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This is sort of a two person game with only one person playing.
When someone asks you a question or makes a statement that requires a response....It's time to play 'Nearsponse'.
Nearsponse is the response that misses the point of the posit by just a bit.
An example:
The salesman asks,
"What size shoe do you need?"
Your nearsponse: "Just enough to get around the city."
Another example (this is from the movie 'Brazil'):
"How's the wife?"
"She just had triplets"
"Ah, where does the time go?
Have fun, play safe
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I had one, but the wheels fell off. |
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Last time I did that, some chick punched a hole in it. |
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Well, what did you do to deserve it [Detly]? |
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The same, only polarised. |
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My friend does this all the time. Only I'm not so sure he means to. |
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It's not a game. It's a dumb affectation you adopt to make people think you're enigmatic and offbeat witty. |
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Is this a game or observed beahavior? Methinks Groucho Marx, Dorothy Parker, Oscar Wilde, et al., Baked this long, long ago. |
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Add some actual rules and make it a truly two player game, and you might be onto something. |
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[waugsqueke] "dumb affectation" - unlike your annotation. See DrCurry's annotation for a constructive, non-affected response that knocks down the idea.
[DrCurry] For a 2 player game, make it an up-onesmanship sort of thing. Player 2 response to the nearsponse in a further-fetched, missed the point, sort of way. Or, possibly a serious (offbeat) answer to the first player that can lead to another.
example (from original):
1: What size shoe do you need?
2: Just enough to get around the city.
1 (or, more likely 3): Then you'll need an extra wide.
...and so on. |
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"I'm sorry."
"You're welcome." |
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