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Animal-Vegetable-Mineral-Abstract: The Pants Memorial Game
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The chairperson selects an object/idea/whatever and announces whether it's animal, vegetable, mineral, and/or abstract. The others have to ask questions to figure out what it is. Whomever guesses the object correctly is given the chair for the next round; repeat ad nauseam.
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Clarification plase (sic)
*Struggles to resist urge to answer Raak's question with "Yes". Just succeeds.*
[Raak] My answer to Inkspot's first question may be interpreted to mean that, when they were alive (which, clearly, from my answer to your first question, they no longer are) they were individual, living organisms. I trust this is clear.
[Inkspot] Yes.
Archaeopteryx?
Paleontologists unite!
[Boolbar] Yes!
Boolbar wins by a head from Inkspot! The answer is indeed Archaeopteryx.
I was hoping someone would go for Pterodactyl first, so that I could come back with a witty remark about how I thought that was a verse form, but never mind. I pass the Chair in Jurassic Studies over to Boolbar, with compliments.
Yey!
Thank you! From an old bird to the next mystery item . . . ABSTRACT.
Is it a human concept
Standard opening
[Software] Yes it is. (standard answer)
Is it pleasant?
* collective sharp intake of breath as the audience first marvel at Boolbar's knowledge of flying creatures that have been dead for ages ... then break into well-deserved applause*
Takes a bow
[Chalky] It might be, but then again it might not be. Or then again, the question might not have any meaning.
Is it an emotion?
It's not The Matrix or some philosophical thing like that is it?
Is it the mind?
As technically speaking, the mind is not regarded as animal (apparently)
Was it ever thought of before the seventeenth century?
Another day, another question.
[Tuj] No.
[Zooo Keeper] No.
[Breadmaster] Yes.
Manichaeanism?
Wot?
[Raak] *looks in a dictionary* No. This game is sure educational!
Is it connected with religion?
[Raak] No. It's a very general thing so I'm sure it could be said to be connected with lots of things if you really wanted to try and find connections.
Do animals have this concept also?
Does it have its origins in philosophical writings?
Is it 'thought'?
"Manichaean (n): Someone from Manchester."
[Tuj] I wouldn't have thought so, but you never can tell . . .
[Kim] No.
[Riff] No.
BTW, saying that it is a human concept might lead you astray. If all life vanished from this planet (or any planet for that matter) then it could be argued that this concept still existed. A bit like the tree falling in the forest when there is no-one around making a sound.
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