Author Topic: Famous People (Read 17468 times)

night-owl · « **Reply #20 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?

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

snabbott · « **Reply #21 on:** February 12, 2009, 06:41:22 AM »

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

Yonkey · « **Reply #22 on:** February 12, 2009, 06:53:12 AM »

Susan Sarandon

Delling · « **Reply #23 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)

Famous characters are perfectly legitimate.

atec123 · « **Reply #24 on:** February 12, 2009, 08:51:32 AM »

Madonna lol

night-owl · « **Reply #25 on:** February 12, 2009, 03:05:37 PM »

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)

Famous characters are perfectly legitimate.

Ok, understood.

Aristotle

PirateKingChris · « **Reply #26 on:** February 12, 2009, 04:35:02 PM »

Eric Idle

Delling · « **Reply #27 on:** February 12, 2009, 04:35:12 PM »

Electra

Yonkey · « **Reply #28 on:** February 12, 2009, 10:54:58 PM »

Anne Hathaway

night-owl · « **Reply #29 on:** February 13, 2009, 06:40:45 AM »

Young, James

PirateKingChris · « **Reply #30 on:** February 14, 2009, 03:23:18 PM »

Gary Oldman

night-owl · « **Reply #31 on:** February 15, 2009, 04:46:10 AM »

Nabokov, Vladimir

Deloria · « **Reply #32 on:** February 17, 2009, 03:44:56 AM »

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

Rhea Silvia

Delling · « **Reply #33 on:** February 17, 2009, 07:00:36 AM »

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.

night-owl · « **Reply #34 on:** February 17, 2009, 08:26:16 AM »

Samuel Johnson

Deloria · « **Reply #35 on:** February 17, 2009, 09:54:26 AM »

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus

PirateKingChris · « **Reply #36 on:** February 17, 2009, 06:50:25 PM »

Orlando Bloom

night-owl · « **Reply #37 on:** February 18, 2009, 08:59:50 AM »

Michael Jackson ...

Deloria · « **Reply #38 on:** February 18, 2009, 02:33:12 PM »

Numa Pompilius

Delling · « **Reply #39 on:** February 18, 2009, 08:29:26 PM »

Steven Seagal

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