# Follow Me **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 14, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091 "2008-12-14T04:43:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/1 "2008-12-14T04:43:22Z")
The rules are simple, find the pattern in what I’m saying, make up your own and we’ll carry it on like that. No limit to players. Can be anything, letter pattern, sounds, pun, or more complex. I’ll start off with a few: The school is deep, but the pupils are profound. The river is not deep, the trees are not profound. The book is deep, the pages are profound. Follow me! ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/2 "2008-12-14T08:19:34Z")
To be good is deep, to be bad is profound. John Stuart Mill is deep; Marcus Aurelius is profound. **TheVioletCreep** is deep; **brujaja** is profound. Am I right? ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/3 "2008-12-14T09:17:04Z")
The bottle is deep, the liquid is profound. The car is deep, the path is not profound. The stage is deep, the dancers are profound. Yes? Siblings first believe right others Spouse holds new if ever Descendant hears sun ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/4 "2008-12-14T12:05:11Z")
You mean, it’s not double letters? **maggenpye** , that’s a good one there. I keep feeling like it’s on the tip of my, er— mind. Decendant = son, hears sun. Hmmmm. Well, not to bollux the thread, but I didn’t realize that I got one too: Had Abel scented odors here, afraid again the lid’s ajar, skin clammy ominously and nothing open; squandered gravity as other humans aver; awaited axiomatic, mystical ozone? ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/5 "2008-12-14T17:06:53Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > To be good is deep, to be bad is profound. > John Stuart Mill is deep; Marcus Aurelius is profound. > **TheVioletCreep** is deep; **brujaja** is profound. > > Am I right? Correct! ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/6 "2008-12-14T17:07:55Z")
> [@maggenpye](#): > > The bottle is deep, the liquid is profound. > The car is deep, the path is not profound. > The stage is deep, the dancers are profound. > Yes? Not quite. First yes. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/7 "2008-12-14T17:29:53Z")
Siblings first **B** elieve **R** ight **OTHERS**. Spouse holds ne **W** **IF** **E** ver. Decendant hears sun doesn’t work, though. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/8 "2008-12-14T17:51:23Z")
Can obscure academic admixtures be often ignored? Oh, sing “Aja,” “Oklahoma!” blissfully amid another hopeful spinning equine dream! Aspic still dulls every sweet examined lying azure! ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/9 "2008-12-14T17:57:25Z")
^ Is it the sound, or letter pattern? Probably asking too much of you… \>.\> ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/10 "2008-12-14T18:08:52Z")
Madame Abigail actually adores her affianced ogre; she likes Ojai, akin blamelessly,ambiguously, anonymously, to Spain; aquatic trees, aspen, steer, bulls; overtures await oxen, Byzantine Ozarks. It gets harder every time, believe me! ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/11 "2008-12-14T18:16:39Z")
Sure as hell seems like it, what I thought, is now totally thrown off. o.o;; ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/12 "2008-12-14T20:00:59Z")
**Brujaja** ; Can Abner scale advantage before / after Aggie’s short time? Eject skis slowly, smiling, sneaking for sport squad prize. Assured status, Tully’s svelte swarthiness extracts hypothetical izards. Mine; Brother, wife - what do you \*hear \*when you say _sun_? Now I’m not getting the first - things contained within the deep are profound? ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/13 "2008-12-15T08:47:12Z")
Dang, **maggenpye** , I had just written one _that almost made sense_ when my son got on my PC & I couldn’t post it. 10 minutes later I went to post and you were too fast for me! “gardeners absolutely accept, ideal newt-offending agrarian thistle-fighters, ejecting ikebana, allow amphibians only to apprehensively equip arborists, as it must overtake awfully expensive hysterical azaleas.” Now, about the deep vs. profound: jeeps are deep. cars are profound. loops are deep. knots are profound. sleep is deep. rest is profound. walls, doors, and rooms are deep. houses are profound. Abby, Addie, Effie, Aggie, Ellen, Emmy, Annie, Harry, Larry, Terry, Bessie, Otto, and Izzy are deep. Kilroy is profound. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/14 "2008-12-15T09:01:42Z")
Got it. You even spelled it out (hur hur) in an earlier post and I didn’t get it. This is an old trick. Build a paragraph in this intriguing way to show that you grasp its instructions. Composition should contain nothing racy, radical or rancid, but must follow strict conditions of construction. Actually it’s only a solo condition, barring mishaps. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/15 "2008-12-15T13:07:07Z")
A mishap is difficult to avoid, though. Particularly if you do not want awkward wording. You can accomplish it, obviously. But it calls for a lot of caution. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/16 "2008-12-15T21:12:33Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > A mishap is difficult to avoid, though. Particularly if you do not want awkward wording. You can accomplish it, obviously. But it calls for a lot of caution. :rolleyes: I’d copy Gollum, but it’s not fitting your phrasings. Let’s go with an old favorite: Analogies! Sun is to cold as mind is to: a) Hot b) Breakdown c) Acid d) Soul ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/17 "2008-12-16T00:16:00Z")
**Hoopy Frood** has it right. Dismissing a common initial would hint strongly towards a solution, but many might still fail to follow its formula. \*\*Hoopy \*\*must favour us with his own conundrum. Prior post is also spot on. **Pedescribe’s** could be either b or d - depending on the usage. ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/18 "2008-12-16T04:19:16Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > A mishap is difficult to avoid, though. Particularly if you do not want awkward wording. You can accomplish it, obviously. But it calls for a lot of caution. Alliteration? Am I truly this incompetent? For the other, I’d say D ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/19 "2008-12-16T04:30:36Z")
Why did I mention **Hoopy Frood** ’s full alias, but not his following pal’s? It it sound? Is it consonant? Indubitably not. You’ll work it out, it’s so simplistic, you can’t miss it! Just try any count from A to Z to find which is most common, but not in this paragraph. And I’m still waiting for **Hoopy** ’s contribution. ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-me/477091/20 "2008-12-16T04:48:12Z")
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