Illuminati-R-Us

by **Frogmarch** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:30 pm

In this game a poster posts two words(or phrases) and then the next person has to connect those words using links on wikipedia from the first page of the first word, through other pages to the page of the second word. And then you post the sequence.

for example, Germany and Lollipops

Germany > German Cuisine > Cakes > Sugar > Candy > Lollipops

so the first two words are:

machine gun & cake

by **MM_Dandy** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:15 pm

machine gun > General Electric > brand > Aunt Jemima > flour > cake

here's an easy one (I think)

bicycle & milk

by **hippietrekx** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:04 am

bicycle>physical fitness>nutrition>milk

Spinal Tap (band) and binoculars

by **Dragon Star** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:59 pm

Okay, I'll try this once...

Spinal Tap>Gardening>Birds>Birders (bird watching)>Binoculars.

Lets see if I can make a hard one, Ozzy Osbourne and Boy George. :P

by **MM_Dandy** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:48 am

Ozzy Osbourne > MTV > Culture Club > Boy George

string theory and feudalism :twisted:

by **Мастер** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:29 pm

string theory => gravitation => Galileo Galilei => Roman Catholic Church => Middle Ages => feudalism

Neptune and Iran

by **Arneb** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:01 pm

Easy.

Neptune - Planet - Babylonians - Iraq - Iran
(it would have been one link less, but alas, the Iran word in the "Babylonians" article wasn't linkified).

Johann Sebastian Bach - cheeseburger

by **troubleagain** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:58 pm

Bach->Hamburg->Hamburger->Cheeseburger

Am I doing this right?

Gold--aspartame

by **Arneb** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:43 pm

You are :D I was about to not believe the Hamburg - Hamburger link, but there it was... :(

Gold - Codex Alimentarius - Sugar - Sweet(ness) - Aspartame

Let's see if I can make this one longer than five steps....

Antarctica - Thomas Tallis

by **Мастер** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:32 pm

Antarctica => United Kingdom => England => Thomas Tallis

Martin Luther - manganese

by **Arneb** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:21 pm

Tough. :D

Martin Luther - printing press - alloy - steel - manganese

blintz - cranium

by **MM_Dandy** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:48 am

blintz > sun > pupil > eye > orbit > skull (to which 'cranium' redirects).

haggis - botulism

by **Мастер** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:46 am

Haggis => market => free market => Milton Friedman => Augusto Pinochet => botulism

socket wrench - Georges Clemenceau

by **Arneb** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:33 pm

Socket wrench - gas - Benoit Paul Émile Clapeyron - Versailles - Treaty of Versailles - Georges Clémenceau

Billy the Kid - Naan

by **MM_Dandy** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:38 pm

Billy the Kid -> Apache -> Flatbread -> Naan

George Washington Carver - George Washington

by **Arneb** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:49 pm

GWC - American (USA) - GW
GWC - Tuskegee Institute - Thurgood Marshal - United States - GW
GWC - Alabama - USA - GW
GWC - Slavery - Slavery in the United States - United States - GW

And that's only the first paragraph :D

A nice ink chain without the U.S. in it is

GWC - crop rotation - 18th century - GW

Samovar - Codex Hammurabi

by **MM_Dandy** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:43 pm

Samovar -> Iran -> Babylon -> Code of Hammurabi (to which Codex Hammurabi redirects)

Arneb wrote:GWC - American (USA) - GW
GWC - Tuskegee Institute - Thurgood Marshal - United States - GW
GWC - Alabama - USA - GW
GWC - Slavery - Slavery in the United States - United States - GW

And that's only the first paragraph :D

Well, I suppose I could have gone the other way - but then, there's always the disambiguation links. Very well, then. A more difficult one (or so I think).

Martin Luther - Basketball

Edited to add: Having forgotten a few things about basketball, this one wasn't as hard as I had thought - but it's still a little more involved than GWC - GW ;)

by **Arneb** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:41 pm

Martin Luther - Protestant Reformation - Puritanism - USA - Basketball

Big Mac - synekdoche

by **KLA2** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:58 pm

I found a synekdoche in my Big Mac, and accordingly will be suing McDonalds. Case to be reported later on Wikipedia.

{OK, so I cheated and lied. Or did I? Care for a bite?} :lol:

Sorry. Someone with more time on their hands, go for it. :wink:

by **Arneb** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:06 pm

Hmmm, no takers.

How about Bic Mac --- Santorini (Greek Island) then?

by **Ronoh55** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:40 am

big mac > thousand island dressing > olive >Mediterranean sea > Aegean sea > Aegean islands > list of Aegean islands > Santorini

Lenny (guitar, just search Lenny) --- Brian May

by **tubeswell** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 5:27 am

Lenny/hard/rock/rock/queen/Brian May

dyke, bike

by **Arneb** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:40 am

dyke - Netherlands - Amsterdam - bycicle-friendly - bicycle.

Feces - Heaven

by **tubeswell** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:01 am

faeces, islam, god, heaven

inchworm - NASA

by **Arneb** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:10 am

Inchworm [Disambiguation] motor - piezoelectricity- DARPA - NASA

Toaster - Paroxysmal nonkinesigenic dyskinesia

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