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Post by onlymark on Sept 28, 2012 16:33:47 GMT
Mods - don't really know where to put this. Place elsewhere at your leisure. Maybe the Back Page?
I'm also not sure if this has been played on here. If it has.............ignore and delete.
So - it's like the Geographic Word Game. Try and name a person whom even though none of us may have heard of him/her shares a minimum of three consecutive letters with the one before it. If it is a little obscure then a wikipedia reference or a reference somewhere else on the internet will be needed to stop you being accused of just making it up.
This may be a harder game than normal and it may stop somewhere to be re-started, I'm not sure. Give it a go anyway and if it does fail then so be it. If you want we can include comic book characters, film characters etc but it'd be nice to try first with real people.
For example -
Ord Wingate - Major-General Orde Charles Wingate, DSO and two bars, was a British Army officer and creator of special military units in Palestine in the 1930s and in World War II.
Winston Churchill - errrrr..... anyone not know him?
Edmund Hillary - the bloke wot probably climbed Everest 2nd b'cos Tenzing Norgay would've slipped ahead of him at the last step.
Mungo Park - a Scottish explorer of the African continent. He was credited as being the first Westerner to encounter the Niger River.
Ok, over to you if you feel so inclined.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2012 18:27:22 GMT
Sounds like a good game to me.
So, if we are at Mungo Park, I say
Antoine Parmentier - he introduced the potato to continental Europe against considerable opposition regarding this dubious tuber
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 28, 2012 18:35:11 GMT
I'll take the easy way out & say ~~
Marie Antoinette
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Post by htmb on Sept 28, 2012 18:43:49 GMT
General Ulysses S. Grant 18th president of the United States
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Post by onlymark on Sept 28, 2012 18:58:50 GMT
Anton Solomoukha is a French artist and photographer of Ukrainian extraction, and a foreign member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts. Since 1980, he has specialized in narrative figuration. Since 2000 he has developed photo projects.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2012 19:00:40 GMT
Tony Blair - former British prime minister
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Post by onlymark on Sept 28, 2012 19:14:57 GMT
Fanny Blankers-Koen - Dutch athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
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Post by onlymark on Sept 28, 2012 19:17:08 GMT
Rule update - it'd be nice if no-one starts using the same first name of the previous entry. Otherwise when we get to a common first name it makes it too easy. Ok? Not Ok?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2012 19:30:26 GMT
Fine -- that was one of the first things I was a bit worried about.
Jack Kerouac - American author
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Post by onlymark on Sept 28, 2012 20:42:18 GMT
You had to get that one.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism of French expression. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.
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Post by htmb on Sept 28, 2012 21:12:24 GMT
John Philip Sousa - American conductor and composer famous for patriotic and military marches.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2012 21:45:41 GMT
Hillary Clinton - American Secretary of State
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Post by htmb on Sept 28, 2012 21:50:53 GMT
William J. Clinton former president of the United States
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 29, 2012 4:16:06 GMT
I am a little confused. Maybe I'm looking right at the obvious & not seeing it, but ........ a) wouldn't the three letters in any answer have to be in the same order as the answer above? and b) isn't the idea to have a minimum of three letters?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2012 5:55:44 GMT
Which reply looks wrong to you?
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Russian playwright
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 29, 2012 6:17:01 GMT
The Sousa one. Go ahead. I'm all ready to make the face.
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Post by onlymark on Sept 29, 2012 6:21:45 GMT
OUS
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Post by onlymark on Sept 29, 2012 6:26:47 GMT
Howard Phillips Lovecraft - One of the 20th century's most influential horror writers, H.P. Lovecraft is most famous for his stories involving a slimy alien god named Cthulhu. Lovecraft was born and raised in Rhode Island and made his living as a ghost writer and contributor to pulp magazines such as Weird Tales.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2012 9:55:58 GMT
Walter Hill - American film director
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 29, 2012 13:21:15 GMT
Robert Altman -- American film director & screenwriter
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Post by htmb on Sept 29, 2012 13:40:49 GMT
Bixa....... Rousseau Sousa ........ous
Manuel Noriega - Military governor of Panama from 1983 to 1989
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 29, 2012 13:55:02 GMT
Don't rub it in, Htmb. I really did get Mark's explanation.
Rielle Hunter -- actress & political bimbo
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Post by htmb on Sept 29, 2012 14:40:26 GMT
Ellen DeGeneres American television talk show host and stand-up comedian.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2012 15:09:04 GMT
Charles De Gaulle - French general and statesman
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Post by htmb on Sept 29, 2012 15:18:52 GMT
Harry Reid current United States Senate Majority Leader
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2012 15:46:16 GMT
François Reichenbach - Oscar winning documentary filmmaker as well as songwriter for Edith Piaf
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Post by htmb on Sept 29, 2012 16:09:12 GMT
J. Wayne Reitz Fifth president of the University of Florida. Students will be voting this fall on changing the name of the J. Wayne Reitz student union to honor Virgil Hawkins, whose lengthy battle ended segregation at the University of Florida College of Law.
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Post by bjd on Sept 29, 2012 16:44:34 GMT
Werner Herzog German film director
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2012 16:47:40 GMT
had to look for that! splits in the name are always deceiving.
Ernest Hemingway - American author
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Post by bjd on Sept 29, 2012 16:50:31 GMT
Well, here's another one:
Théophile Gautier -- French poet, novelist
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