Vegetable/Abstract
This one is ABSTRACT with ANIMAL connections.
M I N E R A L
[and if there are any animal bits then they're not important enough to redherring your efforts ... and I've just verbalised an abstract noun - so kill me :-)
Oh yes - I realise now there's some vegetably bits in this but as it's cosmetics you'll soon guess it :-)
[Darren, Raak] Thanks for your contributions - your last guesses were relevant but those products have more medicinal applications, perhaps?
*hands over baton to snorgle*
Abstract and Mineral
The new one is Animal.
So, with that remarkable insight, CdM takes the chair for the next round.
And now for:
A N I M A L / A B S T R A C T
.. and going back to Tuj's earlier question, ie. "Living?" - [to clarify] There is a possibility.
So after all that kerfuffle, we've established that it's human and very British.
that was a clue
Clue: Inkspot's early question, if asked at this stage in the game, might receive a ripple of applause from the audience.
I'm thinking this may be rather obscure.
.. as for CdM - once again, the Maestro strikes!
Well played . Hope you've time to stick around and set one :-)
I know about The Ovalteenies [- tineys?] through my mum, who was one of those 'heppay gels an' boys'. Apparently, if you sent away lid labels from Ovaltine, you received a bronze coloured badge. In my mind, I'd always sort of connected that song with WWII, but mother says it started before the war - in the 1930s, and had absolutely NO connection. She can be a bit fierce like that. I believed her - so didn't bother googling. Apologies if I therefore answered anything wrong.
So, Irouleguy is in the driving seat for the next lap.
It is not/does not:
The eye of the little yellow god
The title of a book
A tool with wooden handle and metal business end
Have anything to do with grass
Not found underground
Part of fokelore of a particlar people
A weapon
Harry Potter's staff - but the right line of thinking
Contain a gem stone
The Mona Lisa smile
Have connection with Lord of the Rings
From a television series
Have magical properties
It is/does:
Have a very faint connection with Ireland but this would be misleading
Have punctuation in it
Fictional
Wood in the vegetable part
Contain a possessive apostrophe
Have metal fixings of some sort - but there's (more important) mineral parts as well
Pre-date 1950
Did you know that Mushrooms have over 36,000 sexes! Unlike us mere mortals who have only the 2 [and a bit, arguably]. No wonder they proliferate.
Anyway, enough of this self-disclosure. It's high time we had ...
ABSTRACT ANIMAL
hmmm - crossdressing trannies - don't go down that path. If I was vague on the gender issue, there might be a good reason. It may help to think laterally. Don't worry about the Abstract part just yet either.
Now for the Abstract bit :-)
As for the other replies - you are all correct so I have to be fair and give it to the person who mentioned the word 'Brand' [mainly because I had in mind the phrase The Beckham Brand when I began].
Well done Irouléguy for getting there just before flerdle [with whom I agree wholeheartedly on the annoyance factor]
Commiseration thingies to INJ for also being correct.
*hands over to Irouléguy*
Summary:
It is: a single, existing, permanent, manufactured metal object in the U.K., bigger than a phone box and smaller than a shipping container, big enough to get inside (laughter), at least as wide as tall, um er briefly associated with a TV series, and without moving parts.
It is not: a form of transport, or any of the specific things mentioned so far.
This one is ABSTRACT
(No - not as such - more just a general sense that the question could lead in the right sort of direction)
So, it's over to Flerdle