Family codes and ritualsFreddy Woo writes, "as a child we used to have a 'whoever cuts doesn't choose the slice' rule with cake. It worked brilliantly, but it's left me completely anal about dividing up food - my wife just takes the piss as I ritually compare all the slice sizes."
What codes and rituals does your family have?
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chthonic, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 18:05)
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Balderdash...!NOT the classic C64 game, but a very entertaining family game - vague and oft unpronouncable words are read out and everyone must write either what they KNOW to be its meaning or what they think someone else may chose to be right when all the answers are read out.
This game was played EVERY Monday night, "Dinner at Mum's"
My family are mostly considered somewhat smartish. Then there's Dave. My brother in law. (Check out what he's like with his tourette's on the CRAZY RELATIVES QOTW)
Dave's as clever as blunt trauma injury.
One of his classics was Pandaculation. An old chestnut that now gets hauled out at every conceivable family outing. His answer to this was, "an Ejaculating Panda"
Yeah, bravo Dave.... Needless to say, he never won.
A couple of years later we were playing this game with an ex's Navy brother. The word of the moment was Fluglebinder. Guess who not only KNEW what the word was, but at one of his worldly ports-of-call had actually "dated" a girl whose job it was to "apply the plastic sleeve at the end of shoelaces"
WINNAR - Yes, had once dated a fluglebinder-binder.
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Pandiculation
Fluglebinder is not a real word. You are looking for Aglet.
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enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 7:31,
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You've never played it then....?But, if you feel so passionate of such miniscule pedantries, then perhaps you should get in touch with this mob and ask them to change their game in the next edition.
www.ventura.com.au/contactus.asp
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u've bin pwned(, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 9:22, closed)
PerhapsIt's a simple spelling mistake (exacerbated by repetition). Try Flugelbinder instead.
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Ghoti Fingers, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 8:37,
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Doesn't matter how you spell it... it's still not the right word. See the last entry in the FAQ here: www.fieggen.com/shoelace/faq.htm
Although I suppose it's the nature of words that if it keeps going long enough it'll become the right word eventually.
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