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I am the Champion, my friend
and I’ll go on fighting to the enddddddd!
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I have just finished a meeting where two of the five of us were playing meeting bingo.
The aim, if you don’t know the rules, is to agree a common objective with some – but not all – of the meeting participants beforehand, and then try and achieve that objective with none of the people who aren’t ‘in the know’ getting wise to a game being played.
Today’s objective was to slip as many Australian colloquialisms in to the meeting.
The meeting ended with the score at:
Me: 6
Him: 4
Although when he attempted to squeeze ‘seaweed muncher’ in I nearly called a foul because it wasn’t in context.
For the record…
Me: visit the dunny; she’ll be right; a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock; chuck a spaz; dag; bouncer (yeah, I know the last one is a former character in Neighbours but I was on a roll – and was working at squeezing in Ute and Mangle before the meeting ended!)
Him: as dry as a nun’s nasty, seaweed muncher, freckle, bush telly.
Championnnnnnn!!
B.
okay… me being an aussie, I’ve never heard of seaweed muncher or bush telly! And no, you lose a point for bouncer, lol.
A seaweed muncher is a learner surfer. Bush telly is a fire. And I think I should get double points for Bouncer because he was the best actor in Neighbours ever!
I like it. I modern take on the old ‘management word bingo’ it seems.
What a brilliant idea!
So sad that I no longer have to sit through hours of pointless meetings.
Perpetural: Aye, that’s where we got it from. When we started sneaking management catch-phrases in we were outed, so had to change the game.
Masher: Welcome back from your hols! Could you please leave that sackful of smug at the door? 🙂