Friday, October 01, 2004 · posted at 8:18 PM
Flummoxed

I just can't get enough of the little blue electronic hand-held game that provides hours of fun. Of course I'm talking about Catchphrase.

While intelligence was once thought of as the coveted trait in your partner/team, I've now come to realize that it's not necessarily an asset if one member has Einsteinian intelligence and another that of Forrest Gump. That kind of discrepancy just breeds miscommunications, which of course breeds disappointing losses.

You really need to be on the same wavelength, whether a low frequency or high one, to successfully figure out the answers.

So when my supersmart friend Cindy says "It's what you breathe... 70% of air is composed from it" that clue goes whoosh over my head. After I yell out "air! oxygen! water! carbon dioxide! Magna Carta!" I've maxed out on the number of elements I know and am just waiting for that buzzer to go off.

And I'm sure Cindy's not a happy camper, either, knowing that her friend who received the same 7-12th grade education as her, doesn't even know that NITROGEN is the main component of the atmosphere.

Then you see someone say, "I think it's a big volcano in Europe... maybe Greece" and the first thing out of his teammate's mouth is "Mount St. Helen!" which is not an accurate fact... but the correct answer.

So that old adage "birds of a feather flock together"? Not true - they just do better at Catchphrase.

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