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Stephen King Sheep - Reveal Thread

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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,759 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Category 1 is in the books and QB leads the way by 2 points from LeVar.

    tusk and Three More Big Sleeps aren't too far off either. Spook and 2D have a tussle over the spoon at the moment, like two gnarled gunslingers it's looking like a showdown :P

    I'll be back in 5 mins with category 2 :)

    Scores after question 5:

    Player Score
    quickbeam 45
    Also Starring LeVar Burton 43
    tusk 41
    Three More Big Sleeps 40
    sammyjo90 39
    Pre Covid Choc Chip 39
    Choc Chip 38
    Ted_YNWA 38
    Ectoplasm 36
    Penfailed 35
    Collie D 34
    osh 31
    khalessi 29
    Hello 2D Person Below 23
    Spook_ie 22


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭Choc Chip


    Necro wrote: »
    :cool: is Good btw, I'd have loved that answer.

    Sadly not to be. The Gunslinger sheeps here and Choccy avoids it... TWICE :P

    Sigh. Pretty clear what my favourite book is. :rolleyes:

    And the impending apocalypse apparently hasn't changed it. Maybe i'll be different when we get to the horror...


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭Ectoplasm


    Well that went far better than expected :)

    Can only go downhill from here. :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,882 ✭✭✭tusk


    Choc Chip wrote: »
    someone gave me the audiobooks of all his novels until the early 2000's - I drive a LOT and i'm still nowhere near through them all

    You got that google drive link handy ol' buddy ol' pal...?


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,882 ✭✭✭tusk


    Ectoplasm wrote: »
    Well that went far better than expected :)

    Can only go downhill from here. :pac:

    agreed. did not expect to be anywhere near the top at any point lol


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  • Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Being in the Top 3 early on, didn't bode well for me during yesterday's Sheep. In fact my best performances have always been a late surge from the middle of the pack. Wonder if I can finally break the Early Bird curse and pull out a podium finish tonight... Here's hoping...

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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,759 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Category 2: The Epics

    This is a hard one to define. King has quite a lot of books that could be considered 'Epic'. Not all of them are good however.... Cell being one example :/


    Here's a handful...

    121838-Stephen_King_Books.jpg

    For fun, does anyone know how many books he has published all up?


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,215 ✭✭✭khalessi


    Im attacking from behind


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    At a guess, 42.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,215 ✭✭✭khalessi


    63?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭Ectoplasm


    72


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,286 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    76


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,759 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Ding Ding Ding! khalessi has it - I'm not sure how up to date the wiki is...

    King has published 63 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has written over 200 short stories, most of which have been compiled in book collections.

    Anyways, the first question: Name a member of Randall Flagg's group in The Stand


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,431 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    Necro wrote: »
    Category 1 is in the books and QB leads the way by 2 points from LeVar.

    tusk and Three More Big Sleeps aren't too far off either. Spook and 2D have a tussle over the spoon at the moment, like two gnarled gunslingers it's looking like a showdown :P

    I'll be back in 5 mins with category 2 :)

    Scores after question 5:

    Player Score
    quickbeam 45
    Also Starring LeVar Burton 43
    tusk 41
    Three More Big Sleeps 40
    sammyjo90 39
    Pre Covid Choc Chip 39
    Choc Chip 38
    Ted_YNWA 38
    Ectoplasm 36
    Penfailed 35
    Collie D 34
    osh 31
    khalessi 29
    Hello 2D Person Below 23
    Spook_ie 22

    First time playing a game on Boards...and I'm not last! Yay!

    Gigs '21 - Stendhal Festival (July), Stendhal Festival (August), [s]Liam Gallagher & Idles[/s], King Kong Company, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, The Undertones, And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '22 - And So I Watch You From Afar, Teenage Fanclub, Mogwai, Stendhal Festival, The Fratellis, Clutch, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Electric Picnic, Vantastival, The Cure, And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '23 - Stiff Little Fingers, The Wood Burning Savages, Bob Log III, David Kitt, Ludovico Einaudi, DADDY LONG LEGS, The Prodigy, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, The Murder Capital, PJ Harvey, The Bonnevilles (w/Amy Montgomery, Rews, New Pagans), The Undertones (w/Buzzcocks), And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Ride, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Therapy?, IDLES(x2)



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,759 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Our Sheep would be very familiar to some as a mass murderer in a recent game of Werewolf ;)

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    Green&Red was a game mod... I suppose theoretically he was a member? :pac:


    Question 6: Name a member of Randall Flagg's group in The Stand

    The Trashcan Man - 7
    Choc Chip
    Collie D
    Penfailed
    Pre Covid Choc Chip
    quickbeam
    Spook_ie
    tusk

    Lloyd Henreid - 4
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    khalessi
    osh
    Three More Big Sleeps

    Nadine Cross - 2
    Ectoplasm
    Ted_YNWA

    ACES - 1:

    Green&Red - Hello 2D Person Below
    Randall flagg - sammyjo90


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    That's a crazy number. It's more than one a year since his first.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,215 ✭✭✭khalessi


    I know Ive about 50 odd of his books so it had to be more then that


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,759 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    quickbeam wrote: »
    That's a crazy number. It's more than one a year since his first.

    If you actually type 'How many books has Stephen King written' into google the answer at the top says

    'At Least 96' :eek:

    I'm not sure how that is calculated though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,215 ✭✭✭khalessi


    Just finished watching the Stephen King chat at the beginning and just when I thought I couldnt love him more, was very entertaining


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,759 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Question 2: Name a member of The Losers Club

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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,759 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Bill Sheeps and tusk must have been reading the Famous Five at the time of his submissions :pac:

    Question 7: Name a member of The Loser's Club in the novel IT

    Bill Denborough - 10
    Choc Chip
    Hello 2D Person Below
    khalessi
    osh
    Penfailed
    Pre Covid Choc Chip
    quickbeam
    sammyjo90
    Ted_YNWA
    Three More Big Sleeps

    Eddie Kaspbrak - 2
    Collie D
    Spook_ie

    ACES - 1:

    Richie Tozier - Also Starring LeVar Burton
    George - tusk
    Ben - Ectoplasm


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,215 ✭✭✭khalessi


    Is that Finn Wolfhard of Stranger Things in photo


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,759 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    khalessi wrote: »
    Is that Finn Wolfhard of Stranger Things in photo

    Yeah he plays Richie in the new IT movies :D

    Everything is linked ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,215 ✭✭✭khalessi


    Necro wrote: »
    Yeah he plays Richie in the new IT movies :D

    Everything is linked ;)

    According to kiddo who is addicted to Stranfer THings podcasts Stephen King recommended MBB for the role of EL in ST


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,286 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Haven’t seen the new movie yet and it’s a while since I read the book. Were there really that many Losers as in that photo?

    BTW The original two parter gave me a lifelong hatred of clowns.


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    F**k sake, thought everyone would go Richie.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,759 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Question 3: Name a form the being IT takes in the novel IT

    Yeah so this was a better Peehs question lol.

    But for the record, Peehs answers could have been:

    George Denborough
    Dorsey Corcoran
    Creature from the Black Lagoon
    Betty Ripsom
    A Giant Bird
    etc...


    Here's the full list: https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/It_(Creature)


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,759 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Pretty convincing sheep, as to be expected tbf. Poor Three Big Sleeps gives a peach of an answer though for an ace.

    Question 8: Name a form the being IT takes in the novel IT

    Pennywise the Clown - 14
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Choc Chip
    Collie D
    Ectoplasm
    Hello 2D Person Below
    khalessi
    osh
    Penfailed
    Pre Covid Choc Chip
    quickbeam
    sammyjo90
    Spook_ie
    Ted_YNWA
    tusk

    ACES - 1:

    A mummy - Three More Big Sleeps


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,759 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Question 4: Name one of the 26 Survivors in the novel 'Under The Dome'

    Under_the_Dome_Final.jpg

    I love this book, it's up there with my favourites and I've read it about 4 times.

    Let's not talk about the TV show though :(


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,431 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    Collie D wrote: »
    Haven’t seen the new movie yet and it’s a while since I read the book. Were there really that many Losers as in that photo?

    Bill, Beverley, Ben, Stan, Mike, Richie and Eddie.

    Gigs '21 - Stendhal Festival (July), Stendhal Festival (August), [s]Liam Gallagher & Idles[/s], King Kong Company, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, The Undertones, And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '22 - And So I Watch You From Afar, Teenage Fanclub, Mogwai, Stendhal Festival, The Fratellis, Clutch, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Electric Picnic, Vantastival, The Cure, And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '23 - Stiff Little Fingers, The Wood Burning Savages, Bob Log III, David Kitt, Ludovico Einaudi, DADDY LONG LEGS, The Prodigy, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, The Murder Capital, PJ Harvey, The Bonnevilles (w/Amy Montgomery, Rews, New Pagans), The Undertones (w/Buzzcocks), And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Ride, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Therapy?, IDLES(x2)



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