F A N T A S Y   C H E F - turn 4 results

			IDEAL MENU                      SERVING UP
JOHN COLLEDGE   Lemon and lime sorbet           Roast pheasant with
		laced with madras               all the trimmings
PETE BIRKS                    Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs
DENNY COLLEDGE  Chicken, mustard cream & wine   Roast lamb
		with mangetout & new potatoes   
JAMES HARDY     Braised chicken Peking style    Roast beef in "arty farty    
		(chicken in egg & garlic sauce) crap French sauce" + chips
GEOFF BROWN     Lamb and spinach curry with     Fillet steak with mustard
		chickpeas, cauliflower, potato  sauce, salad and crisp veg
ANDY MANSELL    Roast haunch of wild boar, apples,    (N/A)
		red cabbage, calvados, potato

After looking up whether pheasant was game or fowl, and applying the usual
even-handed stinginess, I am inclined to award points like so:

JOHN COLLEDGE:  3 + 3 (two people want meat plus trimmings) + 2 + 2 (two
		people want meat in sauce) = 10 + 15 (previous) = 25
JAMES HARDY:    3 + 3 (two people want meat plus potatoes) + 2 (Geoff wants
		meat in a curry plus potatoes) = 8 + 10 (previous) = 18
DENNY COLLEDGE: 6 (Geoff wants lamb) + 3 (Andy wants roast meat) + 2 (Jim
		wants meat) = 11 + 10 (previous) = 21
PETE BIRKS:     0 + 9 (previous) = 9
ANDY MANSELL:   4 (previous)
GEOFF BROWN:    3 + 3 (two people want meat and vegetables) + 2 (Jim wants
		meat in sauce) = 8 + 1 (previous) = 9

You can appeal against these, giving reasons, if you feel REALLY strongly
about my point distribution, if you think it really necessary, but we're on 
the home straight now! Three people still want meat of various sorts and
three people want sweets for their fifth course. Take your pick! (Be warned:
suggestions like "beef trifle" are unlikely to earn many points at all.) 

		    A R I T H M E T A C T I C - *GAMESTART!*

Huzzah! Two self-confessed mathematical hardnuts did sign up for this new
game and so we can get going straight away. As they might say at the start
of a round of Mortal Kombat or somesuch, "STRETCH. VERSUS. LANCASTER. FIGHT."
The first two up are Mark Stretch and Tom Lancaster, so I'm happy to get a
game going straight away. Actually, I'd rather get two games going at once;
I'm fairly sure the first player is at an advantage, so I'll start one game
with Mark going first and one with Tom going first, and the result of the
game that finishes first shall be the result of the match.

GAME "ARCHIMEDES": Mark Stretch to start. \ Please send in your starting
GAME "BOLYAI": Tom Lancaster to start.    / numbers for turn 1 next time.

Arithmetactic games could only be named after mathematicians, but I shall
specialise in choosing mad ones. Janos Bolyai investigated non-Euclidean
geometry and published his research as an appendix to his father's book.
Problem is, his father's book hadn't come out yet. I've got a lovely anecdote
about Archimedes to show he's bleeding bonkers (though the one you know about
him leaping out of the bath shouting Eureka puts him at a good way there...)

"Oftimes Archimedes' servants got him against his will to the baths, to
wash and anoint him, and yet being there, he would ever be drawing out of
the geometrical figures. [...] And while they were anointing of him with
oils and sweet savours, with his fingers he drew lines upon his naked
body, so far was he taken from himself, and brought into ecstasy or
trance, with the delight he had taken in the study of geometry."
			  
		      T H E   D E A D   P O O L - Reminder
GEOFF BROWN  1) Mother Theresa   2) Frank Sinatra     3) Sly Stallone's baby
ANDY MANSELL 1) Queen Mother     2) Boris Yeltsin     3) Michael Barrymore
JAMES HARDY  1) Burgess Meredith 2) Catherine Hepburn 3) Mary Tyler Moore
I'm keeping watch, but yell at once if any of these nine kick the bucket...