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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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[Raak] Yes
[Braendan] You are so very close - We can all make mistakes
[Inkspot] No

Anne Boleyn?

[Brendan] Yup.

Audience - Cheers and Adulation for Brendan

OK, let's have a MINERAL/VEGETABLE (with ABSTRACT overtones). If it becomes obvious that this classification is confusing people, I'll give some pointers ...

Is it made of wood?

And metal?

A painting?

Is the vegetable, paper?

[all] in part, but probably not a large part (NB: I am considering "made of wood" to mean dead wood in some way arranged by humans; ie in my definition a tree is not "made of wood" -- which I admit is eccentric)
[Software] probably in places, but it's not a major component
[Raak] No, but keep plugging at why it has abstract overtones
[Inkspot] No.

Half a dead cow in formaldehyde?

Is the vegtable part a tree?

Oops, ignore my last, dead cow isn't mineral or vegetable.

Half a dead tree in formaldehyde?

Is it unique?

[Raak] No, in either case. [all] Not "a" tree. [Inkspot] Yes.

Hyde Park?

Does the vegetable part involve more than one tree?

Is it a geographical landmark?

Is it a work of art?

[all] No.
[GL] Yes!
[Inkspot] No.
[Raak] The "it" you are looking for isn't, but a work of art (in the broadest sense) is involved.

Is it a forest?

Is it a real place mentioned in literature like Sherwood Forest?

[Tuj] Yes, but not just that.
[Inkspot] You're getting very close, but the answer to that particular question is No.

Is it the Hundred Acer Wood?

Is it Mirkwood?

Fangorn Forest?

The Forest Moon of Endor?

stop looking at me like that!

[Gusset] No.
[snorgle]No.
[Breadmaster] Nope.
[all] Nope!
All good guesses, but remember it isn't just a forest.

Is it from LOTR?

Under Milk Wood?

Not Forest Gump either then

Can it move around?

Burnham Wood?

[Gusset] No.
['spot] No.
[Breadmaster] No.
[all] No.
When I say it's not just a forest, I mean there's other stuff too, not that it's a special sort or specific example of a forest. The trees are definitely a major component of the mystery item, but perhaps not the one people immediately think of.

The Eden Project?

The Angel of the North?

Is it fictional?

[Bm] No.
[Raak] No.
Because ... [Tuj] Yes!

Babylon 5?

Is it from a film like the 'Valley Forge' in Silent Running?

The forest referred to in the phrase "Can't see the forest for the trees"?

Is the fictional setting concerned a movie?

[Raak] No.
[Inkspot] No.
[snorgle] No, it is from a specific work.
[ZK] No, not a movie.

Is it a city?

The Forbidden Forest from Harry Potter which is based on the Forest of Dean?

[all] No, but it is within/near one.
[Inkspot] No.

The Hanging Gardens Of Babylon?

Central Park?

Is it from a book?

[snorgle] I've made mistakes with these things before, but are you sure Central Park contains a forest? and is fictional?

Is it an old oak tree with a yellow ribbon tied around it?

[GL] I don't think the Hanging Gardens were fictional either, although not much is known about them.

[BM] There's no proof that it ever existed apart from a book written by someone who never went within a hundred miles of the area it was rumoured to be. But I take your point

Was the book written after 1900?

Nottingham Forest?

I know Sherwood was mentioned earlier but Notts Forest are a fictional entity, ie they are alledged to be footballers - but nice people all the same who always invite me to their end of season party in January each year.

[Gusset] No.
[snorgle] Alas, too real.
[all]Erm. The work in question is commonly found in books but it is not a book per se. Does that make sense?
[Breadmaster] No.
[Inkspot] No (bearing in mind the above caveats about the phrase "the book").
[Snodgrass] LOL. No.

PS [Snodgrass] Are you also alleging that all the players are vegetables? ;)

Was the book written before 1980?

bearing in mind the above caveats about the phrase "the book"

I meant 1880!

Is it from a poem?

Is it from a play?

Utopia?

[GL] Yes, before 1880.
[Inkspot] Indeed it is. Therefore ...
[Raak] No.
[all] No.

Herot?

Xanadu?

I mean, of course, the location of Kubla Khan's pleasure dome, and not the improbably awful film starring Olivia Newton John and Gene Kelly. On roller skates. In pink. With the Electric Light Orchestra.

[Gusset] No.
[Breadmaster] DING! DING! DING! Yes! It was indeed those twice five miles of fertile ground, with walls and towers girdled round, forests ancient as the hills, gardens bright with sinuous rills, etc. etc. Congratulations. The floor is yours.

Huzzah!

Give me a few moments to thing of something sufficiently fiendish.

ABSTRACT

OK, let's see how this plays out.

Is it an emotion?

[ZK] Nope.

Is it a human concept?

[ZK] No - although some may be involved.

Can it be detected with any of the senses?

[Brendan] An interesting question. I would say technically no, but your senses might well alert you to its presence.

Is it a natural event or happening?

Is it a naturally occurring phenomenon?

Dooo-dooo do-doodoo...

The monster under the bed?

[Inkspot] No.
[Tuj] No.
[Raak] No, that's very much ANIMAL.
I should warn you all that I'm not at work today and tomorrow and my internet access is currently a little erratic, so many apologies if there are gaps between my answers... I shall do my best though!

Is it existence?

straight in with a random guess

Is it a phrase or expression?

Does it have to do with the passage of time?

Is it connected with the supernatural

(Brendan: All footballers get covered in mud, Vegetables grow in the soil (ok not all so sue me!), therefore all footballers............. eat vegetables and you are what you eat. And Forest are neither Super nor Natural before you ask - C'mon you R's)

Is it electricity?

[Snodgrass] Your mastery of syllogism is unmatched!

[all] No.
[Inkspot] No.
[Kim] No.
[Snodgrass] Aha! Yes.
[Brendan] No.

A ghost?

Banquo's Ghost?

An Orb?

To those of you without Living TV you have been spared the antics of Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding chasing ghosts and flying balls of light around the country and having theatrical panic attacks as they go. What a rich cultural medium digital TV can be!

A poltergeist?

[Raak] No.
[GL] No.
[Snodgrass] No, and I thank you for that terrifying vignette. Yvette Fielding?!
[all] No.

Possession of some sort [by the devil or his disciples]?

[Chalky] No.

Is it related to some sort of concept of the afterlife?

A magic spell?

ah...Raak may have pre-empted my next line of questioning ... is it Black Magic?

I don't have a suggestion

[Snodgrass] I happen to like that programme!

backtracking in realisation

Not that believe it all, you understand!

Voodoo ?

[ZK] Sorry, no offence intended. I quite enjoy it too, in small measure, but the histrionics do rather detract from what might, otherwise, be a serious attempt to uncover something we understand little about. Did you watch the celebrity version last weekend?

[Brendan] Yes.
[Raak] Nope.
[Chalky] Not that either.
[Snodgrass] Nope. How do you have a celebrity ghost-chasing programme? Were they hunting Elvis, James Dean, Buddy Holly etc?

Is it re-incarnation ?

[Breadmaster] The celebs were doing the hunting - or more accurately staying 2 nights in a spooky castle and having the willies put up them so to speak (but thats one for a different channel I expect). You know, I'm a Celebrity - Get 8 shades of wos'name out of me!

I despair of modernity...

[Snodgrass] Nope.

[Snodgrass] Sadly not, as I only have Sky when I'm living at home.

Transubstantiation?

is it Hell?

Valhala?

The Holy Spirit?

Is the afterlife in question the Christian one?

Nirvana?

Purgatory?

Would a river be pertinent?

[Raak] No.
[all] No.
[GL] No.
[Brendan] No.
[Kim] No.
[Raak] No.
[Dujon] It wouldn't.
Don't get too hung up on the afterlife thing - it's only related to it.

Is it a Philosophy?

[GL] It might be, depending on how you define "philosophy".

Is it a fear?

[Inkspot] No.

Is it a religion?

[all] A breakthrough! Yes.

Catholicism?

blimey - I thought we'd eliminated the 'religion' thing ages ago - perhaps I just imagined it!

[Chalky] No. No, I was surprised no-one tried that earlier, but they didn't...

Buddism?

Islam?

I meant buddhism, obviously

A religion is a philosophy, unless your a fanatic.

[GL] No. There's more to religion than philosophy, though - it is a sociological phenomenon which may include a philosophy, but also other things such as liturgy. I think.
[all] Nope.

theophobia?

[Inkspot] No, but I'd love to know more about the Theophobic Church...

Does it profess to be some variety of the Christian religion?

[Raak] It does not.

Scientology?

[BM]The basis of all religion is a philosophy, which is also the most important part of the religion. It's easy to quote (for example) the Bible but very few of those that do make any effort to love their fellow man.

[GL] Of course, it depends on what you mean by "philosophy". But if you mean ethics, I still say that's only one element of religion, and not necessarily the most important part: for example, Jesus taught ethics, but he seems to have been more interested in eschatology. One should always be very wary of saying things like "the essence of all religions is X" because religions are rather complex things that vary greatly.
Oh yes. No.

Is it monotheistic?

[Raak] Largely, but it's a matter of some debate.

Is it Hindu?

[BM] Philosophy generally means an outlook or set of beliefs that underpin your thinking. An ethical philosophy is only one example of this cynical philosophies have more appeal but are less used by religions. But all religions are in essence telling people how they should think (not what they should think, just how).
Eschatology is part of the philosophy of most religions

[GL] It is not.
I take your point, although I think you're defining "philosophy" a little loosely.

Was it founded in the last 200 years?

[Brendan] Nope.

Sikhism?

Philosophy
noun: any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation (Example: "Self-indulgence was his only philosophy")
noun: the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
noun: a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

[GL] Still so.

By which I meant, of course, still no.

Is it a brand of islam?

Judaism?

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