Does anyone want to play a game?
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April 10th, 2010
I’m not sure if we’re even allowed to do this, but just to lighten the atmosphere a little, I thought of a game. A nostalgia game. I’ll start with a phrase, you tell me where it’s from. The person with the first correct answer goes next. I was hoping we could try to have no meta-conversation (other than some attaboys and attagirls.)
OK, To start: “Tear Off End, Pull String Down”—where have you heard or seen that?
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Tear off end, pull string down….
Hm….
I’m inclined to think of a cigarette packet, or maybe something that had to be sterile, like a box of band-aids or something.
Band-Aids! Oh hell, @seeky was too quick for me.
I want to play. How long do we wait for “winner” to return and post the next question? Should there be a time limit? Maybe susanc can post one since she got it right and then Seek can have a turn later if she comes back?
“You go” was from Drowning Mona… not that anyone cares. What a great movie, though.
OTOH, if susanc doesn’t post in 5 minutes, maybe CW, that smartass, gets to go?
No, not just yet. But I do want to say that this was an excellent idea. It reminds me of my favoritest ever website. It has since gone quiet, but there used to be an MSN chatroom (I think) called “Quiz to Eternity” based on this premise.
The person who had the Q got to post any bit of trivia he/she wanted. It could be a quotation, and we had to guess the author or other source (whatever the Q required), or a definition of a word, or term or any kind of trivia. (Movie trivia was popular, as well as sports, history, you get the idea.)
The Q was totally up to whoever had it… and he got to announce the winner. Winners got lurve, and the rest of us got to make humorous comments (same as Fluther on any other day) and start arguments unrelated to the Q (ditto). And it was “to Eternity” because we also had users from around the world. Lots of fun.
Ha ha ha… I’m going to be in and out – company over and all. I don’t think we should wait for the winner. Whoever’s here, go ahead and post a new one!
And for mine…
“Do not attempt to stop blade with hands, feet, or genitals”
I would have said “lawnmower”, but something tells me they wouldn’t have worried about the last bit (seriously).
Ha ha. You’re very close.
@CyanoticWasp Maybe this game will morph in to something like that. That would be nice.
@dpworkin I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that some of the QTEers are now jellies. There were a lot from the UK and Oz, and quite literite litterate littaret well-read.
I saw this last night at our bonfire. ^_^ Couldn’t help but laugh.
Can we have side comments in small letters? They’re distracting from the game.
@janbb : G*d forbid we distract you.
@janbb can we have sex in the margins and distract the players?
@dpworkin she’s distracting. What was the Q, anyway?
I think it means you win. Do another one or give us a hint.
@Seek_Kolinahr only 4 players so far; it needs more to reach a critical mass.
Let’s play a new game. everyone jump on @janbb day!
That was the true-to-life warning label on my husband’s chainsaw.
That was my very next guess. No telling when I might have made it, though.
Wow! Never would have guessed.
Milo here: My next guess, also.
I think someone else is going to have to take a turn. I can’t come up with anything at the moment…
We read a warning similar to that when we got a new vacuum cleaner. It said “Don’t vacuum in the nude.” Made us wonder!
I got one:
“Fanmail from some flounder?”
I know. But it’s too easy for me. I’ll shut up.
@gailcalled Not close so no cigar. Isn’t it “O Solo Milo” anyway?
@dp – Knew it was up your alley – good thought.
I’m trying to tuna you all out and think.
Ah, give a guess, just for the halibut.
Holycrap! I know what it is!
But I just went, so someone else can do it. ^_^
I’m recalling more of the QTE game:
1. The questioner could ask anything at all, and some of the questions were rigged so that “local knowledge” was required (when the Brits wanted to exclude Yanks, or vice versa), so in those cases the outsiders just made a lot of snarky comments as part of the game.
2. It was run the same we we started this… leave the Q out there for a few minutes, then add a hint or two… and eventually give the answer and another Q, or nominate the next questioner.
3. The questioner could always nominate someone else.
4. About once a week we’d play a “boys against the girls” game that was the highlight of the whole thing. There seemed to be a panel in charge of coming up with (and judging answers for) very difficult, arcane or complicated questions, and keeping score. Those games were highly anticipated and scheduled well in advance for a great turnout.
“Fanmail from some flounder?”
Rocky and Bullwinkle?
And JayKay gets the prize – and is probably much older than I would have guessed! Your turn!
You have to admit, “flattery” gets bonus points!
Here you go:
“The policeman isn’t there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder.”
I’m still trying to come to grips with R&B.
Flattery does – falttery not so much
@CyanoticWasp Pleasures of a misspent youth.
The answer to that question is “43”.
“The policeman isn’t there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder.”
Sounds like Monty Python.
I’m pretty sure it was our 43rd president.
It wasn’t a national politician.
/me is in denial that such a thing would be openly admitted in real life
What is this I’ve stumbled upon!
Wow. Yeah. Politics in the 60s… my dad was in high school then. I don’t have a chance
Ahh! Not a National Politician. Mayor Daley.
@CyanoticWasp DING! DING!
Chicago Mayor Daley during the Democratic Convention
As in Chicago’s Mayor Daley?
No, wait… my dad was… nine then.
This is really interesting. Maybe I should make a new chat room just for this kinda stuff—so it’s faster to respond.
Okay… this is a two-parter (and very, very simple):
1. Name the words on the “Instructions”
2. Say where they’re found
L x x x x x.
R x x x x.
R x x x x x.
Lather
Rinse
Repeat
shamppoo
Oh, I was thinking they were all words.
Whew. I was afraid the bald guy would win this round.
@janbb
Good one CyanoticWasp and janbb!
Wait, I’ll go after @janbb if she has something already.
Let’s just play it out fir a while while the momentum is going.
I posted in the chatroom, “They’re coming to get you, Barbara…”
(Uh, @janbb, mayhap andrew would prefer we use the chatroom)
@dpworkin No, it’s fine to do it here. I just thought it’d be a lot easier to respond quickly in the chatroom—and this huge list of responses isn’t really going to help anyonre in the future.
But I thought we decided that I was the boss around here. O.k., O.K.
@andrew: And I thought the mantra was, “We’re from fluther and we’re not here to help you.”
I don’t know what’s going on nor how this works. But that’s a quote from Night of the Living Dead, @Seek_Kolinahr.
@janbb: You’re being boss for the day was a fluke.
@janbb: Stop trying to mussel in and just scrod off!
I flounder way to be the last poster in this stupid thread.
Koi veys mir! (No you didn’t!)
No, I guess you had to cockle it up for me, you conch.
Do I have to just perch here to have the last word?
(pun wars at 7:30 a.m., pd?)
I’ll just be Salmonic, and give you the last word. Otherwise you’d just winkle it out of me anyway.
Nobody gives me nuttin”, I hake what I want!
Question is… who’s the fastest punslinger on Fluther?
Whose pun-fu is strongest?
You have to ask? (Puts away smoking pun.)
Everyone knows I’m the fastest punslinger in this plaice. Hake that!
Oy – @jeanmay, you’re giving me a haddock!
Porgie estamos hablando aqui?
You’re giving me such a pain, I may have to call a sturgeon!
I’m not herring you! la-la-la-la-la-la-la!
Too many misspent nights at the Filmore from what I hear; that’s what happens when you have lox of fun as a kid.
Oh cod, death by pun. It’s getting hard to (sea) weed. Think I’m gonna roe now.
…or was that “Carp-ay Diem”
I shell not rise to the bait, chums. If there’s any moray of this, then I’ll suggest yawl get professional kelp.
I think I’ll just skipper you remarks for now, CW, and sloop off. Ketch up with you later!
@janbb: Buoy, if I ketched you, I’d throw you back, chum.
@janbb Don’t be such a sore loofah!
@jeanmay: Jan is always sponging off me.
Can we shellfish this discussion for another night?
@janbb : Tomorrow, beware; you may be walking the plankton.
I’m going to leave Fluther in a fit of pike.
Oh, but then you’ll leave us all so bluefish! (It’s late and I’m tired.)
This thread is very fishy!
And Ithought you were gonna get all anchovy-dovey with me.
I’m going to smackeral you across your largemouth,
These puns smelt yesterday; they’re bass—and some are completely unfathomable, as I manta say then. Menhaden ought to keep up such foolishness—nor women, neither. I hake to keep carping about this—the net effect is to make us look like clownfish. Narwhale you stop thi swordfishiness?
I thought so too. I’m still chuckling. CW gets the laurels.
Surely it’s the seaweed? And a free lifetime membership in the Punsters of Fluther Club! CW, you can be January on our next calendar.
OK, but don’t call me Shirley.
I’ll call ya Shoiley if I want to and you can’t stop me!
I’ll let it go this time, but consider it a fluke.
Koi veys mir, here we go again.
Was machst du a squid?
(Damn – I’m good!)
Too good for me. ^^What the halibut does that mean?
We’d make a pretty good maatjes if your herring weren’t so bad.
Ah, go eat a pickle. Or, as an alternative, shad up and roe your boat outta here,
Guys, enough of this crab-trap.
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