Yah dere's a new iPhone game goin' around that's a ripoff of that great game, "Pictionary." We had some fun times with that one, didn't we Stimpy? I had a personal rule (that evolved from a different Jeopardy!®-related rule) that if I had no idea how to draw the word I ... uh ... drew (from the deck of cards, yo!) ... I'd draw a cock-and-balls. It's really just a squiggle and my partner would get it every time, points awarded or not.
So anyway, it seems the rule kept evolving.
Just the other day, we grabbed the Jenga™ and Yahtzee™ games from the top shelf in the closet. They were archived there until when Ez was old enough to play them. (They're back up, as Ez still isn't old enough to play them.) Also up in the archive: Cranium™!! And not just any Cranium™, this was the bright and shiny Cranium™ Primo Editio packaged in a metal box! Woo!
I cracked the lid off and marveled at the great game I used to play. If ya never played it, it was a fun mash-up of charades, Pictionary™, word puzzles, karaoke (sorta) and my favorite, Pictionary™ with CLAY. Yep, you drew a word and had to model it in clay.
So as I gazed at the sleeping box of hilarious fun, I noticed something: The nifty metal cans of Cranium™ Clay were ... rusting. The box and its lid were fine. None of the other game pieces were wet ... how were the little cans rusting?
I cracked one open and the plot thickened. The clay that was once purple was now mostly black and from it was growing blue and white downy crystals. It was really fuckin' odd. And somehow, the crystals and the changes the clay was undergoing was rusting the cans. Whoa.
So I googled Cranium™, found that Hasbro™ has since acquired it and chatted customer support. When I explained the crystals the rep said, "Oh my goodness!" (I think I said, "Holy fuck!" when I first saw them. Then she confirmed my address, plopped some new clay in the mail and sent me a shipping label for the gross clay: They wanted it back!
I retrieved it from the garbage and put it in a Ziplock™ bag. It was foul. But it was then that I noticed what I mentioned earlier in this post: My rule kept evolving. For I found that one of the clay pieces was nicely modeled into a cock and balls. A clay cock and balls for the future opener of the game. Classic.
Tonight - The Homestead. (you know the drill)
Hopefully we'll see some wayward ex-Ra folks out (except for Gatzert, of course).
bye-ee!
whrr ... clik!
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