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.
I only asked. I wasn't exactly serious. [Chalky] what do you mean out of the closet? besides I've been using A Non as an avitar since Camdon Lock in '97
Well .... Toby will certainly have her work cut out if she's hoping to fit in a sex-change before she returns *ba-boom-tish* [sorry K - cheap shot, I know]
Hmmm. Lots and lots and lots of no's, plus one yes: Guest Login got it what was apparently hours ago with the "winter of our discontent." But it looks like you've been having fun in my absence ;-)
A gentleman on business from Porlock who, by interrupting Coleridge during the composition of Kubla Khan, caused the latter part of said poem to be irretrievably lost?
Though, if we believe Douglas Adams, this may well have been a Good Thing.
[ZK] No, you still need to narrow it down a lot [Brendan] What? I don't think so, but I don't understand the question [Chalky] At one time [Breadmaster] No [Chalky] Not quite
[ZK] No, you still need to narrow it down a lot [Brendan] What? I don't think so, but I don't understand the question [Chalky] At one time [Breadmaster] No [Chalky] Not quite
[GL] If I was right, you'd have known, so not to worry. The short version is that Coleridge woke up from a drugged-up dream with Kubla Khan complete in his head (or so he claimed), and proceeded to write it down. But then he was interrupted by this guy who came visiting from Porlock on business, and when he sat back down to it he'd forgotten the rest, hence the poem is incomplete.
[Gusset Login] I suspect Raak meant it was an anticlimax to hit upon the answer so rapidly and unexpectedly, rather than that the answer itself was anticlimactic.
[Kim] Tricky one...let's say that the animal is alive and the vegetable isn't. [GL] Yes. [Inkspot] Yes. [Bm] No. [GL] Yes. [Bm, GL] Indeed, no criticism intended.
[Inkspot] I once went into a health food shop and asked if they had any of a certain thing which the mystery object sells, and it was as if I'd asked for Watney's Red Barrel in a real ale pub. [Software] No. [GL] YES! But that's not the whole story. [Chalky] No.
[Inkspot] Yes. [GL] YES! But that's still not the whole story. (And "coffee" was indeed the substance that the health food shop looked askance at a request for.) [ZK] No. [Brendan] No. [Kim] It depends on the branch.
[Kim] No. [GL] I'm sure they'll do takeaway if you ask, but most people sit down. [snorgle] No. [Software] You are within a gnat's semiote, but... [all] *DINGDINGDINGDINGDING*A cybercafe is what it is.
Raak - cut down on the speed.(that means no) Chalky - no and no. [Clue]He isn't well-known, at least I hadn't heard of him before last week, when I went to a performance of his most famous work.
[Everyone] While we are waiting to find out which dead German composer snorgle is, I invite you all to take this short test. Which dead German composer are you?.
[Chalky] snorgle is in the chair but that doesn't stop me point out that Englebert Humperdinck wasn't German, and then discovering that there's more than one Englebert Humperdinck. And one of them was German. My humble appology is in the post.
In any case, the English one was actually Gerry Dorsey when he used to sing cover versions on Saturday Club hosted by Brian Matthew on the BBC Light Programme in the '60's.
Chalky - yes! Engelbert Humperdinck (the original one) it is! I saw Hansel & Gretel last week, and was surprised by the name - until I looked into it a bit more.
[Duj] Yes [Raak] Curiously enough, that is one of my favourite phrases and have longed to slip it into one of these games. Much as I'd love to say 'yes', in this instance, alas No [Software] I suppose it must be [see Duj reply]
[Snodgrass] Sort of, yes [Gusset] No [all] No ... hey forget it - I, too, am less than perfect :-) [Inkspot] In a manner of speaking, yes it is [Gusset] Indubitably
[Inkspot] Er ... no [Bigsmith] Nope [all] one might think so in view of the previous two questions - and as a matter of fact it *could* be :-) [Raak] No - but you're moving in the right direction -ish [Software] NO! good question [Gusset] Yes [Kim] It *might* contain numbers but don't let that mislead you
[Inkspot] It can be perceived by all of the senses [all] Yes - with the addition of a definite or indefinite article [Software] Not really [Gusset] Noo-o-o - but swearing might be applicable afterwards :-) [Raak] No
[Inkspot] No to both [Raak] The opposite to that question was asked a while back :-) Your answer is YES, it might make someone unhappy, but not necessarily deeply unhappy.
[Gusset, Software] One might suffer and be disappointed as a result but the answer is more the 'action' rather than the consequence. [all] erm .. no [Raak] No, but being dumped may fall into this category - a more generic word is needed.
Sorry to interrupt AVMA for a moment, but since [Software]'s definitely reading this: gigni de nihilo ... over on MCiOS is a reverse game. The idea is that if you read the game backwards, it'll all make sense. This means that new moves have to be consistent with what's already been said "in the future". So, for example, fairly early in the game you'll find Blob saying "[Néa] To answer you question - not recently I'm afraid, the last time was on the East London Line between Shadwell & Wapping." and then later on Néa asking "Incidentally, did anybody here ever pull the emergency brake while drunk?", setting up Blob's answer. As far as I can tell, you've been playing it forwards all along -- hence all the comments about you developing precognition and so on, which are an attempt to make your comments make sense in the context of the reverse flow.
Software re: The Reverse Crescent Game in MCiOS. Yup - because you seemed to 'pick' on me nearly every time you posted something, you completely f*cked up my gameplan. I left loads of messages for you - so did Darren - and others dropped hints. Eventually I gave up and dropped out of the game :-(