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9.09.02
My sister-in-law and her husband were here this past week, and Saturday night we played Beyond Balderdash. If you're not familiar with the game, you get a name, historic date, movie title, a word, or initials, and you have to make up a definition for it. You want people to vote for your definition so you get points, but you want to vote for the real definition, which is often hard to pick out.
While we had the game out, Bob and I took a look at some of the old entries we'd saved from a couple years ago when we used to play with all his Navy buddies. We couldn't breathe, we were laughing so hard. I think I'll have to split them into a couple days' worth of journal entries, because there are so many good ones. (I'm not going to tell you which if any are correct since I have no idea.)
Tankle - A sound similar to a tinkle, but louder and deeper
Tankle - An insincere expression of gratitude
Tankle - An African percussion instrument similar to the castanet
Tankle - A loud laughter followed by a belching noise
Tankle - To ciphone gasoline directly from one tank into another
Dr. Avery Bunting - First man to walk from Mexico to Nova Scotia
Dr. Avery Bunting - Family physician who inspired the Norman Rockwell painting "Country Doctor"
Dr. Avery Bunting - The first physician to diagnose and treat hemorrhoids
Dr. Avery Bunting - Invented Noxzema skin cream
Henry L. Henson - Lesser-known than his elder brother Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets; failure Henry invented the "Nuppet"
Henry L. Henson - Irish-American who opened a chain of drive-through liquor stores
Henry L. Henson - First male author featured in Redbook magazine
Henry L. Henson - Criminal who robbed a bank by writing his demands on his own deposit slip
Henry L. Henson - A California man who escaped from a San Bernardino mental hospital while jumping a rope that he made in a macrame class
S.F.C. - Swedish Farmers' Cooperative
S.F.C. - Senate Finance Committee
S.F.C. - Shoes Fan Club
S.F.C. - Secret Federation of Clowns
S.F.C. - San Francisco Christians
Bignonia - Psychological condition where people scream out negative responses to all questions
Bignonia - A woman with two husbands
Bignonia - A region in southeastern Tibet known for its fine woolens
Bignonia - Woody tropical vines named for Louis the 15th's librarian
Bignonia - The fear of large-nosed people
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