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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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Brunel?
[Inkspot] Yes
[Raak] Yes
What an anti-climax!

Ok, the next is MINERAL, with ANIMAL and VEGETABLE connections.

A stainless steel kitchen knife?
A little bit knee trembling foreplay then straight down business.
Is it made of metal?
Sorry it was an anti-climax, I hadn't expected to be setting one so soon
[Inkspot] No.
[GL] You wouldn't really think of it as something metal, but metal is involved.
If not metal would it be thought of as being made of plastic?
Would I (or anyone else living in the country) find it on a farm?
Did it exist before 1800?
[Inkspot] Not really, although plastic is undoubtedly also present.
[GL] It would be a very unusual farm that had one of these.
[Brendan] No.
Do the animal and vegetable live on the mineral?
Is it man made?
Is it electrically powered?
Is it meant to be moved around?
[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.
Is the animal connection, human?
[BM] I understand what Raak meant and if I had honestly thought I'd win, I would have thought of something harder to guess.
[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.
[Kim] ...and the mineral is pretty much all around them.
Is it a building of some sort?
Is it smaller than a telephone kiosk?
[GL] Yes, hence...
[Inkspot] No.
Is it a Florist?
OK silly question, but worth a shot
M o r n i n g t o n C r e s c e n t ?
[Chalky] what's the vegtable connetion to MC?
[GL] No, but you're thinking on the right lines.
[Chalky] No.
A greengrocer's?
[Bm] No, not quite that close to the right line.
Is the vegetable wood?
Is it a particular retailer? eg Tesco
[Bm] There might well be some, but that's not the main vegetable component.
[Inkspot] No.
Is the vegatable clothes?
s/vegatable/vegetable!
[Dujon] No.
A bakers?
Is it a well-known place [a one-off]?
[Inkspot] No.
[Chalky] Not a one-off. The sort of thing it is is well-known.
Would it be found on the High Street?
Newsagent?
Is the building a shop?
[Chalky] Yes.
[Inkspot] No.
[Brendan] Yes.
Health food shop?
A fast-food joint?
A cafe/restaurant?
An off-license?
[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.
Is it a retailer of a particular type of hot beverage?
A coffee shop?
A garden centre?
They have cafés...
A vegetarian restaurant?
(Since otherwise there'd be a dead animal component as well as the live one?)
Starbucks?
[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.
A bookshop with a coffee shop inside it?
(the dead vegetables are books?)
A Coffee shop that sells books?
(the dead vegetables are coffee)
[Brendan] No.
[GL] No.
Is it is branch of Starbucks in a particular location?
The vegetables are the ones serving behind the counter.
Is it a take away coffee shop?
The words clutching and straws spring to mind
A coffeshop with a WiFi hotspot?
Is it a cyber cafe?
A Starbucks that is Book-Crossing friendly?
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[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.
OK give me a second...
This one is a MINERAL
Metal?
Rock?
[Raak] Asking for coffee in a health food shop! I'm surprised they didn't throw you out on your ear, or some similarly painful body part.
Is it man made?
Just goes to show, I'd have done the same in seeking out fair trade typish coffee, but seeing as I'm a tea drinker I wouldn't anyway.
the demon drink....well...one of many
They sell barleycup and stuff in health-food shops...shouldn't have been a problem...
Oh yeah, a suggestion
Is it smaller than a phone box?
[Tuj] No
[BM] yes, but it's more than that
[Inkspot] no
[ZK] usually
Is the mineral an element?
Is it solid?
[ZK] it is made from at least one element.
[Inkspot] Yes
Would I find it in my house?
An erratic rocks, left miles from its origin point by a glacier?
[GL] I haven't been to your house. [Brendan] No
Would it be found in the UK?
[Software] Yes
Is it likely to be found in a residential building?
Is it something would be useful to a human being?
[GL] In some, but not as many as you used to
[Chalky] Human beings have been known to find uses for it
Is it decorative?
Coal?
[Chalky] I've often found it to be, but I'm odd
[Bigsmith] Actually, YES. Well done sir/madam/miss!
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