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I was trying to remember how my social circle got started with telephone pictionary.
My hazy, reconstructed timeline starts with games of "traditional" pictionary in the ET living room, and one day arcanology deciding that the words we were drawing were too easy (eg, "tongue") and getting a dictionary with which to inflict upon us "abusive pictionary" words like "gratuitous" and "honor". This was perhaps sophomore year?
Sometime between then and going to Caltech I acquired telephone pictionary as an obsession, because I remember trying to spread it to my Caltech social group with limited success. On one return trip to Boston I think I remember bringing back telephone pictionary to the new undergrads, it having temporarily died out in the interim. But I have no recollection of whether we invented it (presumably an example of convergent evolution with other telephone pictionary inventors around the world and throughout history) or whether it was brought to us from the outside world (or whether it had been around ET before arcanology and I ever arrived). Does anyone know or remember?
(Wikipedia has a reference to a 1995 games books including the game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_Poop_You_Cat)
My hazy, reconstructed timeline starts with games of "traditional" pictionary in the ET living room, and one day arcanology deciding that the words we were drawing were too easy (eg, "tongue") and getting a dictionary with which to inflict upon us "abusive pictionary" words like "gratuitous" and "honor". This was perhaps sophomore year?
Sometime between then and going to Caltech I acquired telephone pictionary as an obsession, because I remember trying to spread it to my Caltech social group with limited success. On one return trip to Boston I think I remember bringing back telephone pictionary to the new undergrads, it having temporarily died out in the interim. But I have no recollection of whether we invented it (presumably an example of convergent evolution with other telephone pictionary inventors around the world and throughout history) or whether it was brought to us from the outside world (or whether it had been around ET before arcanology and I ever arrived). Does anyone know or remember?
(Wikipedia has a reference to a 1995 games books including the game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_Poop_You_Cat)
