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Oct. 30th, 2007 04:49 pmAnyone want to play Animal and Object?
The Premise:
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damned_colonial and I invented this game while inventing inn names for something we were writing. It occurred to us that one of the most common forms of pub name was Animal+Object (eg. Pig and Whistle).
The Actual Game:
The basic format is cheerfully stolen from The Minister's Cat; it's a progressive alphabet game. (So the letter you play is the letter after the one in the last person's turn *sings the alphabet song*)
So Round One looks like this:
The Apostle[1] and Agate/Bison and Boxcar/Codfish and Corpse[2]...
Round Two looks like this:
The Apostle and Agate[3] in Arnprior.
Round Three looks like this:
An Aquavit at the Apostle and Agate in Arnprior.
Round Four looks like this:
An Aquavit with Arthur at the Apostle and Agate in Arnprior.
If we make it to Round Five this time I'll come up with something.
ETA:
Round Five: We appear to be down to adjectives, so Round Five will be
An Adequate Aquavit with Arthur at the Apostle and Agate in Arnprior.
Special LiveJournal Rules:
Please reply only to the original post, not to other comments, (unless your comment is a question or digression instead of a turn; digressions are totally allowed, but I'm fine with them collapsing) because if the threads collapse the game becomes completely unplayable.
Simultaneous replies may lead to a letter being doubled or tripled. We ignore this gracefully and carry on. Nevertheless, you are on your honour to play the letter available as of when you hit 'reply', not to hit reply until you actually know what you're going to type, and to hit 'refresh' before hitting 'reply' if your pause for thought has turned into an expedition to refill your coffee, have a smoke, and try to recall what that thing you had in Ungava Bay that started with X was called.
[1] Humans are Animals, yes. The dividing line is: If it breathes, it's an Animal. Everything up is also an Animal, for these purposes: Angels, Buddha, whatever. If it photosynthesizes, it's an Object. Everything down is also an object; rocks or anything.
[2] That's me getting the only permitted use of a human as an Object out of the way early.
[3] Only with a new pub name. I just didn't want to use up TOO many words making examples.
GAME ON!
The Premise:
I believe that
damned_colonial and I invented this game while inventing inn names for something we were writing. It occurred to us that one of the most common forms of pub name was Animal+Object (eg. Pig and Whistle). The Actual Game:
The basic format is cheerfully stolen from The Minister's Cat; it's a progressive alphabet game. (So the letter you play is the letter after the one in the last person's turn *sings the alphabet song*)
So Round One looks like this:
The Apostle[1] and Agate/Bison and Boxcar/Codfish and Corpse[2]...
Round Two looks like this:
The Apostle and Agate[3] in Arnprior.
Round Three looks like this:
An Aquavit at the Apostle and Agate in Arnprior.
Round Four looks like this:
An Aquavit with Arthur at the Apostle and Agate in Arnprior.
ETA:
Round Five: We appear to be down to adjectives, so Round Five will be
An Adequate Aquavit with Arthur at the Apostle and Agate in Arnprior.
Special LiveJournal Rules:
Please reply only to the original post, not to other comments, (unless your comment is a question or digression instead of a turn; digressions are totally allowed, but I'm fine with them collapsing) because if the threads collapse the game becomes completely unplayable.
Simultaneous replies may lead to a letter being doubled or tripled. We ignore this gracefully and carry on. Nevertheless, you are on your honour to play the letter available as of when you hit 'reply', not to hit reply until you actually know what you're going to type, and to hit 'refresh' before hitting 'reply' if your pause for thought has turned into an expedition to refill your coffee, have a smoke, and try to recall what that thing you had in Ungava Bay that started with X was called.
[1] Humans are Animals, yes. The dividing line is: If it breathes, it's an Animal. Everything up is also an Animal, for these purposes: Angels, Buddha, whatever. If it photosynthesizes, it's an Object. Everything down is also an object; rocks or anything.
[2] That's me getting the only permitted use of a human as an Object out of the way early.
[3] Only with a new pub name. I just didn't want to use up TOO many words making examples.
GAME ON!
