How to make new friends, how to play their new games

[venta]

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.

Comments

[(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

[(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 spindlemere, though I doubt he'd had been posting at this time.

Liz/Venta

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You see i'd have said Andy but he doesn't check lj.