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

Was he a King?

Arthur's Camelot?

[Brendan] No, far from it
[Inkspot] No
[Inkspot Encore} No but thats the kind of phrasing we are looking for
The minerals may help. (a clue there) The name may have been a real person but we are not sure. There is a folklore component here.

Golfer

Is there a mythological connection?

[Golfer] Yes. Mythology is key here!

Golfer

Is water significant?

[Golfer] Yes. Very

Is it the Giant's Causeway?

[Darren] No.

Davey Jones's Locker?

[Inkspot] YES, a quite inspired deduction.

INKSPOT WINS

Davy Jones Locker, the sailors name for the sea bed, the place where drowned sailors go. Named possibly after a 16th century innkeeper who had a locker in which he kept his drink, or possibly a derivation of Jonah, possibly of the Whale persuasion. It exists all over the world but not any place in particular, but its not a place you'd probably want to visit, Unless you are Jacques Cousteau that is.

Well its over ti Inkspot to take over the chair just as soon as the applause dies down.

Ed the snail

Thank you Snodgrass, that was a good challenge.

...and to continue ANIMAL, with the boards quiet over the holiday period, please feel free to ask more than one quetion at a time.

snorgle

Is the animal human?

snorgle] Yes

Male?

...wait for it...

Female?

Inkspot] Feel free not to specify which one was right!

Dead ... ?

...or Alive?

Fat....?

....or Thin?

British...?

...or foreign?

Tuj]...that moustache, defintley Male.
Chalky] dead and buried, and pushing up the Daffodils.
Breadmaster] yes he was British.

Daffodils significant?

Dylan Thomas? (resisting the desire to put Welsh Rugby!)

Snodgrass] maybe, has theme beem rumbled?
Snodgrass] No (careful! surely no Englishman could be thinking third was a good finish for the World Champions, so I can only presume you are Irish or more likely French? (sorry m'lud but the hook looked too tempting))

He is WELSH then?

[Inkspot] I was thinking of the juxt de pose of Welsh Rugby and Pushing up Daffodils. Swinging Low

Snodgrass]Yes, and its not 'Merv the Swerve'.

David Lloyd George?

YES!!!

Breadmaster wins with a stunning move, as the assembled mass of Male voice choirs spontaneously burst forth with, Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau.

How splendid! Apologies for the delay, as I'm working nights right now and have therefore spent Easter day asleep. Very pleasant too.
So this one is ANIMAL with abstract overtones.

Is this a fictional animal?

More than 3 legs?

Crosbreed?

Sorry about the delay! It occurs to me that I'm not really going to be in a position to post here at the same sort of time as everyone else over the next couple of days, so I think I will actually abdicate this round and take it up again another time. I'm sorry about that but I'm sure someone else can take the reins with ease...

Is it a dog?

Breadmaster] I for one am quite happy for you continue to carry on with this round and to answer our questions at a time suitable to yourself. How does anyone else feel, or is there a volunteer and we'll come back to this one when Breadmaster is more available?

Mamal?

[Bread & Ink] I'm happy to let this run and see answers as and when.

Human?

OK then! I shall do my best...
[Darren] Yes.
[Snodgrass] No.
[Tuj] No.
[Inkspot] No.
[Snodgrass] Yes.
[Darren] Yes.

Female?

Less than three legs?

More than one and a half legs?

[all] No.
[Raak] Yes.
[Gusset] Yes.
I believe he had the usual number of legs, although I can't be certain that it is ever specified...

Less than two arms?

[all] Nope. And I'll tell you for free, no more than two either.

More than one head?

Is he a character from a book?

Was the (or a significant) fictional work in which he appears, published within the last 50 years?

Was he older than 25 in the fictional work?

Brendan

Is the fictional work of British origin?

An anthromoporthic representation of a natural function?

[Tuj] That sounds rude.

Gandalf?

Yes, I know he's not human, but he's close enough.

[all] Nope.
[all] Yes. Kind of.
[Darren] No.
[Gusset] Yes.
[Brendan] Yes.
[Tuj] Eeeooo! no.
[all] No.

Biggles?

Baron Munchhausen?

Has a film been made of the book?

A book for broadly Adult consumption?

[Raak] That was a guess by proxy I assume!

[Snodgrass] No.
[Raak] No. He was real, anyway...
[Gusset] Yes.
[Snodgrass] Yes, but it ain't naughty.
As I said, it's "sort of" a book, but not exactly.

Newspaper based?

Andy Capp?

A Non-newspaper based comic?

A graphic novel?

[Snodgrass] No, and no.
[all] No.
[Raak] No.

Before the 20th century?

Comics?

Eeeooo! (I love it!)

[Raak] Yes.
[Tuj] No.

Someone from the Arthurian legends?

King Arthur?

[Raak] No.
[all] No.

A character from Shakespeare?

A character from Bacon?

[Raak] Yes!
[all] Only when he was writing under Shakespeare's name...

Was it a character from Hamlet?

Is it Hamlet?

I meant "Was he" on the previous question

[all] No.
[all] Again, no.

Was he a king?

Was he a character from Romeo and Juliet?

Titus Andronicus?

Or however he spelled his name

Brendan

Is he from one of the comedies?

Is he from one of the Histories?

King Lear?

Othello?

a blatant lurker's guess

[Raak] No.
[all] No.
[Gusset] No.
[Brendan] It's not normally classed as a comedy, I believe.
[all] No.
[Gusset] No.
[Chalky] Nope.

Banquo?

Falstaff?

Does he end up murdered?

Caius Martius, known as Coriolanus?

[Raak] No.
[Snodgrass] No - not from a history, remember.
[Darren] He does not.
[Chalky] Nope.

Shylock the Jew?

...although The Merchant of Venice was originally entitled The Comical History of The Merchant of Venice and as this isn't a Comedy or a History ....

Is the character from one of the Tragedies?

[Chalky] No, and no. I have to say I never found The Merchant of Venice particularly rib-tickling, although that would hardly bar it from being a Shakespeare comedy...

Petruccio - the Tamer of the Shrew?

That was a film, I think

[Bm] Not a comedy, a history, or a tragedy then? Doesn't leave much.

Adonis?

[Chalky] Nope.
[Raak] It doesn't, does it? Nope.

Is this from a Shakespeare work other than a play?