mc5 - The Banter Page

Tuj

Chalky] Pass... I just like the colours a lot and want to reward rab's endeavour by having them used in lots of games. Plus it might spawn some new hybrid game, which is always good!

Darren

[Tuj] Have you ever noticed that if you search for pretty much any word in Google image search, there is a Toothpaste for Dinner cartoon which includes it?

nights

ISIHAC

so, what did we all think of the new ISIHAC? I didn't hear it last night, I was on the bus (which crashed into another bus, but that's for a later date when I have more time), but I have four hours of research ahead of me later so I'll pull it up on 'listen again'.

Raak

[nights] Pretty good, as always. The new guest, Linda someone-or-other, was fine.

Inkspot

dodgy lines

Between the Lines seems to have come up with some odd colours, if in doubt the altenative web colours are;
 for Bakerloo
 for Central
 for Circle
 “#32CD32” for District
 for Hammersmith and City
 for Jubilee
 for Metropolitan
 for Northern
 for Piccadily
 for Victoria
 for Waterloo and City
 for Docklands Light Railway
 for National Rail

Chalky

It's all very pretty, dear Inkspot, and forgive my thickitude, but what exactly is the reason/point/aim?

Darren

[Chalky] I'm not clear what the Between the Lines game is supposed to be, really, but I'm assuming it's MC where (a) your name colour has to match the stations you play, and (b) to switch lines, you need to use a station which actually lies on an intersection between them. So far, though, I don't think that's the way people have been playing it. Still, that (and my almost inevitable lack of grasp of the whole thing meaning these rules are totally useless) is what happens if you don't explain the rules at the top of the game properly.

Inkspot

Bad lines

The idea came from wishing to use the colourised name whatsit that rab has introduced in a game of MC. Then it came to me to use the colours of the lines from the Tube map. Unfortunately the new game slot stayed open (for what seemed like several days) and so the game idea festered.
While it was gnawing away, I wondered about stations like Canada Water and Sloane Square. Could these be incorporated into the stance? Keeping it as simple as possible, a colour for the player and in the text…. sounded good at the time, this may have been one idea too far.

There you have it a colourised experimental game. If play becomes fraught it will make way for something else. Is there a point? After watching Paul Burrel eat a kangaroo’s testicle … probably not.

Martha Farquar

Bad lines

*ahem* [cattily]

Chalky

... passing through

Is it just me or is there an air of despondency in here? I was up and about quite early this am, popped in to have a look and moved swiftly on ...
I couldn't even think of a faux french line 5 for the limerick, diverted as I was by Korky's bream :-) Don't wanna play colours or tag, don't wanna tell lies or furcate, the current regurgitated cheddar is looking tricky, the consonants have lost their way ... oh dear oh dear oh dear. Ah well - at least I'm posting in here :-)

penelope

[Chalks] You've put your finger on it for me. Stagnant limericks are usually easy to shift - I just write a crap last line, then start a new one, hoping others will follow with renewed vigour. I really think Lost Consonants has had it - time to say goodbye. The Colours Game is too complicated to work out for the time I have available to post at work, I'm not old enough to Furcate, and we've been too clever by half in the current regurgitation. I'm gonna go in there and play some crap moves to shift this constiptation. Hold tight... !

rab

Poo

Tee hee, "crap moves to shift constipation" - what a lovely image, penelope. Chalky, I quite agree.

nights

[chalky] I see what you mean, but then I like lying. it's good practise for in real life.

Martha Farquar

ISIHAC

Jack Dee will be the special guest for programmes 5 and 6 of the new series, coming from the Assembly Hall Theatre in Tunbridge Wells (10/1/05 and 17/1/05)

Darren

If anyone is going to be in the audience for those two, let me know as we could probably meet up. I couldn't get tickets myself, but I am nonetheless local.

Chalky

giving a nod to ...

Penelope the Purgative
Rab the Agreeable
Nights the .. er .. seer and deceiver
and anyone else who has posted and brightened up this place :-)

Darren

Previous post... I mean was in the audience for.

Tuj

Deep and calming breaths

Chalky] Time to brighten things up... And I definitely agreed with pen on the consonants I'm afraid. And on the poop analogy...
If you need a new game, just go ahead and make one - could there be a better place (even for just an idea)?.

Tuj

OK, a touch over the top;

but I bet it got your attention!

The Spirit of Winter

Let my ice fingers close over your heart...

...let my drear mornings offer you no hope of sunshine to come. I shall not rest my snows nor my gloomy rains until torpor reigns in the Morniverse and nothing is but glumness, glumness everywhere. Hibernate, run from me, or try to endure me - you cannot prevent me nor the keening grey sorrow of the moods I offer.

nights

[spirit] a popular phrase in my house... "oooo-kaaay..." (say it out loud, slightly like jim carrey *shudder*)

[chalky] thanks... I think. I do my best.

Chalky

[Tuj] yes it did!

[The Spirit of Winter]
Bring on your frosts of spectre-grey, your frozen leaves and skies of dun! The weakening eye of day can never chill; for friendship doth not turn cold when that warm heart that beats deep within fires the furnace of goodwill. Thus shall this community seek the warmth of its homely hearth whilst the dregs of winter's spirit is humbled ...

The Spirit of Winter

[Chalky]OOOoooooOOOOh! Get you!

nights

[spirit, chalky] take it OUTSIDE, both of you!

Tuj

Furcational Adjournment

Is it time to grant it special status yet? I fancy an imposter's game, or summat...

The Spirit of Winter

I am outside.

Jasmine

Err.?

Hello!!!!

Dujon

Hello to you too

I'm a bit worried. You're not the jasmine to which my wife took her secateurs a couple of days ago are you? If you are I shall have to have a cup of tea a Bex and a good lie down. Oh dear, oh dear . . .

rab

Special (i.e. no) service

[Tuj] The SpecialStatus AddOn Pack (TM) has not yet been enabled, so, erm, no.

nights

a little off topic (no change there, then) but thank God it's Friday. has everyone else had a shocking week or is it just me?

Chalky

[nights] probably just you

Bah! I enjoyed that poetic exchange and would have happily crossed further swords with the 'spirit', teetering, as we were, on the brink of yet another 'Winter versus Summer Debate'.
So the follow-up disappointed somewhat, whilst bringing to mind Wot Dan Said in MCiOS a couple of weeks back [and I paraphrase] - anonymous posting by regulars is relatively harmless fun ... however, if the post is directed at a named person, perhaps it's fairer not to hide behind the cloak of anonymity?

*throws down gauntlet in the spirit of goodwill* :-)

flerdle

[nights] it's not just you. blech.

Bob the dog

[nights/flerdle] Definitly not just you two. Too.

Chalky

Bob the dog! Good to see you :-)

Bob the dog

[Chalks] Likewise! I've not been as apparent as usual over the last few months, but I am very much still here. New job going well – chickens still pecky – children still boingy.
I back Tuj for a game of impostors!

The Spirit of Goodwill

Ok, then.

The Spirit of Goodwill

Do you want your gauntlet back?

Tuj

Not dead but... dormant

rab] Well, assuming this Add On Pack (AOP) has resurrectional properties, I guess we can temporarily shuffle it below the line and go, with Bob the Dog's backing, for a game of imposters.

nights

[Bob] welcome back!!
[rab] so what happened? I couldn't get in last night or all day today (that's trying via my home connection and up at university)
[everyone] glad it wasn't just me. last week of term, woo!

Bob the dog

[nights] *Flattered* But I never left!

nights

[bob] ah but doesn't flattery get me... no wait, get me somewhere... everywhere? sorry, it's rather late and I'm a bit tired and emotional at the moment... hello anyway.