Sarah and I went to to birthday BBQ for several improvisers last night.

We ended up playing several rounds of a game where two golf balls attached by rope are thrown at a three rung PVC pipe stand. I played it last summer during a cabin trip. We didn't know what it was called then so we gave it various different testicle-themed names like Dangle Balls, Sling Sacs and Drape Nuts. Everyone at tonight's party called it Donkey Balls.

Twice the balls got stuck up in a tree.

By the time we got tired of Donkey Balls, we joined a group of people sitting around a picnic table playing a game where you'd combine the plots of two movies and everyone would have to guess the overlapping title. For example, "Hey, have any of you seen the movie where the elephant keeps thinking it can hear the sound of a tiny Indiana high school basketball team?" And the answer would be, "Horton Hears a Hoosiers."

[This is actually very similar to a game concept (and short lived TV game show) that Jellyvision developed years and years ago called SMUSH]

This may seem like a painfully nerdy thing to do, but drinking some beers and making pop culture wordplay jokes sounds pretty great to me.

Here are a few more:

"Hey, does anyone remember that Stephen King novel where a bunch of guys go camping and an alien crawls up their butts, taking over their minds making them wear hunting caps and think everyone around them are 'phonies'?"

and

"What was the name of that movie where the fish loses his son and while looking for him becomes a successful jazz trumpeter? I think it was directed by Spike Lee."