Marissa informs me that board games just may come out tonight. That would be something as Marissa, you might know, hates board games. Once she said, "more like BORED games" and we laughed and laughed. Also, that never happened. She doesn't even know where we keep the board games even though they're in a giant box TWICE THE SIZE OF A LARGE BOX. She may not even know I'm the Balderdash Champion of the World. No I'm not. But see how good I am at it? I've never been defeated.
And this isn't your grandmother's Balderdash game. God I hate your grandmother. Nowadays, in addition to making up definitions to words you've never heard of (although once I got the word didgeridoo [who doesn't know what a didgeridoo is? {getting the definition right means extra points in BD}]), you make up movie plots and biographies and, um, diseases I think. Binswanger's disease? Could it be dementia caused by demyelination of the cortical white matter of the brain? No, it's dementia caused by demyelination of the SUBCORTICAL white matter of the brain. Moron. So challenge me to a game sometime if you don't have scoptophobia, which is the fear of losing. No it's not. Or is it?
UPDATE: Well, we didn't play Balderdash but I did win at Yahtzee. And I didn't even get Yahtzee. We agreed we weren't playing against each other but against the people who had previously used our scoresheets. I squeaked out a win over "Matt" who I'm guessing is Matt Allen. And Betty kicked "Kate O" in the rear. Marissa put up a valiant fight against an unattributed scorecard that we guessed was me. HINT: The key to winning is getting bonus points in the upper section. This doubles as good advice for life in general.
Marissa and I lost at Scruples but we all got to learn what terrible, terrible people we are. Me, I wouldn't help a homeless person who was outside in freezing weather and I'm pretty sure Marissa admitted to shooting a man just for snoring too loud.
I don't like board games either. I KNOW YOUR PHONE NUMBER AND I'M GOING TO CALL YOU ALL THE TIME!!!!
ReplyDeleteI like board games. I am also very scrupulous.
ReplyDeleteWhen I had to go to church, we would play Scruples at Sunday School. I always thought it was a religious game and didn't realize normal people would actually play it for fun.
I remember playing Scruples with friends when I was about 11 and got the question; "You're the principal of a school and find out a teacher is gay, do you fire him?" My friends could wrap their heads around the fact that I wouldn't. Those friends, thankfully, have totally failed at life. Marissa says to tell you we're watching the show "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant".
ReplyDeleteHey, I said that.
ReplyDeleteAnd I meant couldn't.
ReplyDeleteAlso, don't call me all the time. Unless it's to sing about filet-O-fish.
ReplyDeleteI have watched "I didn't know I was pregnant" multiple times. It took me a while to realize that this is a recurring show and not a one time special. How many people didn't know they were pregnant? Jeez! I think I'm pregnant all the time for no reason!
ReplyDelete"I Could Have Sworn I Was Pregnant" is an inferior spin-off. It's usually just gas.
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