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The Royal Archives => The Dark Age => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Delling on February 06, 2009, 10:40:28 AM
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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
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Yazid
Edit: This guy. :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazid
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Diana
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Anka
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Alexander the Great
... you don't have to underline if the name has just one part... :P
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Robert Downey Jr.
Alexander the Great
... you don't have to underline if the name has just one part... :P
But it's more fun... :D :P
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Tiberius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius)
The T in James T. Kirk!
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Teri Hatcher
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Romulus (maybe bending the rules a little bit since it's debatable if he existed) ;P
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Sam Neill
(L folks, I don't feel like looking up how to underline right now :P)
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Lance Armstrong
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Graham Greene
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night-owl: the famous person has to start with the _ letter on the last one.
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Uhhh... it does.
Mandela, Nelson
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I don't think it does, that's the whole point of underlining one to begin with. :)
Attila the Hun :P
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Elizabeth
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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.
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Humperdink (prince of Florin)
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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)
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Elanor Roosevelt
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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
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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
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Susan Sarandon
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Norm, from Cheers
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."
Romulus (maybe bending the rules a little bit since it's debatable if he existed) ;P
Famous characters are perfectly legitimate. :)
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Madonna lol
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Norm, from Cheers
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."
Romulus (maybe bending the rules a little bit since it's debatable if he existed) ;P
Famous characters are perfectly legitimate. :)
Ok, understood.
Aristotle
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Eric Idle
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Electra
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Anne Hathaway
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Young, James
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Gary Oldman
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Nabokov, Vladimir
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I assume we're always to take the anglicised version of the name? :)
Rhea Silvia
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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
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Samuel Johnson
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Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
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Orlando Bloom
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Michael Jackson ...
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Numa Pompilius
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Steven Seagal
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Lawrence,[Richards] Herbert David
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Delling. :D
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Gerd
(it was the only Norse name I could think of that started with a "g" :-\)
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Don Knotts
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Steven Spielberg
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George Lucas
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Senator Palpatine
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Edvard Munch
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[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
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Huh? There's no K in the preceding name at ALL. How did you come up with Kevin Costner?!
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Going by phonetics, the ch in Norwegian is a k in English. :P
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Thanks Deloria. Perhaps my explanation in the post was not clear enough...Sorry Chris if I confused you.
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Most welcome. :)
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It's probably best to just stick with spelling, rather than pronunciation.
Richard Nixon
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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)
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Ronald Moore
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Eric Idle
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Ernie (as in the Sesame St one)
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Eric Dane. :lovegoggles:
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Elmyra (Tiny Toons)
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Amir Fakhr-al-Din II
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Ra's al Ghul
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Larry Laffer XB
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Reynardine (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/index2.php)
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Edward Blake :)
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Edmund Leighton
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Newton
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Edgar Allan Poe.
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Rembrandt
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Thomas Edison
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Nefertiti
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Icarus
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Shakespeare
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Elmer the Bull
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Lisa Kudrow
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Winston Churchill
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Lisa Loeb
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Bob Marley
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Ygrayne
(variant of Igraine, mother of King Arthur... hrmm... there may need to be a relative fame limit :P)
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(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
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(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