sometimes I can be completely fucking stupid
kelly | 29 January 2006 - 2:22pm
Rob gets (nerd alert!) Games magazine, and we were doing one of the games together this morning over coffee. There were 15 illustrations and each one represented the name of a dance. Sorta - the catch was that whatever the drawing depicted was one letter off from the name of the dance. So, for example, there was an illustration of a pig with a shamrock. So we figured out that this was an Irish pig and then knew that the answer was Irish jig. And there was a picture of a rooster dressed as a punk rocker and we figured out he was a punky chicken and then knew the dance they wanted us to guess was the funky chicken. You with me?
Okay, so I was trying to figure out one that was a fax machine with horse legs that were running.
"Fax horse? Fax trot?"
"Yeah, that's it!" Rob said. "Faxtrot!"
"Faxtrot? What the hell dance is that supposed to be?"
Rob looked at me like the answer was completely obvious and that surely I was joking.
"Seriously, faxtrot? I don't get it."
"Faxtrot," he said in his think about it tone.
I looked at him blankly.
"It's FOXTROT!" he exclaimed, exasperated. "FOXTROT!!"
"Ohhhh, foxtrot!"
"Yeah, you know - the dance that has been the focus of our concentration for the past two weeks?!"
Well sure, when you put it like that, it seems totally obvious.
- 504 reads


oh dear.
Um, have some more tea, I think.
;-)
I LOOOVE Games magazine! (and yes, I know that automatically makes me a nerd.)
Dunbass.
Hehehee.
You're so sweet to do the sympathy brain for me, you know, since you're not pregnant yourself.
Sounds like a pretty cool game, even if it is considered nerdy!
I think you just needed a little more coffee before attempting something of that nature. My mother had a rule, she had to have her 2 cups of coffee in the morning before we could talk to her or she was required to do anything that even remotely involved thinking. :P
Oooooh! MadGab is, like, the BEST! GAME! EVAH! (Do you know it?) However, I can see now that we must never, ever, EVER play it with Rob.
That is all.
I'm sure you have FAR more important things on your mind like a solution to world hunger. You can't devote your brain to every trivial little problem/riddle. ;)
Okay, well, yeah, I totally would've gotten foxtrot from faxtrot. However, I'm almost certain I wouldn't have gotten faxtrot in the first place.
It's obvious that your ballroom teacher ain't half so hot as Miss Gorgeous Yoga 2006. Or you would have gotten it straight away.