mc5 - AVMA Take 2

Raak

An actor playing a role?

Lib

Aged under 40?

Sven?

Borat?

Mycroft?

Avatar

I was thinking 'graphical representation in a game of a real person'

Uncle Korky

Wireless? NO
Actor? NO
Under 40? YES
The rippling one? NO
Borat? NO
Mr Holmes snr? NO
Avatar II? NO - but the audience senses that IS,P is poking around the right area, and responds with appropriate *applause*.

Raak

Is this person advertising something?

Uncle Korky

Back after these important messages? NO

I Say, Porter!

Is it 'Uncle Korky' - is what I was trying, and failing, to get at.

Uncle Korky

We have a winner! The very words on the card are "Uncle Korky", so one morniversal baton is well and truly passed on!

I Say, Porter!

[uk] However did you think of that one?

The next one is Mineral. In the immortal words of Ron Pickering "away you go"

Tuj

Unique?

I Say, Porter!

[Tuj] One is one and all alone and evermore shall be so? NO

Tuj

Metallic?

Projoy

Useful?

I Say, Porter!

[Tuj] Metallic YES
[Projoy] Useful? NOT AS SUCH

Tuj

Bigger than a toaster?

Uncle Korky

Is it art?

I Say, Porter!

[Tuj] Toastier than thou? YES [Korky] Art for Art's Sake? NOT AS SUCH

I Say, Porter!

This is quite hard, isn't it? Ages since I did the setting for one of these.

Projoy

Is it beautiful?

I Say, Porter!

[Projoy] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So... I wouldn't call it beautiful, whadda you think?

Raak

A work of architecture?

Uncle Korky

Is it bigger than the average garden shed?

I Say, Porter!

[Raak] Millenium Tent? NO
[Uncle 'Two Sheds' Korky] NO.

Projoy

Human-made?

I Say, Porter!

[Projoy]A made thing? YES

Uncle Korky

Is it still manufactured nowadays?

I Say, Porter!

[UK] Two questions in one? I'll choose to answer Is it manufactured. NO

Uncle Korky

Hmmm... Human-made - yet NOT manufactured... Is it a by-product?

I Say, Porter!

All that is not unique is not manufactured.

[UK] Manufactured: to produce goods in large numbers, usually in a factory using machines.
Is it a by-product? Of what? The answer's NO anyway, I'm just curious.

I Say, Porter!

I think my point is you can make more than one of a thing without manufacturing being involved at all.

I Say, Porter!

... is going to sit in Place Luxembourg basking in the sunshine with a couple of cool beers ('cos it's Happy Hour - 2 for 1). Pissed if back later.

ImNotJohn

Are instances of this still being made?

(to re-pose the remainder of UK's question)

Irouléguy

Is this specific to a particular culture or country?

I Say, Porter!

[INJ] in production? The thing itself NO, images of the thing YES, in fact probably even manufactured (sorry, Korks).
[Irg]YES audience applause

Tuj

Begins with P?

Projoy

Bigger than a phone box?

I Say, Porter!

[Tuj] P Please Bob? NO
[Pj] Between Phonebox and Shed? NO

Kim

Is it an implement?

I Say, Porter!

[Kim] Implement? NO

Uncle Korky

Still confused... Is is hand-made?

ImNotJohn

Are the various instances of this essentially the same?

i.e. there is only one design and differences are due to variations in the making process.

Projoy

Bigger than a tea-chest?

I Say, Porter!

[UK] Handmade YES
[INJ] YES, recognisably similar.
[Pj] NO even smaller still than a tea chest. For free, it's larger than a tea caddy.

Projoy

[ISP] We know it is. :) You already told us it's larger than a toaster :)

Projoy

An example of a craft?

*quietly points out that, etymologically at least, the word "manufactured" means "hand-made"**

I Say, Porter!

[Pj] Crafted? YES.
[Man-u-facture] Pardon me for using dictionaries to look up definitions. It won't happen again.

Uncle Korky

Is it light enough to be carried?

I Say, Porter!

[UK] Portable? YES but unhelpful I expect. Not my first unhelpful answer, either.

Tuj

A household item?

...however you wish to interpret that.

I Say, Porter!

[Tuj] One in every home? NO

Tuj

Does it belong outside?

Irouléguy

Is the particular country/culture European?

Projoy

Metal all the way through?

I Say, Porter!

[Tuj] Out of doors? YES audience applause
[Irouléguy] Europe to something? YES indeed
[Projoy] Showing its mettle? YES more audience applause
Well done all three.

Street furniture?

Used in sport?

Red in colour?

[Pj] NOT street furniture.
[Irg] NOT used in sport
[Lib] Red? NOT AS SUCH.

CdM

A sculpture?

I Say, Porter!

[CdM] Sculpted? YES audience goes wild. I still maintain that it is not ars gratia artis as such.

CdM

Does it have a purpose beyond aesthetics?

(particularly since you claim it is not beautiful)

I Say, Porter!

[CdM] Purpose? YES it does indeed. (particularly since I think it's just a gimmicky piece of tat)

Is it painted?

[UK] Painted? NO

British?

Does it have moving parts?

I Say, Porter!

[INJ] British? NO, foreign, I'm afraid.
[UK] NO. raucous audience laughter

I Say, Porter!

Has discovered it's fun to say 'raucous'...

Uncle Korky

Does it convey information in some form?

*Blushing in the ridicule of the audience*

I Say, Porter!

[UK] Info? NO.

I Say, Porter!

PS it's not ridicule. You said 'parts'

Uncle Korky

Is it particularly British?

[IS,P] Ah! I just though I was being spectacularly wrong!

I Say, Porter!

Keep up, UK!

... INJ asked that forty minutes ago. NO still.

Uncle Korky

Is it... British? NO - I'M KIDDING! Is it Italian?

OK - NOW I'm blushing!

I Say, Porter!

Country specifics

[UK] Italian? NEANCHE.

CdM

The Manneken-Pis?

(although I'm not sure what its purpose would be)

I Say, Porter!

We have a winner! The very words on the card are "Manneken Pis", and its purpose is "fountain" unless that counts as street furniture in which case its purpose is "tourist attraction", particularly with all the crappy shabby costumes they put on the nasty little sod. One manneken pis baton shaped like a corkscrew passed on! Thank god for that, the answering questions is much harder than the asking. I shall be sure to avoid getting anything right for the foreseeable future.

I Say, Porter!

moving parts

[UK] It has water moving through its parts...