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: Stephen Assigns "Telephone, Telly Font" To Todd

You must play a game of telephone with at least 6 people, including yourself.
The game is telephone. All the players get in a circle. The first person has a phrase and they whisper it to the next person and it continues around the circle until it gets to the last person and they must then say the phrase out loud. Odds are, it will have changed since the start and that is the fun of the game. You must use the 5 phrases that I provide you. A few things to remember: Whispers only. Only whisper the phrase once to the next person. Be ready to write down the resulting phrase so that you can post it here for us later. Post reactions and possibly audio if you can.
The 5 phrases you must use:
1. Mahogany tables don't look good painted fuschia.
2. Canteloupes are good for you in the morning.
3. Storm surge is up to over sixteen feet.
4. Cabin fever is contagious in many parts of the southeast.
5. My midichlorian count is well over a thousand parts per million.