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

[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?

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?

Raal

[GL] Yes.

ImNotJohn

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!

Lineman

Gusset Login
OK, time for a MINERAL

Time Warning

I will be leaving for the weekend in about an hour. Any questions not posted before then will be dealt with on Monday.

Is it man-made?

Kim

Is it a geographical feature?

Good to see that the classic openings are still popular.

Stone?

plump

smaller than a shoe box?

Made of metal?

Is it a building?

[Bread] Yes
[Kim] Not usually, almost never in fact
[Snod] No
[plump] No
[Inks] Partly
[Raak] Most people would not count them as such

Is it bigger than a phonebox?

Does it run on electrical power?

Kim

Is it a cave?

[all] No
[Ink] Electrical power is involved, but it would most likely still function without an external power supply
[Kim] No

Is it actually a phone box?

[Snodgrass] OK that clearly wasn't as hard as I'd hoped, either that or people just knew which questions to ask.

SNODGRASS WINS

Audience

*Shouts, screams and generally goes wild for Snodgrass*

Oh, B****r, that was a pure guess, so thanks to [all] for the assist.

OK. So its thinking time again and the next item
ABSTRACT with Animal, Vegetable and Mineral influences

Is it the title of a piece of music?

stunning win snodgrass

[Inkspot] Why thank you - lucky guess really.
No. Not a misical piece, let me guess - were you thinking of The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy?

Is it the title of a piece of fiction?

[Snodgrass]Guess, perhaps, but still impressive.

[all] I owe it all to your previous question. No not fiction.

Is it a popular phrase or saying?

all has just confessed that he saw me write down the answer. (cheating little git)

[all] Shame on you !
[GL] Not popular, (as in Nice to se you, to see you Nice!) but I suppose it is a well known. phrase

Kim

Is it the Abominable Snowman?

[Kim] No. And unless he has a carrot for a nose I couldnt see a vegetable reference!

Life, the Universe, and Everything?

42?

[Raak] No, more Earthly than that
[all] No, too many

8?

[Tuj] No. Not 8. !?!

Less than 10?

[all] Assuming there is a numeric component, which you all seem to be, then Yes, it is less than 10 (in a One Flew Over The Cookoos Nest kind of way)

Is there a numeric component?

Given that you said 42 was too many it's safe to assume there is

[GL] Yes and may I refer the Honorable Gusset to the answer I gave a few moments ago (to all)

Is the numeric component larger than one?

Your response to the Dishonorable all stated that it was an assumption, I wished to have the point clarrified

[GL] No, and to save everyone a question it is not less than one either! Therefore .........
I assume that you and all are still not talking then!?

Is it a title of a book?

Is the animal refered to a person?

[Inkspot the first] There are books using this in the title but my thought is the phrase. The book is incidental.
[Inkspot the second] It would be a person having influence here but is not referred to in the phrase.

Is the vegetable a carrot?

[all] Nope - Vegetation is loosly involved not vegetables. Similarly loosly involved are the mineral and animal influences.

How green is my valley?

[Inkspot] I have no idea. I've never seen it. What sort of a chap do you think I am? No

Is there a reference to a country in the phrase?