... it just gets a year older and fewer people bother with it.
So, yes!, it's my annual I-Spy thread. And, yes, I've really been starting one for 11 years.
The rules:
1) Anyone can play but helps if you are bored in your work;
2) Pick something that most people should be able to see (a keyboard, a desk)
3) Play I-Spy!
4) First person to get it right has the next go
5) In the event of a dispute over a word or winner, the person setting the word is judge, jury and executioner.
AAAAAndd...
I spy with my little eye, something beginning with "S"
Screen?
Nope
Scrollwheel?
Nope.
I'll give you a hint (as I'm off to play Arkham Asylum for the third time, before I give up and uninstall it):
If you were half a man, you'd be listening to "Merry Christmas Everyone" on it. Shaky is a Christmas God
Sky nonsense Christmas pish channel?
Um, no. "Speaker". The answer is "speaker".
Still, have a go.
Bugger!
Ok, I spy with my little eye, something beginning with......'M'
Mug?
Nope.
Monitor?
Right line of enquiry, but wrong item!
Mouse
Correctomundo!! Your go.
B...
NB I'm in bed at the moment but you'd see this in most roomsin my house.
Bizley original artwork......
Ok, but.....we can all dream it right?
Ha. Not quite
Bakelite?
Bunsen burner.
Book?
Nay, sadly nay and thrice nay
About to leave for work but that wont stop me spying this.
Bulb.
Quote from: TordelBack on 18 December, 2013, 08:01:41 AM
Bulb.
Afraid not. Here's a clue (to the tune of Rock the Casbah): Burdis don't like it.
Botulism?
Box?
Buggery?
bICYCLE
I spy with my little eye, something beginning with...
F
Clue: It's food and drink related.
Note: I won't be able to get back to the board till much later this evening. So please be patient with replies.
Fork
Foie Gras.
Figs (or Fig Rolls).
No to all so far.
Further clue: I often have to bring my own stuff in to work because our canteen doesn't really cater for freaky eaters like me.
Funghi.
Falafel.
FLESH!
Fud
Flax (seed or oil)
Fancy-schmancy rabbit food.
Foreign muck
Facon.
Fuckin big bag of crisps?
M.
Fuzzy kittens!
Floella Benjamin
Foil... That's my last attempt. The suspense is killing me.
Folded space time pockets warping reality in the region of your ceiling light?
Phone
Frogurt (cursed).
It was a FLASK.
Containing Hazelnut Milk stuff for me to put in my coffee (very nice it is too).
Von Boom was closest with FLAX (sort of) so he goes next...
fecker
Somebody wake up Hicks.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TV8lUMi0QgI/TkxQ9hR0OkI/AAAAAAAAIA8/pk7xk5im41I/s1600/CplHicksSleeping.jpg)
Is it flask?
Close enough. I'll take it.
I spy with my little eye something starting with the letter "C".
I'm at the office.
Clipboard
Computer
Cabinet.
Coffee (it better not be next to a computer.)
Cubicle
Capybara.
C-word. There's always one.
clapometer
No right guesses yet...
Cup
Clowns.
Calendar
Chair
No one guessed it. It was a calculator. It was on the desk of a co-worker.
I'll give it to JamesC since a computer does have a calculator.
James...
I spy with my little eye something beginning with S B.
I'm in my front room.
Sponge bob?
Sound Bar.
No and no.
Sweaty Bollocks?
Sofa bed
Santa's Boots.
Sexy Brontosaurus?
Nope. I'm afraid no one's even got close yet but I thought it was an easy one.
Shiny baubles.
Sufficient booze.
Statue of Burdis.
Sky Box
Sofa bed.
Maybe you live in the seventies.
Sleeping bag.
Soggy biscuit
Clue time.
They're a festive staple - especially for children.
Sleigh Bells
Snow Balls
Santa's Beard
Stollen Bread
SELECTION BOXES
Yep, Tordelback has it with Selection Box. There's one near the Xmas Tree.
Take it away Tordelback...
In my living room, J S.
Jam sandwich
Jam scones?
Jolly Santa
Nay and thrice nay, although James is in the right general area. I'm popping out for a few hours, but I expect your work on my desk when I get back.
junior sledge
Joyful Snowman
Jiant spelling-mistake
Jesus Sprouts
Just stuff
Jumper scraps.
Jesus Sandals
Jewish Saviour?
C+, you really must try harder 2-K.
Clue time: SmallBlueThing wouldn't approve.
Jedi Santa?
Java Script?
Is there a letter missing? The letter 'L' perhaps. It's JLS isn't it.
No seriously - Jelly Santa
John Smith's
Jingoistic Stereotype
Yiz have the right idea focussing on the smelly old man with the beard (not John Smith, I hasten to add), but this is a specific Santa or reasonable facsimile thereof that Steev dislikes. He's on my tree, and he looks very happy about it.
Japanese Santa
Jewish Santa :-\?
Jungle Santa?
JUDGE Santa
Second word not Santa - he just looks like Santa.
Final Hint: he has something in common with Prince Humperdink.
SBT clue gave it away - it's JACK SKELLINGTON!
M.
What's this? What's this? Mikey got it right...
(http://www.yourwdwstore.net/assets/images/19000/19500_19599/400006592460.jpg)
M for... Money.
I FUCKIN WON! Ahem, on with the game...
I spy &c something beginning with G.I.T.D.S.F.
I think SBT might approve of this, but yule never guess!
M.
God In The Dirty Sock Fort.
Girls In Their Dangerously Short Frocks?
Oh wait, it's Mikey's place, not SBT's..
Nope. Good effort, mind. You're on the right track TB...
M.
Gold Is This Decadent Society's Favorite?
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 December, 2013, 01:31:34 PM
Oh wait, it's Mikey's place, not SBT's..
Hey! >:(
He might well be McRoth, but not round mine.
M.
EDIT: Actually, the thing I see is beyond the rules of the game. I doubt anyone else has in their vicinity a Glow In The Dark Severed Foot, so I'll give you a proper one (fnyib!)
I spy &c something beginning with R.P.
M.
Quote from: Mikey on 20 December, 2013, 01:33:14 PM...a Glow In The Dark Severed Foot
:o
Geologists, I ask you.
Red Pants
Rude poster.
Riotous Party?
Read Prog
Record player?
Random person.
Rotring Pen
Nope.
I'll give a clue - you can wipe your bum using it, if the need arises, but it's more generally written on.
M.
Ruled paper?
Stalag 666
Report Paper?
Reporters' principles
RACING POST
Ream (of) paper
what's the latin name for slug?
Slugicus?
Quote from: Chris Tresson on 20 December, 2013, 03:16:12 PM
Ruled paper?
Ok, I'll give you that - the answer was
Refill
Pad.
And Dan - common slug is
Arion distinctus. That doesn't begin with R.P!
M.
ALRIGHT!!!
I spy with my little eye, something beginning with... P S
(In the front room)
Plasma Screen
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 17 December, 2013, 10:04:12 PM
... it just gets a year older and fewer people bother with it.
So, yes!, it's my annual I-Spy thread. And, yes, I've really been starting one for 11 years.
Well done that man!
And for shame, those that don't take part. Its like that Coke advert on telly, makes me feel all Christmassy, ;)
Anyway onwards!
Performing Seagull?
Puke stain?
One for the uptight TPB buyers; Problematic spines?
Permanent Scar?
Nope, none of those!
Present Sack?
Nope.
Clue:
Has three holes and if you're lucky, they come in pairs.
Power socket.
Oh bugger, me again.
Right, I'm in my kitchen now, but I'll go easy on you and not pick 'Watercolour drawings of the Hallstatt cemetery'. So instead:
M R B.
May be less than universal, but I bet some of you have the very same thing.
Masterful Resplendent Bollocks?
Mice, Rats and Bugs?
Military Ration Bags?
Man Rod Butter?
Manly Rough, er, Bollocks?
There's a theme emerging with my guesses...
M.
Microwave Ready Bacon?
M.
Quote from: Mikey on 20 December, 2013, 04:55:50 PM
Masterful Resplendent Bollocks?
Man Rod Butter?
Manly Rough, er, Bollocks?
Microwave Ready Bacon?
This mental map of my kitchen that you've constructed is somewhat worrying.
Mouldy Rye Bread?
'M Ron Burgundy?
Massive Roasted Bird.
Hint time: Woaaar, that's just lovely.
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 December, 2013, 07:29:57 PM
Hint time: Woaaar, that's just lovely.
QuoteMassive Roasted Bird.
Massive Roasted Bird.
My robot butler
Morphy Richards Blender.
Booyah.
Mouldy Rancid Butter
Quote from: von Boom on 20 December, 2013, 08:25:49 PM
Mouldy Rancid Butter
Doesn't get lovelier than that...
Unless... that was the point of the...
aargh......
Marmite (on) Rye Bread.
Next hint: in the kitchen, but not a foodstuff or an appliance.
Masterchef recipe book
Fungus is correct! Over to you, sir.
What a turn-up. Psychological profiling never felt so good.
OK, sticking to the themes...
it's a living room one and some of you have it.
D B
Dust Buster.
Dan Brown.
Death Bed.
Disney Blanket.
Hm. All guesses pretty cold.
Will stick up a clue - no doubt giving it away - in a bit.
Meanwhile this Homeland episode is not going to watch itself...
Dionysian Bacchanal?
Quote from: The Cosh on 20 December, 2013, 11:13:08 PM
Dionysian Bacchanal?
I wish.
This D B comes in different formats.
Deadwood Boxset
Dredd Blu-ray
Quote from: Chris Tresson on 20 December, 2013, 11:27:52 PM
Dredd Blu-ray
Chris got it.
Watched it for a 2nd time the other day, so still in line of sight...
Proceed!
All reet.
Something beginning with C B.
A few of these in pretty much every room of the house right now...
Quote from: Chris Tresson on 20 December, 2013, 11:45:26 PM
All reet.
Something beginning with C B.
A few of these in pretty much every room of the house right now...
Maybe missing the mark with your accent there, but is it a Canny BagAhTudor?
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 December, 2013, 11:27:18 PM
Deadwood Boxset
Man, the first series of Deadwood is one of the best things.
Deadwood is the best thing in the universe.
Chilled Bollinger?
nope, no one has it yet!
Hm.
It's comic book.
It's Carte Blanche.
I mean, it's likely not but I have taken a drink. Sue me.
Cardboard box.
Cupboard(s)
Nope.
Hint: you stick "placcy" in front of it when asking for one, if you're Northern like I.
Comic bag
Carpet beetle
Cruel broth
Cheese board
Carrier Bag?
Right. This is in every room of my house and it starts with a C.
Someone could potentially get this instantly.
Cider!
comics
Bang, Greg you got it.
I mean - I'm not drinking it right NOW but it's there for cider-related emergencies
I respect a man who even has his bathroom prepared for cider-related emergencies!
Ok, this is sitting on my living room table at present:
A. W. I. L. S.
What is a cistern for apart from stashing sealed alcohol?!
Easy Greg: Annoyed William Is Licking Salt
Silly O - you are forgetting that William enjoys salt intake. He's like Nancy Crater.
Two clues:
1 - It is something to do with a film.
2 - I could have also called it N.W.S. and the W and S would have still stood for the same words.
This is a difficult one...
Is the film popular?
I would say so. 1980s-era.
Edit to add: Popular in its genre, anyway.
A Walk In Ladies Shoes.
American Werewolf in London Screenplay
Quote from: TordelBack on 21 December, 2013, 01:44:17 PM
American Werewolf in London Screenplay
It's an
American
Werewolf
in
London
Statuette (of a
Nazi
Werewolf from the nightmare sequence) but you're close enough! Over to you, oh ever-astute-guesser...
Gah, have to stop guessing. Hmm, I'm in my gallery standing in front of your sigil office at the moment, and there's all manner of obscure things to choose from, but I'll resist temptation in favour of something that you, the guessing public, might also have. Entirely non-festive this time.
E F D.
Eco Friendly Digestives.
Easy Fitting Dungarees
Enormous foam digit
Economically Fuelled Droid?
Enormous Frozen Dildo?
Enterprise Fucking D
Erased Floppy Disc
Entirely Full Diaper?
The Cosh is getting close.
External Flash Drive
Quote from: Chris Tresson on 21 December, 2013, 07:27:45 PM
External Flash Drive
66.67% right. But it might be before your time.
external floppy drive?
Quote from: Chris Tresson on 21 December, 2013, 08:57:49 PM
external floppy drive?
Click-whirrr-whirrr-whirr-clunk. Yup. All yours, Buck.
Yeah! :D
Okay, something beginning with B
Balloons
Nope :thumbsdown:
Bollocks?
(Someday,it'll be right,I know it!)
M
Bottle
Bruise
Bun
Beard
Bluebottle
Book
Bandage
Ballyhoo
Bitch
Boy
Blunderbus
Bargain
And where I'm headed:
Bed
Beagle.
No one has it so far...
Hint: spherical.
Baubles
I spy with my little eye, something beginning with L.
(It's sort of winter related).
leaves?
Log?
laryngitis :-X
Lockets
Fungus is getting close
lozenges
Lemsip.
Quote from: NapalmKev on 22 December, 2013, 11:20:49 AM
Lemsip.
Congratulations NapalmKev, it was indeed Lemsip.
Woo-hoo I got one.
I spy something beginning with "F".
Clue: I'm at work, in a warehouse.
Forklift.
Quote from: Chris Tresson on 22 December, 2013, 11:38:05 AM
Forklift.
Correct. A pretty feeble one on my part, oh well.
Over to you Chris.
Quote from: NapalmKev on 22 December, 2013, 11:43:35 AM
Quote from: Chris Tresson on 22 December, 2013, 11:38:05 AM
Forklift.
Correct. A pretty feeble one on my part, oh well.
I also work in a warehouse, haha. It was the first thing that came to my head...
Something beginning with
W S (In the kitchen)
Wilted Salad
White Bread.
Wheelie Bin.
Worcester sauce.
No one has it yet.
Weaponised Sodium?
Weird stain
Wholewheat spaghetti
Warg spoor
Waste Basket.
Water Biscuits.
Not yet...
Hint: A girl at my old high school got awarded one for shit stirring, haha!
Wooden Spoon.
Something beginning with.....T
Doesn't really matter what room of my house yer in, it wouldn't help! But i'll say it's WW2 related. ;)
Tank
What kind?
T-72.
T-28
No, and no.
TOG 1
Fish
Lol, it's good, nut it ain't right! ;)
Tiger
That's the one! Quite surprised it wasn't the first guess, but I guess some folks prefer the Russian armour! ;)
Right-oh then. Keep it simple. I'm in my kitchen, cooking up a zarjaz cottage pie with a colcannon top while listening to Desert Island Discs and wondering how far in advance you have to book into an old folks' home, and I spy something beginning with:
S.
(There's a musical connection with the last puzzle too: extra marks for spotting it.)
Salt?
Sugar. (The Sweet - Tiger Feet).
Good answers. But wrong.
Salami!
Hint, because I can see where this is going: I was in my kitchen when I spied it. That doesn't necessarily mean it was in my kitchen.
Swede?
Sledgehammer.
Survivor (Eye of the tiger)
Songbird.
Snow
Star.
Von Boom takes it again! Although it's all gone now, it was very nice while it lasted. Like my -choke- youth .
Woohoo!
I spy... something beginning with T.
I'm at work, but it's still Christmassy.
Tree.....as I'm assuming you are a lumberjack. :-\
Tinsel
Right you are Ghost. Too easy I guess. Timberrrrrr. ;)
Bloody hell!! You ARE a lumberjack?? Do you sleep all night and work all day? Do you cut down trees, eat your lunch...and go to the lavatory? Also, on Wednesdays, do you go shopping, and have buttered scones for tea?
Ok, ok....I won't start that again!! ;)
Spying something starts with.......L (not even vaguely christmasish...ness....y.)
Lexus.
I wish I was a lumberjack. Feckin union's too hard to get into. :lol:
Liver.
Okay, I wasn't in a car crash, so neither of them are right! ;)
Lights
Lesbian(s).
Lichen
Lemons
Limbo
Litmus paper
Lorry.
Ladybird.
Lazarus.
Laser
Lidl
labia :o
Lego
If Chris Tresson and Von Boom combined their last answers...we're almost there!
Legolas??
Lol, sorry Chris...YOUR 3rd last!! Hadn't noticed so many guesses where yours!
Christ, this is getting bloody complex! haha!
Lightsabre
Correct!!
Argh, I thought that... Honest.
Let's shake this melon up a bit on a blustery Eve Squared. I'm in my shed, about my usual against-the-clock toy making activities. I have the computer open 'cos I'm looking up how-to's for all and sundry - too little too late.
Anyway, in my shed I spy someting beginning with R.
Ribcage hung on a hook near the severed head of the last hitchhiker.....
Rake
Rhubarb.
Romanians
Romanian Ribcages hung on rakes next to the rhubarb, right?
Quote from: Fungus on 23 December, 2013, 09:34:54 PM
Rake
I prefer to think of myself as a dissolute rogue. But no.
Also, while I can see Romanians from my shed (my neighbours), it's a bit dark now and they will insist on pulling the curtains.
Hint: It ends with an R too.
Rotovator.
Rancor?
Robber
Revolver
Rover
The Cosh is closest, but needs to think smaller.
Rotor.
rotator
Ro---r. In my shed. Where I am making a hames of making toys.
Rotter?
Router?
Roller?
Rocker (????)
Rotor?
Chris has it: Router. Two types actually: a plunge router for woodworking, and a network router for my precious online porn research.
Alright, something beginning with A
Pretty much anywhere you want.
Alcohol.
Just don't look behind you Chris. ;)
Still working Christmas eve so, something starting with P.
Pot.
Penguin
pasty
paperwork
Punk
Poo (Someone is annoyed they're still working...)
Fungus' third answer is in the right direction.
PC
Warmer
Phone
Photocopier.
Close enough NK. It's a multi-function printer/fax/photocopier.
Quote from: von Boom on 24 December, 2013, 04:32:03 PM
Close enough NK. It's a multi-function printer/fax/photocopier.
Cheers.
Right then, I spy something beginning with 'W'
Edit to add clue: I'm at a friends house, in the Man-cave partying with the lads.
wank mag.
Webley revolver
Wii
Wurzel Gummige's thinking head
Workwear
Weapons of mass distruction
Nope.
Werewolf
Wolverine
Woofer
Wurlitzer
Stil in my shed, covered in wood shavings and paint, and I spy something beginning with L.
Lingerie.
Laithe?
Lacquer
Ladder
Lada
Leyline
Ladybird
Aye, Fungus has it with Ladder.
All right - Christmas one. Easy.
MP
mince pie
Had to be. Resisted the temptation to go obscure.
You're up, Buttoned One...
Mmmm at my desk of dreams I spy with my Jap's eye something beginning with... C
Calculator?
No! No circuit boards involved.
Calendar?
Cat
Condoms.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, GUYS!
Coffee.
Cracker
crampon
cheese
cointreau
carpet
cleaner :P
comic
cucumber
Christmas :-\
Just to let you all know that I'm going to ask a Mod to lock this thread.
Tomorrow - I won't hassle them today!
But this is just a once a year treat, kiddies, and you don't want to over-indulge or you'll get sick.
Boak
Sorry for enjoying Christmas - it was indeed 'Coffee' you're up NapalmKev.
Cheers.
Alright then, the thread hasn't been locked yet so; let's go!
I spy something beginning with - X.
Clue: Pffft, its easy.
Cheers
A game of Noughts and crosses?
xmas tree?
Xylophone?
Xenomorph
No to all.
Clue: you can play on or with it.
Ah, Xbox.
Awesome. In that case, I spy something beginning with... W.
Walter the Wobot?
(Devlin) Waugh?
Nope...
Wine
Women.
woodpigeon
Wanting it to be Christmas still -but it isn't! >sniff<
None o' they.
Wormhole
wrestler
wonderbra
wall
wrangler
weeping
wolf
weeble
clue please