[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink]
If it makes you feel any better, “Pabst Blue Ribbon” was the first P I came up with. But I rejected it in favor an answer I thought would be more popular. Maybe I would have done almost as well sticking with the Pabst.
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I came up with peanut butter first and rejected it in favor of potato chips. sheesh- I couldn’t have thought of pizza or stuck with PB???
Of course, in Scattergories, we’d all get a point just for having an answer.
Okay, that’s fifty responses. I should have the results in a few hours. Thanks for playing, and for the compliments on the thread idea!
Caprice
Pancake mix
Madrid
Laura
Beaver
Wallflower
Ramones
Johnson
Spain
Arsenic and Old Lace
dang!
Congratulations to Beadalin, who wins in a squeaker over Hal Briston! I’ll post the breakdown of individual answers, including explanations of deductions and judgment calls, tomorrow morning.
Beadalin 368
Hal Briston 366
twickster 364
Wargamer 360
Little Nemo 344
tarragon918 342
pravnik 336
Tengu 332
atomicbadgerrace 328
wheresgeorge04 314
Paintcharge 312
silenus 302
IvoryTowerDenizen 298
Sternvogel 294
Happy Lendervedder 292
bibliophage 290
Mullinator 278
anyrose 274
Thudlow Boink 272
garygnu 270
Oredigger77 260
bouv 258
Purgatory Creek 252
delphica 250
Hawkeyeop 248
want2know 238
Max Torque 234
KayElCee 230
Dolores Reborn 228
MadTheSwine 228
cmkeller 224
CoG888 220
El_Kabong 220
Yllaria 214
gonzoron 212
Asimovian 210
OtakuLoki 210
RoOsh 208
blinkingblinking 194
Wallflower 192
ShibbOleth 190
Taber 190
Fretful Porpentine 180
HongKongFooey 164
Zebra 148
MissTake 138
Soul 120
Justin_Bailey 116
5-4-Fighting 76
Dwc1970 68
Top 12! I’ll take it.
Bottom 13! I’m almost unique! 
[QUOTE=RoOsh]
Bottom 13! I’m almost unique! 
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Oh yeah? Well, I’m almost twice as unique as you! 
So this basically was just Scattergories, but in reverse, right? 
Lucky number 13!
Again, again!
Top 3! Personal best!
God I suck.
Here are the total points (number of correct answers times two, or ten-point deduction for each invalid response) for each question:
Corvette 48
Camaro 18
Cavalier 12
Chevelle 6
Caprice 6
Chevette 4
Citation 2
Corvair 2
Crossfire (-10) – it’s a Chrysler model
Peanut butter 38
Pizza 20
Potato chips 14
Pasta 8
Pretzels 4
Pepper 2
Prophylactics (hey, I didn’t specify food/beverage) 2
Pickles 2
Pabst Blue Ribbon 2
Peanuts (distinct from peanut butter) 2
Potatoes (distinct from potato chips) 2
Beer (-10) – doesn’t begin with P, yet two people said it!
Madrid 42
Moscow 16
Mexico City 14
Montreal 8
Miami 4
Milan 2
Melbourne 2
Manila 2
Munich 2
Mogadishu 2 (it is a national capital)
Marrakesh 2 (it does feature prominently in a song)
Minneapolis 2 (it has hosted World Series games)
Belgrade (-10) – does not begin with M
Lisa 28
Laura 28
Linda 22
Lori 4
Lucy 4
Leah 2
Larissa 2
Lynn 2
Lindsay 2
Laurel 2
Lauren 2
Barbara (-10) – does not begin with L
Bear 50 (I included “black bear”, which would have counted for extra points in regular Scattergories since it features two initial b’s)
Bat 10
Bobcat 8
Baboon 8
Buffalo/bison 8 (I know they’re technically different, but since I wasn’t sure whether the “Buffalo” crowd had Cape buffalo, water buffalo, or “American buffalo” in mind, I combined the two answers into one pool)
Badger 6
Bunny 4
Boar 2
Beaver 2
Bird 2
WhyNot 32
What Exit? 30
Walloon 4
Winston Smith 4
Wring 4
Wildest Bill 4 (I counted “Wild Bill” in with the correct name, as I assumed the “Gotcha ya!” guy was meant in that case)
Walter Winchell (actually Walter Windchill, I assume) 2
WF Tomba 2
Wee Bairn 2
Wombat 2
Wally 2
WOOKINPANUB 2
want2know 2
WeirdDave 2
Wallflower 2
whiterabbit 2
Biggirl (-10) – does not begin with W
Rolling Stones 42
Rush 16
R.E.M. 10
Ramones 8
Red Hot Chili Peppers 6
REO Speedwagon 6
Radiohead 6
Rammstein 2
Run-DMC 2
Rihanna 2 (technically not a group, but she does use backing musicians, so I was generous here)
Jones 58
Johnson 34
Jackson 4
John 2 (there is a former baseball pitcher, Tommy John, famous for his pioneering submission to a surgery which now bears his name)
Bailey (-10) – does not begin with J
Spain 44
Sweden 18
Switzerland 16
Saudi Arabia 4
Serbia 2
South Africa 2
Syria 2
Suriname 2
Sri Lanka 2
Sierra Leone 2
Singapore 2
Somalia 2
Scotland 2 (part of the United Kingdom, but referred to as a country – just ask Sean Connery!)
Alien 18
Apocalypse Now 12
Armageddon 12
Amadeus 10
American Pie 8
All About Eve 4
Aliens 4 (distinct film from Alien)
Austin Powers 2
Annie Hall 2
Army of Darkness 2
Annie 2
Always 2
Aladdin 2
American Beauty 2
Almost Famous 2
All the President’s Men 2
Alive 2
Antz 2
Anaconda 2
Arachnophobia 2
Airplane 2
A Bridge Too Far 2
A View to a Kill 2 (although initial word “A” is generally ignored when alphabetizing titles, the last two are technically correct)
Excellent game, Sternvogel, thanks again!
[QUOTE=Leaper]
So this basically was just Scattergories, but in reverse, right? 
[/QUOTE]
Goriescatters?
[QUOTE=pravnik]
Goriescatters?
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This, I like!
Woohoo! Top two, baby!
<shakes fist at Beadalin>
WOOO HOOOOOO!!!
My first win! IIIIII am the champions, my friends! And IIIII’ll keep on fighting 'til the end!
Bloody, bloody, bloody Madrid!
Next time, no second guessing!