and i have an anecdote for every occasion
Just discovered one of the better things about being in your 30s. You can win at games that require knowledge of trivia, because you've had more time to accumulate it. You've also had more time to develop a slow memory, but so?
Tried another trick I've picked up from my nephew, this being that if you "invent" the game and talk it up, you can be in control of the social dynamic. Thus last night at an alleged Spanish DVD watchign night (which was a great idea, by the way, but I was worried we'd sit in darkness and fall asleep) I suggested a warm up round of the game where everyone writes as many names of identities/celebs/public figure/notorious/infamous/famous people, throws them into a bowl. Then you pair off, and go round each having a minute for one partner to describe the famous person and get the other one to guess it.
Some were easy, some more obvious to everyone except the guesser (MacGyver), some were obscure (soccer players) or pointed out the north/south diviide (AFL versus NRL), but it turned out that the last name left, which I desperately tried to guess and could not, was Schroeder. That being the piano player object of Lucy's unrequited affections in the Peanuts comic strip. I was told "rhymes with Roder; starts with what you sound like when you're drunk (slursh-roder?). The other thing was name repetition, out of a group of 7 of us, 5 people put in Big Bird and 4 put in Bert Newton.
Tried another trick I've picked up from my nephew, this being that if you "invent" the game and talk it up, you can be in control of the social dynamic. Thus last night at an alleged Spanish DVD watchign night (which was a great idea, by the way, but I was worried we'd sit in darkness and fall asleep) I suggested a warm up round of the game where everyone writes as many names of identities/celebs/public figure/notorious/infamous/famous people, throws them into a bowl. Then you pair off, and go round each having a minute for one partner to describe the famous person and get the other one to guess it.
Some were easy, some more obvious to everyone except the guesser (MacGyver), some were obscure (soccer players) or pointed out the north/south diviide (AFL versus NRL), but it turned out that the last name left, which I desperately tried to guess and could not, was Schroeder. That being the piano player object of Lucy's unrequited affections in the Peanuts comic strip. I was told "rhymes with Roder; starts with what you sound like when you're drunk (slursh-roder?). The other thing was name repetition, out of a group of 7 of us, 5 people put in Big Bird and 4 put in Bert Newton.
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