gnimmel: A rather pitiful charade

gnimmel (

gnimmel) wrote,
@ 2006-09-21 15:54:00

A rather pitiful charade
Oh, bother.

See, I had all these fine words fermenting and growing ripe in my head, albeit rather glacially (can you ferment glacially? It's what they were doing, anyhow) about the wedding and the honeymoon, about roses and gold and mead and tropicbirds and tortoises, there I was, mulling over all of those happy memories and letting them settle contentedly into place -- and then I was going to post some pictures of interesting rocks, and then I was going to mention that we were moving to somewhere rather close to one of the best pubs in Cambridge in a week and a half --

-- when my happy fantasy of a well-honed, meme-free stream of livejournal posts is shattered by a lucky guess in a game of charades. Tch. By the power of webternet chains, and even though I'm not particularly sure of the rules[1], it looks like it's time for, er -

* makes vertical pulling motions *

EDIT: now guessed by

andrewwyld, who has taken up the baton over here.

[1] Wikipedia is my friend.

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	undyingking 2006-09-21 03:01 pm UTC (link)
	A bell-ringing round? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:03 pm UTC (link)
	* shakes head emphatically * (Reply to this)(Parent)

	the_alchemist 2006-09-21 03:02 pm UTC (link)
	Toilet! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:07 pm UTC (link)
	* shakes head, goes over to check the rules again and realises (um, in some obvious physical manner, obv.) that this isn't going to be easy * (Reply to this)(Parent)

	chickenfeet2003 2006-09-21 03:05 pm UTC (link)
	hoisting a sail? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:10 pm UTC (link)
	* shakes head, checks crib webpage of rules again and stands there looking a little pathetic * * makes vertical pulling motion again at the side of the room, then moves to the middle of the room, adopting an exaggerated pose with one arm outstretched and one hand on forehead * (Reply to this)(Parent)

	phlebas 2006-09-21 03:08 pm UTC (link)
	I'm not sure Wikipedia really is your friend - usually for a play you'd mime grandly opening the curtains rather than just pulling a rope. Play? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:13 pm UTC (link)
	Hmph. That's the last time wikipedia sleeps over at my house. Um, I mean * nods * * holds up three fingers * (do they have to be a specific three fingers, btw? I mean, can one make obscene gestures? IAMFI, etc.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	aldabra 2006-09-21 03:16 pm UTC (link)
	Three words. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:22 pm UTC (link)
	holds up one finger holds out one hand, flat and horizontally points to that hand with the other hand puts nose just above horizontal hand and inhales sharply (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	randomchris 2006-09-21 03:25 pm UTC (link)
	Snuff? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:29 pm UTC (link)
	* makes encouraging hand gesture * repeats inhalation-above-hand move, following it with a bit of a stern fingerwagging (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	phlebas 2006-09-21 03:30 pm UTC (link)
	Cocaine? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:32 pm UTC (link)
	waves hand about encourangingly (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	chickenfeet2003 2006-09-21 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	snort? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:36 pm UTC (link)
	* also, now that I think about it, places one finger on arm * (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	andrewwyld 2006-09-21 03:37 pm UTC (link)
	Not snuffbox. Sniff? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:38 pm UTC (link)
	* shakes head * * repeats finger-wagging gesture * (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	andrewwyld 2006-09-21 03:40 pm UTC (link)
	Does it sound like snuff but actually mean, I don't know, castigate? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:48 pm UTC (link)
	* points down at undyingking * (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ixwin 2006-09-21 03:41 pm UTC (link)
	Coke? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	naath 2006-09-21 03:40 pm UTC (link)
	One sylable. erm... Crack. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	andrewwyld 2006-09-21 03:42 pm UTC (link)
	You smoke that, don't you? Well, not you personally. At least, I'm not making any assumptions. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	naath 2006-09-21 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, um, yeah. Probably. I don't, personally, so I've no real clue. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	undyingking 2006-09-21 03:42 pm UTC (link)
	Speed? Snow? Line? Snort? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:47 pm UTC (link)
	nods violently at the first of those options pause holds up two fingers holds up one index finger vertically, puts the other index finger on top of it horizontally (NB. wikipedia's over at my house again, eating all the food in my fridge. So the above move could be bollocks) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	andrewwyld 2006-09-21 03:48 pm UTC (link)
	Speed the ... ? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	andrewwyld 2006-09-21 03:50 pm UTC (link)
	Speed the plough? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:52 pm UTC (link)
	Well done that man! I believe the rules state that I now send you a thing to mime of your very own :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	andrewwyld 2006-09-21 03:54 pm UTC (link)
	Arses. I'll get on with that shortly, then. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	chickenfeet2003 2006-09-21 03:50 pm UTC (link)
	Speed the Plough? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	chickenfeet2003 2006-09-21 03:55 pm UTC (link)
	Holy cow! Look at the timing on the answers! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:57 pm UTC (link)
	Correct, but (according to the LJ comment ordering) a few seconds too late.... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:51 pm UTC (link)
	nods holds up three fingers pulls on earlobe * lumbers round room[1] on all fours, making sideways chewing motions * [1] OK, lumbers round th'internet. Or summat. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	naath 2006-09-21 03:52 pm UTC (link)
	speed the cow (Reply to this)(Parent)

	andrewwyld 2006-09-21 03:52 pm UTC (link)
	Plough, which sounds like cow? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	naath 2006-09-21 03:49 pm UTC (link)
	2nd word 'the'. Speed the ... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2006-09-21 03:35 pm UTC (link)
	Snuffbox? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	andrewwyld 2006-09-21 03:37 pm UTC (link)
	It, by the way, is I. I don't know why it logged me out. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	chickenfeet2003 2006-09-21 03:25 pm UTC (link)
	first word... sniff? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:30 pm UTC (link)
	shakes head, points instead at randomchris** (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bopeepsheep 2006-09-21 03:27 pm UTC (link)
	Scent (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:31 pm UTC (link)
	shakes head, points instead at randomchris** (Reply to this)(Parent)

	undyingking 2006-09-21 03:19 pm UTC (link)
	One can certainly make obscene gestures if one so wishes. Although you don't want to alienate your audience too forcibly... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 03:37 pm UTC (link)
	I figure dismemberment is harder when the audience is virtual. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	hairyears 2006-09-21 04:10 pm UTC (link)
	Having been given the book title, in a game of charades, The National Westminster Quarterly Review of Economic Statistics, I would say that you have my sympathy here... (Reply to this)(Thread)

	gnimmel 2006-09-21 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	Bother! I have let andrewwyld off entirely too lightly. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	strix_an_stones 2006-09-21 05:14 pm UTC (link)
	I guess you aren't milking cows or dancing the watusi so the bell-pull thing is probably right on eh? (Reply to this)

	striped 2006-10-05 01:38 pm UTC (link)
	Hi. I recently asked my Lj friends to name some LJ's that I should add to my friends list, and isobell said you have "one of the best blogs in the universe. Seriously." Here we go. I hope you don't mind me adding you. (Reply to this)

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