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A country edition.
Pigswill.
--
Regards
Stephen
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On Tue, 27 May 2014 23:07:01 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> A country edition.
>
> Pigswill.
Stilton
--
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
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On 27/05/14 23:08, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Pigswill.
>
> Stilton
>
has
John
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Protect the Earth
It was not given to you by your parents
You hold it in trust for your children
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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2014 23:07:01 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> > A country edition.
> >
> > Pigswill.
> Stilton
Damned if I understand what's happening here.
--
- Warp
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On 27/05/14 23:27, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 May 2014 23:07:01 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>>> A country edition.
>>>
>>> Pigswill.
>
>> Stilton
>
> Damned if I understand what's happening here.
>
Swift set of rules from H2G2:
> Cheddar Gorge is a game featured on the Radio 4 program I'm sorry I haven't a clue.
>
> How Do I Play?
>
> It's really easy. The first player chooses a word to start a sentence. Subsequent
players add a word to continue the sentence in a coherent manner. The only catch is,
your word cannot be construed as ending the sentence - if it can, you lose.
>
> Can I see an example?
>
> Player 1: The
> Player 2: large
> Player 3: dog
> Player 1: chased
> Player 2: a
> Player 3: ball
>
> Player 3 loses, because the sentence 'The large dog chased a ball', contain as it
does, subject, object and verb. S/he need not have lost, because they could have
continued the sentence with an adjective, like red, but they didn't.
>
> For someone to lose, there has to be a challenge, by the next player. As a player,
you lose if
>
> 1) You have completed a sentence
>
> or
>
> 2) You have played in such a way that the sentence cannot be finished as a piece of
grammatical English.
>
> The player whose turn it is can make either of these challenges against the previous
player - the previous player loses if, in case (1), the sentence is completed, or in
case (2) they cannot, within one post, produce a valid English sentence starting with
the words already played. Any form of 'creative punctuation' is fair game, as long as
the final sentence makes grammatical sense. If they can make a valid sentence, the
challenger loses.
>
> In any case, once a challenge is issued that game is over, and the challenger plays
the first word of the next game while the completed game awaits adjudication by the
tournament referee.
>
> Once you have played a word, you take responsibility for all the preceding words -
if the sentence couldn't be completed, and you add a word, the next player challenges
you, not the person who made the play which first rendered the sentence uncompletable.
John
--
Protect the Earth
It was not given to you by your parents
You hold it in trust for your children
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On Tue, 27 May 2014 23:20:13 +0100, Doctor John wrote:
> On 27/05/14 23:08, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> Pigswill.
>>
>> Stilton
>>
>>
> has
flown
--
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
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Am 28.05.2014 01:38, schrieb Jim Henderson:
> On Tue, 27 May 2014 23:20:13 +0100, Doctor John wrote:
>
>> On 27/05/14 23:08, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> Pigswill.
>>>
>>> Stilton
>>>
>>>
>> has
>
> flown
Not your turn.
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Am 28.05.2014 00:20, schrieb Doctor John:
> On 27/05/14 23:08, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> Pigswill.
>>
>> Stilton
>>
>
> has
inadequately
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On Wed, 28 May 2014 02:43:52 +0200, clipka wrote:
> Am 28.05.2014 01:38, schrieb Jim Henderson:
>> On Tue, 27 May 2014 23:20:13 +0100, Doctor John wrote:
>>
>>> On 27/05/14 23:08, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>>> Pigswill.
>>>>
>>>> Stilton
>>>>
>>>>
>>> has
>>
>> flown
>
> Not your turn.
Oh, right, my mistake. :)
Jim
--
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
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On 28/05/2014 01:45, clipka wrote:
> Am 28.05.2014 00:20, schrieb Doctor John:
>> On 27/05/14 23:08, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> Pigswill.
>>>
>>> Stilton
>>>
>>
>> has
>
> inadequately
>
been
--
Regards
Stephen
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