The Famous Person Chain Game

[Acalewia]

Here's a little game I picked up from another message-board. In this one, the famous person has to have one of the names from the previous entry above, and you have to indicate how they're famous.

Like this:

Henry FORD - Automobile Inventor

Then the responding post could be something like this:
FRANCIS Ford Coppola - Movie Director

Then the next one, something like this:

Sir Francis BACON - Renaissance author, courtier, and father of inductive reasoning.

etcetera...

Have fun!

[Nautipus]

I'll play!!

Alright let me think....here!

Jacques Coustea - Opened the underwater world to new generations.

You come up with another Coustea and I'll slap ya with a twenty!

[Earniel]

All too easy. Fork over, buddy:

Jean-Michel COUSTEAU (yes, that's how you spell it), son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau (god, has it been 10 years since his death already?) and documentary-maker in his own right.

[Nautipus]

Im am ashamed.... I have been defeated. Oh, well, I can part with twenty.
*Grudgingly hands a twenty dollar bill to Earniel*
I didnt even know that other people knew about him, almost know one I talk to does, his son I mean, but Jacques was my role model, and sorry about the misspelling.
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Anyway, take this!

Jean-Michel Basquiat- artist who's humble beginings make me laugh.

I hope that's not too vague...

[Lotesse]

You hope that's not too vague... Hmm. O.K., let me ask you this, Nautipus: Do you know ONE single other famous individual who happens to also have the name Basquiat, first OR last name as such, besides this artist? One single other one? Do you? I surely don't, myself personally... Basquiat is not an even marginally common name. But perhaps I am wrong, perhaps there is another famous Basquiat roaming around out there on this globe whom I've never ever heard of...

[Nautipus]

I'm going to be totally, despairingly honest...No. i cant really think of one right off the top of my head. Could someone not use the first names again? Or maybe break them down? Or have I dug myself a hole, and should hand over the reigns to someone elso while I skulk away, alone and ashamed?

Seriously, If I've hit a dead end, sorry.
Lotesse, why dont you take it from here while I offer up a thousand apologies and attempt to redeem my manhood.

[Lotesse]

O.K., I'll tell you what I like to do - and by the way, Famous Person Name chain game is one of my favourites; it's cool to see it pop up here at entmoot. But listen: So, say you need to find another Jean-Michel. Well, that in itself is a tallish order, but you could go with Jean alone, and there's a lot of Jeans out there, right? Jean Cocteau, Norma Jean Baker, etc. - so, find a Jean, and go from there, rather than try to use both names from the double-name hyphenation. OR, barring that, say you DO find another Jean-Michel, and that's not too difficult. Google the name, just google it (Jean-Michel)and see what it throws back at you. And if & when you find someone you recognise, a famous person, famous for anything - great strides in science, a vacuous celebrity, a sixteenth century composer, whomever - well, use the full name, and make the carry-over name the new person's middle name (which will oftentimes be much easier to carry over than trying to do so with rare or extremely unique surnames.)

O.K., like this: I am going to use the word Jean from Jean-Michel Costeau to carry over, so...

NORMA Jean Baker - Birthname of legendary screen goddess Marilyn Monroe.


Now, the name "Norma" will be the new name to be picked up by the next player. Norma's a fairly abundant name, there's a good number of famous Normas floating around, I'd say...


O.K., have fun! This is a real fun game, I love this wee time-wasting bit 'o fun, one of my favourite messageboard games, this...

[Earniel]

Originally Posted by Nautipus

I didnt even know that other people knew about him, almost know one I talk to does, his son I mean, but Jacques was my role model, and sorry about the misspelling.

Hehe, never underestimate what people might now. I grew up with Cousteau's documentaries from the Calypso. Dad's a member of the Cousteau Society. One of the books of their journeys on sharks was pretty much the first non-fiction book I ever read from cover to cover. Although I do agree Jacques-Yves Cousteau's acchievements and fame do vastly overshadow that of his children.

Originally Posted by Lotesse

NORMA Jean Baker - Birthname of legendary screen goddess Marilyn Monroe.

Now, the name "Norma" will be the new name to be picked up by the next player. Norma's a fairly abundant name, there's a good number of famous Normas floating around, I'd say...

I don't know any famous Norma's from the top of my head, so I hope you don't mind that I'm going with:

Tom BAKER - English actor, most known for his Doctor Who role.

I don't think there is a rule that you have to take first name and last name alternatively, is there?

[Nautipus]

Alright, I'm gonna cop-out, because there's gotta be another one of these out there, and because I've gotta get off.

Tom Hanks- famous American actor

[Lotesse]

Baker? You didn't know any Normas off the top of your head? Google Norma and you'll see a few. There's Edith Norma Shearer, the silent film star, and Norma Talmadge, another silent film star, there's Norma Desmond, the fictional aging actress of the film Sunset Blvd - see, 3 Normas right there, and I would have used Edith Norma Shearer, because then I could have carried the game on with the name EDITH, and the player after me would have had something to go on.

But you don't continue the chain with a name not specified by the person before you.

I don't think there is a rule that you have to take first name and last name alternatively, is there?

I am not sure what you are saying. There is a "rule" that the person who posts an answering chain carrier post gets to post his or her new name, and in doing so, must use the name which the previous player highlighted to use. The new player isn't supposed to just pick any name from the post that he or she feels like using and "go with that." That's not how it works, and I've played this chain game on 3 messageboards over the course of almost 2 years, so I am quite familiar with the "rules."

And Hanks, are there any more famous Hanks's in the world? Did you google the word Hanks and find a few so you'd know your following player would have something to use?

[Acalewia]

Actually the rule is use at least one name from the previous post.

Norma Jean Baker

Tom Baker

Tom Hanks

This is how the board I got it from plays, Lotesse. Sorry if it's a little different from how your used to playing

[Acalewia]

Hank Williams, Jr -- country singer know for his outlaw style.

[Earniel]

Originally Posted by Lotesse

Baker? You didn't know any Normas off the top of your head? Google Norma and you'll see a few. There's Edith Norma Shearer, the silent film star, and Norma Talmadge, another silent film star, there's Norma Desmond, the fictional aging actress of the film Sunset Blvd - see, 3 Normas right there, and I would have used Edith Norma Shearer, because then I could have carried the game on with the name EDITH, and the player after me would have had something to go on.

Except, if I googled it, it wouldn't be off the top of my head, now would it? It would be on my computer screen. That said, I prefer to play these games by memory, so if the top of my head isn't supplying anything, I pretty much ain't playing. And I don't know any of those Norma's anyway.

I am not sure what you are saying. There is a "rule" that the person who posts an answering chain carrier post gets to post his or her new name, and in doing so, must use the name which the previous player highlighted to use. The new player isn't supposed to just pick any name from the post that he or she feels like using and "go with that." That's not how it works, and I've played this chain game on 3 messageboards over the course of almost 2 years, so I am quite familiar with the "rules."

Well, I suppose them I'm one of those silly people who needs the rules spelled out for them... My apologies for messing up. Acalewia said the next famous person "has to have one of the names" so I figured the actual choice was up to the next person. Guess I was wrong. Although I do think the game will falter the very moment people choose a difficult or impossible name for the next player. Or is it the meaning of the game to pick something someone can easily answer? Never mind, it's late, I should turn in, I probably stopped making sense...

[Nautipus]

I think you had it right Earniel...but maybe I'm hopelessly delusional and dont know a thing. But yes I beleive you are suppossed to pick a name yourself, rather than the preceeding player pick one for you. That said, Hank Williams jr. you say? Well here's a good one:

John Towner Williams- Composer who wrote songs for Star Wars, Harry Potter, Jaws, E.T. and more.

(I added the middle name in there just so everybody'd have more choices, hope it helps )

[Lotesse]

Originally Posted by Acalewia

Actually the rule is use at least one name from the previous post.

Norma Jean Baker

Tom Baker

Tom Hanks

This is how the board I got it from plays, Lotesse. Sorry if it's a little different from how your used to playing

Yeah, it's slightly different than how I've always played it elsewhere but no matter - this is your thread, and you started this game here, so we go by your rules. I was only tryna help by breaking it down earlier; I've never played it your way but I will now, here, 'cause it's your thread! Anyway, your way makes it a lot easier to do the chain, if you get to choose more than just one name to continue the chain with.

Originally Posted by Acalewia

I added the middle name in there just so everybody'd have more choices, hope it helps

Hell yes, it helps! As I was saying earlier, I always like to use the famous person's full name, complete with any & all middle names.



John Jacob Astor - He was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first millionaire in the United States. He was the creator of the first trust in America, from which he made his fortune in fur trading, real estate, and opium.

[Nautipus]

Neat little history lesson there, I didnt know that.

Anyway, here's my response (dont know the full name)-

Mary Astor- Actress who won an Acadamy Award, and played in that old movie The Maltese Falcon. My dad swears by that movie, Ive never seen it myself.

[Lotesse]

Mary Jane Blige - is an American R&B, soul, and hip hop soul singer, rapper, songwriter, producer, and actress. She is one of the most accomplished artists of the hip hop generation. She is also widely known as the "Queen of hip-hop soul and R&B." Her works have earned her six Grammy Awards. And she's the bomb.

[Nautipus]

She's the bomb huh? never heard her work.

Jane Goodall- Famous primatologist who works with gorillas and chimpanzees in ongoing studies to further public awareness of these animals.

[Lotesse]

Does Jane Goodall have any middle names?

Ooo - scratch that, I googled "Goodall" and found another famous Goodall -

Caroline Goodall - Australian film actress - White Squall, Princess Diaries, Schindler's List, Hook, and more...

[Nautipus]

Um...okay, here goes.

I was going to say Caroline Reynolds, but she's fictitios, so how about this-

Howard Goodall- Wrote the musical Silas Marner