MM Links Results January 2012 Week 2

[gen2]

It was a great game with many more points earned this weekend.

However, some of you threw away your chance of points by not sticking to the rules. Here is a reminder:

1) All answers will be from 4 to 8 letters in length so 'God' and 'political' didn't stand a chance.
2) All answers must stand alone as a word in their own right so 'child + splay' is acceptable but 'mother + sruin' isn't.
3) I am lenient on spelling so long as your intention is obvious. Just don't go claiming that 'black' is a misspelling of 'white'.
4) I don't distinguish between words in front of, or words after, the challenge word so (as we have had in the past) 'song + bird' counts as being the same as 'bird + song'.
5) Simple derivatives of words are accepted as being equivalent as long as they have the same meaning. eg. -ing, -ed and all plurals.

Now that the game is over, I can reveal that 'The Court Jester' (aka kettledrum) teased you with the following pairings

PARTY ANIMAL
BABY GRAND (her house isn't large enough for a 'grand piano'
MOTHER GOOSE (yes - it is still pantomime time)
CHILD BENEFIT

29 points were earned in this one. Did you claim one or more of them? Find out below.

[gen2]

BigMac was first to score with 'Party Animal' - probably a bit of one himself?

Rockfordill, lysander and centrino then chose 'Mother Goose' for two points each
while beejay, slaney and Strix opted for a 'baby grand' also for 2 points

The final link of 'child benefit' was claimed by x-ray with the clock still standing at 9:03.

Several single points were claimed by later players, mostly for 'Mother Goose' but amongst them were two double-hitters:
Miranda's Mum and Chris Hewat (Chris)

We therefore have joint hotshots

*** HOTSHOTS OF ***
***** THIS WEEK *****
*** MIRANDASMUM ***
*** + CHRIS HEWAT ***


This week's scorers were:

2 beejay1124
2 BigMac
2 centrino
2 ChrisHewat (Mr)
2 lysander
2 mirandasmum
2 rockfordill
2 slaney
2 Strix
2 x-ray
1 albaqwerty (Mr)
1 albaqwerty (Mrs)
1 cupid04
1 Euphemia
1 fordward
1 patchett
1 regward
1 seekeerz
1 wickedtongue

So when added to last week's points, it makes the leaderboard look like this:

[gen2]

LEADER BOARD
==============
4 beejay1124
4 centrino
4 lysander
3 Euphemia
3 x-ray
2 albaqwerty (Mr)
2 albaqwerty (Mrs)
2 BigMac
2 ChrisHewat (Chris)
2 mirandasmum
2 rockfordill
2 seekeerz
2 slaney
2 Strix
and 12 on 1 point


Finally:
Get well soon Aquagility.
(a mole tells me he is in hospital)

Until next weekend then,
Happy Linking,
gen2

[Brenden]

Must do better - nil points again this week. Thank you gen.

[boxtops]

Me too, brendan - way off mark!

[albaqwerty]

Thank you gen2. Status quo still rules in the alba household.

And I consider myself duly told off about mother's ruin. Brain dead on a Saturday:)

[paulineward]

Thanks gen2 and Court Jester. Nothing for me this week. :-(

[gen2]

But there WAS one or REG, Pauline.

[tearinghair]

Thanks Court Jester and Gen2. I haven't been on anyone's wavelength for months, but still have hopes for next week...

[BigMac]

Guilty as charged... ... (this week, anyway).

Congrats to all the points scorers and thanks to CJ ("I didn't get where I am today.... ...") and gen2.

[Handbaglady]

Not even a sniff of a point for me. I also must try harder. Well done point scorers.

[ladyalex]

Well done all the points scorers...nothing for me this week. :-((

Thanks to the Jester and gen2