New Thing #124: I played Cliff with PAM and Joe (updated with more threesomes!)

So last night I had dinner with Urp, my step-sister Patt, PAM, and my step-dad Joe, and we ended up playing Cliff (which is a game I first learned in London in 1998, and which Kathy Griffin also played with her parents on an episode of her show), which was really surreal at first, but then really really funny.

If you don't know the game Cliff, well, it's really simple and it's played like this: Someone says three names and then everyone else has to decide which of those three people they would most like to sleep with, who they would most like to live with, and who they would most like to throw off a cliff.

Joe was like, "what if I wouldn't want to sleep with any of them?" But you can't think like that. I mean, of course there are going to be groups of three who you don't want to sleep with--and there are going to be groups of three where you don't want to throw any of them off a cliff, too--but you have to imagine that someone is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to sleep with one, live with one, and throw one.

A few revelations:

--When I offered the names Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda from Sex and the City, everyone (except for me) wanted to throw Charlotte off the cliff, and that made me so sad because I totally relate to Charlotte more than any of the other Sex and the City characters and I felt like everyone wanted to throw me off the cliff.

--My mom wants to sleep with Hitler. (Okay, okay, so she doesn't really want to sleep with him, but the other two choices were Cheney and Bush and she chose Hitler to sleep with.) (I think she threw Bush off the cliff and lived with Cheney.)

--Everyone wants to throw Tom Cruise off a cliff, but that's a no brainer.

Hey, in an effort to make this blog more interactive, I'll throw some threesomes out there, and we can all play.

You must sleep with one of the following people, live with one of them, and throw one of them off a cliff. What do you do? (feel free to explain your answers)

Round One:
Jake Gyllenhaal
George Clooney
Matthew McConaughey

Round Two:
Jessica Alba
Jessica Simpson
Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury's character on "Murder, She Wrote")

Round Three:
Lance Armstrong
Lance Bass
a bass (as in, a fish)

Round Four:
Betty White
Rue McClanahan
Bea Arthur

Round Five:
John Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Ted Kennedy

Round Six:
Mother Teresa
The Pope
Ghandi

UPDATE: I'm adding a few more threesomes:

Round Seven:
Bert
Ernie
Oscar the Grouch

Round Eight:
Paper
Rock
Scissors

Round Nine:
Mary Kate Olsen
Ashley Olsen
Pontius Pilate

Round Ten:
Marcia
Jan
Cindy

Round Eleven:
Freud
Jung
Sartre

Round Twelve:
an apple
an orange
a banana

Round Thirteen:
Lenny (from Laverne and Shirley)
Squiggy (from Laverne and Shirley, natch)
Urkel

Round Fourteen:
Tom Cruise
Kate Holmes
Suri Cruise-Holmes

Round Fifteen:
George Bush Sr.
Ronald Reagan
George W. Bush