July 5, 2006

The "Telephone" Experiment

In order to show the inaccuracy of human information transmission, let us do a little experiment. Some of you may remember a game called "telephone" from primary school, where a message gets whispered in someone's ear and the receiver "passes it on" to the next person. The last person in the chain will then say the phrase he/she heard outloud - to hilarious effect.

So let us replicate this with my blog. I will write a phrase below and the first person should go to my comments section and write down what they read. Then the next person should read the first comment and write down what he/she thinks he/she read. The last person should announce the final phrase to all of us - without laughing!

Okay?

Here's our initial phrase:

If you threw a party and invited everyone you knew, you would see the biggest gift would be from me and the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend.

Posted by marxy at July 5, 2006 6:52 PM
Comments

If you threw a party and invited everyone you knew, you would see SATAN the biggest gift would be from me and the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend.

Posted by: oops at July 5, 2006 10:36 PM

If you had to have anal sex with either Marxy or Momus, who would you choose?

Posted by: Alessandro Scafi at July 5, 2006 11:25 PM

I threw a party and invited Marxy but he didnt come.

Posted by: Chris_B at July 6, 2006 12:08 AM

Let's say you had a party, right?! And you invited everyone you knew. Well,... the biggest gift you got would be from me and the card would say, thanyou for being a friend.

Posted by: Eric Likness at July 6, 2006 12:11 AM

(Frankenstein voice) Copypaste! COPYPASTE!!!

Posted by: me_vs_gutenberg at July 6, 2006 1:03 AM

I had a dream where I had this party and you were there and you were there and you and you were there, too. Then you all lifted up your shirts and had "THNX" painted on your chests like crazy fans at some sort of sporting event. Then you turned around and it read "PAL!" on your backs. Then you sat down on my couch to watch old vhs tapes of Twin Peaks and got paint everywhere! It never washed out.

Posted by: lauren at July 6, 2006 7:16 AM

Thanks to you I can't get that song out of my head! I thought I was done with the Golden Girls after my ex-roommate wouldn't shut up about them back in 2001. God I hate Blanche!

Posted by: Adamu at July 6, 2006 1:59 PM

"you're not good enough, nate. you'll never amount to anything. also, you smell bad."

Posted by: nate at July 6, 2006 3:33 PM

Artie Fartie had a party,
all the poops were there.
Tootie Fruity let a beauty
Stop or my Mom Will Shoot.

Posted by: Rory P. Wavekrest at July 6, 2006 6:50 PM

EXPERIMENT FAILED!

Posted by: marxy at July 11, 2006 5:32 PM