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rionaleonhart) wrote2009-01-03 10:42 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2009-01-03 10:42 am
So Long As Holmes Is Time-Travelling, It's Okay.
I have returned from the Mancunian Adventure! Which... oh, wait, I didn't mention that I was going on the Mancunian Adventure here, did I? Well, for the past five days I have been in Manchester, hanging out with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wanttobeatree and sazzlette. I fell over all the freaking time. They mocked me. It was entirely amazing.
I hope you enjoyed your transition into the new year! (I fell off the arm of Sazz's sofa twenty minutes into 2009. It was not a proud moment for me.)
There are several things I need to make entries about (the Twilight film, One Tree Hill, shut up shut up shut up), but first, some more general notes from the adventure:
- On Tuesday, we played a game of Scrabble.wanttobeatree won for ever by putting down the word 'Castieling'. It was beautiful.
- We saw in the new year with a sort of charades-ish game: everyone wrote down the names of celebrities and characters and stuffed them into a hat, then each player had to draw out slips of paper and verbally describe as many characters to their team as they could in a minute. Unfortunately, I am hopeless with celebrities. Matt Damon: 'He's a racing driver! ...he's not a racing driver.' Thensazzlette put 'Damon Hill' in the next batch of names, just to cause me pain. (I also thought that Julia Roberts was a chef. Stop judging me.)
- In the second round, using the same names, the player had to describe the subject of the slip of paper using three words or fewer. Julia Roberts, of course, could now be described with 'not a chef'.wanttobeatree confused us all enormously by describing Batman simply with 'BLACK EARS'. I drew 'Daleks' and realised halfway through saying 'teapot Who villains' that I meant 'pepperpot'. sazzlette and pinkegogirl leapt upon this:
'WILL-YOU-HAVE-A-JAF-FA-CAKE?'
'WHAT-IS-A-JAF-FA-CAKE?'
'IS-IT-A-CAKE-IS-IT-A-BIS-CUIT?'
'DOES-NOT-COM-PUTE.'
'EX-TER-MI-NATE-ALL-JAF-FA-CAKES.'
- The third round involved portraying the character without words, if you're thinking of playing it yourself. Of course, this doesn't lend itself well to textual description. I will mention, however, that in order to portray Bella from Twilight I fell over, and, having learnt how ridiculously clumsy I am, nobody seemed sure whether it was part of the clue or not.
- There is graffiti in Manchester that says 'I AM LORD VOLDEMORT'. Graffiti! And I thought he couldn't become any more evil!
Thank you so much tothebaconfat, squeemu and averysmallthing for your lovely cards!
wanttobeatree and sazzlette. I fell over all the freaking time. They mocked me. It was entirely amazing.I hope you enjoyed your transition into the new year! (I fell off the arm of Sazz's sofa twenty minutes into 2009. It was not a proud moment for me.)
There are several things I need to make entries about (the Twilight film, One Tree Hill, shut up shut up shut up), but first, some more general notes from the adventure:
- On Tuesday, we played a game of Scrabble.
wanttobeatree won for ever by putting down the word 'Castieling'. It was beautiful.- We saw in the new year with a sort of charades-ish game: everyone wrote down the names of celebrities and characters and stuffed them into a hat, then each player had to draw out slips of paper and verbally describe as many characters to their team as they could in a minute. Unfortunately, I am hopeless with celebrities. Matt Damon: 'He's a racing driver! ...he's not a racing driver.' Then
sazzlette put 'Damon Hill' in the next batch of names, just to cause me pain. (I also thought that Julia Roberts was a chef. Stop judging me.)- In the second round, using the same names, the player had to describe the subject of the slip of paper using three words or fewer. Julia Roberts, of course, could now be described with 'not a chef'.
wanttobeatree confused us all enormously by describing Batman simply with 'BLACK EARS'. I drew 'Daleks' and realised halfway through saying 'teapot Who villains' that I meant 'pepperpot'. sazzlette and pinkegogirl leapt upon this:'WILL-YOU-HAVE-A-JAF-FA-CAKE?'
'WHAT-IS-A-JAF-FA-CAKE?'
'IS-IT-A-CAKE-IS-IT-A-BIS-CUIT?'
'DOES-NOT-COM-PUTE.'
'EX-TER-MI-NATE-ALL-JAF-FA-CAKES.'
- The third round involved portraying the character without words, if you're thinking of playing it yourself. Of course, this doesn't lend itself well to textual description. I will mention, however, that in order to portray Bella from Twilight I fell over, and, having learnt how ridiculously clumsy I am, nobody seemed sure whether it was part of the clue or not.
- There is graffiti in Manchester that says 'I AM LORD VOLDEMORT'. Graffiti! And I thought he couldn't become any more evil!
Thank you so much to
thebaconfat, squeemu and averysmallthing for your lovely cards!
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ALSO WE MISS YOU INTENSELY. PLZ COME BACK SOON :D
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