February 18: Inside Jokes

After our raging rounds of Jeo-Party last night, a few of us stuck around to play Quiplash, a fun party game where everyone uses their phones to answer questions in the most funny way possible. Then on the main screen (I use Steam on my computer to play this game and I share the screen via zoom) our answers are paired with others and everyone votes on which one is their favorite (aka the funniest or most clever). We've been playing this game for a few years now (started out on the Nintendo Switch and we played in person, but thankfully the Steam/Zoom combo works very well for pandemic virtual game nights) so we have a lot of inside jokes built up. Occasionally these inside jokes resurface and are always delightfully hilarious. 

Yesterday we had a call back to the answer "rabid echidna", first made a long time ago by a friend who wasn't even present last night, so it was quite delightful to see again. We also have a running joke about the old tabletop shooting game, Crossfire. If you don't know, it has an iconic theme song with lyrics "you'll get caught up in the... CROSSFIRE!" One of us changed the words to "Dick Thunder!", and now whenever one of us sings "Dick Thunder!" ala the crossfire theme, another one of us echoes back "Dick Thunder!" It is definitely one of my absolute favorite things. A more recent inside joke is using the word scaffolding to mean sex after a friend tried guessing "scaffolding" during my sexy homonyms round in jeo-party. 

Yesterday we also created a new delightful inside joke. During Quiplash, two of my friends were given the question "A new use for marshmallows." The answers they gave went perfectly together. 1. To use during playtime. (and we all know what *that* means) and 2. To have sex with (which is hilarious because for several weeks now I have been giving my friends words to guess during Jeo-Party with the definition "to have sex with.") Of course we delighted in both of these answers, and for the rest of the game (and for the two other rounds we played), marshmallows continued to be referenced in more and more hilarious ways (and I am SURE they will resurface again and again and again). 

I have always delighted in inside jokes, since I was a little kid. They have always brought me closer with my friends, and made me laugh the most. These inside jokes come from a shared understanding that only we get. It makes them (the jokes and the friends) special. I have been blessed to have great friends throughout my life with whom I can share delightful inside jokes (and delightful memories). 

With delight,

♥Jamie