Hmm. We have two choices with collars, a dog and a parson. Perhaps I can add reasons a bit more flamboyant for defrocking the Parson. How does this sound: For the unconscionable faux pas of spilling beer and, even more, for being such a straight-faced parson in announcing the name of a sword that is almost as saturated with innuendo as Lord Halfulion's sword in REB.

++ The Parson

++Moon-dog.

In the movie Gidget, there was a character called Moon-doggy. I thought the movie stunk, so I'm getting back at it.

End of Day the Twenty-Ninth
 

Moon-dog: 5 votes

The Parson: 3 votes

Farmer Giles: 1 vote

Nell: 1 vote

And so, Moon-dog was sent to the moon. Naturally.

(Thus, the last Roverandom character was expelled from the game.)


Day the Thirtieth finds 14 contestants remaining:


The Major Minor Works

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Parson
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie

The More Minor Minor Works

Goldberry
Badger
Fíriel
Mr. Day
Teddy
Bruno

++ Mr. Day

A forgettable character from a forgettable minor work. He should not be anywhere near a finalist.

"Night and Day, he is the one..." I was thinking the same thing - who is Mr. Day?! I'd have to go back and search the story, but just the fact that he's totally forgettable and negligable makes a case for eliminating

++Mr. Day

+ + Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)

Latin's a dead language,
as dead as it can be.
First it killed the Romans,
and now it's killing me.

Odi et arceo profanum vulgum

++NELL

+ + SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR

Previous reasons apply mutatis mutandis.

Hopping on the bandwagon...
 

++ Mr. Day

Isn't his only claim to fame being hit by a reckless driver?

I wonder. Bet he was walking in the street when he belonged on the sidewalk, a behavior that has been assigned to Mordor. Thus, he shouldn't even be here, but should instead be having a meeting with the Grand Anakronist. Let's send him where he belongs. :D

EDIT: This image shows the reason why Mr. Day should go.
RE-EDIT: That site appears to be experiencing technical difficulties. Temporarily reproduced on my website here.

++ Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)


If I have to copy and paste this ridiculous name one more time...

What a choice! Either a bear who highjacked a car or a pedestrian who cruelly forced it to undergo a sudden detour. One recalls Tolkien's own description of his driving methods. Do all the minor works have biographical references I wonder?

+ + Mr. Day

Not a fan of bandwaggons as such but...If I'd have been doing this from the start, Mr. Day would have been the first to go. Mainly because it conjures images of David Day.

[edit: just to make it official...++ Mr. Day ]

bombariffic

++ Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)


Nomus ad nauseum...

++Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)

Requiescat in pace mox.

Grrr!

I will not countenance Giles leaving before Smith.

- - SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR

+ + MR DAY

Good day, Mister Day.

PS: My offer to those who would be rid of Giles still stands. If you join me in my quest to rid the island of the worthless dreamer Smith, I will, once Smith has gone, join you in your crusade against Giles.

End of Day the Thirtieth
 

Mr. Day: 6 votes

Farmer Giles: 4 votes

Nell: 1 vote


And so, Mr. Day was set on the road and run over by a car, repeatedly, till all his bones were broke.


Day the Thirty-First finds 13 contestants remaining:


The Major Minor Works

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Parson
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie

The More Minor Minor Works

Goldberry
Badger
Fíriel
Teddy
Bruno

I did a quick nose count statistic of the remaining characters. There are:

4 males
4 females
5 animals (1 dog, 1 dragon, 1 badger, 2 teddy bears)

I say that's one teddy bear too many, and as a teddy bear named Teddy could be considered archetypal, I vote to send off

++Bruno

Again, how many of you have actually read the Mr. Bliss story? And even if you have, do you remember which bear did what? Do you really want a supremely negligable and unimportant character like that to survive to the very end of the game?! Ladies and gentlemen, I rest my case.

Thankyou for the statistics Esty. Most interesting.

Fascinating that there are now as many women as men. How nice and equal and lovey dovey.

Has the feminist junta taken over your minds?

You've sent all the menfolk packing and not a single woman's been brought to book!

They're distracting you with petty Brunoesque bait while planning to take over the world and use the few men they spare for fertilisers in a twisted neo-Amazonian hegemony!

Stop the suffragettes before it's too late! Unite or die! Today is a test-do you have the willpower to get rid of an entirely unexeptional woman, or are you all in chains to feminine burblings?

(Naturally women may vote against this. But of course their votes don't count anyway...)

++NELL

This will sound highly amusing to those with knowledge of my current career plans, but I'd like to plead guilty to being chained by those feminine burblings. :smokin:

Can't vote for Bruno, though. That's too cool a name for a Teddy Bear. How about Teddy himself, then? That's short for Theodore Roosevelt, you know, and if it's acceptable here to go kicking off kings, let's make things equal and kick off a presidential stand-in.

++ Teddy

Splitting the teddy bear vote.

Ye Olde Scorekeeper™ would like to point out that:

Mrs. Knight, Princess Pam, and Princess Mee were expelled. Of course, the princesses were not women in the strictest sense of the word (an elf and a mermaid) but close enough to count. Oh, and I'm slightly disappointed that you forgot Mrs. Knight, since I boiled her in a vat of bleach and all.

And Form, I thought you were going to take up being a puzzled baby?

Esty again speaks with great wisdom...

++ BRUNO

*yawn*

Boredom, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

I'm merely expressing the opinion of the viewing public. Have you seen the latest audience ratings? This show is bombing. People want conflicts between the big characters, not meaningless babble over a few obscure teddies.

And, Ang, if you're going to go for one of the womenkind, at least go for someone meaningful. Like ...

+ + Queen of Faerie

Away with her and her discraceful flirtations with daydreaming wanderers in her realm. Tsk tsk!

Nell is meaningful precisely because she is meaningless. I see you've never voted with me against her. I suspect you of sentimentality!

Help me get Nell out and I'll join you against the Queen of Faerie later.

Quite frankly, Ang, I don't see much point. The pro-Smith brigade is far too strong for me to have any reasonable expectation of evicting any Smith character on my own terms.

So all I can really do is continue to rail against them and generally make a nuisance of myself. :smokin:

Because of Esty 's arguments, and in honor
of Stephen Colbert:
(because Washington has done NOTHING to control the bear population)
[yes, including teddy bears]
+ + Teddy

++ Queen of Faerie.

Because I can. Despite the horrible waste this vote is.

bombariffic

Actually, Sauce, I think the game is doing rather well, especially for being minor works that people are certainly less familiar with than the characters in previous Survivors.

That said it would be too clichéd to have a Smith vs. Farmer Giles (I’m not writing out his ‘full’ name) final so I’ll vote for Smith if you’ll vote off long-name. The only catch would be that I want Giles gone first...

And if you really want to take on bigger characters then this would be a good way to do it.

Sorry. No can do, as there is no guarantee that Smith will follow. An additional vote for Smith will not be enough, whereas an additional vote for Giles will probably see him off.

C'mon. Smith is much more of a challenge. Don't you like challenges?

Or you could just vote for the Faerie Queen today as a token of good faith ...

If Giles goes before Smith than voting for the Faerie Queen today is a possibility...

Ho-hum.

--NELL, ++THE FAERIE QUEAN

And yes, that spelling's deliberate and a rather nasty Middle English pun to back Sauce's rationale.

I'm all for the big characters being finalists. To that end:

++ Bruno

Same here. In fact, my ideal scenario involves a final round with Smith vs Giles. I'm sure everyone can guess what I want for the outcome. :p :D

Yeah, and the Faerie Queen is a frooping massive character.

Come on, everyone. A little variation. Women, do you possess the strength of character to evict a woman?

The bear necessities of life will come to you
 

Skip the pawpaws and prickly pears, Possums, and start at the top of the alphabet.

+ + BRUNO

And Ang's reverse logic continues to fail miserably, ha ha ha.... :p

Bruno: 4 votes

Queen of Faerie: 3 votes

Teddy: 1 vote

And so, Bruno was dragged into an alley, natch, and given a good drubbing by Butch.


Day the Thirty-Second finds 12 remaining contestants, reshuffled into the following tribes:


Those Who Belong to Faerie

Goldberry
Fíriel
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Queen of Faerie
Chrysophylax Dives

Those Who Don't

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
The Parson
Nell
Badger
Teddy

Evidently not.

Ah well, roll on female/emasulated Smith uncontended absolutism. Looking forward to a riveting final with Smith against a garden slug.

++GILES

Men, arent you fed up of these feminists harping on about keeping the women in?

++QUEEN OF FAERIE [edit: now it's nice and bold]

bombariffic

++QUEEN OF FAERIE

Outrageous flirt. Deserves to go.