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Posted by Grim..., around November 2005:
 
Pick a famous thing / person / charater, and pretend to be them.
When someone guesses who you're being, they get a go.

For instance, "Very short, I am. Guess quickly, you should!" would be Yoda.

Someone start us off!
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
"It's difficult being this colour you know, and people tease me because I love anything with trotters"
Posted by Brock, around November 2005:
 
Jade Goody?
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Kermit The Frog

"Arrr, I be a hedonistic wise-guy from hell, with sharp digits."
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
sharpy the hell pirate?
Posted by Grim..., around November 2005:
 
Robot (Pirate) Devil from Futurama?
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
"Arrr, no. I be several different people over time. Sometimes people think I look girly. I tells them to comes to me factory."
Posted by Grim..., around November 2005:
 
An actor, I presume.
Hmm...
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Johnny Depp.
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Well done. Carry on. Cant see why it took so long, it wasnt that cryptic.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
"Did you threaten to overrule him, you insignificant piece of crap on the sole of my shoe?"
Posted by WarHead, around November 2005:
 
Jeremy Paxman
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
your go
Posted by WarHead, around November 2005:
 
Mmmmm, sushi.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
homer?
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
The Japanese?
Posted by WarHead, around November 2005:
 
No, much closer to 'home.'

Here's another clue.

Mmmmm, sandwiches.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Cal!
Posted by Grim..., around November 2005:
 
That'll be Cal, surely.
Posted by Grim..., around November 2005:
 
Damn your fingers of fire, Alfie!

I'm going to bed =]
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
I win!
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
"I don't like this at aaaawwl, I think it's dreaaadful"
Posted by WarHead, around November 2005:
 
Larry the Lamb?
Posted by Brock, around November 2005:
 
Lloyd Grossman
Posted by WarHead, around November 2005:
 
Evidence, for mine, if it were needed.
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Oooh

Tom Paulin, the whining Irish poet, who often features on Newsnight Review?
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Yes! Bloody well done!
Posted by Grim..., around November 2005:
 
Wow.
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
"I'm a cooky lesbian. Aren't I funny?"
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Ellen
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Yep. That was an easy one.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
"I'm Tony Blair, I'm David Beckham, I'm David Dickinson, I'm Doctor Who, I'm Trevor McDonald, and all because I have no personality of my own."
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Alistair Mcgowan?
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Rory Bremner?
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Warm
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Jon Culshaw?
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Yes!

Anyone else playing this game?
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
The only one I knew was Ellen, but you beat me to it. I was too busy slinging mud at ellipse :)
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
"Oooh I'm blue. My head hurts. Quite possibly my chin also"
Posted by Grim..., around November 2005:
 
I'm playing. Keep going.
Posted by Grim..., around November 2005:
 
Richard Whitely?
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
"Nope. I'm not quite real"
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Smurf!
Posted by bumdog, around November 2005:
 
MR BUMP!!!!11
Posted by Grim..., around November 2005:
 
Um... A smurf?
Posted by Grim..., around November 2005:
 
NO! FUCK!
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Well done that dawg!
Posted by Grim..., around November 2005:
 
Damnit =[
It was my idea and I suck at this game.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
AP's go
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 21st November 2005:
 
"play me with your hands, bit boy. oh yeah. tip-tap, tip-tap, *i'm* your bitch. make me do things."
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 21st November 2005:
 
Nintendo DS?
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 21st November 2005:
 
warm. ish.
Posted by cal_DUPE1, around 21st November 2005:
 
gameboy
gameboy color
neogeo pocket
gameboy advance
gameboy advance sp
gameboy micro
psp
gamegear
lynx
etc
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 21st November 2005:
 
SDK :)
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around 14th December 2005:
 
"I'm not just funny because of my silvery hair."
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around 14th December 2005:
 
(it's strictly AP's go, but Salto popped in, so I thought I'd bring an old thread back to life)
Posted by Grim..., around 16th December 2005:
 
Steve Martin?
Posted by Victor Menendezz, around 16th December 2005:
 
Nelson Mandela?
Posted by Victor Menendezz, around 16th December 2005:
 
Raduvan Karadich?
Posted by Victor Menendezz, around 16th December 2005:
 
Kofi Annan?
Posted by Victor Menendezz, around 16th December 2005:
 
Trevor McDonald?
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 16th December 2005:
 
Tony Hart
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around 16th December 2005:
 
Steve MArtin...
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 16th December 2005:
 
Steve Coogan as Partridge
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 16th December 2005:
 
Leslie Nielsen
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 16th December 2005:
 
Metal Mickey!!!!!!!

boogie boogie
Posted by Brock, around 16th December 2005:
 
Leslie Grantham
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around 16th December 2005:
 
Sul gets a bonus point for Leslie Nielsen.
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 16th December 2005:
 
Why? Was it right?
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around 17th December 2005:
 
Well, it was Steve Martin, but they're both famous for exactly the same thing.
Posted by Grim..., around 17th December 2005:
 
I was right?
HURRAH!

Um... Er...

"Ringo Starr often says I'm number two"
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 17th December 2005:
 
Pete Best
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around 17th December 2005:
 
Mark Chapman
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 17th December 2005:
 
Fat Controller
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 17th December 2005:
 
Doc's answer made me spit water all over my desk.
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around 17th December 2005:
 
Like some kind of simulated bit of wee coming out?
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 17th December 2005:
 
yes. out of my mouth.
Posted by Boudicca_DUPE1, around 17th December 2005:
 
and sometimes it comes spewing out of your nose because you're trying to keep your mouth shut. Ow. Especially if it's fizzy like Coke.
Posted by Grim..., around 17th December 2005:
 
Sul is close.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 17th December 2005:
 
Number 2 engine?
Thomas?
Posted by Brock, around 17th December 2005:
 
I thought No 2 was James, but I don't really want to play, so the first person to repeat it (if it's right) can win.

:)
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 17th December 2005:
 
James
Posted by Brock, around 17th December 2005:
 
I win the bet with myself for the first person to do that...

:)
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 17th December 2005:
 
William Campbell
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 17th December 2005:
 
:D at Brock
Posted by cal_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
Percy
Posted by Grim..., around December 2005:
 
It's not James, Thomas or Percy.
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
Toby
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
Percy ... fat ...
Posted by Grim..., around December 2005:
 
Psst - think Kings...
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
Henry
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
Edward
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
Leon!
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
Solomon
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
David
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
Herod
Posted by Grim..., around December 2005:
 
Sul wins! Edward the blue engine =]
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
. . . fat . .
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
"Kings"
i was going to say "College"

lucky i didn't, eh?
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
That would have been embarrasing.
Posted by Boudicca_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
Whose turn is it?
Posted by Grim..., around December 2005:
 
A disturbed hush falls over the near-infinate crowd as they wait for the answer.
Bravely, a tall handsome man enters the thread. He starts to count, one, two, three, four posts above the question, and there lies the answer! His long quest has ended!
As one, the crowd rise to their feet and cry "For fucks sake! Learn to read, Boudicca!"
Posted by Boudicca_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
hahahahaha!
Posted by Boudicca_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
tall handsome...HA!!HA!!!HA!!!HA!!!!
Posted by Boudicca_DUPE1, around December 2005:
 
Okay, can I steal Sul's go seeing as he has had lots of goes and he isn't around to klap me?

"Ooh, she's the love of my life"
/jumps on the couch
Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around 23rd December 2005:
 
Steve Martin?
Posted by Grim..., around 23rd December 2005:
 
Mickey from Blood Brothers?
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 23rd December 2005:
 
Tom Cruise
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 23rd December 2005:
 
Any number of Tom Cruise impersonators from the last few months?
Posted by Boudicca_DUPE1, around 23rd December 2005:
 
alfie's go. i guess that was an easy one.