When I was a young girl in school, we once played a game

[CatWoman]

The teacher whispered a simple sentence into a student's ear, and asked her to pass it on to the next student.

It went on and on until the message was whispered into the ear of the last student sitting in the back of the room.

A simple sentence, such as "I'm going to take advantage of the nice weather by doing some gardening this evening" inevitably turned into "The weather is so nice the gophers must be having a lot of fun tearing up my garden."

Or some such nonsense.

Hope you catch my drift.

I see so many gophers in so many threads tearing up so many gardens.

[redwitch]

1. we called that game "whisper down the lane"

It is a lot of fun. I also totally catch your drift. :-)

[MADem]

9. I'm old, and back in my day it was called, rather politically incorrectly,

"Chinese Whispers." Why they picked on the Chinese,I still have no idea....

[CatWoman]

10. Kanechewa, BITCHES!!!!

:D

[MADem]

17. That would be Japanese, but back then, most people didn't really

understand the difference. It was a very insular world!!!

[CatWoman]

18. I know, but if you watched Dave Chappelle's "Race Olympics"

Races were allowed to draft from other races to join their own.

The Chinese drafted Tiger Woods.

At the end of the show, the Asians all shouted that phrase :D

[MADem]

20. You're RIGHT!!! I forgot about that show--very funny, it was! n/t

[Massacure]

15. I always knew that game by the name of Telephone.

I'm a high school senior, so this was about decade ago.

Now you guys make me feel old >_<

[mike_c]

so what are you trying to say here...?

:rofl: :hi:

[still_one]

2. it says everything about the media

[CatWoman]

5. it says a lot more about the lack of comprehension skills

of members of this community.

[still_one]

6. excellent!!!

[Pirate Smile]

3. That has been my feeling on this entire thing. I've seen a lot of threads

I just don't bother opening.

[YDogg]

4. There was a young boy in my school, who once played with flames

I snatch your gift.

[Snotcicles]

8. So we can't whisper about gardens unless the weather is nice now WTF? n/t

[classof56]

7. We called it "Gossip" back in the 50s.

It was kinda fun, but there was that inevitable "morality lesson" inherent in the game.

Like so many, there are lots of DU threads I don't open. So many threads, so little time! Still glad I'm part of this group, though. Helps keep me sane!

Tired Old Cynic

[TahitiNut]

21. Yes. We did too. We'd start with a drawing ... and then describe it.

I remember a drawing of people on the bus. As I recall, an older (white) lady was getting on the bus with her shopping bags and a black man ahead of her was paying his fare. The garbling of the description of the picture would, as I recall, often become some description of a hold up or mugging.

We played it in "teams" with the class divided up in four or five groups of students. The different results were amazing to us at the time.

[ninkasi]

28. Same here...

I was born in 1943, and we called it "Gossip", as well. The best times I had playing it were when my brothers, cousins and I would play, and of course we all got as silly as we knew how, which was pretty silly.

I have learned, though, that as I've gotten older, my husband and I both frequently misunderstand something that's said, and some of our conversations get quite interesting, until we realize we're talking about two different things.

[classof56]

29. Well, I feel better! Glad I'm not the only one!

I have that same problem with my husband. Sometimes it seems like we're in two different dimensions. Suppose it's a male/female thing? Helps explain why Gossip used to be such a hoot--the guys were hearing entirely different things than the girls. Guess some things never change!

;-)

[Dunvegan]

11. I heard exactly what you said...

"Sin! Why was a tongue unfurled? Why incitement rule? They once gamed a Plame"

[On the Road]

12. We Had A Tragic Experience in 7th Grade

This was in a small town in NC in the mid-60s.

The game was called "telephone," and the students themselves came up with the initial phrase. Some genius started the chain with "What did Sally do in the ravine?" and when it got to the end, it was "What did Harry and Sally do in the ravine?"

Sally was a girl in class who was going out with a boy named Harry. When the final phrase was announced, the next thing I saw was Sally running from the room with tears on her face. She hid in the bathroom and wouldn't come out until the teacher went in to calm her down.

I still don't know to what extent it was malicious. But as I recall that incident pretty much ended the game.

[DearAbby]

13. So there was a school where the girls were game?

[CornField]

14. Damn. I think this means I've missed something again.

I'm not sure if it is possible to maintain a life away from the keyboard and still keep up with events at DU.

[Yoda Yada]

16. We played it at birthday parties...

It was a game for the younger crowd and we called it "Telephone". It was funny (back then) to hear how the original sentence turned out to be completely different in the end....after being passed along by 10 or more kids.

It really was a game that illustrates how passing on gossip (or facts, for that matter) can get TWISTED and TURNED around by anyone who might not have heard correctly, or maybe were not at all interested, or just wanted to ADD some extra information, or leave out the parts they didn't like....

You know... the kind of stuff we hear every day from Limbaugh, Hannity and O'Reilly! Today, we would call the game "SPIN".

[TahitiNut]

19. I didn't know gophers did gardening.

:dunce:

[Jed Dilligan]

22. People treat it like a law of information science

But I think it's always one bad kid who changes it on purpose!

[mokawanis]

23. I really wish people would stop

taking advantage of them gophers in the gardens

[Booster]

24. We used to call that game "gossip".

[TheCentepedeShoes]

25. We played "Gossip" too

Some really weird stuff could come out the other end.

[blm]

26. Human beings....some overplay, some underplay.

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[SammyWinstonJack]

27. We played a game like that, we called it telephone. nt

[AmandaRuth]

30. Oy. Telephone.

I played it at girl scout camp.

My sentence, 'My Hot Chocolate is getting cold' got turned into...

'My H20 needs to be checked by my doctor.'

How did THAT happen?!

Edit: From Minimanda