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0) Mostly vegetable with a dash of mineral.
1) Is it ffordian? No.
2) Is it usually found indoors? Yes -at rest but it 's primary usage would be outdoors.
3) Does it have moving parts? No, but it has parts which can be moved.
4) Is it manufactured? Yes
5) Is it used more in winter than in summer (in those parts of the earth where such a distinction matters)? No - in use all year round. (except in extremes)
6) Is it an item of clothing? Yes-ish
7 )Is it connected to sports? Not in this instance - no.
8) Is it worn on the body? Yes.
9) Is it something that you would only wear on a special occasion? No. Most definitely not.
10) Is it a hat? No.
11) Is it worn on the neck or above? No.
1&2&12) Is it a type of footwear? Yes.
13) Is it a shoe? I would not class them as shoes, and I'm sure any gentleman on the door of a nightclub would not class them as shoes either.
14) Is it a flip flop? No
15) A pair of trainers? Yes! My trusty canvas & rubber trainers/daps/pumps/plimsolls (insert regional variation here) which have never and will not be used in conjunction with any sport whatsoever.
Skids, congratulations! - I pass the cloak, mantle and tiara over to you.
0) Mine is primarily mineral but contains animal and vegetable components.
mine in this sense is my choice not belongs to me
1) Is it ffordian? Yes
2) Would it fit inside a standard breadbox? No
0) This object is primarily mineral but contains animal and vegetable components.
1) Is it ffordian? Yes
2) Would it fit inside a standard breadbox? No
3) Is it a vehicle of some description? Yes
0) This object is primarily mineral but contains animal and vegetable components.
1) Is it ffordian? Yes
2) Would it fit inside a standard breadbox? No
3) Is it a vehicle of some description? Yes
4) Is it Thursdays red, blue and green 356 Speedster? No
0) This object is primarily mineral but contains animal and vegetable components.
1) Is it ffordian? Yes
2) Would it fit inside a standard breadbox? No
3) Is it a vehicle of some description? Yes
4) Is it Thursdays red, blue and green 356 Speedster? No
5) Does it have fewer than four wheels? sometimes, but usually No
And "trainers" are shoes people wear to run in, or play tennis in, right?
I'm thinking cotton socks, but the dash of mineral... hmmm. And people could wear cotton socks to a special occasion event sort of thing, but the "definitely not" means it's more specific, since socks go anywhere. Even the beach. So maybe house shoes with a metal button. Except you don't wear house shoes outside, well, you aren't supposed to. <innocent look>
Ugh, problem solving skills haven't woken up yet...
Huh. No one asked the breadbox question. Yay! I haven't been replaced. Yet.
I believe VM must be motorised. How esle can you explain the circuitous route?
Oh! I see.
0) This object is primarily mineral but contains animal and vegetable components.
1) Is it ffordian? Yes
2) Would it fit inside a standard breadbox? No
3) Is it a vehicle of some description? Yes
4) Is it Thursdays red, blue and green 356 Speedster? No
5) Does it have fewer than four wheels? sometimes, but usually No
6) motorised? usually, Yes
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/12/2011 10:13PM by SkidMarks.
0) This object is primarily mineral but contains animal and vegetable components.
1) Is it ffordian? Yes
2) Would it fit inside a standard breadbox? No
3) Is it a vehicle of some description? Yes
4) Is it Thursdays red, blue and green 356 Speedster? No
5) Does it have fewer than four wheels? sometimes, but usually No
6) motorised? usually, Yes
7) Is it seen only in one book? No (If you only like yes or no, don't read this bit. As far as I know none of the books it appears in are written by JFf)
So, to summarize the quest so far: The subject (or is it object?) sought for is a vehicle, usually motorized and with 4 or more wheels; ffordean but not appearing in any book by JFf.
Thirteen questions to go, and already I'm utterly baffled.
uhrm...
Is it a surface vehicle (as opposed to space/air/underwater/underground/ preterdimensional)?
0) This object is primarily mineral but contains animal and vegetable components.
1) Is it ffordian? Yes
2) Would it fit inside a standard breadbox? No
3) Is it a vehicle of some description? Yes
4) Is it Thursdays red, blue and green 356 Speedster? No
5) Does it have fewer than four wheels? sometimes, but usually No
6) motorised? usually, Yes
7) Is it seen only in one book? No (If you only like yes or no, don't read this bit. As far as I know none of the books it appears in are written by JFf)
8) Is it a surface vehicle (as opposed to space/air/underwater/underground/ preterdimensional)? Yes, the object is a surface vehicle.
N.B. The summary above is not mine. Whether it is helpful or not is for the reader to decide
The object (although "subject" will work, I think "object" is better, feel free to disagree [quietly] amongst yourselves) is a surface vehicle "of some description", sometimes has less than 4 wheels (but does not necessarily have 4 most of the time, just 4 or more), is usually motorized, and the books it appears in are not written by our Jasper.
However. As our dear Jasper likes to wander in and out of books written by others, this does not narrow the search overly much. It could be a vehicle that one of Jasper's characters has seen while on a walk-about, or it could be a vehicle that just fits Jasper's sense of style.
My question was made on an assumption that the vehicle was of Jasper's writing just because it is Ffordian. Obviously that was not a good assumption.
As I am not fully back to being myself, I will let someone else figure out a question from that bit of prose. Or come up with an unrelated question, or whatever.