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Explaining the rules of Cranium to new players!
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...that his team will be victorious in Cranium!
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Thankful for all the years I've known you, Clayton! xo!
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On Saturday evening, Grant and I headed out to Brooklyn to Frank & Liz's. We played Cranium with some friends of theirs and then...
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Other team waiting for the timer to run out.
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Hahah.
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Team conference.
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Puppet & puppetmaster!
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With our bellies now totally full of raw fish & fried dough, it was time to start the Cranium competition!
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Puppet off.
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Ready?
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GUESS MY CHEESE SCULPTURE!
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Our sculpting clay dried up so Tyson provided us with a shredded cheese alternative. Haha.
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Count your teeth!
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High stakes.
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Mime face.
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...it was time to play Cranium!
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Post-midnight Cranium session = strictly for the hardcore.
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Sarah!
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Time for Cranium action shots!
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Cynthia drawing with her eyes closed.
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Jack puppet-mastering Sarah.
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On Saturday we finally felt settled into our new place enough to invite people over for a little Saturday night boardgame get-together.
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Team 3: Gurj, Matt and Meredith went with a JERSEY SHORE theme. Here's Snooki (complete with Boof), The Situation (complete with THE Situation) and JWoww complete with no pants!. AMAZING.
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TIME FOR CRANIUM TEAM PHOTOS!!!! Team 1: Fatty, Karen and Jared opted for "Family Portrait with Hounds!"
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CRANIUM TRIUMPH BELONGS TO US!
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Here's us putting Ellen up for our big victory photo.
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Here's me, Ellen and Mark going for the win.
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Surf, puppet! Surf!
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ROBOT VICTORY DANCE.
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Haha.
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Too many Puppeteers, not enough Puppets
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Shit gets intense.
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I like how red Jared is from laughing.
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Action shots.
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...Meredith suggested a game of Cranium!
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...THIS. Haha.
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SIDESHOW SHOWDOWN! May the best puppet win.
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Meredith LOVES Cranium. Mostly because she enjoys seeing her friends have to do stuff like...
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Around 10:30, after the group had gotten a couple of drinks in them,...
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Una getting ready to get her mime on for Murdo, Rosie and Amanda.
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Jeff hooked us up with Toy Fair badges (with other people's names on them - so we had to pretend that we were TOY BUYERS!!!) and set out with us to explore all the booths! We got to visit the Cranium pavilion! This is pretty much the closest Meredith's ever come to a religious pilgrimage.
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Hahaha.
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Action shot.
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Then it was Cranium time!
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Dino Arms? Tyrannosaurus Rex?
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How about a little Karen / Meredith puppet action?
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All these pics make me smile!
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Sure, sure. It sounds easy enough. Just use the blob of clay to sculpt three DIFFERENT things that your team has to guess in 60 seconds. No biggie, right? Until that timer starts ticking away and then the only question is...
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...CAN YOU HANDLE THE PRESSURE?
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I have no memory of who won or even who was on what team! But who cares! Let's get on to some action shots! Here's Pauly getting his Creative Cat on!
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Major controversy erupted when someone drew a "all teams compete" card and each team had to select a member to try to get their teammates to guess the clue "Jewish." Here's Meredith holding up the winning drawing, in front of her all-Jewish team.
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Here are the other two teams' drawings. Hahaha. I like how one team went abstract and went down the "no foreskin" road.
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Great success!
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Puppet Team Rubano / Cubitt had no trouble successfully miming "coy finger-sniffer."
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Sometimes friends fight. Hahaha. This photo makes me laugh so hard. If you've ever played Cranium, this photo will probably make you laugh too.
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Hey guys. C'mon.
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Sunday night a WHOLE buncha people came over to our place to play play Cranium!
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GIRLTALK!
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Hahah. OMG, I love this photo so much. I makes me want to scream "Girltalk!" and I don't know why.
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...but it turned out he just needed to prop me up so that he could use me as a puppet to pretend I was swimming!
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Just when everyone thought things couldn't get any gayer, Javier picked me up, spun me around and then pushed me face-down (ass-up!) onto the hassock...
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His dip turned even more sensual when he lowered me slowly to the ground in his manly arms...and then proceeded to try to...um...hmmm...make me gay through hypnosis?
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On Team Twig N' Berries, Siege and I elected Javier as our defacto performer. His over-the-top willingness to abuse whomever was his puppet made him a no-brainer. Here's me captured in the midst of pulling my "WTF" face when Javier simultaneously dipped me and hiked up my shirt.
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Here's Katie abusing her role as "puppetmaster" and using it as an excuse to give Marissa's ear a real deep sniffin. Ear sniffer!
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Katie was the ladies' team defacto performer.
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Matt using Amy like a puppet!
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The tension in the room was unbelievable. (PS - If, perchance, you ever find yourself anywhere in the vicinity of Fatty, and you also, perchance, decide to take out your camera and take a picture and Fatty is not in the frame, there's is a 100% chance that he will lean into the frame at the last second and make an awesome face.)
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Team #1: Karen, The Fatty, Joobz and Meredith.
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Team #2: Amanda's friend whose name I forgot (sorry!), Amanda and LionMane (keeping things real in his Beetlejuice pants!). Oh, and Ellen also joined this team but I don't think she'd shown up yet!
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Amanda, LionMane and their friend trying to figure out a puzzle before time runs out!
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And Karen correctly guessed what all the squeezing was about. Victory!
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Meredith got squeezed.
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Then Dave stuffed dollar bills into Matt's jeans.
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...to Leigh and Max.
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Team Scott reading a question out loud...
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"Move your teammate's arms and legs like a puppet and have them act out the clue. The puppet can help guess the answer." Cranium = The Best Game Ever.
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...versus Scott and his boyfriend (at the time. I forgot his name. Sorry!)...versus Meredith and I!
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On Sunday night we went uptown to Max's apartment for Couples Dinner Party and Cranium Night! It was Leigh and Max...
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About halfway through the game, someone noticed that all six of us were dating someone who looked a lot like them. Which meant Cranium was temporarily put on hold for a new game: The "I Look Most Like the Person I'm Banging" Game! Third Place: Scott and his boyfriend!
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Piper was there doing her thing. Walking across the game board...
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...showing off her doggy-dingus. You know, the usual.
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After dinner, we went back to our apartment for Meredith's birthday party! Check out the turnout for Birthday Cranium!
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Scandalous!
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Later in the game, Faran got her comeuppance when it was Benjamin's time to use her as the puppet!
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...Shruti, Sarah and Matt.
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FAIL!
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...and Gurj (seen here trying to figure out what hell Faran was trying to get Benjamin the puppet to act out).
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Team Three was me, Faran, Benjamin...
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Meredith, Jenny Penny, Karen and Quinn squared off against...
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After dessert, we played Cranium! Guys vs. Gals!
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Mer and Katie basking in the warmth of the fake, TV-fire.
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Later that night, Mer and I went out to Siege and Katie's for some Cranium. (Again!)
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October, 2006
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Tara and Cat.
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Fatty working it on the Sensosketch tip!
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And then later that night we played Cranium! (Man, we really played A LOT of Cranium back then!)
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Later that night, a whole bunch of people came over for Cranium!
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HAHAHAHAHA. Edie's totally like, "FUCK! How in the world am I going to get them to guess this one?"
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Amanda using Leigh as a puppet!
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...but managed to guess the correct answer right at the buzzer! Success! (This photo makes me so happy)