mc5 - Animal-Vegetable-Mineral-Abstract: The Pants Memorial Game

Is it a particular event?

[Lib] No.
[snorgle] No.
[LotUS] No.
[Raak] Nnnnnnnn...no.

Is it a ceremony particular to this faith?

[Inkspot] No.

The Exodus?

Is it a place?

Is it unique to Judaisim?

[Raak] No.
[Inkspot] No.
[LotUS] I cannot answer that definitively, without researching other faiths, which I am not in a position to do. I *think* that it is uniquely associated with Judaism.

Is it a name for a collection of things?

snorgle

Is it a Bat Mitzvah?

the girl's version..

Yom kipur?

Circumcision?

[Inkspot] No.
[snorgle] No.
[Software] No.
[Raak] No.

Is it conected to language or speech?

Is it an action?

Tuj

A historical event?

[Inkspot] Yes. *One of the hounds has picked up the scent of The Snark. "If he turns down that way, shouts Inkspot, we can run him to ground!"*
[Raak] No.
[Tuj] In the sense that it was something that supposedly happened a long time ago and got written about, yes.

Was it written about in the Old Testament of the Bible?

Is there an interesting reason why you call yourself Kim? Also, if we had a game about the origins of all our screen names, how long would it last? *schizophrenic voice chips in* I suppose it would depend on what you made the rules...

snorgle

the 10 commandments?

Snark at bay

[ZK] Yes!
Well, I had this idea that it could be played within the general boundaries of Animal-Vegetable-Mineral-Abstract. People ask yes/no questions and from the answers given slowly uncover the truth.
[snorgle] No.

Was it written in Genesis?

Ooh, good plan!

Was it written in Exodus?

Was it written in Leviticus?

Was it written in Numbers?

Is it something Man built or tried to build?

No idea what I'm babbling on about, but my name is not very well disguised, I keep posting the latest Celebrity MC tables on an of and on weekly ad hoc basis, so players would have to diliberatley not get it right;)

Was it written in Deuteronomy?

*leaves it for now*

The plagues of Egypt?

[ZK] No, no, no, no and no.
[Inkspot] No.
[Raak] No.
I'm tempted to post a clue, but Inkspot is perilously close to a breakthrough with his last two postings and ZK may get there by a process of elimination. I'll provide a clue, if asked.

If it's not in the Pentateuch, that cuts out most of the OT events I can think of...

The walls of Jericho falling down?

Is it in any of the prophets?

By which I mean, of course, Isaiah onwards, and including Lamentations and Jonah because they're nice and short.

The Snark is running out of breath

[Raak] No.
[Breadmaster] Yes.

Are they from the second section of the Tanakh (one of the books of Neviim)?

The 10 commandmants?

The

[Inkspot] No. Go back to your question before last.
[Software] No. I think we've already eliminated the Torah.
One more go, then I think we'll put up a clue.

The tower of babel(fish)?

Something made by the big man upstairs ?

Ibid

Is it a prophecy?

Belshazzar's Feast?

Jonah preaching to Nineveh?

Crikey, I haven't guessed one yet, and if I don't get this one at least I will have to retire ashamed.

Clue time

[Software] No. Isn't that what Inkspot was *babbling* on about before?
[Inkspot] Yyyy...yes. In the sense that it is something that He caused to happen. Now, go back again to your question about language and your question about the Tanakh and put them together. If you don't get this one, I will be disappointed.
[Ibid] Not as such.
[Raak] Not as such.
[Breadmaster] No.
*But the Snark is utterly trapped between several of the hounds and cannot move one way or another. Surely one of them will now deliver the fatal blow...*

Is it the valley of dry bones?

I'm clutching at straws here, at least until I get home and can start listing every event from the start of Isaiah onwards...

[Breadmaster] No.

"Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin"?

Hagiographa?

Have I backed up too far and overshot the mark

Bang!!

[Raak] Yes! The exact words I was looking for were "Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin", although I would, at this point, have accepted "The Writing on the Wall". I was sure that Inkspot would succeed. It is from the Ketuvim, the third section of the Tanakh, it had everything to do with language, it was not a prophesy as such, although it did tell the king what would happen to his kingdom and it was not Balshazzars feast, as such, although it did occur at the same time. Many contestants came within a gnats, but Raak hits the spot once again. Congratulations, Raak! The chair is yours, but with an honourable mention to Inkspot for incisive questioning.

A fiery hand writes: ANIMAL and VEGETABLE.

Meat and two veg?

A sparse dinner, at Christmas.

Is the animal living?

[Zk] No to both.

Is the vegetable, a vegetable.

drat and double drat

Does it have anything to do with Christmas?

[Inkspot] Partly.
[Kim] No.

Is it a single thing?

Goddammit! That was going to be my next question. I had forgotten that the book of Daniel is traditionally considered one of the prophets, although today it is always classified as an apocalyptic work. Arrrgh!

Lib

Is it edible?

[Bm] Yes. Commiserations on the last one -- sounds like you knew too much!
[Lib] (amusement in the audience) Yes. Definitely.

Is it a combination of animal and vegetable ingredients known by a specific name (eg "Duck á L'orange")?

[Kim] Yes!

Is it a work of art?

Is it toad-in-the-hole?

Is is a dish usually associated with a particular country?

Is the 'animal' part poultry?

rab

Is a sauce involved?

[Bm] No.
[ZK] No.
[Kim] Yes!
[Inkspot] No.
[rab] No.

Paella?

Is it a dish usually associated with France?

Is it a dish usually associated with Italy?

Is it a dish usually associated with China?

Is it a dish usually associated with the USA?

Is it a dish usually associated with Britain?

I'm liking this new annoying habit of mine :)

*Farkle*

Biding my time and letting ZK do all the hard work.....

:)

[Inkspot] No.
[ZK] No, no, no, no, and er um sort of but no not actually.
[Kim] *fring*

Is is a dish associated with one particular country in Great Britain?

[Kim] Yes.

Is it Scotland?

rab

Haggis, Neeps and Tatties?

(seeing as Kim simul'ed the same question as I)

Is it Haggis?

[rab] Thief! That was to be my next question!

rab

Actually I just dismissed 'haggis' on account of not being veggy, but then I remembered the oats. And here we learn the importance, finally, of checking our oats.

[Kim] Yes.
[rab] You have, alas, overshot the mark.
[Kim] It is indeed HAGGIS.
The audience carries the triumphant Kim on their shoulders round the room, to the accompaniment of massed pipers.

Impressively swift, but is that really a single thing?

[Bm] Well, pick up a haggis. Do you have a single thing in your hand? Or is it two things, the skin and the contents? Or is it a trinity of skin, animal edibles, and vegetable edibles? If three, is it simultaneously one? Does the process of combining the ingredients to make a haggis subsume their three natures into a single nature, or do they retain three separate natures which in the cooking process become like, but still separate? Will you be hunted through every glen in Scotland for confusing homoousion with homoiousion?

A wacky idea....

How about the next one...whose turn is it?

As the last winner, Kim has first refusal on the chair.

[Raak] Ha! Very good. You and your sneaky iota. When I said "single thing" I meant a particular, unique individual, but I should probably have phrased it better. I shall retire to a monastery in the Thebaid and secretly write self-vindicating books to be discovered 1500 years in the future.

Errr....right....

OK. This next one is.....MINERAL and VEGETABLE

Whisky?

Is it liquid?

Is it something manufactured from mineral and vegetable materials?

*doi* actually that kind of goes without saying, but you know what I mean... as opposed to "a rock and a couple of carrots" :)

Is it edible?

Is is something that is normally worn?

Petrified wood?

And....they're off!!

[raak] No.
[ZK] No.
[ZK] Yes.
[ZK] Err...yes. It could have been a snowman (which would fit the "carrot and a couple of rock" idea (but isn't).
[Breadmaster] No.
[Inkspot] No.
[Toby] No.

[All] P.S. I will have limited playing time today. My wife is on call (she's a midwife) and so I shall have to keep our telephone line free (we only have one, which does double duty as land line and internet line) from 9 O'clock this evening. I'll try to get back to this game at least once between then and now.

Is the vegetable part wood?

Is the mineral a metal?

plump

Is it normally found in the home?

Triple whammy!

[Raak] Yes!
[Inkspot] Yes!
[plump] Yes!

Is it a particular piece of furniture?

A door?

[Inkspot] Not furniture in the conventional sense.
[Raak] No.

A house built of wood, with metal fixings?

Is it made for a particular use?

[Raak] No.
[Inkspot] Yes.

Is it possible to pick it up with one hand?

plump

A door knob?

[Raak] No.
[plump] No.

Good News

A window?

Good News

Does the wood form more of the structure than the metal?

Is it most likely to be used in one particular room more than any other?

Is it a fixture?

Is it just as likely to be found NOT in the home?

[Toby] ooh, i like that....

[Good news] No.
[Good news] Hmmm....difficult. Let me say that the thing could not exist without both, but the wood holds the whole thing together.
[Inkspot] Yyyyyyyes.....most likely to be used in certain rooms rather than others...
[Raak] No.
[Toby] Yes!
[ZK] I see you've been lurking....(!)

Is it a container of any sort?

Is it made to be sat on?

Lib

Is it a desk? (of office style)

[Raak] No.
[Inkspot] *Clue* Not on.
[Lib] No.
I have been looking at plump's first question, which, I think, is capable of more than one interpretation. Comments, supplementary questions invited.

Is it a support for something?

Is it powered by electricity?

A coffin?

Dazed5

A child's swing?

An Analytical Engine executed in Victorian walnut and brass?

Is it meant to be sat under?

[ZK] Ta.

Prepositions, prepositions.....

[Raak] No.
[Inkspot] *Clue* Mine isn't, but there are some varieties you can get that are.
[Software] No.
[Dazed5] No.
[Raak] Nice, but no. (*Thinks*) "Hmmmm, walnut and brass......"
[Toby] No. Try again.