Taboo

I played Taboo with a group of fellow students last night. I have a new thesis that nothing will show you difference of cultural backgrounds like a guessing game. And on top of this, it was very clearly American - from all of the words.

There was an Australian, me (an American), a German girl, a Scottish guy, and then the rest were English (sort of). It was amazing as we sat there shouting clues at each other, yet what we thought of as dead give-aways would mean nothing to the others. There were some typical ones like 'boxing' - sport, two people, ring. But then there would be things like 'Howard Shore,' 'Ryan Reynolds,' Something 'coolio.' One girl started to describe the Superbowl as 'that game you play with your feet' -- she quickly decided to skip that card.