Tuesday, November 29, 2005

You've Got To Laugh

I have invented a game. Again.

I promise this one does not involve getting stabbed in the eye.

It is very simple. You need one copy of the Metro newspaper and a pen or pencil, as well as some people to play with. Once you have assembled all of these things, you open the Metro to the page with the comics on. Here, you will find two comics, one called Nemi (or something like that) and another one that's far less distinctive. The latter is your playing field.

The players take it in terms to annotate this cartoon, pointing out things about it which are funny (this is, of course, a challenge, because the cartoon is bloody awful and it is frequently impossible to be sure quite what about it is supposed to be funny in the first place.) If your turn comes around and you can't find anything funny that has not already been pointed out, you are out. The winner is the last player still in.

Identifying which things are funny is much simpler than it may sound, but for a guide, see here. Funny things in today's cartoon included green hair, pink hair and large noses.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I declare this game to be excellent.
I'm genuinely disappointed if ever a weekday passes without us playing this game.