Yes, it's another round of that classic guessing game - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Abstract [or any combination thereof]. This effort - '03/'04 should address any queries, but then again, may just serve to confuse and baffle which some might say is the point of the game. Patience, integrity and a decent search engine may be useful ....
[blame] YES! the words on the card are "a nylon kipper tie", and the fish connection was indeed the reason for the applause. *turns the baton around itself twice, folds the end through the gap, passes it through the loop, tightens, and hands it over to blamelewis*
It's a non-mythical species of bird, flightless and rare. It is none of the following: Penguin, Penguin, Kiwi, Ostrich, Emu, Grebe, Cassowary, Rhea, Caracara, Steamer Duck, Ostrich. A cryptic clue follows Hidden textFilthy Teletubby!
Apart from the Ludlow bit, as far as I'm aware... [Gusset] A droll lol... It is indeed the endearingly hopeless Kakapo, which I learned about from Douglas Adams' wonderful Last Chance To See and the later TV series with Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine revisiting the species from the book years later.
[GL] Book? NO [Raak] Art-related? NO [Phil] Animal human? PARTLY/MAINLY, I suppose. [Dujon] An object? NO. Used in war? ARGUABLY (but probably not that helpful an angle).
[Raak] The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit? NO [Rosie] A man-made environment? YES, I GUESS YOU COULD CALL IT THAT.