THE PERPLEXING POLITICIAN
I've found a great party game from the 1920's which I thought might help pass the time at the political party conferences.
It is called The Perplexing Politician - A Game Which Has Nothing To Do With Politics.
Everyone at the party is given a card on which is printed a list of questions. The answer to each one is a single word - and all of them have to end with TORY.
Because There Is No Alternative, it can be played at any or all of the Party Conferences.
(With thanks to the late Diana Cowley, a staunch member of the Kensington, Chelsea, and Fulham Conservative Association who played the game a long time ago.)
Here is the original card. I particulary like question 30. Perhaps people could invent some more innovatory questions, but this is not mandatory.
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At 16:58 19th Sep 2011, Mick wrote:Another great story. Really been enjoying the blog for some time now.
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At 18:15 19th Sep 2011, Steffan Llysdinam wrote:The answer to question 30 might be 'vomitory'.
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At 23:25 19th Sep 2011, onwhosplanet wrote:And 27 obligatory?
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At 00:14 20th Sep 2011, Moor Larkin wrote:A tony who was overly self-involved and self-indulgent...........
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At 17:14 20th Sep 2011, Michael Stephenson wrote:13. Complimentory
15. Observatory
30. Masticatory
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At 18:34 20th Sep 2011, William Arveschoug wrote:24. celebratory
19. preparatory
? . desultory
13. complimentory [sic]
4. victory
i'm going to stop as i'm spoiling the game!
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At 10:55 21st Sep 2011, don williams wrote:dear mr. curtis,
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At 14:58 21st Sep 2011, theartteacher wrote:Brill. I reckon I've got about 20.
31. A tory who is a constitutional historian and doesn't understand the riots?
32. A tory who puts a current narrative in context?
33. The place all good Tories go to when they die?
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Comment number 9.
At 15:44 21st Sep 2011, onwhosplanet wrote:33. Purgatory?
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At 16:14 21st Sep 2011, Steffan wrote:Some of us might be reminded of that old line that the only useful tory is a lavatory.
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At 10:17 22nd Sep 2011, DerekMc wrote:Good fun.
An alternative could be looking for words containing or starting with "lab" and "lib."
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At 16:11 22nd Sep 2011, theartteacher wrote:@ Onwhosplanet - spot on!
31 is quite tough. It's not the person himself, who I think is related to the drummer from The Beatles, but more his comments.
32 is a Category, in some sense......
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At 15:11 23rd Sep 2011, thomas_paine wrote:Can't we make all of them History?
We are trying hard in Scotland.
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At 16:15 23rd Sep 2011, cje77 wrote:DerekMc wrote:
'Good fun.
An alternative could be looking for words containing or starting with "lab" and "lib."'
Indeed. For various definitions (Inflamma-Tory, Denuncia-Tory etc) have look at the book Tory Story (Incorporating 'Living with Labour' and 'Liberal Outlook') by Bernard Hollowood (Hammond & Hammond, 1964).
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At 18:31 17th Oct 2011, Rajeev Sharma wrote:Trying my best to get all the answers....
ibn7
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At 04:50 7th Nov 2011, NausikaDalazBlindaz wrote:A Tory who kisses another Tory? This is a family-friendly forum here. Children and teenagers should not have to see this. Where are the morality campaigners when you need them? Tories don't kiss other Tories except on their arses!
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At 23:52 8th Nov 2011, NausikaDalazBlindaz wrote:Did the original game ever include questions to which the answers were "Toryannosaurus Rex" and "Toryceratops"?
As you know, Toryannosaurus Rex had big jaws and stomped around the place but a tiny brain and two little arms not much good for anything in particular. Toryceratops travelled in herds as evidenced by fossil remains found in river-beds surrounded by cliffs by palaeontologists who surmise that the animals usually blindly followed a leader in the manner of lemmings.
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At 15:05 26th Nov 2011, DisneyInn wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 00:40 3rd May 2012, leetch2 wrote:8 is definitely masturbatory. I wonder if there are any games with other 3-4 letter endings?
Regards,
Mitt
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At 15:52 18th Aug 2012, Evai wrote:The Perplexing Politicianlooks like a cool game.
Regards,
Eva
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