Yesterday, I mentioned that I had gone to a holiday party over the weekend. After a suitable number of people had been hypnotized, everyone ended up involved in a massive game of the boardgame Taboo [amazon.com]. In the game, a person takes a card with a password on it. They try to get their teammates to guess what the password is, without saying any of the other words listed on the card. For instance, if the password is "angle", the other words that might be listed on the card (which you're not allowed to say) might be "acute", "obtuse", etc. And you're not allowed to use hand gestures.
Anyway, the game revealed exactly how ridiculously overeducated the entire group was. But that made for some really hilarious moments. For instance, one person had to get their teammates to say the password "thermometer". So, the person with the card said, "This measures average kinetic energy." And his team got it right on the second guess.
Another person had to get their team to say the password "bin". That person gave their team the clue "A subdirectory where you keep your executables." And his team got it right on the first guess (the clue was a reference to /usr/bin in Linux or Unix).
I almost pissed my pants. My friends are so nerdy.
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