In my office, we use the Microsoft Communicator for internal chat. This was also what we used when I was still working in P&G. These are all the available emoticons on communicator:
I wondered how some of those icons would actually be used in conversation. I mean, like that dog icon, for example. Can you imagine telling your contact: “I need those files now, you *insert dog icon here*!”?
Then one day, my friends and I came up with a way to put most of them to use in a game using these. Charades!
Sample:
Answer: Silent Night
Answer: Sad movies make me cry
Those are simple enough, but as the days went on, we kept on coming up with harder charades like the one my friend Liza came up with below:
She first gave this to Gelle, who was so stumped that she came up with this answer: “Girl o girl I’m so sick of calling you nerd writing you nerd nerd die girl crying.” There isn’t even a song like that existing!! We found this so amusing that we actually composed a tune for those lyrics she invented.
The answer, in case you were wondering, is “Mother mother I am sick, call the doctor very quick. Doctor doctor will I die? No my dear girl don’t you cry.” Which I got right, by the way. Do you have any charades for me? Try me.