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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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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
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?
A sonnet?
[Darren] It's not.
[Tuj] Nope.
Prospero?
Googling has turned up a fourth class of Shakespearian play, the Romances.
[Raak] YES! Prospero it is. I believe that The Tempest is indeed generally classified as Shakespeare's one "romance" or "fantasy" play.
The site I found the term on also applied it to Pericles, Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale.

The next object is VEGETABLE and MINERAL

A potted plant?
[Tuj] No.
Is the mineral component man-made (sorry person made)?
[S] Partly.
Is it edible?
[Chalky] The rest of it is.
Is part the mineral metal?
Is the mineral part made of glass?
[Inkspot] No.
[all] The man-made part is.
Actually, the whole thing's man-made, but the non-glass mineral component isn't.
Is it a greenhouse?
Just checking :)
Is it bigger than a phonebox?
Is the Glass portion a container?
There are mineral components other than glass and these are not man made?
[all] No.
[GL] (Laughter from the audience.) No.
[S] Yes.
[S] Yes.
Is it (or part of it) a liquid?
[GL] Yes.
A Bottle of Milk?
I hope I'm wrong - I'll never have time to keep up with this game
Is the non glass portion which is mineral the liquid. (ie the vegetable part is not the part which is liquid)
[INJ] No.
[S] The non glass portion which is mineral is part of the liquid.
Is the container normally an enclosed space, ie with a lid. (as in a jar, bottle etc not as in glass / vase)?
Is the liquid viscous?
Is it a drink?
Is the vegetable part fruit juice?
[S] No.
[S] All liquids are viscous, except things like supercooled helium. Lets say, this is about the same viscosity as water.
[I] Yes. (Applause!)
[all] No.
Is it alcoholic?
Is it a pint of beer?
or larger, or bitter, or budweiser.
[GL] Yes!
[GL] Yes, no (it's exactly a pint, not any larger), no, no.
Now you just have to guess which beer.
A pint ow Newcastle Brown?
yes I meant of (still got a sticky keyboard)
[S] No.
British?
[Tuj] No.
A pint of XXXX?
or Fosters?
Is it a lager?
[S] No, no.
[I] No.
Irish?
Is it a porter's beer?
European?
Although it grieves me to use that word!
[INJ] No.
[I] No.
[S] Yes.
Is it a wheat beer ?
German?
[I] Yes!
[S] No.
Belgian?
Available in the UK?
[S] Yes, and yes.
A pint of Hoegaarden?
A bottle of Hoegaarden?
A thimble of Hoegaarden?
[S] Yes, over to you.
Thanks for that Raak. Must have a beer to celebrate.
OK, so its me again, um, er...., oh yes lets go for an ABSTRACT this time
Is it religious?

[all] No
Can it be percieved by any of the senses?
[Inkspot] No. I would say it cant be seen, tasted, touched, smelt or heard but we are told it esists!
Ethics?
[Tuj] No. (nor any other county for that matter)
The cultural highlights of Blackpool?
[Raak] Er.... No. Come to think ofi it not can you name 3?
Can it be measured?
odd question following on from my last, but time can't be percieved by the senses and I'm still only 29....again!
God?
[S] I was there over Easter, and the words "culture" and "Blackpool" do not go together.
[Inkspot] No. But measures do exist for part of this in other contexts.
[Raak] No. (I assume God is still regarded as religious unless Blair has intervened. See earlier response.)
Magnetism?
Justice?
Is it a human concept?
Reverting to my standard opening.
Is it emotional?
Sorry peeps. I've been away today visiting Bernard Mattleu's'
[Inkspot] No
[al] No
[Software] Yes
[Darren] No
Gloucestershireness?
[Tuj] No. Miles out but what an interesting guess!
Sorry about the smelling pistake in my last entry. I was using handwriting recognition on a palm top and it should have said Matthews!
Do other animals possess this quality?
[Software] No
Sentience?
[all] No
Is the answer a single word?
[GL] No, its 2
Is it an anthropomorphism?
[Inkspot] Not exactly but the answer may display some characteristics of this. I hope that is not mis-leading. There are better descriptions.
cognative thought?
Assuming that animals can't have them?
[Software] Warm! but No
day dreaming?
[Inkspot] No, colder
Is it something the brain does?
clumsy question!
deja vu?
Have I already asked that earlier? or was that a different game?
Deja vu
I'm sure I saw you ask that... (joke) Is it a quaint old turn of phrase?
[Inkspot] No, well not exactly
[Inkspot revisited] No
[Tuj] No (I've had deja vu before you know)
Self-awareness?
[Software] No, but its that kind of expression.
Does it refer to the first person singular?
[Inkspot] I would say not!
Racial Memory
?
[all] No
Time for a clue?
Is it fictional?
Clue...oh yes please!
Intelligent Life?
Actually that wouldn't apply to humans either.
[Inkspot] In its context it may be thought of as fictional but not in a literary way.
[GL] No but you are so close I'm going to hold off on a clue save to say oxymoron.
Military Intelligence?
[Gusset Login] Y E S . Gusset Login has correctly guessed that the answer was Military Inteligence.

So when the frantic applause dies down its over to Gusset to entertain us with another conundrum!
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