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    Posted: 19 Apr 2007 at 4:05pm

Just a bit of fun this, but lets see if it works! On many forums I've seen threads where you have to put up a song lyric and the next person has to follow on using one or more words from the lyrics to post another and so on.

It is easier to do than explain, but let's try this with common names, any common name, fauna or flora, UK or otherwise is allowed.

So I'm going to start with

Great Crested Newt

So the next person then has to come up with a common name for a species that contains at least one of these words.

Rules, there have to be some so here they are:

Each player can only add one new common name at a time, then has to wait for another forum user to post before adding another.

No using the exact same common name twice - anyone doing this can be laughed at and ridiculed by all the other players

Well that is it, have a go and lets see how many pages we can make it run to without a repetition or getting completly stuck!

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got me there tony
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Rofl, chaos after only 3 posts !
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 Hey, I can do this!

Grass snake

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And

Boa Constrictor snake

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and then

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Mmmmm, ermmmm,....I know

Corn Snake....

there.....That was easy. Whats the next game?

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Great Crested Newt

Great CrestedGrebe

Little Grebe

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Lets get this back on track..........corn snake

ribbon-footed corn fly



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