Just wanted to share with all of you one of the joys I experience having 3 teenagers.
Over the past couple of years, “The Game” has swept their high school. Not very complicated. Essentially, if you think of The Game - you lose, whereupon you must state aloud that you just lost The Game. When one person loses The Game, there is a grace period (generally about 20 minutes) during which thinking about The Game does not mean you lose. But after the grace period, if you think of The Game, you lose and must announce the fact.
BTW - once you learn of The Game, you are automatically playing. So, I’ll count on all of you who read this checking in here to announce when you lose…
My kids will be thrilled to know The Game is played in Scotland. Would be fun to hear how widespread it is. There seem to be isolated pockets, with huge gaps in between. My kids and their friends are trying to spread it as much as possible. Where and when did you hear of it?
Their dream is to have something happen like the President stopping in the middle of his State of the Union speech, slapping his forehead and saying, “I just lost The Game!”
Dude, you’re not supposed to talk about The Game. Though you know The Game has lost a significantly large part of it’s “cool” factor when parents are playing it now. :-\
I think you should put a warning in the title. It should be voluntary to join the game, it can be quite annoying at times.
The SDMB made me lose the game a short while ago. Someone wrote about the viking religion:
“So the whole Norse world view is…you can’t win. You can’t break even. And you can’t quit the game.”
Which interestingly fits the game perfectly too.
I am also seriously considering throwing out the 1980 Queen Album, even though its great.
Right, and immediately afterwards he’ll fart, then yell “Safety!” That, or run for the nearest doorknob with his Secret Service guards in hot pursuit, wanting to give him a beatdown.