Party Game
While standing around the water cooler this afternoon, I mentioned a old party game I played once. The game is a simple question:
What is the most trivial piece of information that you can pull off the top of your head?
Trivial in that it has not value in your day to day life. You are never going to have a mugger in a dark ally say to you “…you money or tell me the atomic weight of cobalt…” This is has to be really trivial.
Here are some of the answers:
- “My junior high locker combo”
- “Dead relatives phone numbers”
- “Bow numbers off pre-World War II ships”
- “How to fix a leaky carburetor on a model 80 Pierce-Arrow”
- “My parent’s license plate number from when I was a kid”
Comments
The French composer Charles Alcan ("Funeral March for a Dead Parrot") died when all the volumes of his Talmud fell on him when he was taking one off the shelf.
Posted by: Josef | May 6, 2005 05:35 PM
Charles Alcan, composer of "A Funeral March for a Dead Parrot", died when all the volumes of his Talmud fell on him as he was taking one down from a shelf.
Posted by: Anonymous | May 6, 2005 05:38 PM
computers evil...
Posted by: Josef | May 6, 2005 05:39 PM
And it's spelled Alkan (His name was actually Morhange, but he liked Alkan better).
Posted by: Josef | May 6, 2005 05:48 PM