I hope without having to prove themselves, the “guessed” guests will still partake in the festivities. Anyone up for a game? Checkers, parchesi, or chess, for example? Not that anyone here stands a chance in the latter against me, but I’m willing to offer Rook odds to give you a fair shot.
Or are you all too “mature” for such things? Please remember that Paul of Tarses’s famous admonishment about childish things was wrong, or at least misleading. Wiser men have reminded us that a young person’s love of wonder, playfulness and curiosity must not be shucked off with advanced age.
I’d be up for Tichu, if you anyone has a deck? I learned it recently and like it quite a bit. (It’s a climbing trick taking game for those of you not cool enough to know it.)
If not, I guess I could play around of Checkers. It’s been a while since I tested my chops on that front. cracks knuckles in anticipation
Is it Chinese Checkers where we can play with more than two people? We should do that if we have it. The more the merrier, right?!
(see how the exclamation point goes after the question mark, Hoopy?)
Parenthetically to my earlier comment: I should mention, by the way, that my fascination with such words as tmesis isn’t a mere hobby with me. It’s how I earn my living, through passing along the mysteries of our chosen language to those with less knowledge.
Of course the geniuses who are The Powers That Be have lately decided that I should focus on another subject, one in which I am decidedly less proficient. But that’s institutional bureaucracy for you. :rolleyes:
I’m reminded of C. S. Lewis’ take on it, before he left these shadowlands: “Now I am a man, and have put aside childish things… Including the fear of being thought childish.”
Exactly. I mean, I’ve always been more of a Tolkien fan, but to take one example straight from Lewis… I remember reading the Narnia books as a child, and they were intended for kids, but picking them up later as an adult, I realized how much I’d missed. The Horse and His Boy was particularly meaningful to me.
But really this all brings up the nature of “the past,” doesn’t it? The whole “Arrows of Time” concept, for example, whereby one way to discern between “then” and “the future” is entropy – in other words, the future has more entropy, whereas the past has less. Another arrow being that in the past the universe is smaller, but in the future, it’s bigger.
Except that’s not really true for people, is it? At least in our memories, the world seems so much larger when we’re children; everything is potential, everything is yet to be explored. As adults, we are often so jaded and believe we’ve seen it all. It’s the wise child who knows how little he knows.
I suppose the alternate view, or perhaps the more forgiving one to adults who lose that childlike wonder, would be he who says it’s only natural to do so. “Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis” (the times change, and we must change with them).
But here I am getting on my hobby horse when we should be partying! Sorry about that.
Does all the guests who have been ousted have to leave? I would feel so alone here with so few of us, and rather uncomfortable if it is just me and the hosts…
Anyhoooowww, what Saint Paul was talking about was childish behaviour, not childlike behaviour, but I digress.
Oh one more thing, if Inner Stickler will pardon a “meta” comment: this game doesn’t have any particular rules listed, but I think it’d be helpful to do so. Only it’s hard to recognise when our side “wins” if we don’t know how many guesses are allowed. Whilst I don’t mind winging things, I’d rather know straight out what the parameters are of this game. (Also, are hosts required to put official guesses in any particular colour, as above?)
I do think it’d be helpful if some of the more quiet guests spoke up… unless not doing so is their quirk, of course.
In the meantime I’m content to entertain myself with this set of The Good Life DVDs. (And no, “entertain myself” is not a euphemism!)
No guests have been actually guessed at this little shindig, and I don’t think any will be guessed. I’m actually not entirely convinced everyone has something to guess at this point.
Oops, I got to admit something. I thought the one of the hosts were Mahaloth. Turns out it’s Malacandra. I’ve gotten confused with the names. No wonder the strange looks.
look around for the hosts sheepishly Guess I owe Malcandra an apology but she probably knew about it and laughing inside.
If you think I’d host a piece of @#&% “party” like this, than you better watch out, moron. Those are mother@%$&in’ fighting words and I feel like fighting someone.
Crowbar of Irony +3, Can we Talk? That is fabulous dress you are wearing. Do you mind if I wear it when NBC has a reunion of all of Johnny Carson’s former guest hosts of the Tonight Show?
I know it’s a couple of days late, and I don’t usually play on a Saturday, but is anyone up for some Texas Hold’em? High Chicago? Countdown? Follow the Queen? Billabong? You name it, I’ll play it.
“Hoopy” dammit! Not “Happy”…not “Hoppy”…but “Hoopy”
All liquor here is first rate, and we had nothing to do with the guac on the lasagna.
I’ve got a running list of each persons post, and I looked for a pattern. I believe it was “as good as it gets” that really triggered my recognition.
Except the exclamation point was regularly part of the “Discount!” theme. So I kept it next to “Discount” in my question.
I figured it out. With the “more to it” comment, the only thing I could think of is that it would be some particular fashion commentary, which is a bit out of my league, since there’s really only one I know of, and I she’s a bit before my time anyway (not to mention what little I do know of her I find her annyoing). But the “we need to talk” comment in the second post leads me to believe that we somehow have invited Joan Rivers to our party.
And if I might get a bit Meta, I notice a pattern in crowbar’s postings, but #153 has a noteworthy difference from the rest.
