Laugh Olympics

Matt and I were randomly invited to the Third Annual Laugh Olympics, hosted by Ram Papish, and attended by a whole mess of people we'd never met (including Ram!). I had to drag Matt to Ram's house, but as soon as we won the first event-Mashed Potato Sculpting (like pictionary, with mashed potatoes)-I think he was somewhat less reluctant to be there. Truthfully, we had to drag each other out there for the sake of the game, since we've been hibernating most of the winter and have been avoiding social situations for some time. I wish I had more pictures to share, but we dumbly forgot our camera. Nevertheless, I have a few photos borrowed from Ram and other partygoers to help illustrate.

Rub-a-Dub was the event. Players were supplied with a bucket of water and a bar of Ivory soap. Each bar was carefully weighed and the winner had to use the most soap in 3 minutes by rubbing it wherever he could. I think the hairiest guy won, hands down.



The talent show consisted of creating chin faces and showing off whatever talent you had. One team had an musical array complete with fiddles and a guitar, another team had an amazingly talented singer. Here's Uri (our team) in the midst of telling one of the funniest jokes I've ever heard...



The pudding-eating contest with a twist: the spoon feeding the contestant is held by a blindfolded team member. Doug almost drowned in his pudding. I think he's attempting not to vomit in this picture.


We were sent on a scavenger hunt, followed by a round of Jeopardy and The Price is Right, and then several events involving throwing things at or hitting other contestants while blindfolded. About midway through the game was the cooking contest where four ingredients were chosen for us, and each team had 20 minutes to cook up something delicious and inventive using all the ingredients. We won with an amazing banana/peanut butter/strawberry ice cream smoothy served in half a coconut (painfully sawed in half by one of our stronger members). All in all our team did really well, though we lost a close game on the last riddle...the answer to which was "Cheers".
Matt and I still feel like winners because we lasted the entire 8 hour competition!