A new game spontaneously erupted at the office this afternoon.
We are well used to playing jumper or tie bingo:
(if two people come in wearing the same coloured sweater or tie they have to make the first round of teas and coffees; if three are wearing the same colour they have to buy a round of cakes and if four: a round of drinkies at lunchtime. We've never had five but the forfeit will probably be something obscenely biological) …
… earworm tennis:
(playing excruciatingly catchy and ghastly songs across the office using iTunes)…
… and not forgetting the classics: the Game of Scunthorpe and Rembrandt's Underpants.
Now we have added the game of Antonio Banderas.
It all started with Cassie (currently trudging through an industrial estate design), calling out, " I refuse to call the first phase 'Units A and B'; it's too bloody boring. What's sexier than units A and B but starts with the same initials?"
"Antonio Banderas" yelled Dale.
And so the first phase of the development is now officially named Antonio Banderas.
"What about Blocks C and D?"
"Cameron Diaz!"
"Errol Flynn!"
and so it went on around and around the office. Some are trickier than others and in the end we had to give up on celebs (much like real life) …
Our first attempt continued: "George Harrison, Indiana Jones, Kelly Lynch, Mike Nesmith, Oscar Peterson, Queen Rania (of Jordan ; yup, we were digging deep), Steve Tyler (Corrina is to blame for that one), Upper Volta (yes, we know it's a country but we voted it a sexy country), big it up for author Wendy Xu (Matt's first suggestion of "Whistler's Xylophone" could not be verified so was rejected), and a final flourish from Stalin's granddaughter, Yekaterina Zhdanov.
Tomorrow we might play it backwards …
or we might just go bowling.
Go on … Play it yourselves … You know you want to.
3 comments:
This is a brilliant invention.
I agree. Now I'll be driven to think about this and probably neglect things that should be done.
Yay! It's trickier than it seems, but great (and frustrating) fun in an open plan office.
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