fun, fun, fun!

Hello friends and family, it's the effervescent, ever-present Q speaking to you this morning out of both sides of his fingers!

So, Sunday night, a few of us were sitting around and realized that a game could be played, a game of half-sense and with much delight we began to play.

The rules were simple. A judge spoke a word that needed a definition, the other players tried to define the word in a way that the judge liked best. After the judge awarded the prize to one of the definitions, then the title of judge was moved around the group to another.

For example:

Hackenspat:
1. the name of the condition wherein one is entirely covered in erectile tissue
2. a type of ice cream wherein the main flavoring ingredient is two married cats.
3. an old rural phrase that means act of coughing, sneezing and farting all at the same time.

(we liked definition 3)

the hardest word to define that evening was the word "cheese" because it was hard to make up a definition for a common item. The best nonsense came out of my mouth for me when I stoped thinking and just let a syllable soup pour off of my tounge.

Mmmm mmmm, words!

So, if you're bored and don't happen to have the "ice house skull of destiny*" handy, give it a try! The worst that could happen is that you discover, to your horror the six-fingered Jellico name of your nephew's cat. If that indeed does happen, then simply lock yourself into a closet until Sir Andrew Webber's lawyers go away. It worked for me.


Meow!

*the ice house skull of destiny was simply a skull shaped candy bowl owned by the ice house (all theatre houses need names) that contained a pile of papers, each one with an idea of some sort for an activity to alleviate boredom. A group would each write an idea or three to place into the skull, and then randomly pick three idea out of the skull, choose one and discard the rest. Most of the time the ideas sounded lame and unappealing. Once started, however, most of the time the ideas were all a lot of fun!