Right.

This is probably pretty easy (and if it's been done before I apologize!):

"It's complicated!"

Episode "Honest Abe", right?

I loved that line! I knew that MacGyver and the grandpop were going to say it together in the end.

MGod, is that correct? *nudge*

Yep, that's it

Yes it is.

All right, my turn!

"I'd flush it"

mac to larson in the challenge when he is talking about the white supremacist newspaper?

Yep. I loved it when he confronted Larson.

"Uh excuse me can i get a little help over hear please?"

MacGyver in Legend of the Holy Rose part 2?

That was what I was thinking, too.
But I just checked it and, no.

There are some phrases I came up with not entirely correct either. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm not.

Correct, I was thinking of when he was asking the janitor to get him off that table. I may not have worded everything correctly but you got what I was looking for

Seems to me this is not the way to play this game. Either you quote correctly, or you don't quote at all.
If you don't give the exact quote (and yours wasn't even close), why would we bother to come up with the exact answer?
And then we might as well stop playing.

Hey, come on. I can recall many times I quoted something with the note that it's probably not spelled or entirely accurate. Never been a problem before.

Yeah, come on!
Not entirely accurate or not even close to the right quote?
And leaving out the cleaning lady's comment in between to parts of the 'quote'?

Come on!

It's never been said how many phrases you have to use. Two, three, one? Doesn't matter now does it? Or do we really have start checking out the scenes we want phrases from just to be sure we don't make any mistakes of our own? It's not because you can't recall the phrase right you can't recall the episode where it's from, right?

A player decides how many phrases he wants to use. It can add difficulty to the game.

I'm not talking about how many phrases one may use.
I'm talking about leaving out phrases in the middle of a quote. That's not adding difficulty, that's making new quotes.
If you find that okay, then we might just as well make up our own quotes. And hey, then every answer is right, too!

Rocky, can we get an Official Ruling here?

My suggestions, based on what I feel to be the spirit of the game:

- A quote needs to be unedited: no leaving anything out.
- A quote should be as close to verbatim as possible, allowing for human error and language barriers. (It's easy enough to check the accuracy of the phrase you want to use, after all.)
- An effort should be made to spell the words correctly, especially when the spelling affects the meaning, but we're not the Spelling Police here.


The question of editing a quote is, I feel, a real concern, if only because similar lines appear in multiple episodes. Getting selective is a very slippery slope.

The point is to have fun, celebrate the show and test our mad MacGyver Skillz, not to score points by making things gratuitously difficult.

Thoughts?

Thank you, Beth.
My thoughts exactly, only you've expressed them better than I ever could.

This is suppose to be a fun game - which we have been playing for 2 and a half years using semi-accurate quotes and single lines from bigger conversations without complaint. We're not going to persecute someone just because they may have been having a busy or tough day and threw in a dude quote to meet the 3 day deadline. Judging by the reactions in here, he may not have been the only one having a tough day.


Just to clear things up...

It makes sense that phrases should be as accurate as possible but they don't need to be verbatim. Just use a bit of common sense. If your struggling to remember how a phrase goes, choose one you have a better memory of.

Phrases don't have to consist of an entire scene or conversations either. If you look back through this topic you'll find plenty of quotes made up of just a single line or 2 from a much longer scene or conversation.

Lets not turn this into something it's isn't.

Well, Rocky, before I joined this game I actually *did* check all the former quotes, just to be sure I wouldn't post old quotes and to see how the game was played.
And the majority of the quotes was accurate. So I knew I had to be accurate, too.

I love the game, but if your rules are applied, I can't play any more. What's a quote worth if it is not correct?
And the phrase quiz hasn't been going on for the period you mention, it has been dead for almost a year until Beth revived it recently.

But most of all I find your 'persecute' remark offensive, as if I am the one to disturb the fun. I persecute nobody. I just said that someone's quote wasn't right.
Apparently you don't appreciate it when people try to be accurate and ask of others to be that too.

Can you please explain what you mean?

I was asked to make a ruling and my ruling was that the game should be played in the manor it always has been played since it started.


MacGyverGod.. it's your turn I believe.

Rock, is it really too much to at least take my reaction seriously?
First you accuse people, and when people react, you act as if they're not there.
So why would I stay?

Goodbye and goodluck.

Before my time runs out.

'Time to go kids.'

I may be completely wrong, but doesn't Jack say something like that to Mac and Mike in te first Jack Dalton episode (argh, the name of the episode is escaping me.... "Jack of Lies," maybe?)

Could be, but it's not what I have mind. You are in the correct season though.

Mac to the old Hollywood couple in 'Three for the road'.
That would have been my answer if I'd be still playing.
But...

If you came back to act annoying you better stay away.