7/22/2007: Todd completes "Telephone, Telly Font".... sort of..

I had 21 teenagers on Friday night for a Youth Lock-in. We had a blast and we played quite a few games. I was going to insert this game in the place of one of the other games we had planned, however they didn't want to play "Telephone"... try as I may.
It's my own fault really, I let them play a game called "Underground church" where there were 4 teens who were the "cops" and the rest of the group were christians. The cops were trying to keep the christians from getting into their church (which was one room in the actual church building). They chased each other and dragged each other to "jail" all night long. Little did I know how popular this game would be! Some of these kids had some repressed anger/cruelty to release. Whenever one of the christians would get thrown in jail, they were tortured by having to sing a song out of tune or stand on their head or say the alphabet backwards (fun toture!).

We also played a game called "Spew" with Alka-Seltzer and Ginger ale. Put the two in your mouth together and the last one to spew wins! Hilarious!

Another game we played was "Cracker ping-pong". You put a ping-pong ball in the middle of a table and two contestants on opposite sides of the table. When I said go, each contestant would put a cracker in their mouth and the first one to blow the ping-pong ball off of the other side of the table won. Needless to say, they probably spit more cracker on their opponent than they ended up eating!

All in all, it was a very fun and tiring night. I had no idea how old I had gotten until I tried chasing 21 teenagers around the church building. I'm actually surprised that I could almost keep up with them speed-wise, but I paid the price for it yesterday afternoon. I had more muscles hurting than I knew I had.

I didn't get to play the "telephone" game, but they wanted to play underground church about 5 times. So, this night was definitely out of my rut and that's the point, isn't it!? :D

7/20/2007: Nathan Assigns "Trick This" To Stephen

Your task is to try to recreate a golf trick shot I saw on YouTube.

Requirements: Video yourself trying to recreate this golf trick shot. GOLF TRICK SHOT I might suggest trying it with plastic balls instead of real ones, so not to loose any balls in the process. If your get good at it then try to do it with real golf balls and film that for a later post if you want to.

Have fun with this and I want to see it next time on the course.

7/17/2007: Nathan Assigns "Pete and Repeat" To ?

Find out who will fall for the riddle the most.
Your task is to go around and ask at least 5 people of all age groups the riddle " Pete and Repeat were in a boat, Pete fell out, who was left?" and if they say repeat say it again till they get the joke. Try to remember the number of times and post each on the blog. Also include the person's picture if allowed and maybe a hidden video of you playing the joke on some one. Post the reactions of the people and don't stop at 5 if you have time.

Have fun and be careful of who you ask.

6/28/2007: Todd chooses "Lego Fever" from the refusal pool

This is a quick one that I could get done before leaving on our trip to Florida. Kinda fun too!

5/29/2007: Nathan Assigns "Perfect Hair" to Allison

Todays task is for you to change you hairstyle in crazy ways each hour on the hour.

Requirements: You will need to change you hairstyle each hour on the hour starting at 12 noon and going to 5:00 PM. Try to think of unusual hairstyles that you really don't think you would ever wear. Take a picture each time you have a different hairstyle. I detail explain how people reacted, what was in your hair, and the style and how long it took to fix.

Remember to have fun and "Work It Girl!"

P.S. I am sorry to inform you that this will be my last task for a while. I am getting married and will need some time to do married life things. I will be back in July if you still need someone. If not then let the person that fills in finish out the season, so they can have as much fun as I have had with you guys. Thanks for all the laughs, Nathan.

5/25/2007: Nathan Assigns "On Safari!" To Marianne

You must film a documentary safari style.
Requirements: You must go around your local community/town/city and find various people to film (at least 5). You should pretend to hide from them (behind bushes, walls, etc.) like a nature documentarian and describe these people/their habitat/their habits/what they are doing (stuff a nature documentarian would talk about when referring to animals). If possible, dress up in safari gear, but it is not required. When done, describe the experience in your post and include a link to your video.

Have fun on this first task and remember to think "What would Steve Irwin Do?".

5/24/2007: Todd Assigns "You wanna trade?" to Nathan

Nathan, you may have heard of OneRedPaperClip (oneredpaperclip.com). Kyle Macdonald started with a red paper clip and over the course of a year, he traded that paperclip and kept trading until he finally traded for a house.

Your task for the day is to begin with a small item around your house/office (a rubber band would work well) and trade as many times as you can during the day. Each trade should be a trade to get something better than what you had before. Let's see what you can get by the end of the day!

I'd like you to document each trade by taking a picture of the item that you are trading for. So you should have a picture of the beginning item and then all the items you acquired in your trades.



Post your pictures and description of the day's activities.



..and Have fun!

5/21/07: Allison has Completed "What 'Chu Talkin' Bout Rutless"

Well, this task wasn't too difficult. I was at my office all day and most of the people at my office are pretty relaxed when it comes to Stephen and I doing weird things, like saying "What chu talkin bout Willis?" all day. I made a pretty mosaic of pictures of Gary to hang on my cubicle wall, and I had a cool picture from his governor campaign (when he ran for governor of California). There is a video of me saying the phrase to one of my coworkers (who can't actually be seen :( ). I called Stephen to leave a voice mail proclaiming my thoughts about Gary. Hopefully, he'll be able to upload that soundbite for ya. Until then, here are my pictures and video!




Video

5/17/2007: Todd Assigns "Jedi Mind Trick" To Brad

I'm in a Star Wars mood, so... Bradi Wan, Today your task is to be a Jedi.

If anyone asks, your name today is Bradi Wan Kenubi. You should use a Jedi mind trick as often as possible.
If the waitress tells you your bill is $5.00, convince her that it's really $3.50 and so on.
You should tell of at least 3 definite times that you used the mind trick on a weak minded fool. (Insert Jabba laugh)

Take this as far as you want, but make sure to take pictures and or video of your mind tricks in progress if at all possible.
Give a recount of what people thought of your new name and how they responded to your mind tricks!

..and may the force be with you!