Oh paper trail

So tonight at Brad and Hannah's, we played a game we have named Paper Trail. It's a combo between telephone and pictionary - we actually played it a few times at Phoneathon to keep us happy on the phones. One person writes a common phrase on a piece of paper. They then hand it to the person next to them, who has to draw the phrase. The drawing is then passed along and the next person has to interpret the picture. The cycle continues like telephone till it gets back to the start.

Here are some of the funny phrases from tonight -

"Shut the front door!" became "All the lights in the house are on"

"Da roof, da roof, da roof is on fire" became "And suddenly, the house was on fire!"

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away" became "During apple season, don't eat too much or you'll end up in the hospital"

"Mama's, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys" became "I don't know if the herd is surrounded"

"Luck of the draw" became "No couple equal to back I have a pair" (hey I wrote what I saw!)

"God rest ye merry gentlemen" became "Dreaming of fairies and horseshoes will drive you crazy" (I drew a cross with an arrow to represent God, a bed with a guy sleeping for rest, a u to represent ye, a fairy plus m for merry, and guys with hats for gentlemen. They had no idea what my cross was, thought I'd crossed out the m, and wrote "Dreaming of fairies and horseshoes makes you crazy")

"No sex in the champagne room" was drawn. I'd never heard that phrase and wrote "We popped the champagne cork on the couch and now we can't sleep" to which I was told "That sounds dirty..."

"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" became "A fetus and the statue of liberty make me smile", then "A fetus and the statue of liberty are ecstatic", and SOMEHOW back to "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"

But here's the BEST one. I was handed "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickle peppers". So I drew a guy smoking a pipe to represent Peter Piper. He had a big hand and was reaching towards what I meant to be peppers. There was also a basket of peppers next to him. Brad thought my peppers were drugs and wrote A COLUMBIAN DRUG SMUGGLER CARRIES A PURSE . The drug smuggler then became Ethiopian. Finally the cards came back as "Just say no". Yep that was definitely my fault. It was HILARIOUS.

Yep I love paper trail. It's awesome.

By the way, I"m gonna take a break from thanks for the memories. I may pick it up later. But I"m kinda done with that series for now.

PS - other people know the phrase "Dance with the one who brung you", right? Because I was handed a drawing tonight and wrote that. Granted, the phrase started as "Do a little dance, make a little love" and became "Prom king and queen", which is what was drawn, so I was wrong anyway. But I wrote that and NO ONE there had heard that phrase before! Is it just a Southern thing, or just a Heugatter thing?