MM & KM Links November 2007 [Week 3]

[crofter]

Starting on a very personal note, THIS very posting is my 5,000th on AB. I expect my Blue Peter Badge to arrive through the post any day now ~ at the very least a brownie badge for one-finger typing and abacus bead sliding!

This will also be the third week in the reign of Queen Jan the First and the second week when she'll be launching her own posting. Last week, you will have noticed that AB was "acting up" as we were approaching zero hour, but Queen Jan the Calm coped well with the situation. Hopefully, no such problems will occur this week.

[crofter]

I have spoken to Jan since then and I am sure she won�t mind if I issue two warnings. Firstly, on the question of word length, she has on a couple of occasions herself broken the �4 to 8 letter� rule when setting her words to be linked, but still insists that her links always adhere to that same �4 to 8 letter� rule! Tomorrow, Queen Jan the Lawless will set four words, all of which are of length 3 or 9 letters, BUT your predictions MUST contain between 4 and 8 letters as usual! You are forewarned to avoid anarchy breaking out! (I wish to avoid the peasants becoming revolting!)

Secondly, kettledrum (among others) has been reading the preamble looking for clues. Well Queen Jan the Clueless doesn�t work like that! I am telling you this so that you are not misled!

Already there are two players (evsajo & Jools) setting the pace and three others (country_boy, dd47 & JRB) are leading the following pack. One more good strike could lift one of these closer to glory ~ but which one? I expect much from the Shrubbery Squad this week, but they will need to be sharp and focussed at 09.00 tomorrow morning! That�s the time when the MM Link Game should be launched by Queen Jan the Obscure, who will set her four words to be linked by fair means or foul!

If you think that that�s early, the sister game (called KM links) will be nearly two hours old by the MM launch time! Look out for seekeerz from Oz who looks after the entries and scoring for that parallel game (from a parallel universe). Do these very early risers ever go to bed?

Good luck for tomorrow, when the Battle for the Points enters its third week

[jan1956]

gosh jan the calm, jan the obscure and jan the lawless I keep seeing myself with a vikings helmet on charging up and down, are you all ready to follow me?

I do think I give clues but as crofter says you have to look a little deeper for them, laterally perhaps?

now who is ready to party or are we all sat in a bath of beans for Pudsey bear?

[paulineward]

Congratulations on your 5,000th posting Crofter!!!

Look forward to the challenge in the morning...do you not get sympathy points if you submit a sick note??
Will have to make up for being absent last weekend.

Was due to go to a concert tonight, but my daughter has gone in my place due to me being a little worse for wear...and no It's not the alcohol!!...not yet anyway...so I'm going to get wrapped up and get a bit of fresh air and take a peep in the shrubbery!...wonder what I will find...or who!!

[Strix]

Crofter,
I take cognisance of your advice as to her Maj's preamble - not that I expect that even with your help I will feature in the results.

Oh but the Shrubbery that is a different matter. Last Saturday a.m. I woke up with a log splitter. Where had I been, what had I done? That early morning guilt invaded my waking dreams. Could what I remembered be true or, please, was it just part of the post shrubbery dreams? Please help me, promise me none of you is called Sharleen and you didn't have fishnet tights with ladders and gave me Snake bite to drink?

I've used Google Earth to see where I might have been, for I cannot for the death of me remember, but there are about 6 different Shrubbery's around the UK.

Help, please, help.

I daren't venture forth this evening until I am reassured my worst fears are no more than mere alcohol fuelled phantasmogoria from a week ago.........

[paulineward]

Strix...it sounds to me like you were definitely in the Shrubbery in Sarumite's garden...where else??!!

[jan1956]

not sure who was in the fish nets not Pauline as she was awol
don't think they were mine.
have another drink strix
http://www.totkat.org/albums/2004-09/booze.jpg

[sarumite]

I'm afraid the magic mushrooms have now died a painful death ... the sub-zero temperatures have left them looking a sorry sight .. Oh that I had installed extra heating to see them survive the chill of night.
There's now no alternative .. will have to resort to the demon drink ... pass me a bottle or two somebody!! ☺ (S)

[sarumite]

Ahh that'll do nicely ... thanks jan!!

[paulineward]

That'll do nicely Jan...let's make a start! It's going to be cold out here tonight. Brandy to start with I think.
Sarumite is watching a rugby match...but will probably pop in. You know he can't resist us!!

Missed out last week....so after a few...maybe you just might let slip??!!

[paulineward]

Blimey I must have taken ages to type..that Sarumite appears from nowhere!!!

[sarumite]

I crept in when you least expected me Pauline ... need to keep- an eye on you laydeees to make sure there's none of the usual monkey business!! ☺

[crofter]

Welcome back to the Land of the Living, pauline!

Welcome to planet Earth, Strix!

[paulineward]

I take it there the same place Crofter?? :-)) -that is the shrubbery!

[Strix]

Monkey business? Another swig, another swinger. Thereby hangs another tail.
The lures, the enticements of this enchanted shrubbery. The sirens singing, the banshees calling. I am foxed.
Pour me another one, Jan and, please, one for Pauline,
and for afters Sarumite you must, surely, have dried down some fly agaric for the winter months.
and then maybe I could finish
In Xanadu did......

[jan1956]

the shrubbery AKH Planet Earth I like it!
somthing to mop up the booze
http://www.aperitif.no/images/32908/Quaker-col lage-175b.gif

[paulineward]

Foxed Strix?...you're as mad as Sarumite!!

[paulineward]

I was just thinking...yes I know that's hard for you to contemplate!....can you imagine us all in the jungle?..as in I'm a celebrity (if you look me up long enough!!)...or ('I am trying to get known!')
Who are they all anyway?

As for eating all that ??ap just to make a name for youself...why??

Mind you Friday nights in the shrubbery...I'm a celebrity ..get me out of here!!!

[jan1956]

Pauline you are getting ideas of grandure, said this morning your lot should replace the Osbornes now you want to switch us with I'm a celebrity!
Think both would make more entertaining viewing though.
Can you imagine trying to explain the link words though?

[rogerr]

Why do they call them celebrities when we have never heard of most of them???

[paulineward]

Exactly rogerr!..they are all has beens..or never beens!!

Now I think our shrubbery is more of a challenge..I mean at least you have to try and use some of your brain to make a cunning plan!