Visit The *EVEN NEWER* Barrow-Downs Photo Page |
05-16-2006, 07:06 PM | #481 | |
Cryptic Aura
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 5,996
|
Quote:
__________________
I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away. |
|
05-16-2006, 08:05 PM | #482 |
Shade of Carn Dűm
|
++ Smith of Wootton Major
The one whom I owe allegence to has called me....oathkeeper, I am! I think Tolkien might have been bored when he was righting this one, and ripped off The Adventure of Link, Halo (Master Cook!?) and Feast of Good Children is definetly straight from Santa Claus' early ideas and experiments. Let's git rid of the (as we say in the 'Souf',) "bo-bo brand. ________ Glass bubblers Last edited by Elu Ancalime; 03-03-2011 at 11:58 PM. |
05-16-2006, 08:54 PM | #483 |
Raffish Rapscallion
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Far from the 'Downs, it seems :-(
Posts: 2,835
|
++ Smith
Mainly to prevent a Smith/Giles showdown because that would be a horrible groaner. And should Smith go I, at the very least, will have SpM's vote against Long-Name tomorrow... |
05-16-2006, 10:11 PM | #484 |
Shadow of the Past
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Minas Mor-go
Posts: 1,007
|
++Gram
A dog on a medieval farm is certain not to have all of the proper shots. God knows what horrible diseases the animal carries. I wouldn't be surprised if half the contestants have rabies by now. |
05-16-2006, 11:07 PM | #485 |
Eidolon of a Took
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: my own private fantasy world
Posts: 3,460
|
End of Day the Thirty-Fourth
It was a banger of a day -- reinforcements were summoned on both sides, and the mod actually had to write the votes down instead of counting them on her fingers. Like, work.
Smith of Wootton Major: 9 votes Gram: 8 votes Queen of Faerie: 1 vote And so, as Sauce gave a delirious whoop for joy, Smith was trussed up like a chicken and given a sound drubbing with saucepans, frying pans, soup pans, and those fun leather whips with the ball bearings and sharp tacks woven in. He fell to the ground, whimpering, "I just wanted to eat cake," before he bled out his life upon the Watchers Rock. His heart was removed and used for some vile purpose that involved hula dancing and ritual cannibalism. Ang leered nastily at the weeping widow, Nell, and Smith's supporters gnashed their teeth, vowing revenge. Day the Thirty-Fifth finds 8 contestants remaining: Those Who Belong to Faerie Goldberry Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie Queen of Faerie Chrysophylax Dives Those Who Don't Ćgidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) Gram, his dog The Parson Nell
__________________
All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression. |
05-17-2006, 12:09 AM | #486 |
Byronic Brand
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: The 1590s
Posts: 2,778
|
Excellent. Now let's hang that unpleasant dog...
++GRAM adding insult to injury mode
__________________
Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso |
05-17-2006, 12:38 AM | #487 | |
Dead Serious
|
Quote:
Fie on you, Anguirel, to abandon so soon your standings of old. I who played Kingmaker yesterday shall try my hand at it again. To the vote of Nell, I summon thee! ++ Nell If nothing else, watching the broken remnants of the Pro-Smith party make a ruckus of defending his widow should be interesting.
__________________
I prefer history, true or feigned.
|
|
05-17-2006, 03:29 AM | #488 |
Wight
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: In the house of Tom Bombariffic
Posts: 196
|
you won't make me give up that easily.
++ QUEEN OF FAERIE Right, you can all see that I personally don't like her. But think about it! She's manipulating, a temptress, practically a kidnapper. A very bad influence. There's a word for people like that. Jailbait. Do the right thing. bombariffic
__________________
The 'hum' generated by an electric car is not in fact the noise of the engine, but that of the driver's self-righteousness oscillating at a high frequency. |
05-17-2006, 03:54 AM | #489 |
Riveting Ribbiter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Assigned to Mordor
Posts: 1,767
|
I told you that Diamond would kill Smith if he got voted off.
Now, what's the best way to take my revenge?
__________________
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff. |
05-17-2006, 04:20 AM | #490 |
Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
Posts: 7,500
|
Mercy! Mercenaries upon us! Where did all the voters come from so suddenly?
Fie upon not-so-bombariffic tom - blaming the woman for the man's situation is an excuse that goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden! Now, which choice to make today - I could continue voting for Gram, thereby risking being considered boring... Nell and the Parson are the other least important characters... As the latter said, "A little closer inspection will be required."
__________________
'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...' |
05-17-2006, 04:29 AM | #491 |
Wight
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: In the house of Tom Bombariffic
Posts: 196
|
well as a woman you ought to be perfectly aware of your potential for influence and the immorality of abusing it.
Poor little smith, he didn't know what had hit him. Das Uber-Bombariffic Tom
__________________
The 'hum' generated by an electric car is not in fact the noise of the engine, but that of the driver's self-righteousness oscillating at a high frequency. |
05-17-2006, 04:32 AM | #492 |
Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
Posts: 7,500
|
Huh?? Only the person doing something is responsible for his actions, no one else!
You overestimate my potential.
__________________
'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...' |
05-17-2006, 05:22 AM | #493 |
Wight
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: In the house of Tom Bombariffic
Posts: 196
|
You're making it very hard for me to keep mistrusting the queen!
please let me sit at home and nurse my dislike in peace. Stop being so persuasive, you're like the queen...so I suppose that means I'm to blame... I'm getting confused now. Think I need to sit down and eat a sandwich. bombariffic
__________________
The 'hum' generated by an electric car is not in fact the noise of the engine, but that of the driver's self-righteousness oscillating at a high frequency. |
05-17-2006, 06:41 AM | #494 |
Byronic Brand
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: The 1590s
Posts: 2,778
|
For reasons that I shall for the moment conceal I will not be party to the eviction of Nell.
However I do agree that, purely because of the surfeit yesterday, my ailurophile attack on Gram lacks novelty. --GRAM, ++THE PARSON I've detested this religious bigot ever since he stirred up the mob against the unfortunate Persian Artaxerxes...
__________________
Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso |
05-17-2006, 07:09 AM | #495 | ||
Corpus Cacophonous
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: A green and pleasant land
Posts: 8,390
|
Hehe. I knew that this would start to become interesting once Smith was knocked out. The outcome of the show is now a lot less certain and a number of interesting issues are raised. Will the Smithsonians coalesce around a single alternative candidate or will they be reduced to rancour and petty squabbling without their sacred (veggie) sausage to rally round? How will the opposing factions and the independents react? Will the Alliance of DOOM put in a return appearance? Will anyone ever understand what Ang is trying to achieve? Will Celuien be avenged? Does bombariffic's deep-seated dislike of the Faerie Queen stem from an unfortunate episode in his childhood? All these quesions and more will be answered over the coming days. And so the show is beginning to catch the vewing public's imagination once more. I shall be rendering a modest fee for saving the show in due course, Diamond.
Quote:
Quote:
Sorry, but desperate times called for desperate measures. And I see that the so-called League of Extraordinary Downers was called upon too. Happily, the Alliance prevailed once more. As for my vote, well I must honour my pledge to The Only Real Estel (thanks, by the way, TORE ): + + Ćgidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo I quite like the old chap, but a promise is a promise. And title characters always make fun evictees. Oh yeah, and he has an improbably long and inexcusably Latin name.
__________________
Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind! |
||
05-17-2006, 08:36 AM | #496 | |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pennsylvania, WtR, passed Sarn Gebir: Above the rapids (1239 miles) BtR, passed Black Rider Stopping Place (31 miles)
Posts: 1,548
|
Quote:
And for any who oppose the eviction of + + Ćgidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) Put them on the rack and give the rack a turn!!! Hahahahahahaha!
__________________
Aure Entuluva! |
|
05-17-2006, 08:54 AM | #497 | |
Riveting Ribbiter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Assigned to Mordor
Posts: 1,767
|
Quote:
Now Anguirel, who was also a culprit in Smith's demise, is more likely to be irritated by any future scheming. I think I'll focus my efforts on thwarting him. Save The Parson! ++ Ćgidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) How in Middle-earth has this anakronism wielding imposter survived so long?
__________________
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff. |
|
05-17-2006, 09:10 AM | #498 | ||
Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: The Edge of Faerie
Posts: 7,066
|
Quote:
Quote:
++ Giles Let's whip the boy, the usurper, the liar and thief. Not to mention his smarts was in his gut, seat, and hand instead of his head. |
||
05-17-2006, 09:14 AM | #499 |
Byronic Brand
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: The 1590s
Posts: 2,778
|
Unlike some, I do not jealously cling onto hegemony and success, attempting a monopoly of my candidates.
Lady Celuien, you have my full support. However, I would appreciate a movement against the turbulent priest tomorrow. --THE PARSON, ++FARMER GILES OF HAM
__________________
Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso |
05-17-2006, 09:18 AM | #500 | ||
Eidolon of a Took
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: my own private fantasy world
Posts: 3,460
|
Quote:
Quote:
__________________
All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression. |
||
05-17-2006, 09:34 AM | #501 |
Byronic Brand
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: The 1590s
Posts: 2,778
|
Let's wait for things to progress to see who's been messed with, alright, almighty Moddess?
__________________
Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso |
05-17-2006, 09:45 AM | #502 | |
Eidolon of a Took
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: my own private fantasy world
Posts: 3,460
|
Oooooookay. I predict you'll be voting for Chrys eventually, purely to tick me off. Prove me wrong.
Forgot to reply to this: Quote:
__________________
All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression. |
|
05-17-2006, 10:19 AM | #503 |
Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
Posts: 7,500
|
How monotonously predictable the voting is today! A few scattered alternatives, and already a majority for Giles. Well, just to do "something completely different", I shall vote for someone who has not been mentioned today:
++Alf Prentice, King of Faerie
__________________
'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...' |
05-17-2006, 11:01 AM | #504 | |
Corpus Cacophonous
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: A green and pleasant land
Posts: 8,390
|
Quote:
The difference, however, is that these votes have all been prompted by different motives. I am honouring the pledge I made yesterday, Tuor has always had it in for Giles, Celuien thinks she's avenging herself on Ang, Elempi is just lashing out and Ang ... well, who knows what Ang is up to? On prior days, the majority vote has generally been directed towards a single purpose: SOS (save our Smith). It all bodes marvellously well for forthcoming days and, indeed, the final. And how wonderful the prospect of eliminating the last surviving title character is. (Btw Di, Ang likes Dragons. Though whether he considers Chrys a "proper" Dragon, I know not. For my own part, I merely question his presence in the Faerie team. He was far too practical and pragmatic a Dragon to be a true Faerie creature. Faerie by birth maybe, but not be nature. )
__________________
Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind! |
|
05-17-2006, 11:22 AM | #505 |
Eidolon of a Took
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: my own private fantasy world
Posts: 3,460
|
My Faerie/Not-Faerie classifications are entirely random and based on whims. And a desire to have to two tribes of equal number.
I know Ang likes dragons, that's why a vote for Chrys would merely be for spite.
__________________
All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression. |
05-17-2006, 02:56 PM | #506 | |
Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: The Edge of Faerie
Posts: 7,066
|
Quote:
|
|
05-17-2006, 03:41 PM | #507 | |
Riveting Ribbiter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Assigned to Mordor
Posts: 1,767
|
Quote:
I'm not telling what that situation would comprise that necessity.
__________________
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff. |
|
05-17-2006, 03:53 PM | #508 |
Wight
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: In the house of Tom Bombariffic
Posts: 196
|
childhood schmildhood, I have my reasons. And I will not be subject to any more vile speculation thank you very much.
And Estelyn, voting for the KING OF FAERIE? What did he do wrong? Methinks you're just being confrontational. Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry-a-dillo. I stand by my choice. And when she finally goes, the satisfaction will be all the sweeter. bombariffic
__________________
The 'hum' generated by an electric car is not in fact the noise of the engine, but that of the driver's self-righteousness oscillating at a high frequency. |
05-17-2006, 04:14 PM | #509 |
Raffish Rapscallion
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Far from the 'Downs, it seems :-(
Posts: 2,835
|
++ Ćgidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
If I've said it once (which I have) I've said it a thousand times (which I also have), I'll not waste space & time repeating myself now. Thanks to SpM for actually honoring his agreement (hey, this is Survivor, remember ). Not that he doesn't have time to change it still... |
05-17-2006, 04:45 PM | #510 | |
Corpus Cacophonous
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: A green and pleasant land
Posts: 8,390
|
Quote:
Ah well, in that case ... No. I'll stick with my vote. While I like Giles as a character and find his tale to be the best of the Minors, I prefer to vote in a way which enlivens the game than purely according to my tastes. It amuses me to see most of the major minor characters go down and I think it is likely to make for a more interesting finale. Besides, it doesn't look like it would make much difference now. And I was truly grateful for your vote yesterday.
__________________
Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind! |
|
05-17-2006, 08:06 PM | #511 |
Cryptic Aura
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 5,996
|
It doesn't do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations.
My! Someone I haven't yet voted for. I must correct this oversight. Or, in the immortal words of many a WWII submarine adventure: dive, dive, dive!
+ + Chrysophylax Dives
__________________
I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away. |
05-17-2006, 10:00 PM | #512 |
Shadow of the Past
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Minas Mor-go
Posts: 1,007
|
Now's my chance!
Down with the Latin-naméd blunderbuss-brandisher!
++Ćgidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) After all those days of voting for him, I finally get to see his head on the chopping block... |
05-17-2006, 10:10 PM | #513 |
Dead Serious
|
What a deadly boring day...
Say what you like, man of many Saucepans, but this blind coalition of Giles-voters are dead boring. Where is the suspence in a predetermined race? Sauce at least has a good excuse... but most of you? Pathetic. Alas, but there is virtually nobody to join with to form even an attempt at a counter-bandwaggon. But I shall try- for the sake of interest. -- Nell, ++ Alf, King of Faerie I too have memories of Alien Alf- and I was an easily scared child at the time...
__________________
I prefer history, true or feigned.
|
05-17-2006, 10:58 PM | #514 |
Sword of Spirit
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Oh, I'm around.
Posts: 1,401
|
Hello!
Just thought I'd jump in to join the bandwagon! ++Ćgidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) ++And your little dog, too! ( ) Oh, guess I can't do that. --his little dog, Gram I best stick around; got to make sure Bęthberry doesn't off my personal favorite!
__________________
I'm on a Mission from God. |
05-17-2006, 11:15 PM | #515 |
Eidolon of a Took
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: my own private fantasy world
Posts: 3,460
|
End of Day the Thirty-Fifth
Ćgidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) - 8 votes
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie: 1 vote Queen of Faerie: 1 vote Chrysophylax Dives: 1 vote And so, The Only Real Estel gleefully shot Giles with his own blunderbuss. However, the wound was not fatal, so Alcarillo assigned him to Mordor for anakronistic usage of said blunderbuss. (Giles, not TORE.) Day the Thirty-Sixth finds 7 contestants remaining: Also, I've rearranged the tribes on a whim: The Dudes: Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie The Parson The Chicks: Goldberry Queen of Faerie Nell The Beasties: Gram Chrysophylax Dives
__________________
All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression. |
05-18-2006, 12:21 AM | #516 |
Dead Serious
|
Okay, the "chicks" really do need culling. Let's even out this field a little...
And the dullest of the lot is clearly Nell. ++ Nell Once again into the breech....
__________________
I prefer history, true or feigned.
|
05-18-2006, 03:47 AM | #517 |
Riveting Ribbiter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Assigned to Mordor
Posts: 1,767
|
++ Chrysophylax Dives, the hypocritical dragon.
__________________
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff. |
05-18-2006, 05:24 AM | #518 |
Wight
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: In the house of Tom Bombariffic
Posts: 196
|
In the interests of protecting the lovely little dragony waggony, I'll have a crack at
++Nell what? you didn't really think I was going to vote for the queen of Faerie again did you? Wouldn't want to irk fraulein estelyn any more than I have been. bombariffic
__________________
The 'hum' generated by an electric car is not in fact the noise of the engine, but that of the driver's self-righteousness oscillating at a high frequency. |
05-18-2006, 05:29 AM | #519 |
Byronic Brand
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: The 1590s
Posts: 2,778
|
++THE PARSON
A disgrace that this pedantic fundamentalist now represents 50% of the male population.
__________________
Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso |
05-18-2006, 05:40 AM | #520 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pennsylvania, WtR, passed Sarn Gebir: Above the rapids (1239 miles) BtR, passed Black Rider Stopping Place (31 miles)
Posts: 1,548
|
A difficult choice between a (can he even be
called a beastie) Gram) and the preacher-----ah + + The Parson since rumor has it he was seen smirking at Chrysophylax Dives and as the proverb goes: "Never laugh at live dragons."
__________________
Aure Entuluva! Last edited by Tuor of Gondolin; 05-18-2006 at 05:44 AM. |
|
|