2nd to 7th (but less than 8) Timers Collective

[board game geek]

Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan wrote:

Papasteve08 wrote:

board game geek wrote:

I'm a virgin.

(Though a priestess of Calistria is helping me out on that score) :-)

I see where you were going with this one, though it just came off as more weird, less funny. Funny-ish once I got it. I like the effort though. Don't let 'em keep you down, just keep plugging away.

Which is excellent advice in that situation.

I hail from the land of Shakespeare (England) and it's often said our humour is subtle and ribald. Most of my American friends feel it's just weird. It's said that British comedians have a hard time with American audiences, though to be fair, I think any non-native comedian is going to struggle with a native audience who are not their own. I find the diversity in humour wonderful, personally, and enrichening.

Which is why the Staff of Lordly Might reduces my gaming group to a good 30 mins of double-entendres.

Have fun voting!

[Papasteve08]

board game geek wrote:

Which is why the Staff of Lordly Might reduces my gaming group to a good 30 mins of double-entendres.

Have fun voting!

I can absolutely see why...

[Jeff Lee]

Despite all the fun and excitement of the contest, I sincerely hope that this year becomes the last year I'm able to compete.

[Anthony Adam]

Jeff Lee wrote:

Despite all the fun and excitement of the contest, I sincerely hope that this year becomes the last year I'm able to compete.

To quote a great "weepie"...

Ditto.

[Tripp Elliott]

board game geek wrote:

It's said that British comedians have a hard time with American audiences.

Was it Benny Hill or Monty Pyrhon that said it? Maybe those chicks from Absolutely Fabulous?

board game geek wrote:

Which is why the Staff of Lordly Might reduces my gaming group to a good 30 mins of double-entendres.

We would chuckle at this in our group too, because it's a "rod"

Now, real quick, how do you pronounce "lich" over there in The Isles? I've heard a tale of an American gamer playing at a British table where the differences in pronunciation on this word caused much hilarity to ensue during the gaming session.

[Anthony Adam]

In suffolk england, we pronounce it LICK. >.<

[Tripp Elliott]

So that's close to how the story went. Any chance that elsewhere it is more like "leak" or "leek?"

As the story goes an American gamer (referred to as a Yank when I first heard the story) was playing somewhat of a pickup game in England. There was a fountain of some sort, and in it was a "leak." So the Yank did what any little Dutch Boy would do and he stuck his finger in the "leak" to the astonishment of his travelling companions, and the DM (for this was well before Pathfinder. Imagine the player and character's surprise when the "leak" turned out to be a lich, which grabbed him and started draining the life out of him.

Anyways, that's the story as it was told to me by an itinerant Englishman who came to Virginia and played quite a bit of Living Greyhawk with us back in the day.

[Anthony Adam]

I have heard "leech" as well, usually in the London area.

[Tripp Elliott]

Most Americans, myself included, seem to pronounce it "lich" but probably that's just because it's spelled that way.

[Luthia]

Well, I can't remember (no, seriously) - how many times I've entered. At least three. Probably four. But it gets so confusing, because I'm a university student, so there's forever exams during round 1 or this year even on the day of the deadline. So there's this one year where I know that I had this item almost written up for submission - but I'm fairly sure it didn't make it. Or did it? Well, what does that matter this year.

Also lich pronounced "lick" or rather "likh" makes so much sense, linguistically. Even if it would reduce most of the people I GM for to complete useless laughter for a few minutes.

I love how these boards can turn into dialect discussions. Seriously. Things like that are half the reason to spend time rambling along.

[Lightminder]

I wrote a description for a potters studio run by Barnard Lich thinking I was being quite clever, but in fact that was how the original father of modern studio pottery's name was pronounced it turns out?

[Thomas LeBlanc]

Finally saw my item and realized I could have made it better...

[Feros]

Thomas LeBlanc wrote:

Finally saw my item and realized I could have made it better...

Been there, got the T-shirt. ;)

[James Casey]

Second year for me, both entering and following. Still haven't seen my item, but it was on the list.

[Jeff Lee]

Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan wrote:

Most Americans, myself included, seem to pronounce it "lich" but probably that's just because it's spelled that way.

Yup. In 'Murica, it rhymes with "itch."

[Eric Hindley]

Jeff Lee wrote:

Despite all the fun and excitement of the contest, I sincerely hope that this year becomes the last year I'm able to compete.

That was a goal for my last three years. I'll settle for "the contest no longer needs me, and I don't need it", if I technically qualified. Good luck Jeff!

[Template Fu]

If it makes you feel better...

Template Fu forgot one comma in a list in some text AND forgot some italics in the first paragraph this year! >.<

If I make Top 32 this year, I am so going to get reamed for that! >.<

[Sissyl]

Lich as in sandwich but without the t before the ch sound. So, lich, not litch. With a short 'i'.

[Anthony Adam]

*engage Diablo 1, Deckard Cain voice*

Lishhhhen to Sissyl - she knows you know :P

My god, Baileys and Hot Chocolate is a real happy state inducer :D

[Sissyl]

"I sense a soul in search of answers..." But damn all holy hells, was it satisfying to finally kill her dead, dead, DEAD in Diablo 3!!!