One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for February 10, 2019

Looks like James didn’t get the rules of The Telephone Game (https://icebreakerideas.com/telephone-game/)

I was always awed by how much the rumor changed from the first to the end.

At least he didn’t say “purple monkey dishrag!”

“A red donkey told a bloke that it wasn’t sunny!”

(Anyone else?) O<|];o)

I always mangled the phrase badly when playing that game. It could be only a word or two different from the starting phrase when it got to me, but after me the only word that would still be right was “the” or “a”. I couldn’t retain a word to pass on accurately a second after I heard it.

I only played the game once, and I could only hear the sibilance of the whispering: “Wiss-a wiss-a wiss-a wiss-a”.

I remember that in music vocal class. The teacher wanted to prove about gossip. She started with me and I tried to repeat to the next kids sitting by me, time got to the end to the last student amazed how close to what the teacher started.

Where is Don Ameche when you need him?