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12 November 2006

"Other Foot" - Mecha Style? Over at MeFi, dufell has a great post about "pen and paper" games, including one called "other foot" that sounds like a hoot. So I was wondering if there might be a way to play it in a thread. →[More:]

I was thinking maybe we could just play it on the fly with whoever is dealing (winner of the last hand, or anyone who is around) going to the archives and picking any post title (cut it shorter if needed) as the challenge card, and other players trying to match it with any post title currently on the front page (or, if that's not enough, any post title from this month).

So, as an example (and just for demonstration, taking the part of both dealer and a player), I found an old post called "'Erotic' Batman and Robin watercolors". I'm shortening it and dealing it as:

Erotic Batman and Robin

Now, as a player, I'm going to play this title from current front page:

Penguin! OMG!

We'll say that if the dealer isn't around, anyone can declare a winner and carry on by dealing the next title. Does this seem like fun? Well... let's try it out, and maybe we can come up with refinements or better ideas as we go along (if anyone feels like playing).

I actually have to go out for a while, but I'm going to toss out the first card in the next comment, and if anyone plays, go ahead a pick a winner and keep going...

post by: taz at: 07:15 | 35 comments

Okay, the first card is....

fear of girls

posted by taz 12 November | 07:16

Sorry mudpuppie...

posted by Daniel Charms 12 November | 08:27

Strangely enough, both of these were posted by weretable.

posted by Daniel Charms 12 November | 08:29

Since noone else seems to be around, I'll declare myself the winner and play the next card:

All I want for Christmas is a big-headed German whore

posted by Daniel Charms 12 November | 08:32

fear of girls: OMG Beaver!

posted by Wolfdog 12 November | 08:40

reply to Daniel: "Now THIS is advertising."

posted by agropyron 12 November | 08:41

All I want for Christmas is a big-headed German whore: My favorite christmas song ever

posted by Wolfdog 12 November | 08:44

Wolfdog: you were supposed to reply with a post from today (or this month).
agropyron: to hell with* German whores!

* I was going to use a different expression here, but then decided against it.

posted by Daniel Charms 12 November | 08:46

Wolfdog: you were supposed to reply with a post from today (or this month).
Ya, OK, whatever.

posted by Wolfdog 12 November | 08:51

Ooh, ooh! People are playing!

All I want for Christmas is a big-headed German whore

I want one of these. I'd wear it around on my belt everywhere.

posted by taz 12 November | 08:52

oh, yeah... I think we should choose answer titles from what's visible on the front page, or if that's too limiting, maybe the past 30 days, or 15 days or whatever seems to offer enough options; otherwise it's probably too easy. The challenge title can come from anywhere in the archives.

posted by taz 12 November | 08:57

for fear of girls, it was a toss up between Boobies!, Spider Girls!, a leeetle bump and the winner.

for my favorite christmas song ever and/or i want one of these: completely disgusting story inside

well, now i'm just confused on the rules and i'm not even sure why i'm awake.

posted by ethylene 12 November | 08:59

can we just bold them instead of making a link? I'm frigging tired and so I'm feeling pretty lazy. (Daniel, did you understand that Now THIS is advertising was a post title on the front page?)

posted by agropyron 12 November | 09:00

it also works for "now THIS is advertising"
i wonder if i should try to sleep again

posted by ethylene 12 November | 09:02

Yes, let's just bold them.

posted by taz 12 November | 09:02

And let's put the Challenge Title in blockquotes, so they are easy to find. I just did it with Daniel's.

Okay, agro... I call you the winner - give us a new challenge.

posted by taz 12 November | 09:09

agropyron: the possibility did occur to me, but I was too lazy to check :7

posted by Daniel Charms 12 November | 09:09

doesn't Daniel get to pick?

posted by ethylene 12 November | 09:13

Daniel picked the last one... but it looks like agro may not be around, so I'll do one 'til he gets back:

The surprise on my bird feeder

posted by taz 12 November | 09:15

(y'all don't have to make your answer titles links, but it's nice to have the challenges linked since they might come from way back and some people might want to read them.)

posted by taz 12 November | 09:18

I was just about to declare ethylene the winner, but that's ok.

The surprise on my bird feeder:

Viking kittens sing the immigrant song

posted by Daniel Charms 12 November | 09:21

i thought the judge was the one who "dealt" the link, but anyway: How Much Closer Can You Get?

posted by ethylene 12 November | 09:28

Thanks, Daniel, but i think i must wander from the computer a bit anyway.

posted by ethylene 12 November | 09:31

oopsie! Sorry Daniel, I jumped the gun! I thought you might have goed away.

posted by taz 12 November | 09:35

Is the round over yet?

(Sorry, I wandered off for a bit to play the pen and paper racing game against myself. It was fun. I won.)

posted by Daniel Charms 12 November | 11:24

Since noone else seems to be playing, I'll take the liberty to declare myself the winner and pick the next title, hoping that someone will play along:

Dios

(Mwahahahahahahaha!)

posted by Daniel Charms 12 November | 17:52

real life sighting of the flying spagetti monster in germany.

I don't know if I got the rules right, but:
1)only today's posts is too limiting because then, yeah, it is kind of obvious.
2)responses are claimed for today but proposals are since day one? Dios was a post from a year and a half ago
3)more than 2 persons have to play. No? and what happens if one (eg me) has to run away frantically to prevent major real life catastrophe?

posted by carmina 12 November | 18:43

oh! and one more:

4)wouldn't that be a great example of a sticky thread? *ducks*

posted by carmina 12 November | 18:44

Ye Gods......

posted by ethylene 12 November | 18:47

i really don't know the dios business so it could be Sling or He crapped bigger than you for all i know

posted by ethylene 12 November | 18:54

OK, I like "He crapped bigger than you", ummm, cause he did, bigger *and* best. But daniel is the judge really, I assume, since he dealt the first phrase. But he is obviously sleeepppiiiing!!! wooo!hoo! Daniel!!!

Dull. either we get more people to play or it's not fun... :(

posted by carmina 12 November | 19:00

Eh, right now i have to deal with the triple threat of cold, tired, and hungry.
Should i survive in a timely manner, i'll endeavor to be more entertaining.

posted by ethylene 12 November | 19:09

no darling, it is not you. *we need more people* otherwise we will take turns winning which is quite ok, also...

get fed and get well!

posted by carmina 12 November | 19:14

Oh, i didn't think it was me, i just needed to shove some food at my facehole and snuggle in bed.
The game had a limping start and a confused middled-- for another time.
Now if only i had a ridiculous amount of pillows so i could compute in a fluffy cocoon now that last night's cocktails are less than a memory and before the aspirin wears off from my over extertions.
The Ed Bradley memorial is on.

posted by ethylene 12 November | 19:45

Yes! It needs more people! I think it would be fun but it has to happen at an active time.

And, yeah, carmina, this was the kind of thing I was thinking might be sticky for a few hours because posts move down the page so fast. But I guess that's too CLIQUISH. o_0

So... maybe we'll try again on a weekday when more people are bored and looking for something to do. And I'll put the rules in bullet points... I explained pretty much everything, but it's just a big block of text that's not easy to quickly grok and jump in, and that didn't help.

posted by taz 13 November | 01:10

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