Psychology lessons for the last two years have been pretty much incomprehensible to me, and my learning has happened really only because I did background reading. Having said that, I'm not particularly pleased with the way the exams went, but the fact remains that for much of the Psychology lessons my friend Peter and I attended, we spent a fair bit of time playing various games. Some of these may be detailed in a future article which I'm planning - Fun Things To Do In A Psychology Lesson - but for now, I'll satisfy you with Hangman.
Hangman is a truly wonderful game, for those of you who don't know. One person thinks of a word, writes down as many dashes as there are letters in the word, and the other person guesses letters until they get the whole word. Hence, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ could be 'tongues'. When there is more than one word in the phrase, words are separated with a dash. Thus, _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ _ could be 'good evening'.
Peter and I discovered that Hangman is even more fun when words which do not genuinely exist are made up, or nonsensical phrases are used. It adds an element of challenge.
And here, for posterity, are all the Hangmans (Hangmen?) that we came up with over the last two years. I put them up mainly because I'm fairly certain I'll one day lose this sheaf of paper, and some of the things in it are too amusing to lose. Plus, of course, if you ever want a really good word, guaranteed to secure victory, to use in Hangman, now you know where to come!
Here are the words. We will start with a random selection, and proceed onto ones that can be categorised later.
Stripes
Daaaaaaaaaaay oh! Aaaay!
Appendix
Michael Heseltine
Rambo
Kick thy head!
Grow tomatoes
Zap!
Pliffy
Lynx
Join the dots
The quaz had a jaxuk!
The good, the bad and the zzzzzz
Wow! Ferret!
Napoleon was yer mum!
The man with the great big wife
Next please
Wolfy Andy!
Wax
Zaz
Green blue red
A man with the dog
Class merit
Mystic mairpus
Koala wizard!
Filthy inexorable mairpus!
Rigidity
I spew marriages forth from my head!
Go away!
Vaccination
Fire exit
Oh hi!
Don't eat me
Brass eye
Wow! What? Ah! Green!
German U Boat
Butcher my dog!
Now, catergorisable words:
Words Connected With Schoolwork:
Psychodynamism Psychodynamism being Freud's theory of psychology
Zinoviev Zinoviev being a Russian revolutionary mentioned once in History.
Where is Di Dwyer? Di Dwyer being one of our Psychology teachers
Di Dwyer is well ugly and she ain't got no alibi! This entry being swiftly followed by the footnote 'It's only a joke, Di, if you are rifling through Owen's papers and find this potentially alarming piece of literature!'
Think you I like Ben Jonson? Ben Jonson being a 17th century playwright whose play 'The Alchemist' was studied for English, thus this Hangman is placed under Schoolwork.
Clym Yeobright Clym Yeobright being a character in Thomas Hardy's novel 'The Return of the Native, a text studied in English.
Mylc Brightyeo being an anagram of Clym Yeobright.
Mann Whitney U being a statistical test used in Psychology
Words Hastily Altered When It Became Apparent The Opponent Would Soon Win:
Overdead Projector
The Return of txe Alchemist
He Man Character Names:
Mechaneck
Hordak
Beast Man
Kobra Khan
Trotsky Oriented Hangmans:
Quit Trotskying around!
My face is red and Trotsky
Okay! Gotta go now! I'll stick Part 2 of this wonderful series up maybe later this evening, perhaps tomorrow! Or maybe even the day after.