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[devi]

Okay, I've been very good and worked hard all day. Time to reward myself with a meme.

Post anonymously, give me three clues to who you are, and let's see if I do any better on this than I did on the text message game...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

1) A few months ago, I made a Memegen about Childe ballads.

2) I have 3 interests that no one else (on Livejournal) will admit to sharing.

3) I was born in January.

[(Anonymous)]

I kissed a girl

My partner and I were going to ask you to marry us, but now we aren't going to get married.

Blue hair

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Are you ghoti?

If so, number 2: wow, really? *blush*
Probably all the better, as judging by my performance at Kit and George's wedding you would have ended up as his husband :)

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Yes. Wrt 2, I figured as we're not ever going to get round to asking you, you might as well know it was our intention.

You're great.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Consider me honoured. :)

[kyte.livejournal.com]

I like being George's husband ;-)

Anyway, you did a sterling job :-)

[(Anonymous)]

1. The bus started inching forward through the traffic again, then stopped suddenly. I sighed; to do any more would send my stress levels soaring. Instead, I considered getting off and walking, but I couldn’t walk home from here. I’d have to catch another bus after a mile or two, and that would cost money.

2. My phone beeped, a text message. It wasn’t from anyone in my phone book; I didn’t even recognise the country code, let alone the number.

   HI IT'S ME. BEEN LIBER8D BY POLAND. WILL FONE U L8R.

   I smiled, and added the number to my phone book under the name “Euro Roots Poland”.

3. I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. I turned to see it was only an advert changing — you know the sort, where three different adverts are fixed on the sides of a hundred triangular rollers. I looked around me: I was not the only passenger on the top deck, but I was the furthest back and could be mischievious unseen. So I got out my blowpipe, loaded it with a poison dart, opened the window by my side. I stood on the seat and contorted my body so I could get a good aim at my target — the window design purposefully made this difficult. And blew.

   At first, I thought I had missed, that the dart would hit the wall on which the advert was mounted, be swallowed up and spat out. But it just caught the bottom of one of the rollers.

   The advert quivered. Then it rippled, as if to show another ad. But the picture that it now displayed was not an advert: It was a close-up of a face, eyes closed, smiling contentedly. It was as if Big Brother had been put to sleep.

[(Anonymous)]

Argh, the formatting on the text message melted.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

When I imagine the sleeping face, I think of the peacefully sleeping TV that mooism drew on the scribbling wall at our housewarming. And the similar one on the tin of chocolates. But I'm not sure. Are you an Amazonian tribesman? They have blowpipes...

This sounds like the start of a story, by the way - I haven't a clue what's going on with the Poland thing, but it's intriguing. It's a bit Jeff Noony.

[mooism.livejournal.com]

The Poland thing is that my grandmother was born in Poland, but her birthplace is now in Austria. Obviouly places can't sent text messages, and it's unlikely to emmigrate in my lifetime, but creative licence and all that :-)

The blowpipe was the only way I could think of affecting the advert.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

D'oh, you have Polish ancestry, I knew that. *kicks self*

I like the idea of towns sending text messages. They certainly have personalities. Do you think London is male or female?

[mooism.livejournal.com]

Hmm. The personification of London would be an absent-minded high-achiever: The sort of person who at half past five on a Sunday afternoon, after another hard day's work, suddenly remembers that they'd been meaning to go to the shops, and now has nothing to eat for dinner.

Don't know whether that would be male or female. The Thames sounds male (Old Father Thames), but London could be gay, or they might just be good friends...

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Hmm, yes, London lives in its head, and that's why it's always grumpy. Sugar crashes.

I think London is male, but so is the Thames, so either they're gay lovers or old chums.

[mooism.livejournal.com]

They are brothers! The Thames suffers from a long-term illness, so London is generously putting him up in his spare room.

:-)

[(Anonymous)]

1) Breasts!
2) Gusset!
3) Pantyhose!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Um... philipstorry? :)

No.

[(Anonymous)]

And I resent that implication.

Re: No.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

This from the guy who, when asked for a memory of me, replied 'mmm... breasts' and then specified that they weren't my breasts, just breasts in general :)

The penny drops

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Good grief, I was totally brain-dead when I wrote that reply, it seems. You're anonymous and saying you aren't Phil, but I mentally parsed it as though you were Phil saying the poster wasn't you and protesting about being associated with breasts :(

Sorry - and I still have no idea who you are...

[(Anonymous)]

1 - I tried this game on Matt's journal. At time of writing he has yet to guess me, but if you can spot me you can recycle his clues.

2 - pennydreadfuls is the only community on my friends list.

3 - I very seldom hold birthday parties, but you were at my most recent one.

Heh - OK, those are probably too easy, but given the length of your friends list I'm sure you'll get quite enough hard ones too.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

If your most recent party involved toddlers and hobbitses, you are bateleur - right?

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Correct ! Good shot !

[(Anonymous)]

1. Cheesecake
2. Anna Livia
3. The Bible (abridged)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Got you, lostcarpark!

Wow, I'd forgotten about the Cheesecake Reviews. But as a late addition, the shop round the corner from me in Muswell Hill makes horrible, horrible cheesecake - it's dry and crumbly and tastes faintly of egg white, but nothing else, and the top is always burnt.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Damn. I knew those were too easy!

Makes mental note to avoid that shop...

[(Anonymous)]

I'm shorter than you, I think, although when we met I was wearing heels.

I'm incompetent at text messaging.

On my monitor shelf is a jewelled maple leaf pin. Rhinestones, sadly, not diamonds.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

It's you, O Canadian, capitalised haggisthesecond!

And don't worry, I wasn't offended at all that you didn't get back to me right away, and thanks for the offer.

[alfaguru.livejournal.com]

I went to the kebab shop and tried to order one of those organ doners. They said, sure, but there's a waiting list of about three months. Chilli sauce, sir? I said no, room temperature, please.

[alfaguru.livejournal.com]

Ha! That wasn't very anonymous, was it? I blame stupidity.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Stupidity, yeah right. Regardless of anonymity, it made me laugh :)
(Mmm, chilly sauce.)

Sorry I didn't show up to the pub when you were in London, btw. I seem to be clumsily double-booking myself a lot lately. Next time?

[alfaguru.livejournal.com]

Sorry I didn't show up to the pub when you were in London, btw.

I didn't turn up either. Small world, eh? (Unfortunately we had to cancel our London trip at short notice due to sick child.)

[(Anonymous)]

1) Hairy
2) Blond
3) Chaotic good

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

The air darkens around you as you gothwalk here?

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Much, much later, when I remembered this, yes.

[(Anonymous)]

My first clue is something you have when it's cold,
on the fifth of November or in rituals old.

My second clue lies in the place of my birth
For it can't be found in this part of the Earth.

My third clue's the hardest, a beast of the air
Whose spelling's unusual and yet appears fair.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed. But still thinking :)

[(Anonymous)]

I am female and I wear glasses

You have met me several times

I notice people's noses a lot

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, Captain Mal. rainsinger?

It is indeed a lovely nose.

[(Anonymous)]

1. We've met and chatted more than once

2. I'm rather politically-minded

3. I don't mean to be scruffy particularly, but I tend to end up that way

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Are you inskauldrak?

[vardebedian.livejournal.com]

Whoops, I did post a clue but I forgot to do it anonymously. Now deleted. Silly me.

[(Anonymous)]

1) Ode on a Grecian Urn

2) Pyjamas

3) A telepathic prostitute

[(Anonymous)]

1) I elevated you to godhood
2) ... and yet you still have difficulty telling who I am.
3) Therefore, I shall steal your drugs and alcohol. Bwhahaha!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

But your divine form is so luminous and numinous that it shorts out my recognition circuits! Um, hello secretrebel :)

[(Anonymous)]

I have you associated with obscure Enya music.
I am accused (wrongly) of breaking your SO's teapot. (The hole in the toilet wall wasn't me either.)
I locked you out of your own living room.

Re: Baffled

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I presume this was the teapot in the Shepherd's Bush house - it was yellow with monkeys on it, I think - but I've thought and thought, and can't remember who was in the house the day it broke. Damn.

Obscure Enya music?

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh! Ooh! Can't think of any clues between "totally obscure" and "blindingly obvious". However...

1. We have to humour our boys.
2. I occasionally run a specialist taxi service.
3. I say you're lovely. You say you're not as nice as I might think. I say I know, and that's what I love about you.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about this one... crystal_claire?

I have a faint memory of a conversation like No.3 with you, in the basement of the Penderel's Oak at a mono meet...