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You know what ? I think it's time for a Silly Game.

OK, here's the rules. It's a game in three stages.

Stage 1

Post an anonymous comment here. Post an in-joke, or a shared memory, or a cryptic clue. Most importantly, it should be something that will allow me to identify you, whilst concealing your identity from anyone else. These comments will temporarily be screened (ie hidden from anyone other than me).

Stage 2

I'll unscreen (ie make visible) any anonymous comments. You are invited to guess who any of the commenters are - post your guesses as replies to the relevant comment. The guesses (including my own) will all be screened.

Stage 3

I'll unscreen all the guesses, and the original commenters are requested at this point to make themselves known.

Scores will then be calculated as follows:
For a guesser - 1 point for every correct guess, 0 for a wrong guess.
For a commenter - 1 point for every person who guessed you wrongly, 0 for everyone who guessed you correctly. Your score doubles if I guessed you correctly.
(You can, of course, be both a guesser and a commenter).

So... it's in the commenter's interest to make their comment (a) comprehensible to me, (b) sufficiently obscure that no one but me can guess who they are, but (c) sufficiently intriguing/interesting/tantalising that as many people as possible will try to guess.

Date: 2005-05-19 07:48 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
If the cat fits...

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
You've posted this so many times, I'll be bloody amazed if no one else gets it, [livejournal.com profile] secutatrix!

Liz/Venta

Date: 2005-05-19 08:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bateleur.livejournal.com
It mentions cats, therefore it's [livejournal.com profile] lanfykins

Date: 2005-05-19 08:26 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
My pants are a Lambrini girl.

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 05:52 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
And hurray for such frivolous things, [livejournal.com profile] sushidog.

Liz/Venta

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From: [identity profile] bateleur.livejournal.com - Date: 2005-05-19 08:13 pm (UTC) - Expand

Date: 2005-05-19 08:31 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
proot?

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 05:53 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Morning, [livejournal.com profile] bateleur :)

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Date: 2005-05-19 08:38 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
You haven't cleaned any carpet with wine for ages...

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 05:53 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
That's probably because you haven't given me any wine in ages, [livejournal.com profile] leathellin!

Liz/Venta

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From: [personal profile] triskellian - Date: 2005-05-19 08:23 pm (UTC) - Expand

Date: 2005-05-19 08:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bateleur.livejournal.com
Just a quick comment on your scoring system:

I've decided to play the game as it was intended, but I'm convinced a much better winning strategy would be to post something obviously written by some well-known reader of yours other than me. Everyone would then try to guess it and I'd make a vast bucketload of points even though you got it wrong.

IMO the scoring system ought to be that if you don't guess it then it scores zero.

Date: 2005-05-19 08:50 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
There was that one serious near miss where I mistook Samantha for you from behind and had circumstances been slightly different I might have embarrassed myself to a considerable degree. Fortunately, I tapped "you" on the shoulder first.

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 05:56 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Hmm. Now this is puzzling me. It obviously relates to an incident where I wasn't present, and if I was told about it, I don't remember.

I think I've come to the conclusion that this is not as compromising as it sounds, and the embarassment would merely have been caused by mistaking one person for another, not by anything more scandalous.

By the writing style, I'm going to guess [livejournal.com profile] spindlemere, though I doubt he'd had been posting at this time.

Liz/Venta

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From: [identity profile] leathellin.livejournal.com - Date: 2005-05-23 06:36 pm (UTC) - Expand

Date: 2005-05-19 08:51 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I know what you did during your 4th year!

(Oh, and I'm a spambot apparently. Hmmmm.)

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 05:57 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Well shhhh! They haven't found the bodies yet.
Er... [livejournal.com profile] onebyone? Really not sure about that.

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Date: 2005-05-19 09:01 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Just how do you prove your human?

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 05:58 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Flippin' eck, no idea.
[livejournal.com profile] drdoug ?
Though I don't expect him to have made a grammatical error :)

Liz/Venta

Re: ECW

From: [identity profile] maviscruet.livejournal.com - Date: 2005-05-25 06:56 am (UTC) - Expand

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From: [identity profile] bateleur.livejournal.com - Date: 2005-05-19 08:42 pm (UTC) - Expand

Date: 2005-05-19 09:17 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
My master fights a conflict which he does not understand
It's five parts Mary Magdalene and five parts Vietnam

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
You've lost me completely.

I'm therefore going to assume that the comment is a very obscure lyric, and that thus you are [livejournal.com profile] zotz. But that's a total stab in the dark.

Ooh, unless you're [livejournal.com profile] condign. Probably not allowed two guesses, am I ? Stick with the former.

Liz/Venta

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Date: 2005-05-19 10:07 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I studied Mathematics at Keble College, but that was a very long time ago.

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 06:01 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Could be a couple of people, but I think I'm going for [livejournal.com profile] ringbark. At least, I think that's what you said :)

Liz/Venta

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Date: 2005-05-19 10:07 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Preachers smell like Garlic

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 06:07 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
This is one on which I am completely stumped.

Fairly random guess of: [livejournal.com profile] inskauldrak

Liz/Venta

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From: [identity profile] stegzy.livejournal.com - Date: 2005-05-25 09:19 am (UTC) - Expand

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Date: 2005-05-19 10:13 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I see shapes

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 06:01 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I'm assuming this is an Idlewild reference, but it doesn't quite narrow it down enough. Er... [livejournal.com profile] metame ?

Liz/Venta

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From: [identity profile] metame.livejournal.com - Date: 2005-05-27 11:46 pm (UTC) - Expand

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From: [identity profile] bateleur.livejournal.com - Date: 2005-05-19 08:12 pm (UTC) - Expand

Date: 2005-05-19 10:13 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I'm only playing because your current music is The Best Album Ever

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 06:02 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Er... [livejournal.com profile] kauket? Though I thought you were more of a Mother's Milk kind of girl.

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Date: 2005-05-19 11:39 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Hmm, looks like your game may have scared everyone off...

(This isn't a proper comment, although anyone's welcome to guess it if they like ;-)

Date: 2005-05-19 11:44 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Rock in exchange for random greetings.

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 06:03 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
That'd be a lot of people saying "[livejournal.com profile] narenek says 'hi'", then :)

Liz/Venta

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From: [identity profile] narenek.livejournal.com - Date: 2005-05-24 11:11 pm (UTC) - Expand

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From: [identity profile] phlebas.livejournal.com - Date: 2005-05-23 04:09 pm (UTC) - Expand

Date: 2005-05-19 12:51 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Composting skip.

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 06:04 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Ooh, I wasn't execting that! Lentils, 4!

Hullo, [livejournal.com profile] failmaster.

Liz/Venta

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From: [identity profile] phlebas.livejournal.com - Date: 2005-05-25 08:10 am (UTC) - Expand

Date: 2005-05-19 02:20 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Fancy a jaunt to the swamp?

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 06:05 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Now then... could that be an invitation from [livejournal.com profile] voratus?

Liz/Venta

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From: [identity profile] voratus.livejournal.com - Date: 2005-05-24 10:40 pm (UTC) - Expand

Kerryptyk

Date: 2005-05-19 05:28 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Deep in the Palatinate, somewhere along the 3rd river, a little greenie sat plotting adventure in the wide world beyond. Then got stuck in the past.

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Actually, [livejournal.com profile] marjory, I got it from the word "greenie" then had to puzzle the rest out :)

Liz/Venta

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Date: 2005-05-19 06:31 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Obscure hand signals.

ECW

Date: 2005-05-19 11:25 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Joining in a bit late there, but hello [livejournal.com profile] mrph.

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From: [identity profile] mrph.livejournal.com - Date: 2005-05-24 10:29 pm (UTC) - Expand

Date: 2005-05-23 07:02 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Oops.

Date: 2005-05-24 10:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
Well, I know who this is on account of the comment posted non-anonymously immediately beforehand... don't think we'll count this one, though :)

Date: 2005-05-24 10:32 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
The password be known but the text unreturned without a dolphin in sight..

Date: 2005-05-24 10:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
I have absolutely no idea. At all. Dolphins ? Er... [livejournal.com profile] ach ?

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Date: 2005-05-24 11:26 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
super short skirt, legs upto armpits, only to be seen at whitby

Date: 2005-05-24 10:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
No, you've lost me.
Someone who wears very short skirts, has very long legs, and whom I only see at Whitby ? Er, nope. No one's springing to mind, to be honest.

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Date: 2005-05-27 10:08 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
All aussies know each other.

Date: 2005-05-28 10:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
It's not all aussies, [livejournal.com profile] shrydar, it's all people from Perth.

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