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Yesterday, David and Perin came over and we decorated our tree. We left to get Perin at 4, I having just woken up--I got up early to go to the post office, and then slept a lot of the afternoon. Anyway, we locked ourselves out (arrggh!) and ended up chilling at Perin's house and watching Trading Spaces for a bit, cos then mom would be home. One of the rooms had waaay too much red. Then we had decorating fun--the tree looks great :D We have a wide variety of ornaments, I like it. Emily stopped by for a little while, but was unable to return after dinner because she ended up having dinner after 9.
We had latkes and good times for dinner. :D And then--::dramatic music::--we learned The Greatest Game. That's what it's called. And it really is. OK, there's two versions, and I like the second version we played better. But I'll give the rules for both. I wish I had the sheets with me. Oh well. Anyway, you sit in a circle--I think you need at least four people for this game, but the more the better! and everyone gets a sheet of paper. You write a sentence on top of your paper. Any sentence. Song lyrics, a quote from somewhere, just a random sentence--whatever you want. Then, everyone passes their paper to the person sitting next to them. You look at that person's sentence, and attempt to draw an illustration of the sentence. Then, you fold the sentence over so the next person can't see it, and pass it on. The next person now writes a sentence to describe your drawing, and it keeps going. There should be as many papers circulating as there are players, and you only ever see the sentence you need to illustrate or the picture you need to describe (the paper gets folded after each drawing). And you always end on a sentence. Then, at the end, you read the first sentence and the last sentence, and see what's happened. It's soooo funny. (then you can track it's path)
That version of The Greatest Game was good, but this one is even better--you don't have to draw, which in turn saves room on the paper, so you can get even farther from the original. This one starts with everyone writing a question. Then, you pass it on, and the next person answers your question (and folds it over). The next person has to write a question that fits your answer. For example, Katie's question was "Who will get my camera?" and I wrote "No one at all" (we'd been through this before) so someone wrote "Who is coming to your birthday party?" and so on. You end on an answer, and then at the end, you read the first question and the final answer. The camera one ended up as "nudists". Apparently nudists are very obliging when it comes to camera fetching XD (I was writing an answer for the question "Who needs more clothes?" My playing strategy is basically to write down the first thing that pops into my head.) We had a lot of Katie/David sex jokes, and a lot of Perin/Orlando Bloom love jokes. But my favorite one was when Katie, as an answer to the question "How much parmesan cheese would a woodchuck chip, if a woodchuck could chip parmesan cheese?" (I think) wrote "It depends on how much fits in his chipper" and I, totally out of ideas, wrote "How many potatos did he eat?". Then Perin wrote "I lost count after five". . . to which David provided the brilliant question "How many LOTR cast members does Laura lust after?" So perfect! XD
So I love The Greatest Game. It's perfect at parties, won't start any fights, no one wins and loses, it's always hysterically funny (I guess unless you're playing with really boring people), and it takes up a lot of time if you're bored. So next time you're with a lot of people, here's something you can do!
Actually, one part got totally disturbing. Somehow David's answer to something was, like, a whole bunch of people that included Orlando Bloom. So Katie wrote "who is in Perin's harem?" And I, knowing Perin would get a kick out of it (I was passing to her) wrote "Orlando Bloom". And she wrote the question "who is Perin going to marry?". . . and passed to David. Who wrote "An in-vitro spawn of a frog and Orlando Bloom", or something like that. And Katie then wrote the question "What is Perin's ideal offspring?" O_O Apparently her husband and her offspring. . . just so wrong. I felt the need to get this away from Perin before her reputation was damaged further ;) so I just wrote "a baby".
( you really don't want to hear about my Bethpage catastrophes, do you? )
We had latkes and good times for dinner. :D And then--::dramatic music::--we learned The Greatest Game. That's what it's called. And it really is. OK, there's two versions, and I like the second version we played better. But I'll give the rules for both. I wish I had the sheets with me. Oh well. Anyway, you sit in a circle--I think you need at least four people for this game, but the more the better! and everyone gets a sheet of paper. You write a sentence on top of your paper. Any sentence. Song lyrics, a quote from somewhere, just a random sentence--whatever you want. Then, everyone passes their paper to the person sitting next to them. You look at that person's sentence, and attempt to draw an illustration of the sentence. Then, you fold the sentence over so the next person can't see it, and pass it on. The next person now writes a sentence to describe your drawing, and it keeps going. There should be as many papers circulating as there are players, and you only ever see the sentence you need to illustrate or the picture you need to describe (the paper gets folded after each drawing). And you always end on a sentence. Then, at the end, you read the first sentence and the last sentence, and see what's happened. It's soooo funny. (then you can track it's path)
That version of The Greatest Game was good, but this one is even better--you don't have to draw, which in turn saves room on the paper, so you can get even farther from the original. This one starts with everyone writing a question. Then, you pass it on, and the next person answers your question (and folds it over). The next person has to write a question that fits your answer. For example, Katie's question was "Who will get my camera?" and I wrote "No one at all" (we'd been through this before) so someone wrote "Who is coming to your birthday party?" and so on. You end on an answer, and then at the end, you read the first question and the final answer. The camera one ended up as "nudists". Apparently nudists are very obliging when it comes to camera fetching XD (I was writing an answer for the question "Who needs more clothes?" My playing strategy is basically to write down the first thing that pops into my head.) We had a lot of Katie/David sex jokes, and a lot of Perin/Orlando Bloom love jokes. But my favorite one was when Katie, as an answer to the question "How much parmesan cheese would a woodchuck chip, if a woodchuck could chip parmesan cheese?" (I think) wrote "It depends on how much fits in his chipper" and I, totally out of ideas, wrote "How many potatos did he eat?". Then Perin wrote "I lost count after five". . . to which David provided the brilliant question "How many LOTR cast members does Laura lust after?" So perfect! XD
So I love The Greatest Game. It's perfect at parties, won't start any fights, no one wins and loses, it's always hysterically funny (I guess unless you're playing with really boring people), and it takes up a lot of time if you're bored. So next time you're with a lot of people, here's something you can do!
Actually, one part got totally disturbing. Somehow David's answer to something was, like, a whole bunch of people that included Orlando Bloom. So Katie wrote "who is in Perin's harem?" And I, knowing Perin would get a kick out of it (I was passing to her) wrote "Orlando Bloom". And she wrote the question "who is Perin going to marry?". . . and passed to David. Who wrote "An in-vitro spawn of a frog and Orlando Bloom", or something like that. And Katie then wrote the question "What is Perin's ideal offspring?" O_O Apparently her husband and her offspring. . . just so wrong. I felt the need to get this away from Perin before her reputation was damaged further ;) so I just wrote "a baby".
( you really don't want to hear about my Bethpage catastrophes, do you? )
