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penelope's I would also argue the 'art' of this game is not to play words that lead into a cul-de-sac just to look clever. lunchtime.
Kim
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around [Rab: I think that colleagues (myself included) may be pining for Mini-cheddars and are treating the game as a reverse mini rather than a reverse full cheddars game, where the object is, of course, not to finish (or start) the sentence. Thoughts, anyone?]
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attachments [Kim] Don't get me wrong - I'm all for sentences ending. It's the posting of the most grammatically tenously related words that gets my goat (who's called Molly, since you ask).
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cleanerWhen I created this game I had intended it to be a single long sentence running in addition to the mini-cheddars game
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it [rab] such as? [Kim/Gusset] Well, I think it works much better as Reverse Mini than Reverse Cheddar Gorge. I'd find Full Reverse rather tedious, to be honest.
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hear (rab) I actually used to know someone called Molly, probably the last ever with that name. Born about 1948. (Darren) Agreed. Full Reverse would be off the rails and down the embankment in no time.
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Sicilians[Rosie] yes - it lends a certain gravitas, don't ya think? :-)
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underweight(Chalky) Oh certainly. You can look LotUs in the eye now. :-)
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, though(ChalKy) doesn't really work, does it? :-(
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bum [Rosie] It's LotUS, though, as in Lord of the Under Stairs. She needs an extra capital to equal him. The question is, which letter should it be? I don't think ChalKY sends the right message, what with the KY and everything.
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comfortable (Darren) I must've thought LotUS saw himself as a delicate oriental flower. Beggy pardo, LotUS. It needs two syllables, it seems to me, and the consonant is made upper-case. I think we're all mad.
Rosie
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no-one(Effable) All you need know about boldness, italics and all that courtesy of the Univ of Pittsburgh:- http://mustela.phyast.pitt.edu/basichtml.html
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, surprisingly,my plan. to insert the lyrics to one of the worst songs known to man into an MC game. it worked! a-ha-ha-ha.. oh, never mind. please drive on.
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Mortimer's(nights) It's a great song, quite unselfconsciously daft, unlike the nauseating solipsistic treacle of "My Way", the worst song known at least to this man. :-)
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Bob[Rosie] I beg to differ. but 'my way' is pretty damn horrific. I'm sure I've heard someone else mention the evil of that song lately, but I've been watching a lot of UKTV G2 at 2am after work lately. it was either you or Ricky Gervaise, or possibly Nick Hancock.
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required [Chalks] true, but giving Rosie the benefit, it may have just been an oversight.
Kim
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the [Chalks, Software] A semi-colon might have done it.
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is We could have made it a little smoother if, instead of "Tory," we'd had "If" or "Whenever." Still, the punctuation wouldn't have been perfect.
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your (You lot - penultimate Lim) It was quite deliberate. What I'd hoped for was something like If it were marinaded in old sump oil it . . . .etc.
Rosie
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disgustingly (irach) . . . assuming you meant the comma to be after the word . . .
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[Rosie] If you read the sentence in reverse (the point of the whole gamne), the comma should logically be placed before the word rather than after, shouldn't it?
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are [irach] That's not the way we've done it so far. The sentence is read with the entries in reverse order, not the individual sub-parts.
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requirements (Darren) That is what I too have always assumed.
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practices. [Irach] I concur with Rosie and Darren. For that reason, I have put the full stop in this entry after the word, rather than before it.
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relief.(Darren) I can read the small stuff now, not by increasing the font size, which the machine seems to ignore, but by increasing the screen res to 1024 x 768, and the DPI 96 to 120.
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[Rosie] You are the first person to make me laugh today. No-one else has managed to eke even a smile out of me until now. Thank you, and yes we do have all sorts of ways :-)
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yourself(Darren) Good point, but more fundamental is the question of what His Holiness is doing reproducing himself, in contradiction of the normally-required celibacy.
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gigantic [Rosie] I direct your attention to the end of this page where they point out that certain Anglican clergy who have married, and later converted to Catholicism, have been permitted to remain married after becoming Catholic priests. If such a priest ascended to the papacy, he could have daughters.
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products (Darren) Yurse. I can't see one of these becoming Top Bod, though.
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fur [Rosie] Another possibility relates to papal infallibility. The Pope could easily make a pronouncement through extraordinary Magisterium to the effect that the rule about celibacy in the priesthood does not apply to the Pontiff himself. Even if this contradicted previous teaching, such pronouncements are by definition never theologically or morally incorrect. He would then be free to father as many children as he wanted, at the risk of causing a schism in the church!
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of (Darren) You must be a Catholic. Whether devout, bolshie or lapsed I have not the faintest idea. :-)
Darren
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crate [Rosie] Nope, not a Catholic, just an avid reader!
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enormous [R/D] Of course, Popes have not always been 'celebate' or single, the early ones, up to the 11 century, were almost certainly married as society demanded in those days. And I am not RC either.
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wouldn't [Rosie et al] Non-Roman (i.e. the Eastern varieties) Catholic priests may marry and father children, although I don't know if any of them may be addressed as "Your Holiness"
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The(Juxtapose) The first said-to-be-manufactured group I know was The Monkees (ca 1960) with "I'm a believer". Quite a good tune, silly words, as ever.
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[Rosie] Eunice Kennedy-Shriver is the sister of the late John F Kennedy and Arnold Schwartzenegger's mother-in-law. So the whole thing makes sense, you see?
Rosie
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The(Tuj, Softers) I had hoped that "runs" would be interpreted in the cricketing sense. "Wickets" would be less ambiguous but didn't we win the Test by a number of runs? Too bad. Let's start another.
Kim
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wardrobe;[Knobbly] there is actually quite a gulf between what normal word proportions ought to dictate and what they do, in fact, dictate: the Alspunker Dictum of 1962 states quite clearly that the word "prestidigitation" ought to occur in a sentence, on average, at least once in every two hundred moves in any Cheddars game. We are currently running slightly below average.
Kim
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isI think that the integrity of this sentence is just about salvageable, if we all recognise that the whole of the middle of it, from this word up to the word "imbecile" is a subordinate clause
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"Amusingly, the assembled members of the Egerton & Cholmondeley Womens' Institute were oiling themselves at a bodybuilding contest and miscellaneous diversions, while the local skittles team spent the entire afternoon marvelling at just how many discombobulated elves untangled themselves as they had been severely berated whilst being amusingly convoluted and wrapped like a ribbon around the totem-pole." ...and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a "Regurgitated Cheddar". Cake all round, I think.prize!
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face Re last one - I seem to be attached to the word amusingly and should have put in a different word such as Predictably or Shamefacedly at the end but it was a great Cheddar nevertheless.
Rosie
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confusion(Kim) You're right; it should be present tense but you must admit the whole thing sounds a little awkward. My entry, nevertheless, was a mistake, so for launched read launch.
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was (sorry, forgot to bold, I easily know how to do that!)
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quincunx(I forgot to too. I can also do this)
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a[KagomeShuko and Giertrud] In case no-one has taken the trouble to do so, I welcome you as recent arrivals to the Morningverse. You will find its population, for the most part, a friendly, bad-tempered, erudite, crass, tolerant, narrow, thoughtful, capricious and generally humourous bunch (ahem...). As long as you can avoid bad taste, bad grammar, bad scansion, bad HTML and Rosie's occasional maifestations of lugubriousness, you'll fit in perfectly.
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protocols (Kim) Lugubrious? I hardly recognise myself. Plenty of other faults, of course.:-)
Software
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her [Rosie] Not in the comic sense, perhaps, but new management and office politics killed it for me. So now I am in line with you as a gentleman of leisure.
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kindly (Guess we need to take "will" as a dubious citation?)
Kim
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"kindly Julia's indubitably hearty greeting, finally elicit dubious citations before alphabetisation." I think it's broken. Anyone fancy trying to fix it, or shall we kill it off?
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she that is to be rewarded with a grandiose title like Rob Roy of the Rovers he must know that it is finally over. I'm struggling with the grammar and pronouns here.
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the [KagomeShuko] I'm finding the only sense in which I can parse your "completely" is if "other" is taken as synonymous with "alien" - which feels like a bit of a twisty way to make sense of it - did you perhaps miss the reverse nature of the game? Or - as is quite possible - am I missing another sense of things here?
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Nice move by Kagomeshuko there, I was wondering how on earth this could be made into a more or less grammatically correct if weird sentence.democracy.