3 (More) Games You Must Play
January 6th, 2010 - Games - 19 Comments »Ever since writing my last post on original games you must play, I keep thinking of new ones that I need to share with the world. I think your life will be enhanced by playing them.
Laugh Wind Down
One of the funniest things in life is watching someone wind down from a laugh or a smile. You know, those 4-7 seconds of transition where a person’s face slowly and awkwardly returns to it’s normal state. Often times, the mouth gets normal before the eyes do and you end up with this weird unbent mouth/high eyebrow combo, or vise-versa. See which one of your friends/acquaintances take the longest, and which ones, like me, have acknowledged this phenomenon and try to expedite the wind down with a cough or subtle mouth wipe.
Max Headroom
Much like the book-mailing stunt, you’ll rarely, if ever, see the fruit of this game. If someone asks you to take a picture of them, frame it so their faces line the bottom edge and the rest of the picture is pure, undisturbed headroom (just think about the last picture your aunt took for you). The trick is disguising the upward angle of the camera. I would suggest squatting down a bit to make it appear that the camera’s upward angle is an absolute necessity. If the photo shows up on Facebook, you win. Now go and tag yourself in it.
Catalogs.com
On catalogs.com, it is 100% free to order catalogs. There are literally thousands to choose from. A few months ago, I got a designer walking canes catalog in the mail addressed to “Tyler Stanton, Movie Star”. There was no record anywhere of where it came from or who sent it – just that it came from catalogs.com. Naturally, I had my suspicions about who sent it*, so I immediately sent him one about composting toilet systems. Neither one of us have spoken a word about it (until now). I imagine this could go on indefinitely without ever getting old. Everyone is a winner in this game.
Now, go and play one of these and tell us about it in the comments. Pictures and videos are encouraged.
*I’m beginning to have second thoughts about who mailed this to me.
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Sometimes humor can be expensive. Sometimes it requires a lot of planning. And sometimes you don’t even get to see the fruit of all your hard work. This could be one of those times.





