Monday, December 2, 2013

Good morning crew,

I'm not very good at games. I was at a party Saturday night where we were all playing a game called Taboo. The idea behind this game is you are given a word on a card that you have to get your teammates to guess, but with each word you are also given a list of the five most common words used to describe that word which you cannot use. Then you have to struggle to come up with a definition without using any of the 'Taboo' words while your teammates scream out guesses. It's actually pretty fun and gets fairly boisterous and frantic as you are on a time limit and have to get as many correct guesses as possible in two minutes.

You can imagine how this rowdy this game could get, especially after everyone has had a few drinks.

I was eager to get my chance to give clues, because I wasn't very good at guessing them, and when my turn came I was ready. I grabbed the first card and flipped it. The word was 'Ouija.' After a silent moment of intense concentration my teammates began yelling out things like, "Blank stare!" And, "Sound of Silence!" But I finally came up with what I thought was the perfect clue that didn't use any of the taboo words.

I said, "This word is made up of the French and German words for 'Yes.'"

Now it was my turn to be greeted with blank stares and the sounds of silence. Somewhere outside of the window a cricket chirped.

Finally, one of the girls piped up in a hesitant voice, "Wee wee?" But by then my time was up and I got a score of zero for my round.

They wouldn't let me play after that.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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"The FCC is considering lifting the ban on cellphone calls on planes. The good news is you'll be able to make calls during your flight. The bad news? The person sitting next to you will be able to make cellphone calls during your flight." -Jay Leno

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A vacationer e-mailed a seaside hotel to ask its location. "It's only a stone's throw away from the beach," he was told.

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George goes to the Birth Registration Office to register his newborn son.

The man behind the counter asks the name he wants to give to the boy, and the father replies: "Euro."

The man says that such a name is not acceptable, because it's a currency.

Says George: "What? There weren't any objections when I called my first two sons Mark and Frank."