Wise & Otherwise
Feb. 6th, 2012 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valancy_janeWhile in Boston, I was introduced to the marvelous Wise and Otherwise, a game where you are provided the first half of a unique saying, and then must write down a clever ending. After each person takes a stab at it, the answers are read aloud, and you guess which is the actual correct one.
If it sounds easy, it's not; the sayings are remarkably obscure and frequently bewildering out of their culture context, certainly as odd as anything you could pull out of a hat yourself. As a result, it's reall a contest of cleverness where everyone tries to create deep, meaningful, or simply funny sayings.
On that introductory day, we had a particularly excellent group and really marvelous sayings developed. Some it's hard to explain - funny due to family in-jokes - but others are just generally fabulous. A few of my favorites that we created (not the actual sayings), for posterity.
Abstain from abstinence.
Don't open your mouth until you've thought three times.
Dry bread, go home.
Dry bread softens in a pig.
It is easy to mount the tiger's head, but less so the tiger.
Moscow has seen her share of spice peddlars.
If it sounds easy, it's not; the sayings are remarkably obscure and frequently bewildering out of their culture context, certainly as odd as anything you could pull out of a hat yourself. As a result, it's reall a contest of cleverness where everyone tries to create deep, meaningful, or simply funny sayings.
On that introductory day, we had a particularly excellent group and really marvelous sayings developed. Some it's hard to explain - funny due to family in-jokes - but others are just generally fabulous. A few of my favorites that we created (not the actual sayings), for posterity.
Abstain from abstinence.
Don't open your mouth until you've thought three times.
Dry bread, go home.
Dry bread softens in a pig.
It is easy to mount the tiger's head, but less so the tiger.
Moscow has seen her share of spice peddlars.