This is a game you can play when you are getting to know people!
When you are doing ice breakers and everyone is saying their name and something about themselves, you tell your true name but, get this, you make up something about yourself! It isn’t, however, sufficient to simply lie. You have to actually make it up! This means that you need to use English that nobody has ever heard before.
“My name is Joshua and I am looking forward to going rock skriving this weekend.”
See what I did there? Notice how not only is “rock skriving” an activity to which I am not looking forward this weekend, it isn’t even a real activity! In fact, folks, if you’ve been keeping track at home, a full fifty percent of those words aren’t even words!
Anyway, this is the hook. In itself, pretty amusing, but really what you hope is that somebody will take the hook into their stupid mouth and askingly chomp on it with a puzzled, “What is rock skriving?” NOW comes the real fun! NOW you get to describe the made up activity without actually, and this is important, without actually describing the activity!
“Rock skriving is … you haven’t heard of … rock skriving? Really? Okay, well rock skriving is … you’ve got to get like ten or twenty rocks and then … maybe as many as thirty rocks. Yeah, you get thirty rocks and then you … ah … well you sort of … skrive them. Um … all at once or … or I guess you could skrive them individually but … skrive? You don’t … you … okay … well, skriving is … um … you know where you have the rocks and you [gesturing ambiguously with your hands] you sort of just skrive … Have you every seen a person bowling with a really small bowling ball? Yes … well actually no it isn’t anything at all like that … listen I think you pretty much have to see it but yeah it is great.”
