by Raptor Eye (# 16649) on :

I drank a duck-billed platypus under the table!

waves

Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :

Well you can get waves in a water table

granita

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

Giraffe. And don't dare say that there is a connection, because no giraffe could ever fit under a table.

[ 07. February 2013, 16:34: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

But the last word before Giraffe is Granita, not table. And since Granita makes a fine dessert to eat whilst on safari observing animals such as Giraffes, clearly that's No Points.

Telephone

Posted by Spike (# 36) on :

The local charity shop once had a telephone in the shape of a giraffe.

Beans

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

Dammit; I thought there was something at the back of my mind, but I assumed I'd picked up lice from the kids again.

My telephone had been out of use recently owing to a fault on the line, so that's not going to fly, Spike.

A UFO of course does.

[ 08. February 2013, 08:19: Message edited by: Karl: Liberal Backslider ]

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

Tyre valve.

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

[cough]Link well worth reading [/cough]

Don't let this thread follow the MC one!

(Edited to make link a bit tidier : good call, Karl! - Smudgie}

[ 08. February 2013, 20:21: Message edited by: Smudgie ]

Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :

Preternatural

Posted by Smudgie (# 2716) on :

Albertus and Baptist Trainfan, please use the link Karl so helpfully provided a couple of posts upthread to take you to Ariston's revision of the game rules.

Smudgie
(Friendly hostly reminder)

Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :

I think it is beyond dispute that a UFO with a tyre valve is clearly preternatural. So none of the above work.

bat

Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :

Well I'm not sure about that. If Dracula is to be believed bats are preternatural creatures.

effervescence

[ 08. February 2013, 21:58: Message edited by: ArachnidinElmet ]

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

You are watching a cricket match.
The bowler bowls.
The man with the bat mishits the ball into the wicket and is deemed to be out.
You splutter into your G&T at his maladroitness, causing unwonted effervescence.

Cranium.

[ 08. February 2013, 23:00: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

My fizzy bath bomb is in the shape of a skull.

raindrop

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

Now come on! There is SUCH an obvious link there: "Raindrops keep falling on my head ...".

Carving knife.

Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :

Postlude

Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :

I believe there is a contemporary piece of performance art called postlude where raindrops are chopped by a carving knife

dormitory

Jengie

p.s. People can sort out which is the last word.

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

I took a carving knife into the dorm to cut up my beef for the midnight feast ...

magma

Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :

Boogie

Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
[cough]Link well worth reading [/cough]

Don't let this thread follow the MC one!

(Edited to make link a bit tidier : good call, Karl! - Smudgie}

As it is a new page and this is not at the top of the previous one. I think it is perhaps useful to repost.

Jengie

Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :

Well Genesis seemed to think there was a connection between magma and boogie when they wrote their classic (YMMV) song 'Dance on a Volcano'.

chutney

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

The chilli, pepper and ginger lime chutney my grandmother used to make could cause actions very like your dad boogieing at that embarrassing family party twenty years ago.

hardware interrupt

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

Here, have a cheese and chutney sandwich while you sort out the hardware interrupt.

Feathers

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

The idea that device driver debugging involving hardware interrupts is helped by any kind of food products is pure horsefeathers I'm afraid.

belay

Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :

If you're on belay, it means you're climbing, therefore, going up. There's nowhere higher up the candle (or better for saying that two unrelated things *have* to be related because of some folk etymology) than the remnants of Ecclesiantics, so climb on!

High Lord Ariston

Posted by seasick (# 48) on :

Nowhere near pure enough for Ecclesiantics...

*bows*
*censes*
*bows*
*whacks with Ecclesiantical crozier*

[ 11. February 2013, 20:28: Message buggered about with by: seasick ]

Posted by Mark Betts (# 17074) on :

Ferrari

Posted by Traveller (# 1943) on :

Counterpoint.

Posted by Mark Betts (# 17074) on :

(Ahem..) Let's try that again... (sorry, messed up)

It's better to use pr*o*per belaying techniques rather than hoping feathers might cushion your fall.

Ferrari

Now Traveller, you have to link the words Ferrari and belay, then you can use your unrelated word counterpoint

Posted by Grokesx (# 17221) on :

You mean to say you have never listened to the The Well-tempered Clavier in your Ferrari?

Haggis

Cross post.

[ 11. February 2013, 21:50: Message buggered about with by: Grokesx ]

Posted by cliffdweller (# 13338) on :

Why, only yesterday at the local watering hole we were arguing the merits of various pub foods, when the waiter slammed down a plate of haggis shouting, "counterpoint!"

To which I say,

aquamarine

Posted by Autenrieth Road (# 10509) on :

An aquamarine haggis would be even more nauseating in prospect than a haggis of the normal colour.

database

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

No reason that you can't have a database in a spritely aquamarine font.

Piggish

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

Have you forgotten that words are not supposed to have a link in this game, unlike the piggish nature of every damned database application I've ever had the misfortune to *****ister.

Daffodil

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

In the spirit of Purgatory, the name "daffodil" is derived from an earlier "affodell", a variant of Asphodel. The reason for the introduction of the initial "d" is not known, although a probable source is an etymological merging from the Dutch article "de," as in "De affodil." From at least the 16th century, "Daffadown Dilly", "daffadown dilly", and "daffydowndilly" have appeared as playful synonyms of the name.

So now you know.

Progesterone

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

Progesterone is a very important hormone to know about when you're working out what reception your Daffodils are likely to get.

Salamander

Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :

Did you know that progesterone production by LH (whatever that is) from Salamanders is lower than when LH is taken from Bullfrogs? No neither did I until I googled it.

coffee

Jengie

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

Salamanders, in myth, can withstand heat - and I'm sure you'll agree that coffee should be hot, unless iced.

Horseshoe bat

[ 12. February 2013, 13:06: Message buggered about with by: Karl: Liberal Backslider ]

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

Horseshoe bats are renowned for appearing on coffee mugs.

Custom Titles

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

I could request that Marv change my custom title to Ship's Horseshoe Bat

But I SHAN'T

Because it would be silly to go through the next 'n' years as that just to make a post here.

En Passant Capture

Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on :

If you ask Marvin for a set of silly custom titles, be careful what you ask for, he may surprise you like what happens to a new chess player who finds out that their pawn has fallen victim to an en passant capture.

chocolate deluxe

Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :

It's amazing how steathily a chocolate deluxe can be Captured En Passant from it's owner onto my plate with just a little concentration.

ameoba

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