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Posted by Alfie, 01:53, 5th August 2004:
 
Bear with me cos its 1.53am but I've made a list of 13 so far (iamcal members):

1. Looking at the line : Rowsee - Rosie (retisma)
2. The winner in an O'Conner threesome : Victor, Men 'n Des - Victor Menendez (sul)
3. The Almighty's secondary lughole : B-Ear God - Beargod (retisma)
4. It's not your dock : Mi Key - Miki (sul)
5. Futurama time : Fry Day - friday (sul)
6. Native American Indian Tribe : sioux - su (miki)
7. Hark at you mother! : Oooh, Ma! - Uma (sul)
8. Frizzy haired black and yellow guy : A bee 'fro man - Abe Frohman (sul)
9. Showing the medical staff around Mr Little's toilet : Doc Tour Loo (Sid) - Doctor Lucid (sul)
10. Holographic helper's payment : Al Fee - Alfie (sul)
11. 17th and early 18th century music genre : Baroque - Brock (Uncle Moc)
12. Small Vauxhall spark as a man picks up an automobile : Nova ember E' Collect a car - November Eclectica (sul)
13. Elipsis on the edge of Mach 1 CHANGED (cos i don't know my G-forces and all that crap) TO:
13. Elipsis on the edge of half a horse : Gee Rim Dot Dot Dot - Grim... (alfie)
Posted by arsepuppy, 02:20, 5th August 2004:
 
not a cleu.
Posted by reitsma, 04:47, 5th August 2004:
 
is 3 beargod?
if so, you suck at this.

1 would be row-see, wouldn't it?

2: suzie?
Posted by Sul, 09:12, 5th August 2004:
 
4. Quay-lease - Kallese
5. Fry-day - Friday
9. Doc-to-loo-Syd - Doctor Lucid
10. Al-fee - Alfie
12. Nova-ember-collect(a)-car - November Eclectica
Posted by Sul, 09:14, 5th August 2004:
 
Alternative 4. My-Quay - Miki
Posted by Sul, 09:16, 5th August 2004:
 
3. B-Ear-God - Beargod (just clarifying what reitsma said)
Posted by Sul, 09:19, 5th August 2004:
 
7. You, Ma - Uma?
Posted by Sul, 09:22, 5th August 2004:
 
8. A-Bee-Fro-Man - Abe Frohman
Posted by Grim..., 09:27, 5th August 2004:
 
7. Reitsma?
Posted by Sul, 09:28, 5th August 2004:
 
2. Victor-(Menen)-Des - Victor Menendez (Dont quite get the menen bit though)

edit: Unless it's Victor-Man-and-Des
Posted by Sul, 09:31, 5th August 2004:
 
Longshot

11. (Classi)-Cal - Cal
Posted by Alfie, 11:17, 5th August 2004:
 
1. correct Retisma (Row See - Rosie)
3. correct Retisma (B-Ear God)
2 is correct Sul (Victor, men 'n Des.)
7. is correct Sul (Ooooh, ma! Uma)
5. correct sul
9 correct sul though its (Doc Tour Loo Sid)
10 correct sul
12 correct sul
Posted by Alfie, 11:19, 5th August 2004:
 
4 is Mi Quay: Miki correct Sul
Posted by Alfie, 11:20, 5th August 2004:
 
oh and 8 too
Posted by Alfie, 11:32, 5th August 2004:
 
just 6, 11 and 13 left to get
Posted by Alfie, 11:36, 5th August 2004:
 
I think number 13 might be a bit flawed :( I was thinking of a force rather than the sound barrier
Posted by Alfie, 11:37, 5th August 2004:
 
13 is now:
13. Elipsis on the edge of half a horse
Posted by Grim..., 11:38, 5th August 2004:
 
Oh! It's 'Sul'!
Posted by Alfie, 11:40, 5th August 2004:
 
?
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 12:11, 5th August 2004:
 
Why am I not in this list Chay? eh! ;)
Posted by Alfie, 12:37, 5th August 2004:
 
hehe, I tried but it was a little bit too much to work a clue out :D
Posted by Uncle Moc, 13:34, 5th August 2004:
 
11 - brock -- baroque
Posted by Alfie, 13:51, 5th August 2004:
 
yup :D
Posted by Alfie, 13:52, 5th August 2004:
 
you should be able to get 6 as well doc
Posted by Miki, 14:08, 5th August 2004:
 
6 su ? (sioux)
Posted by Salman Rushdie, 14:15, 5th August 2004:
 
ha, yes!
Posted by Grim..., 14:38, 5th August 2004:
 
Here's a few more for you...

14) Search the web (but don't look) for half a hologram. (Google - ogle + rim = Gorim) Grim... (Rushdie)
15) The dad of the people that built this city. Jeff (Rushdie)
16) Animated blue monster, without 'karate' Bruce. (Sully - Lee) Sul (Rushdie)
17) Consume your urine, then vocally regret it. (Eat my Pee? No!) Eatmypiano (Rushdie)
18) Use the slang for 'mouth'. My goodness! (Gob + o) Gobbo (Rushdie)
Posted by Salman Rushdie, 14:47, 5th August 2004:
 
15: Jeff (jefferson - son = jeffer)... but by that point they were called Starship not JEfferson Starship? or Jeffid, perhaps?

18) gobbo (gob? oh!)
Posted by Salman Rushdie, 14:48, 5th August 2004:
 
14: Grim (google - ogle = go + Rimmer - mer = gorim + ..., - o = grim)
Posted by Grim..., 14:48, 5th August 2004:
 
Yes and yes - I thought they were still called Jefferson Starship, but hey, you still got it.
Posted by Grim..., 14:49, 5th August 2004:
 
14: Yes! Well done.
Posted by Salman Rushdie, 14:50, 5th August 2004:
 
17. Foghorn Leghorn (horn = drinking tankard = leghorn = penis) (foghorn = vocal warning = "don't drink the contents of the leghorn!")
Posted by Salman Rushdie, 14:50, 5th August 2004:
 
16. (had to look this up), Sulley is the guy out of Monsters inc, -Lee for Bruce, = sul
Posted by Grim..., 14:52, 5th August 2004:
 
16 - yup.
17 - Nope (but it could have been!)
Posted by Salman Rushdie, 14:54, 5th August 2004:
 
Yeah, I thought I was pushing it a bit with the 17 ...
Posted by Grim..., 14:54, 5th August 2004:
 
=]
Posted by Salman Rushdie, 14:55, 5th August 2004:
 
17. eatmypiano. Damn, I'm such a fool.

Eat my pee? NO!
Posted by Grim..., 14:55, 5th August 2004:
 
Yay!
Posted by eatmypiano, 14:56, 5th August 2004:
 
Is there an iamcal'r called Prandtl-Glauert Singularity? That's what causes the cloud at Mach 1.

I'm not on this list either.
Posted by Salman Rushdie, 14:56, 5th August 2004:
 
O yeah! It's a Rushdie clean sweep! That'll show those Ayatollahs!
Posted by Grim..., 14:56, 5th August 2004:
 
You win a picture of a kitten.

Posted by Sul, 15:34, 5th August 2004:
 
Sexual assault kittens.
"Just give us a feel love"
"Help me, help me! Get off me you brute"
"Ow, stop that. Oh yeah, they feel nice"
Posted by Victor Menendez, 15:36, 5th August 2004:
 
"Sexual Harrassment Panda"
Posted by Alfie, 16:08, 5th August 2004:
 
You aren't going to get it so:

13. Elipsis on the edge of half a horse

Horse - Gee Gee, half a horse Gee (G)
edge - rim
G rim Grim
Elipsis = ...

Grim...
Posted by Alfie, 16:09, 5th August 2004:
 
Miki got 6. "su" right
Posted by Grim..., 16:41, 5th August 2004:
 
Hey, it's me!

=]
Posted by Grim..., 16:42, 5th August 2004:
 
Ahem:

ellipsis
Posted by Alfie, 17:05, 5th August 2004:
 
blergh
two l's two i's two s's but three dots :D
Posted by Meatwood Flack, 25th April 2008:
 
This was such a good game.
Posted by che, 25th April 2008:
 
I'm still rather pleased with "Holographic helper's payment"
Posted by Saltation, 25th April 2008:
 
i don't get the "holographic" bit
Posted by che, 25th April 2008:
 
Al was Sam Beckett's holographic assistant in Quantum Leap. (Well technically he was a man, but was projected as a hologram that only Sam could see)
Posted by Meatwood Flack, 28th April 2008:
 
Never seen Quantum Leap. Read some of Sam Beckett's plays though.
Posted by che, 28th April 2008:
 
Yeah, that's him. ;)
Posted by Saltation, 28th April 2008:
 
oh-hhhhhh...
(vertired)