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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.

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Danielle  |  29 January 2006 - 2:58pm

oh dear.

Um, have some more tea, I think.

;-)

 

Andrea  |  29 January 2006 - 3:06pm

I LOOOVE Games magazine! (and yes, I know that automatically makes me a nerd.)

 

Nilbo  |  29 January 2006 - 4:17pm

Dunbass.

 

Bente  |  29 January 2006 - 5:25pm

Hehehee.

 

mrtl  |  29 January 2006 - 5:43pm

You're so sweet to do the sympathy brain for me, you know, since you're not pregnant yourself.

 

Momo  |  29 January 2006 - 6:26pm

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

 

cat  |  29 January 2006 - 7:11pm

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.

 

The Kept Woman  |  29 January 2006 - 9:22pm

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. ;)

 

LadyBug  |  30 January 2006 - 11:06am

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.

 

Amy  |  30 January 2006 - 1:38pm

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.

 
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