Round and round
Deciding firmly against spending the money for a New Year's Day airline ticket, but needing as much as ever to get back down to school, I recently embarked on a twenty two hour long bussage with one Jeffery Russell. Surprising as it may sound, there were in fact occasional moments of boredom which marred the otherwise rapt fascination of the journey. Desiring to keep these unpleasantries to a minimum, Jeff and I took to occupying ourselves with a couple of word games, which I thought it might be worth broadcasting to the whole earth on this blog because I do things like that.
The first game involves asking questions which play off of a famous person's last name. The questioner asks a question to which the obvious answer is "No - [person's name]!" So if one asked "Did Collateral actor have a bumpy flight?" the response would come "No - Tom Cruise!". You get the idea. Here's a sample of some of the more entertaining queries:
Q: Is nuclear physicist for you?
A: No - Enrico Fermi!
Q: Did American inventor have his daughter for lunch?
A: No - Thomas Edison!
Q: Is Canadian Prime Minister an honest buck?
A: No - Pierre Trudeau!
Is boxer windward?
No - Muhammed Ali!
Is atomic explorer a fascinating conversationalist?
No - Niels Bohr!
Does British Prime Minister prefer tiled roofs?
No - Margaret Thatcher!
Did grunge singer starve his wife?
No - Eddie Vedder!
The second game we played consisted of coming up with clever combinations of movie titles, then imagining what a movie with that title would consist of. Some of our finer moments:
-Ocean's Twelve Angry Men
-Snow White and the Seven Years in Tibet
-A Clockwork Orange County
-Sixth Sense and Sensibility
-Godfather of the Bride
-My Best Friend's Three Weddings and a Funeral
And now it's your turn! You'll find that once you pick up one of these games with a friend it's impossible to stop, so long as you both remain sufficiently bored. You'll think you're done, then half an hour later someone will come up with something clever and it'll start all over again. Like the wheels on the bus, it goes round and round. Round and round. Round and round. Er, let me know if you come up with anything amusing.
Music of the moment:
So, I just got Aaron Sprinkle's first album, and on the inside of the insert I was amused to find this: "If you are dissatisfied with the music on this project for any reason, Organic Records will be happy to replace your purchase with something more to your liking. Please return this CD, along with a description of the music style you prefer, to the following address: [address, etc.] Thank you for trying Organic Records' products. We hope they have encouraged you in your faith."
Is that awesome or what? By the way, I was in no way dissatisfied by my purchase. Aaron Sprinkle is amazing - His CDs are some of the few that I own for which I would willingly pay full price. They're that good. Buy them.
The first game involves asking questions which play off of a famous person's last name. The questioner asks a question to which the obvious answer is "No - [person's name]!" So if one asked "Did Collateral actor have a bumpy flight?" the response would come "No - Tom Cruise!". You get the idea. Here's a sample of some of the more entertaining queries:
Q: Is nuclear physicist for you?
A: No - Enrico Fermi!
Q: Did American inventor have his daughter for lunch?
A: No - Thomas Edison!
Q: Is Canadian Prime Minister an honest buck?
A: No - Pierre Trudeau!
Is boxer windward?
No - Muhammed Ali!
Is atomic explorer a fascinating conversationalist?
No - Niels Bohr!
Does British Prime Minister prefer tiled roofs?
No - Margaret Thatcher!
Did grunge singer starve his wife?
No - Eddie Vedder!
The second game we played consisted of coming up with clever combinations of movie titles, then imagining what a movie with that title would consist of. Some of our finer moments:
-Ocean's Twelve Angry Men
-Snow White and the Seven Years in Tibet
-A Clockwork Orange County
-Sixth Sense and Sensibility
-Godfather of the Bride
-My Best Friend's Three Weddings and a Funeral
And now it's your turn! You'll find that once you pick up one of these games with a friend it's impossible to stop, so long as you both remain sufficiently bored. You'll think you're done, then half an hour later someone will come up with something clever and it'll start all over again. Like the wheels on the bus, it goes round and round. Round and round. Round and round. Er, let me know if you come up with anything amusing.
Music of the moment:
So, I just got Aaron Sprinkle's first album, and on the inside of the insert I was amused to find this: "If you are dissatisfied with the music on this project for any reason, Organic Records will be happy to replace your purchase with something more to your liking. Please return this CD, along with a description of the music style you prefer, to the following address: [address, etc.] Thank you for trying Organic Records' products. We hope they have encouraged you in your faith."
Is that awesome or what? By the way, I was in no way dissatisfied by my purchase. Aaron Sprinkle is amazing - His CDs are some of the few that I own for which I would willingly pay full price. They're that good. Buy them.
