I was just looking around for the Lyrics to the flash animation “kenya”, when I found the following links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_Face
Here, just to make it easier, I’ll quote it.
“The radio panel game I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue includes an occasional round called “Straight Face” , in which the panelists take turns to say a single word each. A player is eliminated from the game if anyone in the audience laughs at their word (“even the merest titter”). The winner is the last player standing. The fact that this game works, and that it is possible to predict more or less accurately which words are safe to use and which are unsafe, can be construed as evidence that the phenomenon is real. (The word titter in the instructions for the game achieves a comic effect: it may have a claim to be itself an inherently funny word.”
Well, anyone want to have a go?
I’ll start:
Blu-ber