Comments on: Making cars http://peteashton.com/2003/09/making_cars/ June 2000 to June 2010 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:48:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jez http://peteashton.com/2003/09/making_cars/comment-page-1/#comment-4339 Jez Sat, 27 Sep 2003 16:03:13 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2003/09/making_cars/#comment-4339 Nice game - very aggressive in a cerebral kind of way. A related but more knockabout game for three or more is "no talent celebrity tag", which I think I picked up from an Evan Dorkin comic. One player starts, and has to tag another while shouting the name of a no-talent celebrity. And so on, until someone fails to come up with a name. Then everyone else laughs at him. tag - Gail Porter tag - Les Dennis tag - Jordan tag - Carol Smillie tag - *bleurgh* The interesting thing is the way hearing all those names dulls your brain. It becomes more and more difficult to dredge up suitable no-talent, especially as someone yells Anthea Turner in your ear. Nice game – very aggressive in a cerebral kind of way. A related but more knockabout game for three or more is “no talent celebrity tag”, which I think I picked up from an Evan Dorkin comic.

One player starts, and has to tag another while shouting the name of a no-talent celebrity. And so on, until someone fails to come up with a name. Then everyone else laughs at him.

tag – Gail Porter
tag – Les Dennis
tag – Jordan
tag – Carol Smillie
tag – *bleurgh*

The interesting thing is the way hearing all those names dulls your brain. It becomes more and more difficult to dredge up suitable no-talent, especially as someone yells Anthea Turner in your ear.

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