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Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: August 08, 2011 05:57PM

14) Member of the Goliath Corp? No.

Another six long shots to go. And my mind is hardly at rest.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: August 23, 2011 07:51AM

Is he a sidekick?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: August 23, 2011 07:43PM

0) Animal
1) Is it alive? Yes.
2) Is it aquatic? No.
3) Is it mammalian? Yes.
4) Is it a domesticated animal or sourced from such? No.
5) Is it human? Yes.
6) Is it female? No.
7) Is he a member of the Fforum? No.
8) Is he a particular person (rather than a type of person)? Yes/no.
9) Is he normally wearing a suit? Yes.
10) Is he fictional? Yes.
11) Is he ffordean? Yes.
12) Does he have limited colour vision? No.
13) Is he a generic? No, usually not.
14) Member of the Goliath Corp? No.
15) Is he a sidekick? No. No. No.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: ibborobb (217.196.236.---)
Date: August 24, 2011 09:29AM

Is he a politician?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: August 24, 2011 08:26PM

16) Is he a politician? Yes!

As said earlier, I should be willing to accept this for the definite answer if it were question and answer 20. Since there are still four questions left, we could continue for the name of the politician in question, but that would then create an ambiguity in proclaiming the victor.

The actual politician I had in mind was senator Jobsworth who made an appearance in One of our Thursdays is missing. But the prefects from Shades of Grey would have served as well.

So ibborobb is now the answerer-elect.

(edited to correct spelling errors)



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 09/01/2011 04:55PM by delacuesta.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: August 24, 2011 09:09PM

Well done ibborobb





Wouldn't the answer to Q12 exclude the prefects?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: delacuesta (---.g-star.com)
Date: August 25, 2011 09:26AM

SkidMarks Wrote:
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>[...]
> Wouldn't the answer to Q12 exclude the prefects?

Strictly speaking: yes; but remember my note on question 12: "As stated before, I'll accept a somewhat more generic answer than I originally had in mind, and in this respect the answers to questions 6 and 12 are essentially non-essential."

(Question 6 was on male or female).

---

Let me add that answering the first few questions was unexpectedly quite some fun, as various prejudices on politicians were coming by. I acknowledge that it was hardly possible to share that fun with the participants.


(edited to correct a typing error)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/25/2011 08:03PM by delacuesta.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: August 25, 2011 10:43AM

Ah, so that is what that meant. I wondered. :)

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: ibborobb (217.196.236.---)
Date: August 25, 2011 12:33PM

OK, here goes .... Skids/Del ( I think it's only you two left on here) ...
0) Animal

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: August 25, 2011 04:09PM

1) is it usually considered edible?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: annie (164.53.222.---)
Date: August 26, 2011 03:23AM

Is it fictional?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: ibborobb (217.196.236.---)
Date: August 26, 2011 12:27PM

1) is it usually considered edible? No.
2) Is it fictional? Yes, almost always.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: August 28, 2011 09:02PM

Is it human?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: ibborobb (217.196.236.---)
Date: August 30, 2011 12:24PM

1) is it usually considered edible? No.
2) Is it fictional? Yes, almost always.
3) Is it human? No.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: August 30, 2011 04:37PM

4) Can it fly?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: ibborobb (217.196.236.---)
Date: August 31, 2011 12:56PM

1) is it usually considered edible? No.
2) Is it fictional? Yes, almost always.
3) Is it human? No.
4) Can it fly? Yes - but only in fiction.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: August 31, 2011 03:15PM

Does it severly dislike anyone whose job-title includes the word "slayer" - unless their name is George?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: ibborobb (217.196.236.---)
Date: September 01, 2011 10:20AM

1) is it usually considered edible? No.
2) Is it fictional? Yes, almost always.
3) Is it human? No.
4) Can it fly? Yes - but only in fiction.
5) Does it severly dislike anyone whose job-title includes the word "slayer" - unless their name is George? Most definitely.

Come on then ... who wants to take on the AVM mantle? Skids has served it up on a plate!

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: September 01, 2011 04:56PM

I'm truely clueless.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: September 01, 2011 05:26PM

6) Are there subspecies including Nobilis & swamp?

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