The Not So Famous

Today I was at a 'high tea'. Called so, apparently, because the tea is done on higher tables so one can eat. The person hosting it and I were talking, and she invited me:

Her: Come to my high tea birthday celebration!
Me: Ooh fun! I don't like tea, is that okay?
Her: Yup! I don't like tea either, I just like the idea of it.
Me: Me too! It seems like it would be such a nice thing to like.

So at the party we played a game called 'pot' where you put a bunch of names in a bowl, and then different teams take turns to have one person describing a name that was picked randomly out of the bowl, and the rest guessing, while being timed. A few of us being math dorks put some mathy names in....


Person: It's like the Microsoft thing! The Microsoft word one?
Team: Paperclip?
Person: No, one of the menus.
Team: Uh....file? Format?
Person: Yes! But with a different vowel.
Team: Fer-mat!

Another Person: Ok, first name looks Middle Eastern... Um. First syllable...the clock tower in London?
Team: Ben!
Person: Second syllable...like when you hang around outside a place?
Team: Loiter?
Person: Yeah kind of, but just the first syllable of that. First syllable of the last name...Like the thing you turn on a door. *makes motions*
Team: Handle!
Person: Yes! But with a different first letter. So um...last syllable....to take something with you somewhere...
Team: Bring?
Person: Past tense.
Team: Brought!
Person: Yes! Put it all together.
Team: Ben-loyt Mandel-brought.
Person: Yup!

Sachi