December 26, 2008

• I probably never said, but I'm the one in charge of those annoying games at our office staff meetings and holiday parties.  Yes, I'm that girl.  It's not like it's my idea, but I do kind of get into it.  Lighten up, people, it's supposed to be a party.  (Yes, I heard former-asshat-boss muttering "it's not like we don't all have work to do" in the corner.  Three times.)

  We had so much fun ("we" can be interpreted loosely here) that I decided to make my family play the game at my house yesterday.  My Christmas, my house, my rules.  Right?  And we'd already been into the Bailey's and coffee and mimosas, so...let's play NAME THAT TUNE!

  It went over mostly well.  Everyone played, although my one brother's wife and her mother kept their faces neutral. 

  All you need is a good i-tunes speaker and an ipod with a screen.  I made a dedicated playlist for the game.  I used powerpoint and had help forwarding the slides.  We displayed the clue for about 20 seconds, then started playing the song.  At work, the slides were displayed up on a screen and the 40-45 people were split into teams with pom pons.  First team to wave a pom in the air got to guess.  At home, they just yelled out answers.  What was funny at work was it was a few people getting most of the answers (and two guys who liked to guess first but kept guessing wrong and blowing it for their team.)  At home, almost everyone got at least 2 right ...even Ollie, who is 8. 

  So here you go...these are the clues.  They are less than straightforward.  See if you can get any without hearing the music.  Songs were published between 1940 and 2008. 

  1. This bug says you're a suck-up (1982)
  2. Drink too much of that spiked egg nog and you can really fly (Holiday Classics, 1949)
  3. 1932 Ford Model B (1963)
  4. Almost Heaven, West Virginia (1971)
  5. If true, no Solace for him (At the Movies in 1977)
  6. This Chevy is much too fast (1983)
  7. Some would say that this surgery for this age group is redundant (1977)
  8. Are you dancing around to this #1 song with nothing on your left hand? (2008)
  9. Finally! (1961)
  10. If business doesn't pick up, we might all steal our daddies' cues and make a livin' offa playin' pool (1971)
  11. It's a classic New York residence.  And heroin.  (1987)
  12. Top Safe-Haven question (Holiday Classics)*       *Nebraska residents should get this
  13. It would certainly interrupt his (de)composition  (1956)
  14. If the bathroom Door is shut and you really gotta go, you just might...  (1967)
  15. Michael, get out of here (1983)
  16. [my workplace] (1977).  Sorry.  inside joke.
  17. Franklin Graham (1968)
  18. Does baseball really require this kind of endurance, Bull?  (At the Movies in 1988)
  19. It goes this way because I say so (1988)
  20. Does not melt in your hand.  Especially out of the sun.  (2000)
  21. The Chevy truck (1986)
  22. Julia in her Cinderella story (At the Movies in 1990)
  23. For Marilyn, then Diana (1973, 1997)
  24. [insert boss' name], the Alpha wolf...vroom, vroom!  (1964)
  25. What happened to the first two times, woman?  (1985)
  26. Bing's dream (Holiday Classics, 1940)
  27. No, my name ain't "baby," it's Janet (1986)
  28. A bald beauty sang this #1 song (1990)

  Have fun!  Win prizes !  Happy Boxing Day

   

   

   

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