A slight cheat, as this is friends, not family
But a bunch of us all of the same age went on various stag dos and lads weekends over a period of about 5 years where for some reason we'd play that game where you ask someone an obvious question and if they are stupid enough to answer the originator of the question would mime a fishing rod and say ‘Reeled him in’

This gradually evolved to either just a slightly raised eyebrow as everyone of us knew what had just happened and that gesture was enough to make you feel stupid, or the other extreme with the most extravagant mime and ‘REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELED!’ said as loudly as possible.

We’d not be able to hold human conversations because anything resembling a question would be treated with utmost suspicion, so we’d communicate in grunts and monosyllables, occasionally punctuated by ‘REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELED’ if one of us was stupid enough to answer the question ‘oh, are you going to the bar?’ or ‘do you know where the toilets are’

The game came to a spectacular end when, waiting for a sleazy jet flight at Edinburgh airport, a friend walked up to a guy waiting at the bar, got a copy of Select magazine out of his bag (Oh, that shows my age, that magazine hasn’t existed for years), looked at the front cover, looked at the guy at the bar, looked back at the cover and said, while pointing at the band:

‘excuse me, are you Damon Albarn from Blur?’

And as soon as Albarn went to agree that, yes, that was in fact him, we saw the biggest mimed fishing rod ever and a eardrum shattering ‘REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELED!’ and then my friend turning on his heel and running back to us with a look of triumphant glee spread across his face.

I have never seen a pop star look so bemused, then angry. And I have rarely laughed as much in my life.

The game was retired at that precise moment, as we all knew we had just witnessed the finest execution there could possibly be.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 24 Nov 2008, 12:10, 1 reply)

Ahahah
This is very, very good. *click*
(littlenipple hate's bad grammar, Mon 24 Nov 2008, 18:27, closed)