balderdash
What is Balderdash? Balderdash is hours of fun in a box. And it doesn’t vibrate or inflate. Balderdash is a game, albeit a poorly named one. Oh Balderdash game company, please fire the person that named this game. Or make them spend a full day reciting really bad product names — like sticking a dog’s nose its’ own poo.
Why do I love this game? Because it requires a bit of a crazy brain. And my brain is just crazy enough. The name of the game here is making stuff up about real things like fake definitions for real words nobody ever heard of, or fake plots for real movies nobody knows. If you and your friends are remotely creative, this may be for you. Let’s play a round. I’m drawing a card randomly. OK, the word is "furuncle". Nobody knows the real definition, right? Great. Now everyone make up a definition. I’ll wait…
OK, now I’m going to read what you wrote. And I’m also going to mix in the real definition. Which one do you think is the real "furuncle"?
- The exclamation made when one has a winning hand in the card game "Hedge Your Bets".
- A term used in science fiction literature to describe an inexplicable gap in time.
- A skin disease caused by the inflammation of hair follicles.
- A needle bearing tree common in Australia.
the answer is here
Movies
are fun. I like to add in little enhancements to my made-up plots,
like saying the movie starred Gary Coleman and went straight to video.
August 25th, 2005 at 8:32 am
A furuncle sure sounds better than a carbuncle. I think that playing this game with you and Ben would be so hilarious I’d literally die. Imagine us in 1987, stoned, and playing this. Aah, memories… Can you believe it’s 2005 already!?!
August 25th, 2005 at 2:09 pm
A Furuncle is a second cousin to a Smurf. They live under mushroom caps in a magical and mystical forest. They spend their days furuncling around, and occasionally they make the trek to Smurf village for a family reunion. However, don’t ever upset a Furuncle, in which case a curse to chant the mantra BALDERDASH will be cast upon you for the rest of your human life.
August 26th, 2005 at 7:56 am
Eli, I’m worried about you. You like Balderdash so much that you’re playing it over your blog.
You crack me up. I agree with Jon — the live version would be priceless!!
August 27th, 2005 at 12:29 pm
i think it’s ironic that you don’t like the name balderdash.
Also, the movie version of that is the BEST.