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Taboo
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: September 02, 2008 02:31PM

Maybe we should start a new game in this lull. Would Taboo work?

Please describe a 'ball' without using the word 'round'.

Egon.

(Alternatively we could go for listing various words utterly unconnected to the ones that came before and then challenging with totally nonsense connections. I think we may be buried under games by the time SOG finally comes out



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/02/2008 02:47PM by EgonSpengler.

Re: Taboo
Posted by: BibwitHart (---.253-199-25.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: September 03, 2008 06:57AM

Ball: Curvaceous, rotund form with no sharp edges, somewhat spherical in nature and even in shape.

Egon, do we move on from this?

How about describing eating chocolate without saying the word "taste"

Re: Taboo
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.41.166.189.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: September 03, 2008 10:36AM

Eating chocolate: scrape brown goop off almost any of the female Nextians and enjoy or endure, depending on preference, the texture and sweetness of the sticky mess.

Describe a pie without using the word "pastry"

Re: Taboo
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: September 03, 2008 10:49AM

<Worries further about Fforum disappearing under innumerable game threads>

Re: Taboo
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.41.166.189.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: September 03, 2008 10:56AM

Don't worry, ES. Just look at some of the past topics which have quietly decayed.

At least the game threads usually stay vaguely on-topic for a few pages.......

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Re: Taboo
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: September 04, 2008 11:19AM

Pie: A cooked meat- or fruit-filling encased in a flour-based solid lining to allow use of fingers to eat when cold or convenient.

Describe playing cards without using the word number(s).

Re: Taboo
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (149.135.107.---)
Date: September 04, 2008 05:15PM

Flat bits of pasteboard suitable for playing 52 pickup.

Describe Story, without using the word plot.

Re: Taboo
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.ru.ac.za)
Date: September 04, 2008 08:56PM

Anything written by a Mills and Boone author. May involve some talking and other activities.

Wait.... that was a story without a plot.

What about arithmetic without the word "number/s".

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Taboo
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: September 05, 2008 09:28AM

Arithmetic: The process by which we assess the results of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing various quantities.

<sticks tongue out>

What about the Tin Man without using metallic words?

Re: Taboo
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (149.135.105.---)
Date: September 05, 2008 12:25PM

Artificial lumberjack comprised mainly of the an element with the atomic number 50.

Pheasant, without Game



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/10/2008 01:46PM by Bonzai Kitten.

Re: Taboo
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: September 05, 2008 12:58PM

Pheasant without using what? I would suggest feathers.

Re: Taboo
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: September 05, 2008 06:23PM

or plucker

Re: Taboo
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.sns.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: September 07, 2008 09:06AM

A pheasant is a bird of medium size, with some colours somewhere on it.

Somehow I feel that the Hound of the Baskervilles should appear at this point.

Re: Taboo
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (58.163.129.---)
Date: September 07, 2008 02:11PM

sorry, looks like I didn't finish that edit! lol
It was supposed to say pheasant without game

Re: Taboo
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: September 08, 2008 09:12AM

I didn't know pheasants like to play games. Wow! Maybe old Nintendos should be recycled for fowl entertainment purposes.

Re: Taboo
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: September 09, 2008 11:42AM

[edited for added chocolate]

<darn, I was trying to edit previous post, not add one!>

<curses stupidity>



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/09/2008 11:45AM by EgonSpengler.

Re: Taboo
Posted by: BibwitHart (---.253-193-42.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: September 09, 2008 12:22PM

Maybe the next post should be one that doesn't mention chocolate and describe a tour around a Lindt factory.

Re: Taboo
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.254.66.212.manx.net)
Date: September 09, 2008 05:56PM

So the place that fills belly buttons, rather than bellies?

Re: Taboo
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: September 10, 2008 05:47AM

What? Like a visit to a place of machination whereby the goods that buy souls are created?

Summit like that?



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