Showing posts with label rock paper scissors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rock paper scissors. Show all posts

returning to one of my favourite subjects

rock paper scissors so I was thinking about inukshuk tiny ones made from the smallest pebbles in a rock pool and HUGE ONES made from enormous slabs of granite; and then I was thinking about the LARGEST PAIR OF SCISSORS in the world - a thought which naturally lead to my thinking about the smallest pair of scissors. . . and then, settling for what one can create with a medium sized small pair: I think I've shared the art of Aoyama Hina with you before (I know I've shared Rob Ryan). . .
and now I've just discovered someone else equally as talented with a pair of scissors. . . Annie Vought
none of which has anything to do with what I've been up to this afternoon, but there you go!

so, what have we learnt today? (courtesy of

the world wide interwebbed connections between us all)

RAIN BEATS FIRE
FIRE BEATS
DYNAMITE
ELEPHANT
SITS ON
DYNAMITE
ACCORDING TO AN EPISODE OF
QI
WHICH MY CHILDREN
HAVEN'T WATCHED YET
ELEPHANT
IS BEATEN BY ANT

ANT IS
EATEN
BY LIZARD

LIZARD
SITS ON A ROCK
IN THE SUN

AND THEN
LIZARD
POISONS
SPOCK

BUT!!! SPOCK
HAD WRITTEN THE ANSWER
TO THE QUESTION
OF THE MEANING OF LIFE
ON A PIECE OF

PAPER

(which I read before it disproved Spock) (ha ha!)
.
so Mel and Christopher and shot
are winners, and quite possibly
ZiggZ and Dave too. . .
and most definitely man!

so, I was thinking about balance

and then I got to thinking about pebbles (you know how it is) (I'm probably still thinking about inukshuk, if truth be told)
and then I got to thinking about a whole shore of pebbles and the noise the waves make as they crash around on the pebbles and the noise the pebbles makes as they crash about on themselves
and then, of course, I thought
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS!

(you know how my mind works)

SO LET'S PLAY!!

remember how it goes? think whether you are going to type rock or paper or scissors (or, indeed paper scissors stone if that's how you play) (for the purposes of this game STONE = ROCK) in the comment box and then click and type - you win if you beat the person above - no cheating!

I've just seen an inukshuk* on a televisual box!

remember that you saw one here first**. . .
(**unless you saw one somewhere else first, that is)
(*inukshuk was a word I couldn't remember
but then I did. . )

Christopher reminded me of this

Into each life some rain must fall But too much is falling in mine Into each heart some tears must fall But some day the sun will shine Some folks can lose the blues in their hearts
But when I think of you another
shower starts
Into each life some rain must fall
But too much is falling in mine

wanna play?

here's how:
think and choose (either "rock", "paper" or "scissors")
(I suspect you probably knew this)
and then type it in the comment box. . .

. . .without looking at the comment above. . .

. . .then look at the comment above. . .

. . .and see who won!

so, whilst looking for one thing,
which I didn't find,
because I couldn't remember the word I wanted. . .
. . .I found this

found it!

and the word I'd forgotten was inukshuk. . .
"To the Inuit of the arctic region, inukshuk are stone figures made by piling rocks on top of one another, and used as direction indicators, danger warnings, monuments and hunting helpers. Inukshuks can be small, only one or two rocks, or large, consisting of many rocks used in a larger than life form. In the Inuit language inukshuk means 'likeness of a person'."Inukshuk in the form of humans are called inunnguag. One important type of inukshuk used in caribou hunting was embellished with arctic heather to simulate human hair. The inukshuk, or dummy hunters, where constructed in converging lines along migration routes and were intended to funnel the caribou towards places of ambush."
(I'm going to use them inplace of a hankerchief
in my jacket pocket)


(note to self: turn off your laptop
and go and do something
more interesting instead)
(no, I'm not humming it)
(but I bet you are!)