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Never one to shrink from a challenge... here's my charade. Italics represent common mimes that everyone knows and so can't be construed as cheating.

Beware. If you get this right you have to do the next one.


Mimes "Its a Book"

Mimes "3 words"


Mimes "1st Word"
:halo: :halo:

Mimes "2nd Word is a little word"

Mimes "3rd Word"
:devil: :devil:
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Angels in America? :devil:

j/k

It's Angels and Demons, Dan Brown's previous hit, right?

<we're going to need more smileys>

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Right. Your go... :)
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Ummmmm .... I just got up and am drinking my coffee. Then I have a ton of work to do. Will have to give this some thought for something not too difficult to mime. :D

Be back after breakfast.

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Okee-dokee ....

Movie.

Two words.

First word:

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Second word: Two syllables

First syllable: a little syllable

Second syllable:

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Spirited Away?
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Assuming I'm right....

Movie.

Two words

First word
:bow:

Second Word (sounds like)
:cheers: + :cheers: = :D
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Don't worry Alys. They don't get much more low-brow than me.
Yeah, Alatar is our resident hooligan. :P

ROFL about the smiley charades. :D Hmmh, rather like our code letters, aren't they? :P :D

(Sorry to continue the subject, but when I hear that "not your first language" argument I have to speak up. Charade fun doesn't have to do with what language you speak - after all, they work without language. In our case, it was being given titles no one knew (independently of language) - and that's not being bitter, that's just regretting that it's not very interesting. I think it's a lot more fun to have to kick yourself for not getting "Lord of the Rings", than to go "d'uh" for not getting "Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change."
If there was a stupid coincidence in the team choice, it was that there was no one in our team, AFAIK, who'd ever played charade before, while the others were all experienced players. ;)

I still very much appreciate having got the chance to play charades because it's something I've always been curious about, but I didn't think people still played it today. :love:

To my own surprise, I quite enjoyed acting out the charade. :shock: )
Wampus wrote:Password would work online: one-word clues for the chosen word.
I don't think I remember that - what's "password"? :scratch:
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Well, in that case ... carry on. I thought the joke was the utter impossibility of doing charades in a place where everything has to be written down. Silly me.

But we should figure out a way to do charades in writing ... like all synonyms or something ... because they are so much FUN!

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Well if we get charades on British radio then writing them can't be too difficult.
Here's my emoticon charade. Three words, a Movie.
:scarey: :hug: :cheers: :love:
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Alatar wrote:Assuming I'm right....

Movie.

Two words

First word
:bow:

Second Word (sounds like)
:cheers: + :cheers: = :D

Hey, you have to guesss mine first!
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Hmmmm.

Whoops Apocalypse?
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I'll give you a clue. Similar to the recent big movie in the news, this one also had protests about it.
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hmm.... Passion of Christ...


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Oh, cmon, it's not that hard!!!! Only two little words... Directed by Jean Luc Goddard
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Good grief, Alatar. I just went all through Goddard's filmography on imdb and could only find one movie that had a two-word title - New Wave. Obviously not the solution.

The only thing that seemed remotely to fit was In Praise of Love. Even in French it's three words.

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...don't even know who Jean Luc Goddard is...
I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists


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I even tried cheating, and looked up all the movies of Goddard, but although there are a number of two-word titles, I didn't remember if any of them raised protests - and none seemed to fit the smilies anyway. :scratch:
I could imagine that "A Bout de Souffle" ("Breathless") or "The Oldest Profession" might have raised a few eyebrows at its time, but it doesn't fit it with the smilies.
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Hail Mary?
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...and Faramond wins the prize!

:bow: Hail

:cheers: + :cheers: = :D Merry

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Ack, I missed that.
If I've read it in the IMDB list I didn't connect the Mary of the title to the Virgin Mary, and I didn't make the connection between :bow: and "Hail" either (though it's really well chosen). I guess I do suck at charades.

Definitely never heard of the movie before now, though.
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