This is sort of a two person game with only one person playing.

When someone asks you a question or makes a statement that requires a response....It's time to play 'Nearsponse'.

Nearsponse is the response that misses the point of the posit by just a bit.

An example: The salesman asks, "What size shoe do you need?" Your nearsponse: "Just enough to get around the city."

Another example (this is from the movie 'Brazil'): "How's the wife?" "She just had triplets" "Ah, where does the time go?

Have fun, play safe
-- username, Feb 06 2004

I had one, but the wheels fell off.
-- Detly, Feb 06 2004


Last time I did that, some chick punched a hole in it.
-- Detly, Feb 06 2004


Well, what did you do to deserve it [Detly]?
-- Letsbuildafort, Feb 06 2004


The same, only polarised.
-- Detly, Feb 06 2004


My friend does this all the time. Only I'm not so sure he means to.
-- yabba do yabba dabba, Feb 06 2004


It's not a game. It's a dumb affectation you adopt to make people think you're enigmatic and offbeat witty.

They don't think that.
-- waugsqueke, Feb 06 2004


Is this a game or observed beahavior? Methinks Groucho Marx, Dorothy Parker, Oscar Wilde, et al., Baked this long, long ago.

Add some actual rules and make it a truly two player game, and you might be onto something.
-- DrCurry, Feb 08 2004


[waugsqueke] "dumb affectation" - unlike your annotation. See DrCurry's annotation for a constructive, non-affected response that knocks down the idea.

[DrCurry] For a 2 player game, make it an up-onesmanship sort of thing. Player 2 response to the nearsponse in a further-fetched, missed the point, sort of way. Or, possibly a serious (offbeat) answer to the first player that can lead to another.

example (from original):

1: What size shoe do you need?
2: Just enough to get around the city.
1 (or, more likely 3): Then you'll need an extra wide.
...and so on.
-- username, Feb 09 2004


"I'm sorry."
"You're welcome."
-- oxen crossing, Feb 09 2004


jutta: l-i-s-t.
-- DrCurry, Feb 09 2004



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