The object of the game is to pick a person/place/thing that represents what they think is the most quintessential or most representative of the category chosen by the previous poster. It is not necessarily the best example of whatever genre is chosen, simply the most representative (although the best and most quintessential may happen to be conveniently synonymous)
A player responds by naming their quintessential pick and supplies two or three reasons supporting their choice, then names a category of their choosing for the next poster to respond to.
Example:
Player A:
Category: Rock Supergroups?
Player B: The Travelling Wilburys
Every member of the group was a household name individually famous as a musician in their own right
One of the members (George Harrison) was a Beatle. Can’t really claim higher profile than that
All of their albums achieved either gold or platinum sales
Next: Gameshows on US television?
Player C: Let’s Make A Deal
The show features phony over the top enthusiasm among both the contestants and the studio audience
The show does not require contestants to possess any particular talent or skill
The show was both produced and hosted by prolific game show giant Monty Hall
Next: Items found in women’s purses?
[and so on…]
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[li]One of a few iconic weapons used in WWII for the first time.[/li][li]Proved that self-loading weapons were practical infantry weapons.[/li][li]Armed the US infantryman throughout the war.[/li][li]Not a holdover from WWI like the Lee-Enfield, Mauser or Mosin-Nagant.[/li][/ul]
That one is rather country-specific, I think. I don’t believe there are any announcers who achieve(d) much, if any recognition outside the country they broadcast to. Having said that, Richie Benaud is a legend in both England and Australia (for cricket).
I’ll go with John Madden for the USA:
long-time announcer for the biggest of the big 4 American sports
former coach
divided opinion on his effectiveness
famous for various on-air gaffes and catchphrases
managed to get a video game franchise named after him.
And David Coleman in the UK:
a well-known and much-loved commentator on multiple sports
so prolific that the genre of sports announcing gaffes was actually named after him (“Colemanballs”)
hosted a national sports quiz show for many years (A Question of Sport)
With honourable mentions for Murray Walker, Brian Johnston, and Barry Davies.
It was the primary external storage used for personal computers when they first became ubiquitous in the 1980s and 1990s.
By 1996, it was estimated that there were five billion floppy disks in use, worldwide.
An icon resembling a 3.5" floppy disk is still the default icon for the “save” command in computer programs, decades after the disks themselves fell into disuse.
*Definitely drives like a Cadillac
*Definitely in the affordable range
*You still see them everywhere(thought many are early 2000’s at this point)
*Recent models are different, but still use the style in a lot of ways
It straddles the breakfast-cereal line: I’m speaking from experience when I say that sugar-craving kids who’d reject Corn Flakes and Shredded Wheat are cool with it, and that parents who’d rule out Count Chocula or Lucky Charms will okay it;
Are you a writer who suddenly needs to come up with a breakfast cereal that’s about to get mentioned in your sitcom or whatever? If you’re creative, you’ll invent a cartoon mascot; if you’re lazy, you’ll call it Something-Os.
