Is mass murder a hobby? The question came up during a particularly divisive round of Scattergories Categories this past weekend, one that revealed the worst in just about every team. Lisa and I are firmly in the 'yes' camp. Some teams found it only palatable to give us the point on murder, but not mass. Others, like Tiff and Michael, were more lenient. "A hobby is anything you do for fun that's not your job." Exactly. (They may have been just protecting their behinds, their "two-timing" double points were potentially under threat depending on the ruling).
In the end, Tuna, the great conscience, swayed enough nays for us to lose the points. It cost us both the round and the game in a particularly tight race. Which is a sad one to close out a night that began so promising, with Lisa and I in early dominations. If one had to pinpoint where it all went downhill, it was probably when we got the category "Things that are above us" and decided to shoot for the moon with a long list of dead people. The jury would only give us one. Not even Martin Luther King Jr. could sway their stone cold hearts. "He's not above us because he's dead, but because he's morally superior," I argued between fits of hysterics, but all Priscilla would do was stare, shake her head, and say "One dead person."
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