November 12th, 2009

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In Defence of My Pictionary Skills

I recently participated in a game of Pictionary. My team came second (or “first loser” as somebody described it), despite the fact that we had four arts degrees between us.

I was given a particularly challenging word to draw, and I thought I did a smashing job of it. My team disagreed. Travis kindly snapped a photo. My rendering is everything above my finger–we did multiple drawings on every sheet of paper. Can you guess the word? Click for super-sizing:

Hmm…in retrospect it’s not really that clear. Though, in my defense, two people from another team guessed what I was on about.

UPDATE: The correct answer is ‘taxidermy’. So maybe I failed. I did like an alternative suggestion I received by email: “Dance dance critter death edition”, which seems to be in the ballpark of correct.

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filmgoerjuan
November 12th, 2009
2:54 pm

Jeez, some people are just no good at that game.

It was “Clawpenisovertwohamsterswhiledownhillskierscommitsodomy”, right?

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Stephanie Hobson
November 12th, 2009
3:09 pm

I love your “this is entirely self evident I don’t know how you missed it” face.

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darren Reply:
November 13th, 2009 at 7:45 am

You’d be surprised (or maybe you wouldn’t) how often I make that face.

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Travis
November 12th, 2009
11:04 pm

Darren, may I just say — a little cut-out and this is the perfect photo for the top of your blog…

TTFN
Travis

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James
November 13th, 2009
7:48 am

Rascal?

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Derek K. Miller
November 13th, 2009
9:35 am

I would have suggested you spend more time on the wall-mounted moose head.

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darren Reply:
November 13th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

Yes, somebody asked why I’d drawn two buzzards poking their heads through a wall.

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Gar
November 13th, 2009
2:22 pm

To me it just looks like “Yeti has squirrels for dinner”.

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darren Reply:
November 13th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

That’s funny, somebody else referred to the large figure at left as an abominable snowman.

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Jan Karlsbjerg
November 15th, 2009
12:38 am

On the left: An angel (with a protruding butt or potbelly) is holding wings over two squirrels on a table.

On the right: two or more stick figure people trying to (needlessly, one would think) push a woman down a vertical surface.

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