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Each Move Must Consist Of Precisely Eight Words
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Just as it says on the tin. What happens in the game may be debated in the game: perhaps it'll be a conversation, perhaps a word-limited reprise of various games we play, or whatever.
So, what shall we do with this then?
It would make for a lengthy Cheddars game.
Let us make statements of the utmost profundity.
Would you care to give us an example?
We could bet on who counts wrong first.
Well, it won't be me, that's for sure.
Has anyone written formal rules for this game?
No, for rules are a form of enslavement!
I think we need a ruling on contractions.
I'd say they're one word. What about abbreviations?
Endless disputing,
Legalisms abounding;
Eight words - so simple!
What a concise, elegant and poetic summing up.
I think abbreviations are fine, but not contractions.
Is an abbreviation precisely one word, or less?
As resident pedant, I say unto you "fewer".
So, we count abbreviations as half a word?
These are not the robots you are seeking.
Thank God for that; makes me feel old.
You are only as old as you feel.
Or as old as the man you feel.
Eight words is easy. Five is more tricky.
Five words makes one thought. Eight allows two.
Five allow two! Perhaps more! (How many more?)
Gathering thoughts in eight words requires considerable focus.
Mathematics! Scientifiction! Sufism! Mornington Crescent! My head explodes!
This is all too philosophical for average MC-ers.
How would you describe the "average" Crescenter, then?
Me - five foot six, brown hair, green eyes.
Is that average? I'm taller with brown eyes.
"Average" and "typical" are rarely, if ever, synonymous.
I'm like snorgle only I have blue eyes.
That simulpost made nonsense out of my entry.
Should the number of consecutive posts be limited?
I think that a strong case can be
made for limiting the number of consecutive postings
by a single player, and although I could
make out a detailed and reasoned argument, I
think the point is best made by example.
So will you give us an example then?
We must reassemble Raak's head, all of us.
But he never told us his eye colour!
I suggest we use both blue and brown.
I still have a photo of him somewhere.
His original eyes must be somewhere around, surely?
I found the photo. Raak has brown eyes.
I do to. Not sure if that's relevant.
I've found his brain. It'll need a reboot.
Here is a boot that you can use.
Could we use Knobbly's eyes in Raak's sockets?
Where was my head before I was born?
I'm not sure that I like Raak's idea.
I think Knobbly meant to say "Darren's idea".
One asks where is all this leading to?
The raindrop is extinguished on reaching the ocean.
Only to be evaporated again the following Tuesday.
While Tuesdays themselves are reborn every single week.
Change the subject before someone quotes Rod Stewart.
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
Game suggestion: quotable quotes in exactly eight words.
Extended, truncated or paraphrased as necessary to fit.
I feel the need, the need for speed.
To be or not: that is the question.
When the apple does fall the worm will fly.
Bzzt! Bzzt! Bzzt! Bzzt! Bzzt! Bzzt! Bzzt! Nine!
The bough grows as the twig is bent.
Silk purse from a sow's ear? You're joking.
The proper study of mankind is man, dude.
Many hands can easily form a trade union.
Name's Ozymandias, Uber-rex: regardez these, dudes and despair.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies, banana.
Everyone agrees a wealthy bachelor needs a wife.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls (you).
Told you before how to peel an orange.
Never say 'I doubt that will ever happen!'
Bird in hand equals two in the bush.
Best to get it done sharpish, as t'were.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Red rings, sneezing, falling down dead? Probably plague.
Curse your house one thousand eye of bat.
She sells shells on the shore, I'm sure.
Rice, treacle, mix, pop! Walk, drink, spend, pop!
A stitch in time saves eight or so.
The force, Pike, use the force. Stupid boy!
Jack and Jill had a climbing accident, sadly
Humpty Dumpty fell from a wall; royally irreparable.
Simple Simon says want it, want it NOW.
Little Bo Peep is a proper air head.
York's Grand Old Duke tested various men/hill formations.
Sorry, no way is "men/hill" one word.
Fictitiouscompounding both/and unspiritful, ungood. Suggest "military". Disobfuscationalise octologality.
When in doubt - KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid!
Dr. Who eats three shredded Klingons for breakfast.
The Rain in Spain falls wherever it wants!
Twinkle twinkle little star. Bugger, it's an aeroplane.
Second favorite each way four thirty Sandown Park
Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
When in doubt, blush. And pay more attention.
If at first you don't succeed, give up.
Looks like everyone has given up since Saturday.
All games go very quiet at the weekend. Never call me controversial.
Perhaps it is the heat making everyone lethargic
More likely they have better things to do.
Now that my holiday is over, I don't.
Been away for a while. How is everyone?
This game would scare the arse off Rincewind.
I can scarcely imagine someone without an arse.
Some people can make an arse of themselves.
I have a strange feeling that somehow it
Well? Please do not leave us in suspense.
Perhaps Inkspot has fainted in the extreme heat.
Or been struck by lightning. Anyone else storming?
No, but a VERY loud aeroplane passed earlier.
We had thunder and lightnng but no rain.
We had rain showers but still no snow.
Be grateful for small mercies, I always say.
Mark my words, we'll pay for all this.
By the word, you mean? Words are cheap.
Some, ten a penny. Two big ones for a pound.
Words don't come easy (to me, that is).
You just have to say what you feel.
There are times when this is highly inadvisable.
Certain feelings, if vocalised, could promote considerable consternation.
[Last post - 63 letters - is this a record?]
Substantial endeavour necessary for outmanoeuvring carefully deliberated submissions. [Chalky] the gauntlet is down :)
Ah, but my sentence was natural and uncontrived.
[Software] AND your italicised comment breaks the rules
Is this as short as it can be?
No. I am to go to a do.
Is it a bird? Is it a 'plane?
Perhaps using two sentences is a bit cheaty?
I am a she and you a he.
Is that as short as it can be?
No no no no no no no no!
[Chalky] That reads like a brief, succinct poem.
I don't see why; plenty have gone unchallenged.
Two sentences are acceptable. Only word count matters.
I go as I am, or do I?
I am who I am who I am.
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow.
That sounds as if they are burning stubble.
A smoking internet cafe - what a good idea.
F U N E X? S V F X
(There are nine letters, but only eight words)
[With acknowledgments to the Two Ronnies, of course]
It's actually much older than the Two Ronnies.
Most of their material was older than them.
Anyway, did we all have a good weekend?
It was blasted curtains for me this weekend
[pen] How's that, did a bomb go off?
Looked like it, bit messy at my gaff
Another late one here, got in at 7.
Seven in the Morning or in the evening?
Shall we wait until nights decides to reply?
The moving finger writes, and having writ departs.
Oh, seven the following morning. I WAS tired.
This sentence just about stretches to eight words.
This, though has only five. Will that do?
Certainly not. You must find another three more.
I'll lend you a three word sentence, Rosie.
I can manage eight. Three is more tricky.
Comedians suggest the longest sentence is 'I do'.
Poets reckon the happiest poem is 'Pay Day'
In that case, the unhappiest must be "mayday."
Anyone know how I will finish my dissertation?
Keep working at it until it is done?
The sage does nothing, yet leaves nothing undone.
The sage writes nothing, yet leaves nothing unwritten.
He teaches nothing, yet students seek him out.
Perhaps I should write "The Tao of Bullshit".
The moving finger writes and, having writ, continues.
Thank you, Kim. I shall use it wisely.
If only I hadn't wasted my three-worder.
Just out of interest, why was eight chosen?
I like eight. (That is my three-worder.)
Kim has some spare three-word sentences, penelope.
Eight seems to be a good length, no?
Isn't eight the lucky number of the Chinese?
One over the eight could well indicate drunkenness.
'Pissed as 'owt'. Drunkeness expressed in three words.
Sobriety, on the other hand, needs lengthier expression.
Or a shorter one: "Not drunk" would suffice.
Friends, Romans, countrymen; lend me your aural orifices.
You're all probably right about my dissertation, though.
This evening the setting moon looked very red.
That only happens once in a blue moon.
A great song, especially The Marcel's sixties version.
Not to mention the seventies version by Showaddywaddy.
Wasn't Showaddywaddy's song "Under The Moon Of Love"?
True, but Showaddywaddy also sung Elvis's 'Blue Moon'.
They never once had a number one hit.
I saw them play live at Pebble Mill
My mum once dated a Pebble Mill presenter.
Good old Google! His name was Bob Langley
One two three four etc etc etc... eight.
They're coming to take me away, ha ha!
One, two, miss a few, ninety-nine, one hundred.
Can someone adjudicate on Phil's hundred minus one?
Speaking personally, I think that he is correct.
This line self-identifies as being eight words long.
Not if it is blind to the hyphen.
This sentence says that it has eight words.
Darren, I thought my hyphenation might provoke discussion.
This defines largest number expressible in eight words.
Ninety billion billion billion is a large number.
Ninety nine billion billion billion billion is bigger
In eight words can you really reach infinity?
One more than the number that CdM defined.
I knew someone (probably Raak!) would say that.
Isn't it just a lovely day, though? Marvellous.
The tangent of pi over two is infinity.
Who knew algebra could be so much fun?
n to the power of zero is one
I often ended up with x equals x
Which is almost certainly true but ultimately unhelpful.
Apologies for double posting... apologies for triple posting.
[Knobbly] Stop right there! Don't worry about it.
I'd worry about it if I were you
Goodness gracious me, the days are just packed.
Why pack days? All countries now have days.
I always take an English Sunday with me
English Sundays? Yuk! Everyone seems to go shopping.
Yes, this demonstrates a great paucity of imagination.
There's a city called Pau in southwestern France.
There's a city called Nizhny Novgorod in Russia.
Is the River Po nominally an open sewer?
Nominally yes, same way as with the Neva.
There is a house in New Orleans, apparently.
It's not called The Rising Sun, is it?
The sun does not rise, the horizon falls.
There's a dull and boring sky over Swindon.
Swindon is dull and boring with any sky
Ohhh, dull and boring Swindon's dull and boring,
Think I'll cut my throat, no reason why.
Right to left, or left to right, Raak?
Or Swindonwards (if that really is a word)?
They built about five thousand steam engines there.
Then turned the foundry into a shopping complex.
Got dem cuttin'-me-own-throat Swindon blues.
Is that a routine twelve-bar in F?
Their football team leaves much to be desired.
They have won three out of three games.
I know someone with a Swindon Town tattoo!
As a conversation stopper, that takes the biscuit.
Woah yeah got dem inked up Swindon blues
I went round the magic roundabout in Swindon.
There's a similarly loony one in Hemel Hempstead
But those in Telford really are the worst.
Roundabouts with traffic lights are definitely the worst.
Swindon has its fair share of those too.
There's nowhere quite like Milton Keynes for roundabouts.
I like the ones with lights - they're easier.
I like small roundabouts you can see across.
The Magic Roundabout had an empty seat. Whose?
Could be Dougal. He's gone for his tea.
The Magic Roundabout doesn't yet have traffic lights.
Dougal was definitely gone for something or other.
Have you seen any magic round about here?
I think I saw some in the fridge.
My fridge is not a time travel machine.
Just as well - the Ice Age is past.
The weather is getting me down right now.
We get weather every day - rise above it.
But that would take you into the stratosphere.
I'd find the air too thin up there.
That is what they want you to think.
In this case, for once, they are right.
Back down to earth with a bump then.
That would be some bump, and possibly fatal.
OK then, just kill off some old games
Shall we begin with this one?...
[Raak] I think you'll find that's only six.
I arrived home yesterday. Heathrow's still no better.
No, I certainly wouldn't want to live there.
I'm not sure they would let you either.
Gatwick is just as bad, so they say.
[Tuj] Should I have said the final words?
Don't know - looks like we're talking about airports.
I've been on holiday, but I'm back now.
Go anywhere nice? Go through any nice airports?
Switzerland, to stay with the in-laws. London City.
My ex-in-laws live in Birmingham; not so exotic.
I don't have in-laws, ex, current or otherwise.
I have parents, not ex, current, but otherwise.
Penelope, would you like in-laws or ex-in-laws, best?
No idea, Software, having no eperience of either.
Current location: University Marine Biology Station - workload high
Current location: bedroom. Workload: Nil. Current activity: Amusement. That's more like it.
Location: in front of screen. Bored. Bored. Bored.
...that's been summer. Back to uni soon, thankfully.
Penelope, you don't know how lucky you are.
[Kim] London City Aiport staff are rather dim.
[Phil] I think you missed an r out.
Software, swings and roundabouts, mate. Solitary dotage beckons.
[Botherer] Eight words spent to tell me that?
[Phil] Eight words spent on that reply? [oblig.]
Orthographic rigour must be our sine qua non.
Remaining single is much cheaper than divorce, Pen.
But two can live more cheaply than one.
And have a lot more fun, right Raak?
It's not only married people who have fun.
Certainly, single people can have excellent fun too.
I've been single ever since I was young!
Oddly, I'm not really sure if I'm single.
(nights) Ask at your local Citizens' Advice Bureau.
Once married one can never be single again.
I am. Once married, now I am divorced.
But divorced is not the same as single.
It is if you've no kids, otherwise not.
Even with no kids it still costs you.
Divorced means not married. Single in my book.
Remarried is not single yet may follow divorce
Whom God hath jointed, can any man reassamble?
What on earth is "reassamble" supposed to mean?
Once married, divorced or widowed, never again single.
(Darren) Concerning, or about, strolling with a donkey.
So not to do with stools and doctors?
Could be. It's an anagram of "mabels arse"
I shall eat my trombone, "a brass meal".
I'm going to go topless, "a braless me"
Then I must shoot you with "laser beams."
I "blame Sears", and Roebuck for good measure.
"Samba reels" are the very latest dancing craze.
Sailors invented those reels on long "sea rambles."
Beer soldiers were ordered to "arm bass ale"
Not quite topical, but close: "a Blare mess".
This used to be a farm, now it's just an "arable mess".
Scrap that; too many words. Formerly a farm, now just an "arable mess." Bit pissed tonite.
Bobby Darin; knackered gramophone; "A bass La Mer". Must be really pissed.
Must regurgitate trombone as copper chloride. Anagram wrong.
Penultimate one wrong, too. I'm going to bed.
"A rebel mass" (one over the eight, Rosie?)
Fencing has now introduced bling as "lamé sabres". (Irg) Well, a little too much + tiredness.
"Bears' meals": Honey, apparently, trusting Winnie the Pooh.
Vincent van Gogh hated his body. ("Blames ears").
Pardon? (Notes lack of apostrophe) Oh, I see!
Onyx vessels bearing aquamarine sails ply marble seas
Bless a mare, bishop, to win Haydock race
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
Suddenly we have taken on an astronomical dimension.
Speak for yourself, young man. Just eat less.
And run around a bit for good measure.
I ran around a bit. She slapped me.
You should try to keep away from slappers.
Or you could just turn the other cheek.
Who wants to whack a big bloke's bum?
Was that question rhetorical, or a personal ad?
I am a moderately bummed five foot eight.
[Rosie] SWM? GSOH?
Sleeps with monkeys? Gets sweaty on horseback? Eh?
Suburban West Midlander? No. Got Some Obnoxious Habits.
Swim? Gosh! It seems for Tuj typos abound.
[Botherer] That statement is only tooo treu. [obigl.]
It appears I must be sensible for once.
That would be a new departure for you.
There was a young girl from Port Said
Who ate nothing but food that was fried
Thanks very much! The third line is impossible!
She is so mendacious - She's no longer gracious (pen) no it ain't :-)
Only if you're greedy and take two lines!
Pen, you are not trying; no rhyme there.
Would someone care to submit the last line?
Not me; I thought "Said" had two syllables.
So she'll be bridesmaid but never the bride.
I think that works. Shall we have another?
There's a perfectly good limericks game for that!
Indeed there is, but not on this server :-(
Why not start a new limerick game, then?
This appears to be an interesting Internet site.
I do hope to enjoy my visit here.
Though I hoped for more actual Mornington Crescent.
Welcome Quendolen. MC is rare here, strangely enough.
This means that we have only few Scots.
Sorry Quendalon - I spelt your name wrong - tsk
So shall we cancel Mansell and play MC?
But I thought you were already cancelling Mansell?
(And fear not, Chalky; that happens a lot!)
It has been very quiet on here recently.
We've been waiting to hear if Mansell's coming.
Is he one of those vocal ones, then?
There is only on way to find out.
Really? What way would that be then, please?
Bug him. He bugs us, so to speak.
I have not heard one word from him.
He's busy on other line will you hold.
I need to choose simpler items in AVMA.
Spill the beans here, then - no-one will notice.
Why is there a sticky mess of beans here?
They have caught fire due to Global Warming.
I blame El Niño for all our ills.
Surely it cannot be blamed for traffic congestion?
We usually assign such blame to City Hall.
What about those who live in towns?
Did that sentence have less than eight words?
It certainly looked like seven words to me.
Then it seems that we are in agreement.
I think we should celebrate this transient harmony.
Everybody up on their feet and dance Agadoo.
Really, that is going too far, I think.
For my part, I am unfamiliar with Agadoo.
I wish I could say the same thing.
Curious! Might I inquire as to its nature?
It's a town in Morocco, according to Mycroft.
I rather think that it is this Agadoo.
I didn't want to be reminded of that/
Which is worse, Agadoo or the Birdie Song?
Neither song is as bad as "My Way."
Doesn't it depend on who the singer is?
It is particularly bad when I sing it.
That is no disgrace, I can assure you.
So sing the quick brown fox et cetera.
How does that particular one go, Tom P?
What about Jo Dolce 'Shut Uppa Your Face'?
Outscores "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polkadot Bikini".
Polkadot? One word? Taking the poetic mickey methinks :-)
I'm still cross about my two parking tickets :o(
Awe, tell us all about it, please pen.
My own stupid fault really, but it's expensive.
How expensive are parking tickets where you live?
£50 in Notting Hill, but £40 in Ealing
Ealing would seem a bargain. It's £60 here.
I want parking tickets from somewhere more glamorous
I'm afraid I can only offer you Warlingham.
If you think Jersey is glamorous, pay mine!
I was in Jersey only seven weeks ago.
I was in pullover only seven minutes ago.
I watched the Torchwood trailer seven seconds ago.
I'll be done typing in seven seconds' time.
That's less than a second per typed word!
Does depend where you start timing from though.
Some of us type more quickly than others!
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
morniverser, who really ought not post an unfinished
sentence when there are so many just waiting
Waiting for what? The bus will be late.
Does anyone get reliable bus service these days?
I'm sure the Germans do, being so efficient.
Wo ist mein bus, er ist nicht gekommen.
Maybe my assertion lacks in situ experimental verification.
Why are we discussing busses at this time?
Is "busses" the correct spelling? It looks wrong.
If you aren't sure, then say "kisses" instead.
It's buses. I shall be subject to abuses.
Either buses or busses according to my dictionary.
Don't be silly. Everybody knows it is "bi."
I never heard double deckers called 'Bi' before.
Unless they like a bit of motorem bum
That should be " . . . bit motoris bi". (Genitive case).
Does "Aquitaine" actually rhyme with the word "queen"?
No, but Software's French is good, unless pissed.
One decided to invoke plummy British Royal pronunciation.
I do not find this explanation wholly convincing.
How about: "...France and England queen she became"?
Better - but does 'became' actually rhyme with 'Aquitaine' :-)
Methane rhymes with Aquitaine. It's a gas, though.
Methane, ethane, propane, butane - they're all rhyming gases.
Shall we continue where we left off, chaps?
How many more rhyming gasses can you supply?
Fluorine, chlorine, phosphine, arsine, acetylene, ethylene, propylene, allene. You shouldn't have asked. :-)
Can you name eight gases rhyming with "oxygen"?
[Rosie] Why not? I'm beguiled and delighted. Thanks.
I think naming gasses is far too elementary.
One only comes up with such puns periodically.
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