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Re: XX Questions - Game XCVII

#181 Post by han-shahanshah » Mon Mar 13, 2023 2:54 pm

Jamie, I'm on JECE's side here. The parrot can be interpreted both ways.

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Re: XX Questions - Game XCVII

#182 Post by DougJoe » Mon Mar 13, 2023 3:17 pm

Palin losing it at Cleese's "PINING FOR THE FJORDS?!?!" is one of my favorite things ever.

I thought about the Python movies (the Black Beast of Arrgh from Holy Grail was on my list at one point) but couldn't work back to TV. I've never seen _And Now For Something Completely Different_ (puts on to-do list) so I didn't think of that. I got JECE's stuff about the animal question, but I honestly couldn't think of a character that was a real non-fantasy animal and yet a non-real species (and, if I'm being completely honest, even when watching the sketch in the past I never thought about the Norwegian Blue being a "fake" species of bird because there's a shload of bird species out there and I always figured it was just one I'd never heard of.)

...but, in retrospect the original question was:

Is this fictional creature a fictional representation of a real type of creature?

...and I personally would have answered Yes. It is a fictional (non-existing species) representation of a real parrot.
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Re: XX Questions - Game XCVII

#183 Post by JECE » Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:11 pm

DougJoe wrote:
Mon Mar 13, 2023 3:17 pm
I've never seen _And Now For Something Completely Different_ (puts on to-do list)
It's on my list too! I've only seen clips on-line.
DougJoe wrote:
Mon Mar 13, 2023 3:17 pm
if I'm being completely honest, even when watching the sketch in the past I never thought about the Norwegian Blue being a "fake" species of bird because there's a shload of bird species out there and I always figured it was just one I'd never heard of
That's pretty funny, ha ha. I think that the irony of describing a tropical bird as originating in Norway was supposed to give it away.
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...but, in retrospect the original question was:

Is this fictional creature a fictional representation of a real type of creature?

...and I personally would have answered Yes. It is a fictional (non-existing species) representation of a real parrot.
Oh, I'm sorry. I have a cold.

I guess that technically the word "fictional" was used twice, so an affirmative answer could have meant that 'yes, the fictional dead parrot is the fictional Norwegian Blue type of parrot'. But that is not what Jamiet99uk meant to ask if you consider how the question was rephrased: "Does this fictional creature broadly represent real type of creature (even if not an accurate representation of what that creature is really like)?"
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Re: XX Questions - Game XCVII

#184 Post by Jamiet99uk » Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:19 pm

The nuance you are missing there is "broadly", which I went to great pains to emphasise.

It's broadly a fucking parrot which very clearly is broadly a real type of animal.

Big Red Dogs are not a real breed of dog but Clifford represents a dog.

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Re: XX Questions - Game XCVII

#185 Post by JECE » Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:33 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:19 pm
Big Red Dogs are not a real breed of dog
And yet they are not a fictional breed of dog either. ;-)
Jamiet99uk wrote:
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Listen, I didn't want to host twenty questions. I wanted to be a lumberjack.
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Re: XX Questions - Game XCVII

#186 Post by Jamiet99uk » Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:57 pm

JECE wrote:
Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:33 pm
Listen, I didn't want to host twenty questions. I wanted to be a lumberjack.
A lumberjack!
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The larch
The fir
The mighty Scots pine!
The lofty flowering cherry
The plucky little aspen
The limping Roo tree of Nigeria
The towering Wattle of Aldershot
The Maidenhead Weeping Water Plant
The naughty Leicestershire Flashing Oak
The flatulent Elm of West Ruislip
The Quercus Maximus Bamber Gascoigni
The Epigillus
The Barter Hughius Greenus!
With my best buddy by my side
We'd sing, sing, sing!!
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Re: XX Questions - Game XCVII

#187 Post by DougJoe » Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:14 pm

JECE wrote:
Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:33 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote:
Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:19 pm
Big Red Dogs are not a real breed of dog
And yet they are not a fictional breed of dog either. ;-)
Jamiet99uk wrote:
Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:19 pm
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You're a lumberjack and you're okay.
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Re: XX Questions - Game XCVII

#188 Post by damo666 » Tue Mar 14, 2023 7:40 am

If the parrot was a duck I'd have cried FOWL.
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Re: XX Questions - Game XCVII

#189 Post by dargorygel » Tue Mar 14, 2023 12:43 pm

The Ministry of Silly Posts will be paying some of you a visit.
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