You’re good at this. I’ve spent the last 2 1/2 minutes trying to think how to do one for A Scanner Darkly, but I can’t, so here’s my favourite clip from it instead:
I’ve never heard of that film but will check it out. Sometimes titles you think should be easy are the hardest. I’ve never been able to do Gone With The Wind.
Our family’s played Mad Gab for years; it gets easier with practice. If you really have trouble at first, but you want to play, you can always guess the clues and then “pass”.
A similar game which I never could play is Win, Lose or Draw. Even if I could draw, which I can’t, I can’t come up with ideas to draw. On my best day, I could never have done this (WLD legend Martin Mull in the Speed Round) – he is a god at this game:
I haven’t guessed it yet, but looks like a good clue. It’s fun to use challenging clues, ones that take a little more time to guess. My nationality: American, in the redneck South. Yours?
In the Mad Gab box game, one of the game tips given is to say every syllable with the same emphasis (no accented syllables), say them all together moderately quickly in a near-monotone, and be sure you pronounce all the consonants, don’t drop any. There may be a vowel or consonant or syllable slightly off from the original, but when said together in a moderately quick monotone, you can hear the answer.
(Which is how I finally just got “The Green Zone”, saying it in medium quick monotone over and over and over)
Try that with MIST ERRAND COMB INTER – say all your consonants (except, of course, the silent “b” in “comb”)
double check on vowel sounds:
mist with a short “i” sound as in “fist” or “missed” –
errand: “err” as in pear, bear-- “rand” as in “and” or “sand”.
“comb” as in honeycomb, home, gnome.
“inter” could also be “enter”: “in” as in win or tin --“ter” as in stir or fur
This one is slightly challenging but it’s one of my favorite movies, so…
Northeast, though I am pretty fluent in other English Language accents, less so redneck south, though I have spent some time around it. Not sure it helps me, but I’ll try my mental stereotype accent and see if I get a new angle.
Thanks for the tips, still haven’t got it. Unfortunately I often hear Agent Smith saying Mister Ander… when I start that one.
But just to add to complexity…
It could be Mister, Ms, (missed), Miss
as the first word.
Samm, my husband and long time Mad Gab opponent, hasn’t gotten that clue yet either. He’s going to post here in a minute or two with his ideas. It must be harder than I thought…
I think the ‘i’ in mist is pretty different from the a in Master. Though I think it works perfectly in Scottish English.
but here’s a challenge - not that I can even fully do the basics yet.
The clue has to be a complete grammatical sentence also.
MAY TRICKS
is a poor example since it really begs for a direct object. But you get the idea. May being a person.
The words have to work as sounds from the film TITLE, but also the words have to work as a grammatical sentence. I’ll see if I can come up with a better one…
THOU WAS HARD OF US
does not quite make it, but it’s approaching grammatical.
And here’s a bad one that makes me laugh…
I LOAN SOME or even the past tense I LOANED SOME
(as an aside: TEQUILA MAWK EMBER RED)
Another competition is who can come up with a one word clue that covers the most words from a film. I’ll try to come up with an example of that one also.
is very good. It made no money despite having a very attractive cast, that’s how good it is. It does have KEY ARE NEWER EAVES in it in the central role, but he’s alright in this flick. Still acted off the screen by everyone, as per usual.