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Matthew Toone asked:


I remember it like it was yesterday. My sister (yes … that is her in the picture) had just arrived home from a long trip, and my family and I were all together just playing games as a family. Before my sister arrived home, we had all decided that we would pull a prank on my sister and play a trick game on her that we had never played before.

So, we got out the camera, got the lipstick, and we all tried to keep a straight face. The game was called: “Inchypinchywinchy.” Yes, the name says it all! There is no skill required in this game – it is not educational, intellectual, challenging, or competitive in any way. You simply have to try and not laugh and give away the ‘secret’ to the victim. To this day, it still is one of the funniest and most memorable games we have ever played as a family. It was just a trick/prank game – but it was a blast. Have fun playing it – but make sure you do it on someone who does not know what is going on!

INCHYPINCHYWINCHY

# of Players: 4 or more

Objects Needed: Lipstick

Those playing will sit in a circle around the room. The person who has never played before will be referred to as the victim. Then, the person who is sitting to the right of the victim will need to have some Lipstick. In preparation, this person will rub a small amount of Lipstick on their finger, and then hide the Lipstick so the victim can not see it (or smell it). Everyone else will keep a straight face and not laugh, look at the victim, or give anything away. The game starts by having one person turn to the person on their left and, with their index finger they will do some random thing to the face of their neighbor.  While doing this, they must say: “inchypinchywinchy.” Examples of some random motions one might do is: pinch their cheek, rub their nose, squeeze their chin, pull their earlobe, draw a line on their forehead, etc.

The only rule of the game is that the person who is doing the random motion, and the person receiving it – they both can not laugh at all (all the others can when it is not their turn). The random motion only needs to last a few seconds, but neither person can laugh. If a player does laugh, they receive a strike (3 strikes and a player is out of the game). It is important that the rule is enforced to make the victim think this is an actual game (as weird as it may be to them). But, as is obvious, you should be more lenient on the victim so that they do not get eliminated from the game. Play continues around the circle with each person doing some random motion to their neighbor on the left. (It may be helpful for others to play dumb and pretend that this is a weird game to them too so it is not only the victim who wonders what is going on).

Eventually it will be the person’s turn who is sitting on the right of the victim. Again, this person will have rubbed some lipstick on their fingers – thus, while doing their random motion, lipstick will be smeared on the victim’s face. (Everyone else can laugh, but the other players do not want to laugh excessively or give it away that something is happening to the victim). The person rubbing lipstick on the victim must be very subtle and not let the victim see their finger with Lipstick on it.

After the victim has taken their turn, play continues around the circle. Players will laugh and receive strikes, and some people may even be eliminated from the game. The game ends when everyone is tired of playing, or everyone gets out, or when what most likely will happen – the victim discovers what is going on!

Fitnut asked:


So, yes, Amber and I are identical twins. I thought I’d share some stuff about being a twin since I know there are a lot of people out there are who are curious about twins. It’s funny, I am too. Whenever I hear of another set of twins it fascinates me; I think I forget that I am one.

My sister and I are identical. I was born 3 minutes older. I’m definitely more mature. I was shorter in length and weighed more than Amber when I was born. Amber said I hogged the food. We do not “read” each others minds, per se. Since we have grown up together and lived together for so long, we naturally finish each others sentences and seem to know what the other is thinking. I think this would happen to any siblings close in age. It’s not as fun as you think. You get compared and labeled constantly. She’s the pretty one, smart one, funny one, outgoing one, more athletic one… blah, blah, blah… the list goes on. When I was younger I felt like why would anyone want to be friends with / date / hang out with me when they could be with a better version of me… my sister. Don’t worry… I’m definitely over that now I’m a 1/2 an inch shorter than Amber. My feet are 1/2 a size bigger than hers. She would probably say a whole size but I disagree.  Amber has done everything in life before me which is kind of interesting. Such as riding a bike, talking, walking, dating, kissing a guy, marriage… and hopefully becoming pregnant. She better get moving on that one. Maybe I could become pregnant in the next year, you never know. (Stop laughing.) Our parents dressed us alike until grade school. Amber used to push me around when we were little until one time I gave her a big shove and she went tumbling.  Take that! I had a hard time learning how to make friends; why did I need to make friends when I already had a best friend? We have the same career. Forgot about that! We do have a lot of similar interests so I guess it kind of made sense that we’d end up in the same career.

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Ainsley Howard asked:


It is that time of the year again, when gifts are received and given in a flurry of hugs and kisses, festivities and feasts, stress and laughter. But even with all the harried and hurried Christmas shopping, you must never forget to give Christmas gifts for Mom!

However, your gifts need not be the usual diamond jewelry, expensive home d?cor, leather designer items and haute couture dresses. Instead, you can choose to make your Mom laugh with your unique choice of gifts this Christmas. Why not try these ideas of Christmas gifts for Mom this year?

The Albert Einstein of the House

Remember how you and your siblings used to drive your mom crazy because of your long forays in the bathroom reading, playing the guitar and just dilly-dallying with your ablutions as kids? Well, now is the time you introduce her to the pleasures of mind additions while doing body subtractions!

You can provide her with rolls of Sudoku toilet paper, which allows her to solve the 9X9 logic-based number-placement puzzle to pass the time while her toxins follow the logic that they should line up and place themselves in the sanitation system of the house.

You have to consider, however, that with the Sudoku toilet paper, you are also condemning yourself to the pains of your mother when you were kids while she is enjoying the mathematical puzzle at your expense. Still, this might be one of the most enjoyable Christmas gifts for Mom!

The Thomas Alva Edison of the Home

Now, if your mother loves to invent new thingamajigs out of old, ordinary things in the house, then books on the Japanese art of unuseless things called chind?gu are a good bet. You will save money on Christmas gifts for Mom when you encourage her to putter and tinker around the house because you don’t even have to buy her expensive appliances!

Just give her the chind?gu books and she is all set to be the next Thomas Edison of unuseless things, which in the far distant future can become useless things. There is always hope for her idea of an apron with all sorts of kitchen gadgets – ladles, knives, can opener, and potato peeler, to name a few – hanging from it because she wanted everything to be within reach, literally! Shush, never mind that like all chind?gu, it made for funny and embarrassing moments.

The Epicurean of the Heart

Instead of your mother slaving over the stove for Christmas dinner, you can take her to exotic restaurants that serve good food and good drinks albeit in weird and wacky atmospheres. You might even get a pat on the back for coming up with the most hilarious Christmas gifts for Mom! You can take her to these dining establishments:

- Dog restaurants that are animal-friendly to the extreme. Your ordered dishes will be served in plates that allow for cats and dogs to eat directly from them, with chairs custom-made for the purpose! Of course, you and your mother can accompany your pets and bark and meow over the delicious food, too.

- Toilet restaurants that allow you to eat in the atmosphere of well, toilets. Just whose idea this was, you can thank him because there is something good to be said about eating poop-shaped and poop-look food while sitting on toilet bowls and eating out of toilet-shaped dishes. Whatever good that is, you decide.

Indeed, why settle for humdrum gifts when you can give hilarious Christmas gifts for Mom that will be the stuff of family legends?