Sunday, April 1, 2012

driving parents crazy on car trips

Okay.  Keen car trips.
You can play alphabet.
You can see how many different license plates you can find.
You can play that geography game where you have to name a place that starts with the letter the last name ended with.
You can play Ghost.
OR
You can sing.
You can sing silly songs.
You can sing rounds.

Pretty standard stuff; pretty standard squabbles.

BUT
You can find other things to sing.
I know of someone who said that she and her brother would sing in seconds.  We never did that.
But you can do some mind-bending other things.

Like 
1) Sing a round with everybody singing the same words at the same time while the tune is being sung as a round.  Hard to do.  The more familiar the song, the harder it is.  Difficult for two people to keep going.  Try it with three!

2) Sing the words "George Washington Bridge" to the tune of  the old 'Cranapple Juice Drink' ad, just one syllable after another over and over with no regard for phrasing all the way to the end of the verse.  It actually comes out even. (turns out that the tune is "when you are in love, it's the loveliest time of the year" recorded by Mario Lanza.  Thanks to Newlin for knowing that.)  Not sure why it is more fun to sing the Bridge than the Drink, but it is.
                   *** ----OR ---- ***
This is the one that gets to the listeners the most..
3) Sing a song with the words one syllable off from the tune.  Our specialty was Yankee Doodle.  Just sing 'Yankeekee Doodle" to the first 5 notes and the extra syllable puts you one off for the rest of the song. Takes concentration.  And it doesn't come out even, of course.

Maybe I just had a weird childhood.

There was a Hagstrom trip once in the 80's where we tried to make interesting and long sentences using only 6-letter words.   "Seeing Larry's killer escape, Martha framed George."  "Martha should attend church."  I think this exercise grew out of some Paul project having to do with trying to guess six character passwords.

 

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