jayseven

Accepted! Round over! OP will be updated with scores for this round. Anyone can feel free to do the next.

Happy Birthday Ellmeister!

mr-paul :P Congrats eenuh! One question left and it's reaaally not that difficult (it's a subjective question!).

Watch Down Periscope, Loaded Weapon 1, Top Secret!, Young Frankenstein, Space Balls or Murder By Death. Mel Brooks is the man when it comes to Spoofs. of course, spoofs work best when you know what they're parodying. There's also a movie that kinda parodies Godfather/Goodfellas but for the life of me I can't remember what it's called.

Happy birthday Canand!

(Have a medal for getting the reference :P)

Buuuurn by diageo there! Him and Chairdriver get the point. (diageo; technically I think they're to be called firefighters in general) I appreciate the last two questions are pretty hard (the narcissistic one especially narrows down potential answerers), but I don't expect all questions to be answered every round.

I'll accept that. Did you know, Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg is the name of what used to be the world's finest brandy - but the maker (i forget if it was the general himself) took the recipe to his grave. The dual-headed eagle represents 'looking both ways' -- east and west to the invading forces they had to deal with from the byzantines and the romans over the years. (my brother-in-law is albanian) Dyson; not fully compliant with the question :P Try again if you wish.

Using google is allowed :P

it was indeed persians and greeks! Plataea aided Athens (to clear up your ambiguity). I had a brief lesson on it today but did indeed have to google the intricities :P And gonna have to accept Dazz's answer as well. Darnit.

It's not a 'class' of people. At all.

Yeah, I feel you. Hoping the special qualities give it a chance - worth the 30k risk I think!

Paj wins! 10char.

Consider Phlebas is the first in the culture series. Algebraist is completely stand-alone sci-fi. However, I have it on good word that the Culture stuff doesn't need to be read in order really. Shame about Farenheit 451 - considered it a few times but from what you say I'll just give it a miss.

Paj; I think we do show different facets to different friends, but ultimately I'm always aware that if two disparate friends met up, I'd like to still be myself and not feel too awkward being the 'me' I am with them independantly. Dan; I think I get on better with girls in general simply because I'm not a 'bloke' - but I'd say that the list would be fairly even between males and females when it comes to those I feel closest to.

Correct! (Just realised this is in the wrong place. Shoving it in playground now)

Well I'll probably buy it tomorrow if I get no word on here - be glad to shunt it your way when I'm done with it

So let's start this a-fresh, a-new, a-hoy-hoy. Rules - Anyone can play - Answer one question only, until told otherwise. - Do not attempt to answer another question or re-answer a question until the round master has told you that you were wrong. - However, if you are certain that someone has attempted a question and gotten it wrong, you are encouraged to provide your own answer before the RM has responded (so long as you haven't answered another question already that you are awaiting comment on!) - Typically, a round should have 10 questions, each should be worth a point, but a varying scoring method may be allowed if the round is worthy of it. - Bonus questions and general question format is up to the round master. They may be trivia, quiz, video, pictoral, audial, whatever. - Questions will be worth 1pt unless otherwise specified. - It is respectably expected for all involved in the game to partake in constructing a round of their own at some point. To encourage this, the round master will earn a point for providing their questions. - Games master (myself, for now) has casting vote on any uncertain issue. - Rules are bound to be amended over time!

youth with training cone, shooting power and all-rounder skill... but is a 17 2 Giving the player a chance because the profit on a sale ought to give me a week's training money. If it sells. Anyone think it'd be worth trying to make him a 20-8? :P

Considering the Stacking DLC. Opinions?

ReZ. Please do more ReZ daily. I don't want to talk about this idea because I don't want to make you cry.

Long shot - but does anyone have Consider Phlebas by Ian M. Banks they'd like to send me for free? Or would anyone like me to send any of the books I've read to them? maybe get a free library going, eh? :P

I was watching the BBC documentary on Queen and at some point someone said "[Queen] weren't fashionable, just popular" and it struck me how rarely I focus on the distinction. I'm notoriously ill-dressed, but I have the ability to get on with the majority of people, to the extent where it tires me to have diarise 'catch-up' sessions with friends. The majority of my social outings seem to be of this calibre, actually, which leads me to wonder - what's a friend? For a long time I've held on tight to the notion that I've got these 'wavelength' buddies - people who slip through the stream of life in a similar fashion to me; regardless of our independant struggles and endurances, we meet up every month or year and immediately gel - instantly combine our jigsaw pieces, clap our hands and say 'yeah'. On the one hand it's all about familiarity. I have three stalwart life companions that, when we combine, there's legends being unwritten. However I wouldn't say that I have a best friend (aside from my girlfriend!). I don't know if it's the TV show that's skewed perceptions, but I do kinda feel like I'm supposed to have a solid group that I rely on for anything from advice to stress-relief. While I spent 4 years in sheffield I think I kept myself in reserve, knowing my 'life' was bound for brighton, then I get to brighton and it's flipped; I find myself pining for the 'other crowd', for that notion of belonging. Then it struck me - My friend is this forum. It's my release, my consolation, my home and my church. It's sucky and lame to say but it's true. For the last decade-ish, my days have been spent with the safe knowledge that I'll be able to check the forums at some point. But what is friendship? I don't feel like I've even scratched the surface. Do you have life-long friends, or what? C'mon, go essay on this shit.

Haha brilliant! Did you know that Franklin W. Dixon never actually existed? Pen name for a whole bunch of authors over the years. It made me revert to a foetal state when I first learnt.

When I was a kid and let loose in a library, I'd always bring home two books - one that I had gone to the library to get, and another 'random' one picked based on the cover, the author's name or whatever. It's how I discovered Pratchett, paul jennings, Hardy Boys (lol), adrian mole, and many more.