49 new of 222 responses total.
Is it a person in a vegetative state? And yes, I do recall that it can be eaten. LOL
(This one is a freebie. A person in a vegetative state would be an "animal" for Q1, not "vegetable".)
re #174 And nobody would mistake Terry Schiavo for a fruit
I'm feeling very lost on this one, which I attribute to my own personal turmoil, and not the boundaries of the game. So, I made some lists of what we know. Affirmative: - Per Papa's comment, it is "something completely different" - It IS a vegetable only in the general sense of the game - It IS a food for human consumption - The shape IS more yonic than phallic - It COULD be confused by some to be a fruit - A person using it as a drug COULD overdose on it Negative: - It is NOT used for sauces - It is NOT a squash - It is NOT generally sold as a single piece - It is NOT a vegetable - It is NOT a fruit - It is NOT a melon - It is NOT coffee - It is NOT a mushroom - It is NOT a person in a vegetative state - One does NOT normally eat the entire thing, skin and all - The skin is NOT striped or banded Unanswerable - Yes/No is not a sufficient answer for "is it green" We have two more questions left (since walkman's question was deemed a freebie).
Q19: Is it an herb?
Some background music while we are pondering this enigma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-krsAtiRAVM
Ha! Good one!
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Going over tfurrows summary, I realized a couple of things: 1. We skipped question #12. 2. The answer to question #5, "Is it generally sold as a single piece?" should be "I can't answer" rather than the "No" I gave. I apologize for the confusion. Let's set the question count back by 1 for the miscount and 2 more for the bad answer, which makes the last question ... Q16: Is it an herb? A16: No
Q17: Is it commonly sold in western grocery stores?
(I am interpreting "western" as "American" since I don't have much experience with grocery stores other than in the US and Japan.) A17: Yes
Q18: Is it a root?
A18: No
Is it an egg?
A19: No
One more question!
Q20: is it a flower?
<bites nails> the suspense is killing me here!! :)
A20: No THE ANSWER IS: APPLE PIE! I stumped you!
Question recap:
1. Is it animal, vegetable, or mineral? ........................ Vegetable
2. Could it be confused by some to be a fruit? ................. Yes
3. Is it used for sauces? ...................................... No
4. Is it a squash? ............................................. No
5. Is it generally sold as a single piece? ..................... Can't answer
6. Is it green? ................................................ Can't answer
7. Is the skin striped or banded? .............................. No
8. In shape is it more yonic than phallic? ..................... Yes
9. Does one normally eat the entire fruit/veggie, skin and
all? ........................................................ No
10. Is the object a vegetable? .................................. No
11. Is it a melon? .............................................. No
12. Is it a fruit? .............................................. No
13. Is it a food for human consumption? ......................... Yes
14. Could a person attempting to use it as a drug potentially
overdose as a result? ....................................... Yes
15. Is it coffee ................................................ No
16. Is it a mushroom? ........................................... No
17. Is it a peach? .............................................. No
18. Is it an herb? .............................................. No
(question counter reset for screw-ups)
17. Is it commonly sold in western grocery stores? .............. Yes
18. Is it a root? ............................................... No
19. Is it an egg? ............................................... No
20. Is it a flower? ............................................. No
I guess I could have answered question 9 "Yes". I interpreted the question
to be asking whether or not one normally ate the whole thing in one sitting,
but it is true that you do eat the whole thing, including the skin/crust.
Hope that ambiguity didn't throw you.
That was more difficult than I thought it would be.
Well done papa! See if you can do it again.
Would there be a problem if we started a new conference item for each game round? I think it would make reviewing questions in the crrent round a lot easier.
What if 20Q had it's own conference?
That wold be ideal if we are going to continue the game indefinately.
Mmmm Pie
Is creating a new conference something cross would have to do?
tfurrows, congratulations on response #200! I think it is correct that only cross or another admin can create a new conference. I'm not sure whether he wants to bother with changes to Backtalk. I was thinking of starting the next 20 Questions round as a new item in the Agora conference. Anyone think it would be good to have a copy of the games on Gopher?
I think gopher would be a lot of fun... what about script-based, interactive, so the gopher audience could take part in the fun? Not a copy I guess, but move the thing over to gopher and try it out there?
Giving people an alternative to Backtalk for accessing the game is what gave me the Gopher idea. I was thinking of mirroring the BT posts by hand to my gopherhole and accepting questions on either BT or by e-mail. A Gopher-based app might be an interesting challenge. I wonder if the BT API would allow Gopher to generate BT posts rather than the other way around.
I vote for papa, and tfurrows to be granted some admin privilages for running thier own conferences, and maintaining the gopher server, in line with Grex.org policy.
Sure; that seems reasonable. Conferences can be created for folks, and I certainly don't mind handing over gopher admin rights to some folks.
mijk, I appreciate your confidence :) I think cross has it under control though... I don't know that I could add much. Papa might be a great match for helping with backtalk/bbs though, I think he knows more about it than I do.
I wouldn't mind being fairwitness if cross wants to create a conference for Twenty Questions. I might need some pointers since it seems Backtalk fairwitnesses are a vanishing breed.
I've got to figure out how to create a conference and I'm a bit swamped at the moment, but I'll give it a go. :-)
Thanks. No rush.
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Or would it be better used the Iq conference ("The place for puzzles,
riddles, and other trivia")? Since no one has posted there since 2006,
I don't think anyone will be bothered if we create an new item for each
game round (it looks like several games, like the "n-Letter Word Game"
serieses were run that way back in the day).
We used to do multiple items for the letter match game, so I don't think it would be a problem to do a new item for each round of 20 questions. If it should get to be overwhelming we could always create a new IQ conference, but I kind of doubt that will be a problem.
Next round starting in the IQ conference!
Twenty Questions gopher page: gopher://grex.org/1/~papa/20q
There's an `Iq` conference? Seems perfect for this sort of thing!!
Is there a "mediocre nihilist" cf I can join?
resp:217 All of them fit that description. Have a ball!
#217 http://humourhub.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/i-cant-breathe.jpg #218 YES and now it's a brisk walk through a graveyard. Side note: No one ever plants a tree for Fentanyl Floyd. There are no prayer circles or positive community cleanups. It's only looting and arson. One could say that God is a nihilist b/c the Fentanyl Floyd was struck down by lightning. What are the actual statistical probabilities? In a lifetime, there's a 1 in 15,300 chance according to the National Weather Service. BUT another variable is the angle in which the lightning struck.
(Fentanyl Floyd *MURAL*)
Ooh...tacky
Some times breathing is as easy as... https://www.mysavings.com/img/link/large/71309.jpg Which makes more sense, defunding police or defunding public schools? Was Max Headroom really Gerald Ford? Was the June 25 Pentagon UFO Report complete disinfo? Is a market bubble ever "different this time"? How many licks to the center of a tootsie pop drop? Enquiring minds want to KNOW!!!
You have several choices: