Thursday, July 27, 2006

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

30 comments:

Anonymous said...

Round One:
Jake Gyllenhaal - throw - sorry - too new.
George Clooney - live with in all that constant tension.
Matthew McConaughey - humping - love him!

Round Two:
Jessica Alba - throw
Jessica Simpson - do it.
Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury's character on "Murder, She Wrote") - live. maybe she would cook and clean like a grandma.

Round Three:
Lance Armstrong - sleep with...so athletic.
Lance Bass - i don't know who that is - so throw.
a bass (as in, a fish) - live wiht - I would eat it then live alone.

Round Four:
Betty White - throw...I would ring her neck in any other situation.
Rue McClanahan - she's got to be good.
Bea Arthur - live with - such a smart ass, so much fun.

Round Five:
John Kennedy - sleep with. fo shizzle
Robert Kennedy - live with. such a nice boy.
Ted Kennedy - drunky drunkerson has to go over the cliff.

Round Six:
Mother Teresa - throw...
The Pope - life with. maybe at the vatican. I ccould have my own wing, and maybe a cardinal to do stuff for me.
Ghandi - sleep with..why not? he had a wife and seemed compassionate and interesting. Maybe he would be an attentive lover.

Miss Lindsay

Kyle said...

Okay, does living with also mean sleeping with, as in living with man and wife, or man and man, or wife and wife? Or is it just roommates like the Odd Couple?

Erik said...

fwl, if you live with them, then you're not allowed to sleep with them. Totally Odd Couple style.

Erik said...

Urp and Lindsay, I love all of your answers! I will reply in more depth later, I have to go on a bike ride right now.

drc said...

Round One:
Jake Gyllenhaal - Cliff
George Clooney - Live
Matthew McConaughey - Sleep

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

Round Three:
Lance Armstrong - Sleep
Lance Bass - Live
a bass (as in, a fish) - Cliff

Round Four:
Betty White - Sleep
Rue McClanahan - Live
Bea Arthur - Cliff

Round Five:
John Kennedy - Live
Robert Kennedy - Sleep
Ted Kennedy - Cliff

Round Six:
Mother Teresa - Sleep
The Pope - Cliff (Depends on which Pope)
Ghandi - Live

Erik said...

Joe Chandler?
Steve?
BonBon?
Christy?
Rebecca?
Becca?
communicatrix?

I want to know what your answers are.

(I am such an ass, DEMANDING people to comment. Ha.)

Erik said...

Okay, I'll post my answers:

Round One:
Jake Gyllenhaal -- sleep with (because, come on)
George Clooney -- live with (because he has that villa on Lake Como!) (and he seems to have style, which I definitely lack)
Matthew McConaughey -- throw (sorry, Matthew, but thems the breaks) (you had tough competition)

Round Two:
Jessica Alba -- throw (she seems like a nice enough girl, but kinda boring)
Jessica Simpson -- live with
Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury's character on "Murder, She Wrote") -- sleep with

okay, sorry, just kidding, i would sleep with jessica (after watching Newlyweds, I don't think I could live with her) (and she seems like fun in the sack) and I would live with Jessica Fletcher (I agree with Uma, we could solve crimes together, which would rock hardcore)

Round Three:
Lance Armstrong -- sleep with (is there really any other choice here?)
Lance Bass -- live with (because I admire him for FINALLY coming out)
a bass (as in, a fish) -- throw (could i eat some of it BEFORE throwing it? i just feel bad wasting food)

Round Four:
Betty White -- sleep with (COME ON, doesn't anyone remember the Mary Tyler Moore Show?) (hot)
Rue McClanahan -- throw (no reason, really, except i would LOVE to live with Bea Arthur)
Bea Arthur -- live with (she's bea freaking arthur, people)

Round Five:
John Kennedy -- sleep with
Robert Kennedy -- live with
Ted Kennedy -- throw

Round Six:
Mother Teresa -- sleep with
The Pope -- throw
Ghandi -- live with

The Weber School Poland/Israel 2010 said...

you totally called me out! ok, i'll bite:

Round One:
Jake Gyllenhaal - cliff. he looks so sad all the time, put him out of his misery.
George Clooney - live
Matthew McConaughey - sleep

Round Two:
Jessica Alba - sleep - she seems bendy
Jessica Simpson - cliff. hate her new song
Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury's character on "Murder, She Wrote") - live. she could solve the mystery of why my husband continues to be a republican.

Round Three:
Lance Armstrong - cliff. but keep his bike to give to you.
Lance Bass - live. cause then i could meet the other n'syncers
a bass (as in, a fish) - sleep. but it'd have his own pillow.

Round Four:
Betty White - live. cause she would put up with my dog.
Rue McClanahan - cliff.
Bea Arthur - sleep. she already looks like my husband. HA

Round Five:
John Kennedy - live. but only if in the white house
Robert Kennedy - cliff.
Ted Kennedy - live. he could help me learn new drinks.

Round Six:
Mother Teresa - live.
The Pope - sleep. you know that fucker's depraved.
Ghandi - cliff.

Erik said...

BECCA: thank you for heeding my order!

OBLIQUITY: I love that you would rather sleep with a fish than Lance Armstrong. You must really hate Lance Armstrong!

I just noticed that Becca would sleep with the fish too.

I love this game.

Kyle said...

Round One:
Jake Gyllenhaal -- Live (seems like a nice guy)
George Clooney -- Sleep (No contest)
Matthew McConaughey -- Throw (smelly)

Round Two:
Jessica Alba -- Sleep (whatever)
Jessica Simpson -- Throw (cannot abide)
Jessica Fletcher -- Live (we can solve crimes together)

Round Three:
Lance Armstrong -- Throw (seems like I heard a rumor he wasn't very nice)
Lance Bass -- Sleep (sure, why not)
a bass (as in, a fish) -- Live (I always liked fish tanks)

Round Four:
Betty White -- throw (she'd give me attitude about my declawed cat)
Rue McClanahan -- sleep
Bea Arthur -- live

Round Five:
John Kennedy -- Throw (LOVE HIM, BUT HE SLEPT AROUND ON JACKIE)
Robert Kennedy -- Sleep (LOVE HIM)
Ted Kennedy -- Live (LOVE HIM)

Round Six:
Mother Teresa -- Live (she nice)
The Pope -- Throw (Nazi youth, dumb)
Ghandi -- Sleep

christy said...

round one:

Jake - throw
George - live
Matthew - SLEEP!

round two:

alba - throw
simpson - sleep
fletcher - live (we could cook and bake together!)

round three:

armstrong - sleep
bass - throw
bass (fish) - live

round four:

betty - live
rue - sleep
bea - throw (oh but i don't want to throw her off a cliff!)

round five:

john - sleep
bobby - live (i would really rather sleep AND live with bobby and leave JFK out of it, actch)
ted - throw

round six:

mother teresa - sleep
pope - throw
gandhi - live (low maintenance)

you're very lucky i started writing this before i read your comment demanding that i do so.

Erik said...

i'm fascinated by everyone's answers. i kinda feel like this is a socialogical experiment, like i'm collecting data, except it doesn't really amount to anything other than the fact that i am SHOCKLED (so fucking shocked i had to add a random "l") that ANYONE would throw Jake off a cliff!

thank you fwl and christy for participating.

Joe Chandler, where the fuck are you?

Anonymous said...

Round One:
Jake Gyllenhaal - Cliff
George Clooney - Sleep
Matthew McConaughey - Live

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

Round Three:
Lance Armstrong - Sleep
Lance Bass - Cliff
A bass (as in, a fish) - Live

Round Four:
Betty White - Live
Rue McClanahan - Cliff
Bea Arthur - Sleep

Round Five:
John Kennedy - Sleep
Robert Kennedy - Cliff
Ted Kennedy - Live

Round Six:
Mother Teresa - Sleep
The Pope - Cliff
Ghandi - Live

Erik said...

okay, that's really funny. i posted a link to this post on my myspace page in a blatant pandering for comments moment, and my first myspace response does it anonymously, which is totally fine because i want to try to get a quorum (am i even using that word right?) and i want to get as many responses to the cliff game as possible so i can get a better sense of who on this list is the most fuckable, live with-able, and throwable, but now i'm sitting here, like, WHO FROM MY FRIENDS LIST JUST LEFT THAT COMMENT.

Ha.

Anonymous said...

Hi Eric, This is great! Saw this on Kathy Griffin and laughed hysterically. Hope you are well.
Love, Tina

Here goes nothin'

Round One:
Jake Gyllenhall-throw (tough call)
George Clooney-live with (hello!)
Mathew McConaughey-sleep with (duh)

Round Two:
Jessica Alba: live (workout tips)
Jessica Simp: throw (too annoying)
Jessica Flet: sleep (older, wiser)

Round Three:
Lance Arm: sleep with (endurence)
Lance Bass: live (entertainment)
Bass: Throw (don't like fish)

Round Four:
Betty White: Live (hysterical!)
Rue: sleep with (see Jessica Flet)
Bea: Throw (complaining)

Round Five:
JFK: sleep (compare to rumors)
Robert: live
Ted: throw
*i am stumped on the whitty qoutes with this round*

Round Six:
this one is gross on all accounts
Mother T: sleep (I'll go with the gentle thing)
The Pope: throw
Ghandi: live with (more space for me)

Anonymous said...

Erik, you so crazy!

Round One:
Jake Gyllenhaal live with
George Clooney -sleep with, Hey there's the oscar, ya know?
Matthew McConaughey - throw off a BIG ole cliff

Round Two:
Jessica Alba - Boff till the girl says,"Oh Daddy!"
Jessica Simpson - Heave HO! And I do mean Ho!
Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury's character on "Murder, She Wrote") -I likes me some mature wimmins

Round Three:
Lance Armstrong- Gotta find out what Cheryl knows
Lance Bass - Who IS this? Throw
a bass (as in, a fish) - I'm a scuba diver, this works

Round Four:
Betty White - Bubye Betty
Rue McClanahan - Live with
Bea Arthur - Got ta git me some a DAT!

Round Five:
John Kennedy - Let's give that back a workout)
Robert Kennedy -Live
Ted Kennedy -Chappaquidick THIS!

Round Six:
Mother Teresa - Who DOESN'T wanna fuck a saint?
The Pope - CLIFF!
Ghandi - Gotta ask him bout that diaper thang

Anonymous said...

Round Seven:
Bert - this is just wrong. Live.
Earnie - do it? no. throw.
Oscar the Grouch - i thought i would throw him, but i am a glutton for egotistical, mean men. so sleep.

Round Eight:
Paper - live
Rock - sleep
Scissors- um. throw.

Round Nine:
Mary Kate Olsen - which is which? I'll sleep with whichever didn't wear that stupid braided bandana last week and throw the one who did.
Ashley Olsen
Pontius Pilate - live. he really tries to communicate.

Round Ten:
Marcia - throw
Jan - sleep. loosen her up.
Cindy - live

Round Eleven:
Freud - sleep with. fo shizzle. see oscar the grouch.
Jung - throw
Sartre - live

Round Twelve:
an apple - live.
an orange - throw.
a banana - heh.

Round Thirteen:
Lenny (from Laverne and Shirley) - sleep
Squiggy (from Laverne and Shirley, natch) - throw
Urkel - live. ugh.

Round Fourteen:
Tom Cruise - sleep. c'mon. really. don't you remember before?
Kate Holmes - live
Suri Cruise-Holmes - throw. no babies.

Round Fifteen:
George Bush Sr. - live. a good episcopalian.
Ronald Reagan - sleep. the charisma.
George W. Bush - throw

scientifically yours,
Lindsay

Erik said...

yay, science!

Erik said...

also, i just want to note that Lindsay did not spell Ernie's name wrong. I did. But then when I read Lindsay's comment, wherein she copied and pasted my list and then added her choices and remarks, I noticed that Ernie's name was spelled wrong, so I fixed it in my post, but then I thought, "now it's gonna look like Lindsay doesn't know how to spell Ernie's name."

Hence this comment.

Bonnie said...

I have played... at my own blog.

This is brilliant. And fun. And demented.

My replies are here. And you're awesome.

Thanks!

christy said...

Okay here are my answers to Lindsay's:

Round Seven:
Bert - sleep
Ernie - live
Oscar the Grouch - throw

Round Eight:
Paper - live (writer)
Rock - sleep (no matter what anyone says, the most powerful/popular of the three)
Scissors- throw

Round Nine:
Mary Kate Olsen -
Ashley Olsen -

live with the non-anorexic one; throw the anorexic one.

Pontius Pilate - sleep (he washes his hands)

Round Ten:
Marcia - sleep
Jan - live (middle kids get along with each other very well)
Cindy - throw

Round Eleven:
Freud - throw
Jung - sleep
Sartre - live

Round Twelve:
an apple - live with (keep the doctor away)
an orange - sleep with (oranges are apparently bad for my blood type, so we shouldn't shack up)
a banana - throw (also bad for my blood type and stink the most when they go bad)

Round Thirteen:
Lenny (from Laverne and Shirley) - live
Squiggy (from Laverne and Shirley, natch) - throw
Urkel - sleep (did you see the one where he took his glasses off and stood up straight and talked in his natural deep voice?)

Round Fourteen:
Tom Cruise - sleep
Kate Holmes - throw (with her and Charlotte both at the bottom of the cliff people might stop comparing me to them...okay not that I really mind)
Suri Cruise-Holmes - live (please, let's give the kid a fighting chance!)

Round Fifteen:
George Bush Sr. - sleep; sexy in that uptight Republican way
Ronald Reagan - live; funny and a great conversationalist
George W. Bush - throw (DUH)

christy said...

I was shocked to just read that I would sleep with Tom Cruise.

Ewwww.

And Erik, don't worry about Jake. I'm sure he'll find Charlotte at the bottom of the cliff and they will make beautiful babies together.

(which, because you're like Charlotte, will be like you making beautiful babies with Jake.)

Erik said...

christy!?!!?! How could you possibly sleep with Tom Cruise?EW?@??@@?

Seriously!

christy said...

well a) I can't sleep with a baby, and b) I can't sleep with someone who looks enough like me that if we were being videotaped and rolling around you might not be able to tell who was who. that would freak me out.

lindsay made me do it.

i'm about to write round 2 on my blog, since i'm still awake.

Rebecca said...

Don't know if I'll answer all of them, but random sampling...

Round One:
Jake Gyllenhaal - cliff
George Clooney - live w/
Matthew McConaughey - sleep w/

Round Seven:
Bert - cliff
Ernie - live
Oscar the Grouch - sleep

Round Nine:
Mary Kate Olsen - cliff
Ashley Olsen - cliff
Pontius Pilate - cliff

Round Eleven:
Freud - live
Jung - cliff
Sartre - no choice but sleep

Round Thirteen:
Lenny (from Laverne and Shirley) - sleep
Squiggy (from Laverne and Shirley, natch) - live
Urkel - cliff

Round Fourteen:
Tom Cruise - cliff
Kate Holmes
Suri Cruise-Holmes

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

I never said I follow rules well!

Anonymous said...

Round One:
Jake Gyllenhaal - cliff
George Clooney - sleep
Matthew McConaughey - live

Round Two:
Jessica Alba - sleep
Jessica Simpson - sleep
Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury's character on "Murder, She Wrote") - cliff
(I know I cheated, but thats tough and it changes all the time)

Round Three:
Lance Armstrong - live
Lance Bass - cliff
a bass (as in, a fish) - sleep

Round Four:
Betty White - live
Rue McClanahan - sleep (she isn't that good of an actress, is she?)
Bea Arthur - cliff

Round Five:
John Kennedy - live
Robert Kennedy - sleep
Ted Kennedy - cliff

Round Six:
Mother Teresa - sleep
The Pope - cliff
Ghandi - live
(this catholic boy is going to hell)
UPDATE: I'm adding a few more threesomes:

Round Seven:
Bert - cliff
Ernie - sleep
Oscar the Grouch -live

Round Eight:
Paper - sleep
Rock - cliff (maybe it'll skip
Scissors - live

Round Nine:
Mary Kate Olsen - live
Ashley Olsen - sleep
Pontius Pilate - cliff (trying to make up for Round 6)

Round Ten:
Marcia - sleep
Jan - cliff
Cindy - live

Round Eleven:
Freud - cliff
Jung - live
Sartre - sleep

Round Twelve:
an apple - cliff (see Round 8)
an orange - sleep
a banana - live

Round Thirteen:
Lenny (from Laverne and Shirley) - live
Squiggy (from Laverne and Shirley, natch) - cliff
Urkel - sleep

Round Fourteen:
Tom Cruise - cliff
Kate Holmes -sleep
Suri Cruise-Holmes - live

Round Fifteen:
George Bush Sr. - live
Ronald Reagan - sleep
George W. Bush - cliff

Joe Chandler said...

I'll answer soon, I promise. Probably tomorrow.

Bonnie said...

LOVES me some Uma!!!!!!!

Erik said...

i loves me some uma too. (urp, i can't believe i haven't replied to your last post here. i love your answers.) (but i can't believe you've never seen Laverne and Shirley.) (actually, i can believe it, but it makes me sad.) (one day we will have to have a L&S weekend.)

Bonnie said...

Played my first round of LIVE Cliff tonight with my bestest gal pals, and we agreed this is a very good game and you rule for bringing it into our lives.