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AVMA Take 2
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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 ....
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[I] According to snopes, the religious significance is an urban legend.
ABSTRACT and MINERAL.
The snopes URL was wahwahwahdot snopes.com/holidays/christmas/12days.asp.
Hmmm... you should have been able to type that in. Let's try again. Yeah, that works - Raak, you probably mis-typed 'href'. I'll set about producing a warning when this happens.
Anything to do with Christmas?
The Anarcho-syndicalist Tennis Championships Cup?
Santa's Sleigh?
[Rosie] Indirectly.
[INJ] No.
[irach] No.
A building?
Is the mineral metal?
Well, you live and learn. I grew up Catholic, so I knew the 'underground Catholic' thing was wrong, but I had always though it was a memory thing like 'Deck of cards'. Sorry if I misdirected anyone.
[Tuj] No.
[I] No.
Is it an idiom?
A natural phenomenon?
[rab] No.
[Rosie] Yes!
Something related to the weather?
related to snow?
An 80% chance of rain?
[Inkspot] Yes.
[INJ] Yes. (Applause!)
[rab] No.
The dissimilarity of all snowflakes?
Anything to do with the colour of snow?
[CdM] No.
[I] No.
A snow drift?
A blizzard?
The snowman?
[Chalky] No. (More applause.)
[rab] No. (Applause continues.)
[I] No.
A particular way in which snow falls?
I'm trying to work out the abstract connection...
Being snowed-in?
[Tuj] Close...
[Chalky] Yes! Being snowed in.
I'm not sure whether it was really justified to call it abstract. I think we sometimes use the word too readily.
ooops
sorry - all contributors - I seem to have barged in at the end and found the right phrase. After a few months of playing and never quite getting the right answer, I think I'm learning how certain minds work - ie. I would not have posted that particular phrase if the chair had been anyone other than Raak. Weird eh? :-)

Here goes ...

A N I M A L and I, too, will play down the abstract nature of this one ..

Human?
(Raak) It's true we are a bit free-and-easy with the abstract occasionally but there's nothing wrong with the last one. Being snowed in is a "state", so cannot be anything other than abstract.
[Rosie] Human? Indeed, yes
alive?
Female?
I think I agree with Rosie -- perfectly legitimate to call that last one abstract. I was less sure that the partridge in the pear tree should have been so classified.
[INJ] Alive? Yes
[CdM] Female? No
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