More Initials
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oyceterMore amusing moments from multiple games of Initials (some already written up here):
Rachel: GM. With an asterisk, as it is not the entity's legal name, but is the most commonly used one.
I eventually established that GM was female, dead, fictional, and written about in a language that wasn't English but was European. After much querying (I apparently cannot remember half the countries in Europe), it was established that the work was oral and probably from Norway. ("Is it Norse?" I asked. "No. Yes! Wait. Uh, what country is Norse?" asked Rachel. "NORWAY!" I said, while trying not to fall off my chair giggling. Rachel notes from my side that she has a master's degree, but thankfully not in European studies.)
"Wait. Is this Beowulf? It's GRENDEL'S MOTHER!" I guessed.
"Yes!"
"Beowulf is ENGLISH! Not Norse! English! OMG! ENGLISH!" I squawked indignantly. (Rachel notes here that she had to spell "squawked" for me.)
To confound Rachel, I came up with another asterisked name, GA. I helpfully gave her the clue that it was not Grendel's Aunt. (It was actually the Godolphin Arabian.)
Initials, as previously noted, is a very fun game when one plays with manga characters. Also, my sister and B are telepathic, as Rachel or me would frequently come up with initials that were directly guessed without any clues. I think the most impressive was B guessing PT Barnum, only knowing he was a dead American businessman.
The more fun manga characters included KB ("Male or female?" I asked. "Uhhhhhhhh..."), TA ("Dead or alive?" "Uhhhh...." "Human or non-human?" "Uhhhhh...." to which I immediately asked, "Is he a shinigami?"), and JD ("Is he hot?" asked Rachel. "Uh. Technically, I guess? But really no.").
One that went on for half an hour involved IC, an alive fictional female character in a manga and anime, in which the manga series was written first. "Are there embryos dripping blood?" I asked jokingly.
"Yes!" said Rachel. There was also amnesia of sorts, eye trauma, robots of sorts, non-slashy brothers, scientific experimentation but no heads in jars (that Rachel remembers), and parallel Earths.
The answer is spoilery, so if you're guessing please spoiler protect by enclosing stuff in [span style="color:#666666;background-color:#666666"] [/span] except with <> for the [].
Rachel: GM. With an asterisk, as it is not the entity's legal name, but is the most commonly used one.
I eventually established that GM was female, dead, fictional, and written about in a language that wasn't English but was European. After much querying (I apparently cannot remember half the countries in Europe), it was established that the work was oral and probably from Norway. ("Is it Norse?" I asked. "No. Yes! Wait. Uh, what country is Norse?" asked Rachel. "NORWAY!" I said, while trying not to fall off my chair giggling. Rachel notes from my side that she has a master's degree, but thankfully not in European studies.)
"Wait. Is this Beowulf? It's GRENDEL'S MOTHER!" I guessed.
"Yes!"
"Beowulf is ENGLISH! Not Norse! English! OMG! ENGLISH!" I squawked indignantly. (Rachel notes here that she had to spell "squawked" for me.)
To confound Rachel, I came up with another asterisked name, GA. I helpfully gave her the clue that it was not Grendel's Aunt. (It was actually the Godolphin Arabian.)
Initials, as previously noted, is a very fun game when one plays with manga characters. Also, my sister and B are telepathic, as Rachel or me would frequently come up with initials that were directly guessed without any clues. I think the most impressive was B guessing PT Barnum, only knowing he was a dead American businessman.
The more fun manga characters included KB ("Male or female?" I asked. "Uhhhhhhhh..."), TA ("Dead or alive?" "Uhhhh...." "Human or non-human?" "Uhhhhh...." to which I immediately asked, "Is he a shinigami?"), and JD ("Is he hot?" asked Rachel. "Uh. Technically, I guess? But really no.").
One that went on for half an hour involved IC, an alive fictional female character in a manga and anime, in which the manga series was written first. "Are there embryos dripping blood?" I asked jokingly.
"Yes!" said Rachel. There was also amnesia of sorts, eye trauma, robots of sorts, non-slashy brothers, scientific experimentation but no heads in jars (that Rachel remembers), and parallel Earths.
The answer is spoilery, so if you're guessing please spoiler protect by enclosing stuff in [span style="color:#666666;background-color:#666666"] [/span] except with <> for the [].
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Thu, Feb. 22nd, 2007 02:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Tue, Feb. 27th, 2007 09:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Thu, Feb. 22nd, 2007 02:58 am (UTC)TA: Tsuzuki Asato
JD: beats me.
IC: Izumi Curtis.
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Thu, Feb. 22nd, 2007 02:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Thu, Feb. 22nd, 2007 12:47 pm (UTC)PS. The very first set of initials which inauguarted the game was DW, provided by Oyce and guessed by myself. Male, connected to fandom, not someone I know personally (because he is fictional.)
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Tue, Feb. 27th, 2007 09:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Thu, Feb. 22nd, 2007 09:28 am (UTC)In any event, a version of this game we used to play in high school went like this - 'one E on VVG': one ear on Vincent van Gogh. Or, maybe, three Cs on the TL: three colors on the traffic light. Whatever combo of initials you can come up with!
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Thu, Feb. 22nd, 2007 03:26 pm (UTC)Yeah, I took a semester of Old English at Cornell, and IIRC, it qualified as a foreign language for majors that had a foreign language requirement.
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Tue, Feb. 27th, 2007 09:48 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, I really suck at those....