Saturday, July 20, 2013

Weasel.

Since we're moving in about a dozen hours this and manana will be quick.  Years ago a company I worked for took us to Biloxi for a managers "meeting".  We split up into two teams and competed against each other in order to build up camaraderie.  The winning team won $100 in chips.

Each contest went the same way, the people that worked at the hotel would tell us the rules and then we would weasel our way into making it easier.  We had to stand behind the line and throw the rings on the pole.  Can we lean over the line?  Blank look on the lady's face:  "Sure".  There's our in.  Two of the biggest guys on our team would form an anchor so the person throwing the rings could lean way over.  The thrower would turn sideways to the ring put his weak hand into the grip of the first anchor and lean way over.  Instead of throwing the ring six feet you ended up just tossing it about two or less if you were tall.  The other team did a similar weasel trick.  For each of the contests we asked questions about what did the rules mean and then figured out a way to weasel.

My idea is for a game show.  Call it "Weasel".  Simple premise, two or three teams of three or four people have not so simple tasks to perform.  The teams are given the rules and whoever can figure out the weasel trick that's the quickest and/or most efficient wins.  Of course some teams may over think it and lose because the winning team just did it without weaseling.

As usual, I'm not worried about money if you use this idea.  I would like credit though.  I might even have other ideas.

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