MM Links Results Jun 2012 Week 2

[gen2]

Well, you paid the price for taking all those points off 'Don Corleone' (aka deecee131) last week. He set out to punish you all but thanfully he underestimated how many of you would be John Wayne fans.

The game has closed and I can reveal that the chosen links that you were chasing were:
GREEN BELT (2 matches)
KINGS SPEECH (2 matches)
TRUE GRIT (8 matches)
MANHOLE (1 match)

So it was a fairly low-scoring weekend, but who were the lucky ones?

[gen2]

TRUE GRIT went to the very first player, fordward and tearinghair, rockfordill, patchett and middlestump were all in time for two points.

Roslyn251254suddenly remembered the film, 'The KING'S SPEECH' for her 2 points.

MANHOLE was next, discovered, unexpectedly, by kawakiri (2 points)

GREEN BELT held up longest, only slipping at 9:23 to jobjockey.

One player though was outstanding as the only double-hitter in the whole game.
**** THE HOTSHOT ****
***** THIS WEEK IS *****
*** WICKEDTONGUE ***

In summary, this week's point scorers were:
2 fordward
2 jobjockey
2 kawakiri
2 middlestump
2 patchett
2 rockfordill
2 roslyn251254
2 tearinghair
2 wickedtongue
1 ChrisHewat (Mr)
1 Eiggam
1 hawk3y3

Which makes the top of the leaderboard look like this:

6 rockfordill
4 boxtops
4 Brenden
4 fordward
4 jobjockey
4 kawakiri
4 middlestump
4 owllady
4 patchett
4 Strix
4 tearinghair
4 wickedtongue
3 ChrisHewat (Chris)
3 lysander
9 on 2 points
12 on 1 point

Next Saturday sees the launch of the third leg of five in this month's challenge being set by 'Don Corleone' / deecee131. Can you meet the challenge?
Find out next weekend,
Same time,
Same place.
Happy Linking
gen2

[albaqwerty]

thank you gen2 and deecee. Back to the drawing board :-)

[BigMac]

Hmm - will have to rethink tactics.

Thanks to deecee131 and gen2.

[tearinghair]

Thanks deecee and Gen2. Points in two consecutive weeks? It can't last!

[boxtops]

Thanks gen2, nothing this week, Must Try Harder!

[rockfordill]

I definitely need some new specs - I thought that I saw my name at the top of the leaderboard - that can't be right ! Where's Roslyn?

many thanks to Gen2 and deecee

J

[Ont-ice]

Considering the discussion re Victoria Beckham, I ruled out True Grit because it was the name of a movie I'm not sure now what can be actually posted. I know that's not a proper name but it was/is a famous movie starring John Wayne. Can you clarify?Thanks.

[x-ray]

Hi Ont-ice
As well as TRUE GRIT surely KINGS SPEECH was also a famous film.
I think we are all beginning to get too serious about the links
Just lately I can't get any correct - so whatever the rules are, my scores seem to be nil.
Well done to the scorers .... as somebody said I must try harder !!!!

[gen2]

Ont Ice,
The expression 'True Grit' dates back to 1846
'True Grit' was used for the title of a 1968 novel by Charles Portis
The John Wayne film (1969) made the expression more popular once again.

Incidentally, 'The King's Speech' is the title of a 2010 film.
'Kings Speech' also appears in my Chambers dictionary dated 1998

I thought the rules had been clarified and I updated the summary that is posted each week after the introduction and before the challenge words are revealed.

<< Each of the selected link words may go in front of, or behind my challenge word
to make a new longer word
or to make a well-known phrase or saying.
The combination will never be a person's name. >>

This week's links were within those parameters.

[kawakiri]

Unexpectedly?

[cupid04]

Back to the drawing board!

[ladyalex]

Zero for me. Oh well. I'm used to it now.
Thanks to Don Corleone and to gen2
:-))