Thread: FOLLOW ON, a word game.

I am borrowing this concept from another forum and posting it in the general discussion forum as a bit of an educational ice breaker and an opportunity of everyone to participate and expand their vocabulary.

Here is an overview of how it is mean to go.

" call it "Follow on" for want of something better.

I'll do a few "goes" to give you the idea - the bits in brackets are "in your mind":

1st player: posts "Road Runner"

2nd player: [thinks of a phrase that starts with "runner" and adds a new word to make the next phrase, as example , "runner bean"] but posts "bean salad"

3rd player: [thinks "salad days"] posts "days past"

3rd player: [thinks "past glory"] posts "Glory Road" (titles etc permitted)

4th player: [thinks "road works"] posts "works party"

I 'll continue in the next post with my follow up of #4. No need to post what your between words are unless someone calls question.

Please note, these are two word responses. Don't even think of going there, lol...

animal tracks

Tank battle

Originally Posted by Ascended

Tank battle

Royal wedding

Riding shotgun

...shotgun[QUOTE]/QUOTE]

method acting

career test

Score card

I am not getting it. Scherzade please explain. I read your first post two times. Thanks

edit: I got it 3rd time. no need to exlain.

Re Paleoichneum's post:
Ender's Game.

Mr D.
Change ahead

of cabbage

Patch work

Adamantium bones.

Yard line

dance step

Mother Superior

Erik Lensherr.

court reporter

Originally Posted by 甘肃人

court reporter

beheaded video

processor core

muscles exercises

mind control

remote drone

??????

freak accident

car wreck

Yard dog

poop

Originally Posted by Ascended

Yard dog

Day seminar

class review

Originally Posted by scheherazade

class review

committee head

Originally Posted by babe

poop

toilet please

Thread starter intervention****

Do not respond to one word replies.

The game must continue from the reply previous, not jumping back and forth.

Continuing from post #32

hunting season

Robin Hood.

Thread starter intervention ***

Ideally, the last word of the previous post and the first word of the current post should be a sensible combination, as in

'season robin' means precisely what? Because this could be instructions for a recipe for poultry, I'll let it go, but it does put a different spin on the game than 'season, Robin.'

Therefore, we will expand the rules to permit punctuation for the reason that it allows for more potential in the responses.

As you were...

Originally Posted by Dywyddyr

Robin Hood.

can a name be used as phrase?
hood band----------- "band master"

Originally Posted by precious siraj

Originally Posted by Dywyddyr

Robin Hood.

can a name be used as phrase?
hood band----------- "band master"

Permission granted. It will add some culture to the game. (master title....)

title page

I think there's some misunderstandings here. In post #7, I responded to Gansu Guy's riding shotgun with my method acting.

Riding shotgun and method acting should be meaningful phrases, and they are.

However, shotgun method should *also* be a meaningful phrase, and it is. (See here) (Shotgun method is also a means of identifying birds in the wild ... yes, sadly, by shooting them down — no longer recommended.)

I am sometimes not able to form meaningful phrases with the last word of one post and the first word of the next post.

Originally Posted by scheherazade

No need to post what your between words are unless someone calls question.

this rule is not helping.

Originally Posted by jrmonroe

I think there's some misunderstandings here. In post #7, I responded to Gansu Guy's riding shotgun with my method acting.

Riding shotgun and method acting should be meaningful phrases, and they are.

However, shotgun method should *also* be a meaningful phrase, and it is. (See here) (Shotgun method is also a means of identifying birds in the wild ... yes, sadly, by shooting them down — no longer recommended.)

I am sometimes not able to form meaningful phrases with the last word of one post and the first word of the next post.

If one cannot think of a reply, just wait until another comes around.

Edited.

Originally Posted by scheherazade

title page

page quality ............... "Quality control"

Originally Posted by precious siraj

"Quality control"

panel discussion

group therapy

Black Sabbath.

Originally Posted by Dywyddyr

Black Sabbath.

Please clarify how this response fits within the parameters provided.

Originally Posted by scheherazade

Originally Posted by Dywyddyr

Black Sabbath.

Please clarify how this response fits within the parameters provided.

That's easy.
Therapy? (with the question mark) was a rock group.
One of the songs they covered (on a 1994 album) was Iron Man - first made famous by Black Sabbath (and used at the end of the film by that name - I would have said Robert Downey Jr, but that's more than 2 words).
I'm surprised at this being questioned and not my earlier response "Adamantium bones" to "Patch work". (In case no one worked that out, "Patch" was the pseudonym used by Wolverine whenever he visited the island of Madripoor, part of his "work" involved getting into fights - and in those fights he was greatly aided by having adamantium bones...)

Originally Posted by Dywyddyr

Originally Posted by scheherazade

Originally Posted by Dywyddyr

Black Sabbath.

Please clarify how this response fits within the parameters provided.

That's easy.
Therapy? (with the question mark) was a rock group.
One of the songs they covered (on a 1994 album) was Iron Man - first made famous by Black Sabbath

So I cut you some slack first time around.

I am still questioning the middle phrase. therapy black

Your example above is more along the lines of a word association game, rather than a follow up game where any two words side by side must still make sense.

This game plays very well on another forum and I copied the opening post to ensure that the starting context was accurate.

Very interesting to observe the responses here.

Originally Posted by scheherazade

So I cut you some slack first time around.
I am still questioning the middle phrase. therapy black
Your example above is more along the lines of a word association game, rather than a follow up game where any two words side by side must still make sense.

Ah.
I, and, obviously, others misunderstood the rules.
"Tracks tank"?
"Wedding riding"?
"Lensherr court"?
My previous responses (all of them!)

I'll adjust my thinking for future responses... Mea culpa.

Thanks Dywyddyr, we'll get this train rolling down the tracks.

Follow On can be quite humorous and oft times challenging as people with different cultures and backgrounds strive to work together. I think it would be hilarious at a party after the first few rounds and in a setting where one might conceivably relax the rules a bit. As a general thought, it is good to keep things a bit simple for if the word use gets too obscure, the followers get bogged down and lose interest. With your extensive reading background, I know that you could likely tie most of us in knots six days out of seven, but where's the fun in that? (For US, not you, lol...)

So, working from your offering of Black Sabbath, I now proceed with...

(sabbath worship)

worship song

Originally Posted by scheherazade

I am borrowing this concept from another forum and posting it in the general discussion forum as a bit of an educational ice breaker and an opportunity of everyone to participate and expand their vocabulary.

Here is an overview of how it is mean to go.

" call it "Follow on" for want of something better.

I'll do a few "goes" to give you the idea - the bits in brackets are "in your mind":

1st player: posts "Road Runner"

2nd player: [thinks of a phrase that starts with "runner" and adds a new word to make the next phrase, as example , "runner bean"] but posts "bean salad"

3rd player: [thinks "salad days"] posts "days past"

3rd player: [thinks "past glory"] posts "Glory Road" (titles etc permitted)

4th player: [thinks "road works"] posts "works party"

I 'll continue in the next post with my follow up of #4. No need to post what your between words are unless someone calls question.

Please note, these are two word responses. Don't even think of going there, lol...

What would make it a bit more understandable would be to write the intermediate word in a sentence then use the derivative words for someone else to follow on with.

for example worship song
Neil Diamond song song
song sing

Originally Posted by Dywyddyr

Ah.
I, and, obviously, others misunderstood the rules.
"Tracks tank"?
"Wedding riding"?
"Lensherr court"?
My previous responses (all of them!)

I'll adjust my thinking for future responses... Mea culpa.

Thank you Jesus and any other saviors that might be tuned in......Good to know you're human after all

Originally Posted by scheherazade

worship song

writer's block

Originally Posted by zinjanthropos

Originally Posted by scheherazade

worship song

writer's block

If you've got writer's block after a worship song you need writer's inspiration.
Divine Inspiration.

Originally Posted by Robittybob1

Originally Posted by zinjanthropos

Originally Posted by scheherazade

worship song

writer's block

If you've got writer's block after a worship song you need writer's inspiration.
Divine Inspiration.

Scheh just got finished straightening the duck out, not because he was dumb but because he was too cerebral. I think we need to take a different approach here. This is a game, not a discussion. It has nothing to do with gospel music or writers of lyrics and other fine literature.

Zinny's got it figured out.

It is a game, after all. Proceeding from writer's block, I give you...

(block party)

party game

Originally Posted by scheherazade

Zinny's got it figured out.

It is a game, after all. Proceeding from writer's block, I give you...

(block party)

party game

Bird Nest

...
deleted: beaten to the punch.

Egg beater

Originally Posted by Karsus

Egg beater

On switch

off beat

Generation kill.

Site survey

software review

board chairman

( I wanted to put 'bored' and I considered 'chairperson' - but what's done is done)

duties list

to port

wine glass

crystal goblet

????

(The last word of the previous post must form a sensible pair with the first word of the succeeding post. Whether by chance or by design, your contribution works. Rules are in the OP)

(goblet drum)

drum dance

word games aren't my forte!!

Which considering my profession is words.....ad lib is very different than this!

ballet routine

action packed

full suitcase

Strapless bra

Bustier hooks

sinker line

up front

row boat

up hill

Top down

Originally Posted by astromark

Top down

under dog

bone rack

Lamb breast

Originally Posted by babe

Lamb breast

Implant rejection

audition rejection

Originally Posted by babe

audition rejection

letter writing

time frame

construction crew

cut rate

base stealing

home office

Space age

Old socks

Monkey buisness

deals card

Originally Posted by zinjanthropos

deals card

board game

system error

Originally Posted by Falconer360

system error

(error prone)

prone position

Originally Posted by jrmonroe

Originally Posted by Falconer360

system error

(error prone)

prone position

unknown soldier