party games

I was fortunate enough to be attend a friend's wedding last Friday. The following three 'games' were moments of pure genius leading up to and during the event.

Full respect to the Hoff Man for his inspired genius on the first two...

The chocolate squirty cream game
You may recall a few posts back that my lovely man and I went away for two weeks to Greece. While we were away little koo looked after our house for us. Upon our return, many new and exciting things were found in our kitchen - filtered skimmed milk, lime couscous, Asda fruit and nut choc... but the most exciting was the can of chocolate squirty cream. Yum yum yum.

The night before the wedding, a very good friend of mine (head bridesmaid at said wedding) and her boyfriend (the Hoff) came to stay with me and boy as we live fairly close to where the wedding was. I cooked us all dinner and for pudding brought out a yummy chocolate roulade and the tin of squirty cream. Yum.

As we were sitting around talking afterwards, I felt compelled to pick up the can of cream and squirt some onto my teaspoon.

"Ah.. I've just thought of the best game," said Hoff. He explained the basic premise to us, and it really was quite a simple concept. One person takes the can and squirts some onto their spoon. Down in one. Next person puts a bit more and again down in one, and so on until the pile of cream is too big to fit in one, or falls off. Pure genius. Kept four educated adults highly amused for a good 15 minutes or so.

The inappropriate song
This one came to be at the wedding itself. During the bride and groom's first dance ("Love is in the air") I again found myself next to the Hoff. As we're all cooing and enjoying the love of the moment, he leans in and says, "I've got a new game." I look at him quizzingly.

"Think of the most inappropriate song for the first dance at a wedding," he said, "for example, White Wedding by Billy Idol."

"Like a virgin," I countered.

"Bitch, by Meredith Brooks," he came back with. I then said we had to wait till after the first dance as it really was a beautiful moment. (Just for the record, I semi-cried 3 times that day altogether. Such a softie, me.)

Other suggestions include the following (and respect to the team for playing along too):

• Goldigga, by Kanye West
• I hate you so much right now, by Kelis
• All that she wants, Ace of Base
• Smack my bitch up, Prodigy
• You oughta know, Alanis Morissette
• Dude looks like a lady, Aerosmith
• Tubthumping, Chumbawumba
• Janie's got a gun, Aerosmith
• Thunderbirds theme tune
• Everyday I love you less and less, the Kaiser Chiefs
• I predict a riot, Kaiser Chiefs
• Billie Jean, Michael Jackson
• Like a prayer, Madonna
• Stupid girl, Garbage
• Creep, Radiohead
• Loser, Beck
• Love in an elevator, Aerosmith
• You've lost that lovin' feelin', Righteous Brothers

and so on... feel free to contribute your own to the list!

The glove song game
Simple really - think of any song with "love" in it and change it for "glove". Hence "Love in an elevator" becomes "Glove in an elevator"; "Lovefool" becomes "Glovefool"; and "Crazy in love" becomes "Crazy in Glove". Simple, hours of fun again.

Hell update
I did go and it wasn't that bad. Funny how after 8 months you lose the anger... ;)

Toe update
The toe is now untaped and free, and flip flops adorn my feet once more, hurrah. Foot is still swollen and the bruising is especially faint, more of a pale charcoal, even lighter than that. Hurrah.