h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A680230

Some friends and I invented (to the best of my knowledge) and played this game a few weeks ago, and I thought it would be worth spreading... It was hugely entertaining, despite the fact (or because of the fact) that we felt stupider and stupider as the night wore on.

Thoughts?

Is another essential ingredient of this game also alcohol? Otherwise I can't see it lasting more than about quarter of an hour at the outside !

Past-Time should be 'pastime' by the way.

The sad thing when we played it was, no, there was absolutely no alcohol. We laughed until we were incapacitated, and there was no conversation, only the occassional "That was a good one".
The addition of drinks would certainly add another level to the game...

I like this... I played something like it back when...

Many years ago I worked behind a bar with a wonderful girl whose name escapes me at the moment. In the quiet afternoon shifts we'd amuse ourselves and each other playing a variant of this game, the details of which are as follows:

(1) Take a song title which includes the word "heart" or "love".
(2) Substitute the word "knob" for those words.
(3) Er...
(4) That's it.

Favourite examples were ZZ Top's "Gimme All Your Lovin'", Phil Collins' "Two Hearts Are Better (Than Just One Mind)", The Cult's "Love Removal Machine" (ouch!), and the all time favourite, Eurythmics' "There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)".

How about including that as an alternative set of rules? (and if anyone can think of any other good song titles, let me know at my space... )

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I don't think that this entry really belongs in the edited guide, which is not to say that it should die and dissapear. I would suggest posting in the Alternative Writing Workshop, for inclusion in the Alternative guide:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A608799

Feel free to ignore me, but at least check it out.

Actually, while I agree this is probably not Edited Guide material, it's a shoo-in for the Post...

H.

That would work too.

This sounds very like the Sausage Banana game. In this, you replace every word in normal speech which starts with an S with the word Sausage and every word starting with B with Banana. The object, of course, is to come up as amusing a sausage as possible, making the other person sausage their sausages laughing.

I left my 'heart' in Sanfrancisco - some old guy
Why does my 'heart' feel so bad - Moby
Anyone who ever had a 'heart' - Cilla Black?
Why do you have to be a 'heart'-breaker - Dion Warwick?
'Loving' the alien - David Bowie
Long haired 'lover' from Liverpool - 'Little' Jimmy Osmond
Unchain my 'heart' - Not sure.

Posted in wrong place - but it seemed to be going that way anyway...

I'm going to recommend that this thread go to the sin bin, as it is not correctly formatted. The title of the conversation should start with the entry's A number (A680230), like this:

A680230 - Movie Godzilla, A New Pastime Sure to Catch On

If you want this to be in peer review, please post a new conseration formatted correctly.

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Hi, this thread has been moved to the Peer Review Sin Bin as the title of the conversation was not laid out correctly.

Does h2g2 have an article on Drinking Games? It's something I thought we'd have, but I can't find one...

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I thought there was one too.

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Back to Entry - this has previously appeared in The Post: A684795 Movie Godzilla

It's a good start for a Drinking Games entry, I was strongly considering Flea Market.

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