The ILE sleb-spot game !

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Carried over from 'uhhh' thread. In our house, we have a game where we win points for spotting celebrities. We have played it since 2000.

The celebrities should ideally be RUBBISH. Categories are: Fruity Luvvies Darling - 10 pts Faded comedians 20 points Good comedians 10 points boy/girl band members 5 pts Shite - 10 points Billie Piper Snorting Crack - 350 points Indie band members 10 points Sports personalities - 20 pts Heat magazine fare -25 pts Big Brother II contestants - 15 points BB I contestants -25 points. Little and Large (together) - 150 points Minus points - Curtis Steigers (60) Garry Bushell (50) Garry Mabbutt (25)

Rules: 'Shite' is the default term for anyone who doesn't fit any other categories. It is a cruel game. Not a valid 'spot' if the celebrity is involved in a professional engagement. Not a valid 'spot' if you know the celebrity.

Valid 'spots' can be dated back to 1st Jan 2000. Happy totting! Who's got most points?

― Will, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I bet this game dies on its arse. Anyway, new answers!

― Wil, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't bloody remember. Do you think I've got all day to sit around dredging my memory for minor celebrity spots of the last two years? I have, in a way, but that's not the point.

― Nick, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What if your sleb comes under more than one category? I think your categories are too vague and you should draw up a comprehensive list of EVERY sleb and how many points they merit.

Also what if you see the same sleb more than once?

Do you get extra points for a celebrity shag?

What about Soap Stars of which there are a multitude in Crouch End, the other day I even saw Sadie from Family Affairs!

― Emma, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no extra points for spotting same sleb twice!

― Will, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We could alter it for Dunedin; play spot the mentally unbalanced. 50 pts for speedy, 50 for hollywood pornstar, um... give me a hand here someone

― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No extra points for sleb shag! Cruel game. is SPOTTING! If you have trouble defining sleb acc. categories - they count as 'shite' - 10 points.

― Will, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well what if you see a sleb but don't recognise them and then your mates say 'oh look there's x '(who you have never heard of), I am thinking in particular of an incident in a pub in Camden when my companions espied some indie bloke and got all excited especially as one of them had that very day bought said indie bloke's album in a bargain bin and was going to get me to go up and ask him to sign it as I didn't know who he was. Do you get points?

― Emma, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

By my reckoning I already have 40 points just from today, having seen rubbish lesbian comedienne Rona Cameron and former Rangers and Motherwell star ('star' in the loosest possible sense) Fraser Wishart.

Do I get to count half of Belle and Sebastian from a gig last night? No, probably not.

― Ally C, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You must spot and recognise sleb on your own: no points.

― Will, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I walked past Melvyn Bragg in the street yesterday - what do I score?

― Andrew L, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Will, you should start it from now and everytime we do a spot we can check in and tot it up from there. Especially as last night was a bit of a spot fest.

― chris, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Trust Chris to come up with the first sensible idea in this entire thread. OK everybody - the game starts NOW! (which means Tracey Emin/ Stuart Murdoch doesn't count)

― Will, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yay - Will's given us licence to stalk.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Like you've not been stalking Judy Finnegan for the last year Jonnie.

― chris, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mmmmm, pink nosed pups to the max.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was taken to Laurie Something's wedding bash, that one presenting `She's gotta have it' or some other programme where women flick like manics over frocks in a laberynthg of fitting rooms. I didn't know she was famous before,though. There were a few of BBC personalities around there, but I hardly recognized any till someone else would point them.

― Laetitia, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Does anybody else think Laurie whatshernames head is too big?

― RickyT, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, it is that Laurie's BlaBla body is far too short. Like...mmm,short.

I remember you had to wear black or Chinese-inspired clothes and the invitations were the tackiest thing evah.

― Laetitia, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lowri Turner? Possessor of a very irritating voice, tiny body and yes, HUUUUGE head.

― chris, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, on Sunday when Kate, Ed and me went for pizza the remaining, live Fat Lady chef person was on the table across from us (10 points, luvvie). And on Thursday Nick and I went out to ICA art opening and scoped Neil Tennant for ages before I went up to speak to him. He is LOVELY ("I was on this plane with Elton John and Janet Street Porter and I just thought, if this thing goes down in flames I'm on, like, Page Eight or something.").

― suzy, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks for the spellcheck! I remember that we had quite fun at it. She is not Welsh but of Welsh ancestry or something and tries quite hard in that direction, a bit pathetic. She's got a kid with an absurd Welsh-like name...

― Laetitia, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Suzy, surely if you can't name the celebrity you deserve no points! Fancy not knowing Clarissa Dickson-Wright's name.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A week last thursday gareth and I were in the same bar a Aphex twin and vincent gallo.

― Ed, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jonnie is right. Cruel game.

― Will, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Vincent Gallo? Where? He is reportedly mad and going out with Polly Jean, but even then...it would be worth trying the stalking

― Laetitia, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He's not so mad, although you might have to be to go out with the Peej. VG shot photos for his Observer interview in my flat and was pleasant, hung out for two hours lionizing Jenny Holzer and rubbishing Barbara Krueger and Harmony Korine in a very funny way.

― suzy, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How about - to my left the pouty one out of Atomic Kitten, to my right Ian Hart, behind me John Hurt, and in front of me Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, plus spawn. And that was just when I was sitting down...

― Mark C, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How many points do I get for spotting Keanu Reaves in a parka looking insecure and buying indie rock records?

― RS, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I couldn't decide where this belonged.

I saw paul chuckle [the bigger one] in superdrug in livingston.

also assorted scottish sports/television celebs. including: archie macpherson, jim delahunt, bryan burnett, bernard ponsonby, ian durrant.

others too, I should imagine.

my parents saw john virgo in ikea in nottingham. apparently he's bigger than you'd think. or smaller. I forget.

and half of belle and sebastian at a concert last night?

or ally cook at a concert last night?

how many points? how many points?

― richard john gillanders, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Paul Chuckle -25 pts all else 10.

― Will, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This isn't as good as our house's shag points contest when I was at uni. I got ten points for a dentist but all the rest were students who were worth nowt. Bah. The gay Welsh boys won the contest by miles.

― Madchen, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Edwyn Collins: Christmas shopping w/son in hi-fi shop on Tottenham Court Road

― mark morris, Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yes Mene I will play Dunedin-sleb with you. It only really counts if you see "them" in them supermarket and can name an item of grcry. Ralph Hotere 100 pts, Dunedin sound star 200 pts, someone from out of town 300 and for the New Year new to Dunedin 400 pts... anyone else wanna play? Ahh life in a small town that thinks its a city.

― ducklingmonster, Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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