Lulu learnt some new words

This weekend marked my seventeenth CQ Diabetic Camp, my fifth as a leader. Now I’m not going to bore you with all the details of my weekend, you can see the photos on facebook for yourselves. I’m not going to talk about the knuckle wrapping that I get every year, because I rarely change my needles, or the way I think up embarrassing questions for the co-ed “sex, drugs and rock’n'roll” discussion that I’ve been sitting through for ten years. (And if anyone can remember the 13th type of contraceptive, please let me know).

I’m going to tell you about one of our other camp traditions – the annual Balderdash Challenge. It started many moons again, I believe by Bob Martin and Mark Chamberlain, two of the best Balderdashers I’ve ever met. The game is fairly simple – you are given a real word and have to create a convincing meaning for it and bluff the other players into picking yours.

The last few years, however, the standard of play has dropped. I believe it has reached an all time low, partly through my own definitions that quite often included African bum diseases, adult movie slang and a few animal states of arousal. This year, we initiated a new member into our ranks of Dashers Anonymous…Chris – a respected, mature management-type from Brisbane. I’m almost ashamed to admit that we tried our hardest to break him…and we did. At one point, the poor man was forced to say “What’s my name, bitch?”

But, despite playing this game for two of the three nights, I cannot think of many of the actual definitions of the words, only what we thought they should be. So, here are some of the new words that I learnt while I was at camp:

• Lickerish – lustful thoughts – NOT a tongue fetish
• Zebub – An African fly – NOT a demon used to scare children (Zebub is coming to get you)
• Extispicy – using animal entrails to tell the future – NOT orgasming into a curry
• Pilwiz – A fable evil being who tangles people’s hair – NOT urinating against a pillar
• Furfur – dandruff – NOT slang for an adult movie scene that involved two unshaven women.
• Scuppernong – a wild north American grape – NOT (and this is the one that Chris was given to read out) an evil spirit that eats dust OR in, out, in, out, oh God, oh God, oh God, harder, harder, harder, yes, yes, give it to me big boy, make me bleed…

Yep, I can’t wait for next year’s camp!

~ by lulupop on Tuesday, April 29, 2008.