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Thread: Read the Rules Already!
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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# 76
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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 ]
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Baptist Trainfan
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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 ]
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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# 76
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I'm sorry, BT, but back in 1934 my Grandmother got a new kitten and brought it home by trolley-bus.
Neutrino
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The Great Gumby
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Chrysanthemum
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman
A letter to my son about death
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
# 473
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Elephant
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Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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Stetson
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offhand
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Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
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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
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Heraclitus
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pimple
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addendum
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In other words, just because I made it all up, doesn't mean it isn't true (Reginald Hill)
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Albertus
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Sorry- Gallium is named after France whose symbol is the cock and a weathercock might be an addendum to a steeple.
Flange
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Stick Monitor
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Sorry Albertus but Gallium Nitride is used in semiconductor flanges.
ant
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Smudgie
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Stick Monitor, didn't you remember that ants get everywhere, even on your flanges.
penury
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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kick
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Lyda*Rose
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illumination
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Hedgehog
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Sorry Lyda*Rose, but part of the problem with the Super Bowl was lack of illumination for the kick.
walrus
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Piglet
Islander
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Garklein
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Ariston
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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.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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# 76
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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
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Lyda*Rose
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Does it matter that I am in the dark on the meaning of Garklein?
racing
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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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 ]
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Smudgie
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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 ]
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Baptist Trainfan
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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.
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Smudgie
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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 ]
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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# 76
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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
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ArachnidinElmet
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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
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Baptist Trainfan
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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?
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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# 76
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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
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Raptor Eye
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I drank a duck-billed platypus under the table!
waves
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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Well you can get waves in a water table
granita
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Baptist Trainfan
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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 ]
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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# 76
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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
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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The local charity shop once had a telephone in the shape of a giraffe.
Beans
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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# 76
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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.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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# 76
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[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}
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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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)
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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I think it is beyond dispute that a UFO with a tyre valve is clearly preternatural. So none of the above work.
bat
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ArachnidinElmet
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Well I'm not sure about that. If Dracula is to be believed bats are preternatural creatures.
effervescence
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Baptist Trainfan
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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.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Now come on! There is SUCH an obvious link there: "Raindrops keep falling on my head ...".
Carving knife.
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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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.
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