Tell It Like It Is With Ungame!

How was your 2008 holiday season? Forever tainted by the binge-purge mentality of the skeleton of American consumerism which pressured you to simultaneously abandon luxuries and stimulate the economy, leaving your family members with a closet of home-bedazzled sweaters and books-on-tape from internationally acclaimed personal finance expert Suze Orman?

Haha, well, let’s pretend it never happened. Instead, let us hark back to one year ago today, when Seal hit the ice, recreational photographs of Time’s Person of the Year yielded far more impressive abdominals, Rudy Giuliani was to be our next president, and a new kind of game entered our lives: “The Ungame.” Behold it!

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If you’re like me, you can get pretty stressed out during the holiday season. Sure, social gatherings are fun, but trying to make chit-chat with all those family members, business contacts, and new acquaintances can be a real chore. Not this year. A friend of mine picked up a fun little ice-breaker at a church rummage sale that might help us out. I give you “Ungame”:

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve exhausted myself trying to facilitate polite conversation between children, gray-haired women, and mustachioed dudes in vests. Thank goodness for Ungame. Shall we play? Go on, you start. Yes, you in the vest. Pick a card:
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