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This is a game I played with a friend of mine. Basically, you have to come up with someone famous whose name starts with letter that the previous name ended with. For the purposes of clarity (in some cases such as "Catherine the Great") I suggest underlining the letter from which play is intended to continue (ie- Catherine the Great vs. Catherine the Great) So, the game goes like this:

If the first name played was:
Catherine the Great

then...
Timothy (from the Bible)
...would be a legitimate response...

[Oh, and maybe in cases where you're not sure if many people will recognize the name you're about to play... since this is online, you could include hyperlinks to wiki/imdb pages...]

I'll start us off with the end of the example...

Timothy

Yazid

Edit: This guy. :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazid

Diana

Anka

Alexander the Great

... you don't have to underline if the name has just one part... :P

Robert Downey Jr.

Quote from: Delling on February 06, 2009, 02:10:12 PM
Alexander the Great

... you don't have to underline if the name has just one part... :P

But it's more fun... :D :P

Tiberius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius)

The T in James T. Kirk!

Teri Hatcher

Romulus (maybe bending the rules a little bit since it's debatable if he existed) ;P

Sam Neill
(L folks, I don't feel like looking up how to underline right now :P)

Lance Armstrong

Graham Greene

night-owl: the famous person has to start with the _ letter on the last one.

Uhhh... it does.

Mandela, Nelson

I don't think it does, that's the whole point of underlining one to begin with.  :)

Attila the Hun  :P

Elizabeth

Quote from: Petra Rocks on February 11, 2009, 01:54:50 PM
I don't think it does, that's the whole point of underlining one to begin with.  :)

Attila the Hun  :P

i mean the underlined one.

Humperdink (prince of Florin)

Quote from: atec123 on February 11, 2009, 02:13:14 PM

Quote from: Petra Rocks on February 11, 2009, 01:54:50 PM
I don't think it does, that's the whole point of underlining one to begin with.  :)

Attila the Hun  :P

i mean the underlined one.

He did...Lance Armstrong to Graham Greene.

Kane (the wrestler)

Elanor Roosevelt

To underline or not to underline-that is the question.
Let me sort this out. So the rule is that ONLY the last letter of your guy should be used as a cue? as in playing a word chain? I browsed the thread and I thought I saw cues both at the end and the middle- whuch sugggests the cue is not only the last letter but can be any letter- which is the point of underlining, is it not?


Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Quote from: night-owl on February 12, 2009, 04:14:32 AM
To underline or not to underline-that is the question.
Let me sort this out. So the rule is that ONLY the last letter of your guy should be used as a cue? as in playing a word chain? I browsed the thread and I thought I saw cues both at the end and the middle- whuch sugggests the cue is not only the last letter but can be any letter- which is the point of underlining, is it not?

I think it's supposed to be the last letter of one of the words in the name.

Samuel Clemens

Susan Sarandon

Norm, from Cheers

Quote from: night-owl on February 12, 2009, 04:14:32 AM
To underline or not to underline-that is the question.
Let me sort this out. So the rule is that ONLY the last letter of your guy should be used as a cue? as in playing a word chain? I browsed the thread and I thought I saw cues both at the end and the middle- whuch sugggests the cue is not only the last letter but can be any letter- which is the point of underlining, is it not?

The cue is supposed to be the last letter of the name, but it's possible to play a name that might not be believed to be famous without explanation, e.g.

Stephen

Stephen who?

Stephen, the first martyr/from the Bible

In such cases, one would usually expect to play off of the last letter of the name anyway, but what if someone used for instance:

Katherine the Great

do you play off of "e" or "t"? Basically, this is the same as asking if "the Great" is considered part of her name, and I think that's a more legitimate question so to eliminate confusion in such cases I suggested underlining the letter from which play was to continue. (A good alternative example that just occurred to me: King Henry VIII, or King Henry the Eighth, which letter do you proceed from?) Another good use for this that I hadn't thought of before would be cases of inversion such as "Mandela, Nelson."

Quote from: Petra Rocks on February 06, 2009, 08:45:11 PM
Romulus (maybe bending the rules a little bit since it's debatable if he existed) ;P

Famous characters are perfectly legitimate. :)

Madonna lol

Quote from: Delling on February 12, 2009, 07:30:32 AM
Norm, from Cheers

Quote from: night-owl on February 12, 2009, 04:14:32 AM
To underline or not to underline-that is the question.
Let me sort this out. So the rule is that ONLY the last letter of your guy should be used as a cue? as in playing a word chain? I browsed the thread and I thought I saw cues both at the end and the middle- whuch sugggests the cue is not only the last letter but can be any letter- which is the point of underlining, is it not?

The cue is supposed to be the last letter of the name, but it's possible to play a name that might not be believed to be famous without explanation, e.g.

Stephen

Stephen who?

Stephen, the first martyr/from the Bible

In such cases, one would usually expect to play off of the last letter of the name anyway, but what if someone used for instance:

Katherine the Great

do you play off of "e" or "t"? Basically, this is the same as asking if "the Great" is considered part of her name, and I think that's a more legitimate question so to eliminate confusion in such cases I suggested underlining the letter from which play was to continue. (A good alternative example that just occurred to me: King Henry VIII, or King Henry the Eighth, which letter do you proceed from?) Another good use for this that I hadn't thought of before would be cases of inversion such as "Mandela, Nelson."

Quote from: Petra Rocks on February 06, 2009, 08:45:11 PM
Romulus (maybe bending the rules a little bit since it's debatable if he existed) ;P

Famous characters are perfectly legitimate. :)

Ok, understood.

Aristotle

Eric Idle

Electra

Anne Hathaway

Young, James

Gary Oldman

Nabokov, Vladimir

I assume we're always to take the anglicised version of the name? :)

Rhea Silvia

Artemis

People might run into issues if we asked them to play off of a rho or a xi or anything Cyrillic for that matter. XD :P

Samuel Johnson

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus

Orlando Bloom

Michael Jackson ...

Numa Pompilius

Steven Seagal

Lawrence,[Richards] Herbert David

Delling. :D

Gerd

(it was the only Norse name I could think of that started with a "g" :-\)

Don Knotts

Steven Spielberg

George Lucas

Senator Palpatine

Edvard Munch

[this one is somewhat tricky. i based it on pronunciation, which should be [mʉŋk]   I guess, not to confuse with other things with the same ortographic form ....or do i base on ortographic form?


Kevin Costner

Huh? There's no K in the preceding name at ALL. How did you come up with Kevin Costner?!

Going by phonetics, the ch in Norwegian is a k in English. :P

Thanks Deloria. Perhaps my explanation in the post was not clear enough...Sorry Chris if I confused you.

Most welcome. :)

It's probably best to just stick with spelling, rather than pronunciation.


Richard Nixon

Oh ok thanks for the explanation. And yes I think you're supposed to go by spelling and not pronunciation anyway...

Nick Raiser
(my brother :P)

Ronald Moore

Eric Idle

Ernie (as in the Sesame St one)

Eric Dane.     :lovegoggles:

Elmyra (Tiny Toons)

Amir Fakhr-al-Din II

Ra's al Ghul

Larry Laffer XB

Reynardine (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/index2.php)

Edward Blake  :)

Edmund Leighton

Newton

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Edgar Allan Poe.

Rembrandt

Thomas Edison

Nefertiti

Icarus

Shakespeare

Elmer the Bull

Lisa Kudrow

Winston Churchill

Lisa Loeb

Bob Marley

Ygrayne

(variant of Igraine, mother of King Arthur... hrmm... there may need to be a relative fame limit :P)

Quote from: Delling on September 06, 2009, 12:30:19 PM
(variant of Igraine, mother of King Arthur... hrmm... there may need to be a relative fame limit :P)

Neh, I knew exactly who you were talking about.  She's famous enough for me.  *Shrugs*

Evan Rachel Wood

Quote from: Haids1987 on September 06, 2009, 02:11:00 PM

Quote from: Delling on September 06, 2009, 12:30:19 PM
(variant of Igraine, mother of King Arthur... hrmm... there may need to be a relative fame limit :P)

Neh, I knew exactly who you were talking about.  She's famous enough for me.  *Shrugs*

I just thought using a variant spelling of a minor character in Arthurian legend might not really qualify as "famous" :P