Beloved and I were playing Password with some dear friends and it was the boys vs the girls.
You remember Password, don't you? One player from both two-member teams is shown a word, then they take turns trying to get their team member to guess the word by giving one-word clues. (It's kind of like in high school when you try to deduce whether a particular girl will answer "yes" if you ever get up the courage to ask her out.)
Okay...it's not hardly like that at all.
It was my option whether to try to get my partner (who we'll call Rick, because that's his name) to guess the word on the first clue or to pass that first-clue opportunity to Beloved and her partner.
The word was mallet.
Now, the first word I thought of when I saw mallet was rubber...as in, "The television is acting wacky. Time to administer some percussive maintenance with a rubber mallet." The problem with that is, if I had decided to go first and just said rubber, Rick could not be reasonably expected to come up with mallet instead of ducky.
So, I passed the first-clue duty to Beloved, in hopes that she would say something like hammer or club, and her partner would say something like club or hammer, and I could wield the death blow on my turn by saying rubber.
Beloved thought for a moment, her face in a painful-looking grimace. Then she swallowed hard, squared her shoulders, looked her partner in the eyes, leaned slightly forward and calmly intoned, "Mallet."
It had been a while since any of us had laughed that hard.
One of those List-O-Questions has been making the rounds on FaceBook recently. I've decided I should almost answer them.
1. Favorite smell? Beloved
2. Last time I cried? During our Christmas celebrations, there was a controversy around whether Grandma Bertha's cinnamon rolls should be put away...
ActorBoy: Wait! Don't put those away! I haven't had any!
KayJay: Oh! You didn't have one?
ActorBoy: Well, I had ONE.
I have no explanation, but when that rapid-fire exchange took place, it cracked me up. Then, a few minutes later, when telling someone who hadn't been in the room why I was laughing, it sent me into a raging fit of giggles that put my back into spasms and my eyes into fire-hose mode.
3. Favorite pizza? Papa Murphy's AllTheMeats
4. Favorite flower? Seriously? Okay...how about this:
5. Favorite animal? Lions. Pretty cool how the female makes the kill and then the male gorges himself.
6. Did you go to college? If yes, what did you study? Yes. Studied Theater and Communications, and then earned my degree in English Bible.
7. Untie your shoes when taking off? Mostly
8. Roller coaster? Absolutely! Just keep me away from spinning thingies.
9. Favorite ice cream? Ben & Jerry's Americone Dream
10. Shorts or jeans? Jean shorts, but not too short. You know, where the denim is dark and the legs cover my powerful thighs.
11. What are you listening to? The sound of my keyboard spewing forth humor
12. Favorite TV show? Dick Van Dyke and/or M*A*S*H
13.Tattoos? I only know one.
14. Hair Color? Flesh-tone
15. Eye Color? Green
16. Height? Almost six feet
17. Favorite food to eat? Skyline Chili
18. Favorite holiday? Billie
19. Beer or Wine? No, thank you.
20. Night owl or morning? I generally think of myself as more of an 11 AM to 1 PM type of guy. I am on FIRE at lunchtime!
21. Favorite day of the week? Sunday. (church + good dinner + nap + popcorn = perfection)
22. Do you have a nickname? Dewey IS my nickname, though some people do call me Mr. Awesomeness.
23. Favorite season? Baseball
24. Favorite place to get away? Movie theater
25. Missing someone? Yes, but my aim is getting better.
26. Dream vacation? Hawaii
27. Regrets? I've had a few. But then again, too few to mention.
28. Middle name? Danger
29. Ocean or lake? Billy or Veronica
30. Words of advice? Wherever you go in life...be there.
Last week's post got me to thinking about television shows of days long gone by...
Stir Trek - To boldly go where no spoon has ever gone before
Gilligan's Aisle - The merry mix-ups of a clumsy grocery store stock boy
The Cartridge Family - A single mom teaches her many children how to shoot, change the printer's ink, and listen to 8-track tapes
I Lose Lovey - Every week, Thurston Howell III misplaces his wacky wife
Twilight Cone - A local Dairy Queen that only opens in the early evening
Ice Cream of Jeannie - Spin-off of Twilight Cone; blond girl from the Middle East takes orders amazingly fast
Adam-13 - A veteran cop and his rookie trainee are very unlucky
The Heavenly Hillbillies - Jed Clampett whittles at the Pearly Gates
Father Knows Chest - What it's like growing up with a dad who publishes pin-up posters
Leaf It to Beaver - Jerry Mathers stars as a cute kid with big dreams of running his own lawn care company
Sister Ed - A transgender nun reneges on her vow of silence
It doesn't take much to change a popular television series into something totally different.
Will & Grease - A gay man works at McDonald's
Curb Your Emphysema - A grouchy old man has upper respiratory issues
This Is Pus - Medical reality show
Game of Stones - Curling for beginners
Orange Is the New Apple - Can't decide if this is about a new tech company or a dietary change at the prison cafeteria
Reeking Bad - A high school chemistry teacher refuses to shower
Stranger Stings - Bees attack people they don't even know
The Big Bong Theory - A reboot of That 70's Show
Lawn and Border - HGTV series about backyard fences
The Umpire Diaries - A look at the private lives of baseball's finest
The Skating Dead - Zombies in Norway
