Telephone

Today, as the part of a group's ethics presentation for a class, we played the game that every pre-schooler knows--Telephone--where everyone sits in a line and someone starts by whispering something into the ear of the person next to him/her. This continues until the last person is reached, who then tells everyone what was whispered to him/her.

So the phrase was something like this (I can't remember it exactly)*:

"Billy Jean beat her brother Ron in chess sixteen times."


And somehow...by the end, it became:

"John beat his father fifteen or sixteen times."


Needless to say, hilarity ensued and it was awhile before the class gained back its composure.

This class actually ended up to be pretty interesting and educational, despite my initial thoughts. And through the semester-long project, I got to meet some nice people.

*I don't know why but I seem to really draw a blank when it came to remembering this. It literally drove me crazy!!! I actually went on facebook and looked up people from the class hoping that I can IM someone about it, but to no avail. Finally, I gave up and just IMed someone in my group (who was not in the group who proposed the game), but he seemed to help me remember quite a bit of it.