As wea re only allowed educational material on this channel now, here is my idea for a new word game:

This is based on an old fashioned "Parlor game" which I read about. Usually played with teams of two, but in this case anyone can take the next turn. I will give a topic, and a starting letter. A conversation then takes place starting with that subject. The first word of the first line in the conversation begins with the chosen letter, then the next line begins with the next letter in alpahbetical order.

Example: Topic is animals; letter is A (to make it easy for me :-)).
Sam: "(A)nimals live in forests."
Next player "(B)ut some animals live in the desert."
Next player "(C)acti grow there."
Next player "(D)o mirages really exist?"... and so on until the starting letter comes around again. Then a new topic and new letter are chosen. Not sure how well it will work, but let's give it a try anyway...

Letter is L. Topic is Art. Take it away...

Questionable division of tax-wealth is often the genesis of revolution!

Rightly so! Missallocation of funds is unacceptable to the masses!

Such is equally unacceptable to this individual. :D

Those who collect tax are less admonishable(?) than those who allocate the revenue unfairly...

Unfair and irrisponsible distribution if tax dollars is probably one of the biggest problems in our socity.

Very true, and as Mum said it's the allocators who are to blame, not the collectors.

What we need are altruistic politicians
**###***^^##!!@@
(cough cough, splutter splutter)

X marks the spot where I'd like to pile 'em all up together and strike a match, since there ain't no such animal as an altruistic politician IMHO. :D

Your remarks about politicians are most puzzling! I have always held them in the highest possible regard! ;-)

Zzzzzzzzzzz.............(*snarcc)....are we still talikng about taxes? Yes? Well, back to sleep for m.........

Animals don't need taxes....... Just a thought.

But pets can be taxing on owners!

Cats can be ESPECIALLY taxing on the people they own.

Don't I know it!

EVERYONE...hello! We are supposed to be talikng about taxes here! Not animals! (sheesh, tangent much)

(Forgive us straying form the leash... we were barking up the wrong tree and indulging in a flight of fancy.) Taxes it is.

goodness people , who cares about taxes :p, time for a subject change anyways. :/ I'm so bored.

New subject: Missing socks (and other conspiracy theories)

starting letter: W ...

Well, I don't know about missing socks, but I am pretty sure my computer has a personal grudge against me. It's the only explanation for some of the cruel tricks it plays on me...

X-files probably contain many such evil-PC reports!

You're probably right about that, Mum, and I personally believe that many of our everyday annoyances are the result of conspiracy theories.

Zebra's don't report many conspiracy theories, They tend to see the world in black and white...(hehehe)...And they rarely lose socks.

Ahhh...lucky, lucky zebras! I've lost so many socks to the conspirators who live in my washing machine that I now go barefoot even in winter.

But didn't you know?! It's the zebras who are the root of the problem...

Come on, at the *foot* of the problem, surely...

Do we want to start this game up again?? Make sure you read the rules, everyone...

FOr goodness sake, if you're going to spam, at least follow the rules...

Except for the silly people, who must be related to the zebras btw, who ignore the proper order of their own game & skip a letter !!!

Ha ha Lauren. Hilarious. Except that the spam I posted after (which has now been removed) took up the "G" posistion. SO now who's mucking up the order? *raspberry*

Ha ha HA Sam. So, ..what ? Am I supposed to continue that zebra story only this time correctly starting at *H* ...like I KNEW ...ahem. Or are you starting a whole new story or what ?

Just follow the rule about the next letter... the conversation can be about anything you like. See how I have followed the rule for my last two posts? And how you haven't? Just trying to be helpful here...

How can I be expected to ever follow the rules of this game, or any other, when I loathe rules to begin with ? Well, except for Monopoly, I love that game ! I wonder what games other people cheat at ?

Lauren, you're hopeless.

Monopoly has rules. ;op

Now you're getting the hang of it.

Othello's a game too, though I never got the hang of THAT either.

Probably because you're not a Moor.

Quixotic characters are in the plot, no doubt.

REALLY quixotic characters are in that plot, trust me.

Strangling one's wife could hardly be called extravagantly chivalrous or romantic ...

Thought this was one of the other words games for a moment... was about to remind Hannah that the previous word was "Really" and not "Sowchbcecor"...

Undoubtedly quixotic has another definition, i.e., "Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic".

Verily, 'tis true.

Why should I refrain from responding, and get stuck with X?

X-P

You really need to see a doctor about that!

Zounds, why do I always get stuck with the tricky letters...

Apparently you field them well, Sam.

Because of your superior skills.

Can we please change the subject? ;-P

Dogs are among my favorite subjects, what about you ?

Eh, dogs are nice, but cats are better (*treading on thin ice*).

For some maybe, but just think of the rolls dogs have played in Literature !

For my money, dogs are more endearing... Although cats have their appeal, the loyalty of a dog is a winning trait... Plus the way they always get so excited when you get home (sometimes even if all you went "out" for was to take the rubbish bin to the front kerb!)

Good kitties are affectionate too - when I get home, Dusky rolls on the floor and rubs on my feet and purrs up a storm.

(Hope nobody minds if I give this a more suitable title)

I sure don't.

(* I was erring on the side of caution here *)

Just trying to make it easier to tell what's what.

Back to topic... I guess we are going to be biased depending on what pets we have...

Keeping to the topic ... are we biased because we have certain pets, or do we have certain pets because we're biased? ?-\

Left of center of the topic, you know there's a certain section of people who like a more different type of pet, like farm animals.

Maybe some folks like their farm 'pets' served with a nice tossed salad, parsleyed potatoes, sweet corn, apple cobbler and sweet tea.

Nice people don't talk about eating other people's pets.

Ooops! >;oP

Perhaps he was talking about people who eat their own "pets"?

Something I don't think I could do (slaughter my own animals)... although in the end it is probably much more humane than buying it from the supermarket. We will probably be getting chickens soon, but for eggs... I can't imagine I could even do a chicken, let alone something like a pig or cow...

On a side note, I am also thinking we might get some beehives on our property. From the little I've read it sounds pretty straightforward... bees aren't great as pets (they only live a few weeks) but the article I read said that the hive has it's own "personality"... so maybe the hive itself could be called a pet?!?

Quite so.

Butchering is not for the squeamish. With the small farmer, the animal lives a life of comparative luxury. It is in the farmer's best interest to process humanely, because the quality of the meat degrades substantially with the introduction of 'panic hormones'. Sorry to say, with many of the confinement operations, all bets are off . . .

- Mike

Remember this is supposed to be a game, not a monologue ;-P

(I don't want to have to actually read too much!)

Realistically speaking of course, animals living within the confines of of a small farm may sometimes live better then their counterparts on a larger farm. Abuse is abuse, no matter the size.

After all, I watch Animal Planet !

'Sounds like a new age paradigm to me.

"Pass the steak sauce, please!" >;oP

Tell me, Lauren, why it took you 12 minutes to write 3 sentences for a letter I had already taken? *scratching head*

Unless someone corrects me... I don't believe anyone ever wrote a song dedicated to cats...

(The video is pretty awful IMO... but just ignore it and listen to the words)

Very probably because I must've been doing something else somewhere else at the same time too & hadn't bothered to refresh my page...how is that for an explanation Hannah ?

Tho........do I need to explain myself to anyone ? *scratches head*

We think Hannah Joy may have cat scratch fever... [kidding ;o]

X.X

Yeppers, I must have caught something.

"Zorro" is a strange name for a canary, don't you think? Then again my brother is a strange person (it runs in the family)

A better name for a raccoon, I think.

Birds do make great low maintainence pets. Did you know that the bird commonly known as the parrakeet in the US is actually an Australian bird called a budgerigar? It's quite a sight to see a large flock in the wild...

Cash ... I seem to never have enough cash on hand. Would someone like to borrow me some?

Danika, I would if I could hon, but I can't so I won't. Sorry hon. :o)

"Enough" is a hard thing to define when it comes to money...

Financial security is the real American Idol.

Good financial advisers can help...or so I've heard.

How come we're talking about money?

Isn't it enough that I have to work with it all day long?

Just change the subject, then...

Knowledge is more important (in the long run) than money anyway.

Learning feeds the mind; shouldn't we feed soul and spirit as well?

Many do that simply by reading a book of any genre.

Not particularly nutritious, aye what?

Oh, well it can be but music feeds the soul as well.

Perhaps what I meant by "knowledge" is a bit broader than what you meant by "learning".

Quite the opposite I expect; learning is more than the acquisition of knowledge, isn't it?

Reading what you said ^up there^ made me think of information, which I agree wouldn't feed the soul, whereas knowledge in the broad sense that I meant would have spiritual implications as well. Maybe because I've been reading Paradise Lost - Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

So, in essence we are in substantial agreement? :o)

Ten% less than 100% of all "debates" are about the definitions of words ...
(Yes, of course I made that up.)

Ummm, the "Liar, Liar" thread is >>>---that-way--->>> , Hannah Joy.

Vivid imagery seems to have condemned my latest submission - perhaps I should have named it caedes ...

We always second guess ourselves it seems. I'm always at a loss for titles too.