Shag, Marry, or Shove off a Cliff

[browngirl]

This was too nifty to not steal.



As the rules state in Bridget Jones' Guide to Life, p 27 (all credit for transcription goes to maedbh7, from whom I stole this), "In turn, each of the players suggests three names, e.g. Jeffrey Archer, Mohammed Al Fayed, Jonathon Aitken. The person on the player's right must then decide, if they absolutely had to shag one of them, marry another, and push another off a cliff, which it would be.

It is usually best to pick three which are similar in some way:

- Russel Crowe, Mr. Darcy, Hugh Grant
- Colonel Gadaffi, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Idi Amin
- Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Al Gore
- Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Sting

It doesn't matter if any of them are dead as it is only a game. This is also tremendous fun with lists of real people whom one knows. (Though this can be a little cruel. And should never be played with lists of people who are actually in the room.)"

So. Here are six sets to get you started:

Zeus, Apollo, Dionysos.
Tutankhamon, Horemheb, Ay.
Miles Vorkosigan, Leo Graf, Ethan of Athos.
Catherine Gale, Emma Peel, Tara King. (from Tigerlily)
William Bulger, John Silber, Lawrence Summers.
Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda.

Comments

Zeus, Apollo, Dionysos

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

Myth shows that it is hazardous to one's health to either shag or marry Zeus, so he goes over the cliff. Being a sky god, he'll be fine. Apollo seems to be more generous to those he gets involved with, and is apparently pretty. Shag Apollo. Marry Dionysos and get all the maenads you can carry.

Re: Zeus, Apollo, Dionysos

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Apollo seems to be more generous to those he gets involved with, and is apparently pretty.

Hrmn. Cassandra might disagree with that. OTOH, he *is* pretty, and Hera is plain mean. I think I like your recommendations. :)

Re: Zeus, Apollo, Dionysos

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

Marry Dionysos and get all the maenads you can carry

Excu-u-u-u-u-use me?!?

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Shag the wolfman. Marry Frankenstein; he's ugly but he seems like he'd be considerate. Shove Dracula off a cliff. I've never understood the vampire fetish.

[the-gwenzilliad.livejournal.com]

Shove Frankenstein. None too bright.
Shag Dracula. While he'd be good for a few nights of pain and debauchery, I wouldn't want to get caught up in his Web Of Drama.
Marry the Wolfman. Pack animals take care of their own.

[gingicat]

Shove Dr. Frankenstein and Dracula. Shag the Wolfman, marry Frankenstein's Monster (the one from the book, not the movie).

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Shag Dionysos, he's good at it. Marry Apollo, thus sparing him the muse decision. Shove Zeus off a cliff.

Tutankhamon, Horemheb, Ay: Marrying *any* of the Egyptians tended to give one a short lifespan. Shag whichever one will help me get out of the palace, shove the others off a cliff as a distraction, and run like hell.

Miles Vorkosigan, Leo Graf, Ethan of Athos: Shove Miles off a cliff. Shove Miles off a cliff again. Get so absorbed in doing this repeatedly that I forget all about the others, whom I don't know well enough to judge anyway.

Catherine Gale, Emma Peel, Tara King. (from Tigerlily): Don't know who these people are.

William Bulger, John Silber, Lawrence Summers: Don't know who these people are either.

Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda: Marry Obi-Wan, but only after he gets old and grows some brains. Shag Yoda, master of physical control and technique. Shove Anakin off a cliff for being terminally boring.

I'll throw in the really obvious ones, since I haven't seen them so far --

Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn?
Harry, Ron, Hermione?

and, if I want to get really nasty to the decisionmakers,

Bush, Hussein, Kim?

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

You don't make it easy, do you?

Shag Gandalf. Marry Frodo (even though Sam would kill me yadda yadda yadda) and shove Aragorn.

Shag Hermione. Shove Harry. Marry Ron in a loveless ceremony and step out on him with Hermione whenever possible.

and... um...

Shove Kim. Shag Hussein. Marry Bush. (The White House is a nice place to live, and he's got two attractive, reasonably wild daughters to converse with should things get dull.)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Tut, Horemheb, Ay: As I said to TL, one could ingratiate oneself with Ay by shoving Tut off a cliff, marry Ay and become Queen, and shag Horemheb the studly general on the side.

Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn?
Shag Gandalf (will he do the pointy hat trick?). Marry Frodo, invite Sam to marry us both, watch Sam to make sure he doesn't kill me. Shove the insufferable Aragorn off a cliff.

Harry, Ron, Hermione?

Shag Ron: I like redheads. Marry Hermione; I like smart women. Toss Harry off a cliff, he's got a Nimbus 2000, he'll be fine.

Bush, Hussein, Kim?
Shag Hussein, assasinate him in his sleep. Marry Bush, countermand all his orders late at night and eventually assasinate him in his sleep. Toss Kim off a cliff straight off.

I need to think up some more sets.

[penmage.livejournal.com]

Marry Aragorn (yum!), shag Gandalf, cliff Frodo.
Marry Harry, shag Ron, cliff Hermione.

and...ew.

[odanu.livejournal.com]

Marry Gandalf, Shag Aragorn, throw the hobbit off a cliff.
Shag Hermione, Marry Ron, throw Harry off a cliff (like he can't fly anyhow!)...after age of consent of course

Sorry. I won't allow myself to get close enough to be contaminated by any of the last three.

[penmage.livejournal.com]

Did you know that there's a lj community devoted to just this activity?

marryshagcliff!

And, shag Anakin, marry Obi-Wan, cliff Yoda.
Shag Dionysos, marry Apollo, cliff Zeus (because everyone who gets involved with the god ends up having...issues.)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Did you know that there's a lj community devoted to just this activity?

You have made my day. Have some chocolate. :)

Since girls were requested:

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, Cleopatra.
Aphrodite, Athene, Hera.
Uhura, Padme Amidala, Susan Ivanova.
Delenn, Lyta Alexander, Susan Ivanova.

Re: Since girls were requested:

[arib.livejournal.com]

oooh, tough.

RUn from the Egyptians, they'd probably want me to rebuild the pyramids. Again.

I don't know enough about the Greeks.

Cliff Ivanova. Since Ivanova is God, she'll be fine. Shag Uhura, she was pretty back in the day, but all she does is put that giant metal Q-tip in her ear and look pretty. Marry Padme, she's cute, intelligent, and tough. Plus, I think I'm a better kisser than Anakin was in ep. 2.


Lyta Alexander, Talia Winters, Susan Ivanova

[odanu.livejournal.com]

Shag Dionysus, Marry Apollo, throw the unfaithful Bast...I mean Zeus over a cliff
No comment on Egyptian Kings.
skipping to the end due to time constraints;

Shag Obi-Wan, Marry yoda (yo-da man!!!), throw the whiny little butt head Anakin over a cliff

[quietann.livejournal.com]

hm.

shag Miles Vorkosigan, push Leo Graf off a cliff, marry Ethan of Athos?

shag William Bulger, push John Silber off a cliff, marry Lawrence Summers

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Justin Timberlake, Eminem, Fred Durst.

Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Celine Dion.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

The cliff's not high enough.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

me, that annoying guy who used to pester you in high school, your most recent ex

you evil man...

[gingicat]

Shag the most recent ex, shove the annoying guy from high school (he turned out not to like girls anyway), and marry your clone (I'm engaged to him anyway) and shag you. :)

[gingicat]

Slim, Vivian Rutledge, Nora Temple
Steve, Phil Marlowe, Frank McCloud

Clues:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0037382
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0038355
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0040506

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Zeus, Apollo, Dionysos. - Marry Apollo, shag Dionysos, push Zeus off a cliff, the serial-rapist asshole. No thought for anyone but himself. :->
Tutankhamon, Horemheb, Ay. I don't nearly know as much about the latter two as I ought.
Miles Vorkosigan, Leo Graf, Ethan of Athos. Ooh, a toughie. If I HAVE to cliff someone ... I'd marry Leo, shag Miles, push Ethan off a cliff (I wanted to shag him, but he's gay and would probably find me icky anyway). Marry Miles? Ch'yeah, right.
Catherine Gale, Emma Peel, Tara King. I don't know the first and last of these, and honestly, I don't have a thing for girls. :->
William Bulger, John Silber, Lawrence Summers. Never heard fo them.
Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda. Marry Obi-Wan, shag Yoda, push Annie off a cliff. Either age of him.

[maedbh7.livejournal.com]

Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda.
Marry Yoda, as has cute ears. Shag Anakin, as every girl likes a bad boy. Shove prat Obi off cliff. Conversly, shag shag and shag again Ewan McGregor, mary Frank Oz, as is hysterically funny and can always do fuzzy Muppet trick, and shove Christensen off a cliff, as is too pretty for own good. -H...

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

Emeril, Chen Kenichi, Alton Brown

Merry, Pippin, Sam

Doug, Vern, Frank (Trading Spaces)

Matt Fox, Michael Paine, Robert Noble (Room By Room, Designing For the Sexes, Sensible Chic)

[maedbh7.livejournal.com]

Doug, Vern, Frank
*SHOVE* Doug off cliff, hard with sole of very pointy spiky heeled boots, as is stupid color blind prat with zero sense of style. Shag Vern as is imminently shaggable, and seem much less of a nancyboy than either flaming bitter pouty queen Doug or flaming-but-in-closet-of-denial-wife-my-ass-indeed Frank, who being the only one left gets married, but must insist he share pretty boy friends with me. -H...

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

wow, I never saw anyone get 50 (fifty) comments!

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Marry Yoda (he keeps a cool kinda house and teaches nifty stuff), shag Obi-Wan, shove Anakin off cliff.

Marry Delenn (cool conversations), shag Ivanova (swoon), shove Lyta off cliff.

Marry Leia, shag Han, throw Luke off cliff - he has amply demonstrated being able to bounce back up. Then shag Luke, too.

Marry Gandalf, shag Aragorn, and .. darn, I like Frodo!

Marry Harry, shag Hermione, throw Ron off cliff.

Yeah, I'll play too . . . (lots of catching up)

[temima.livejournal.com]

Zeus, Apollo, Dionysos.

Easy. Shag Dionysos, marry Apollo, throw Zeus off a cliff.

William Bulger, John Silber, Lawrence Summers.

Marry Bulger (hey, it just might make my grandmother happy, or horrified), shag Summers and try to get him to see things Cornell West's way, throw Silber off a cliff.

Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda.

Marry Yoda, shag Obi-Wan, throw Anakin off the cliff.

Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman

Shag Dracula, marry Frankenstein (of the book), throw Wolfman off the cliff. Nothing personal.

Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn?

Marry Gandalf, shag Frodo, throw Aragon off the cliff. Then again, considering what happened the last time he was thrown off a cliff, I am not too worried.

Harry, Ron, Hermione?

Marry Hermione, shag Harry, throw Ron off the cliff.

Bush, Hussein, Kim?

I'll go with the whole 'kill them in their sleep' thing

Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, Cleopatra.

Marry Hatshepsut, shag Nefertiti, throw Cleopatra. Sorry, I've seen what she did to her last SOs.

Aphrodite, Athene, Hera.

Shag Aphrodite, marry Athene, throw Hera. Sorry, after all the damage Zeus did her, she might not be very good.

Uhura, Padme Amidala, Susan Ivanova.

Shag Ivanova, marry Amidala (I could do better than Anakin), cliff Uhura. Nothing personal, really.

Delenn, Lyta Alexander, Susan Ivanova.

Marry Delenn, shga Ivanova, cliff Lyta.

I wish I had suggestions, but they feel lame to me.