A Silly Party Game

I was chat­ting with my sen­sei this evening, and he told me about a party game he learned. I'm sure this is as old as the hills, but it was new to me, and I found it more than a lit­tle eye open­ing. So, I thought I'd share it with you.

First of all, grab a piece of paper (or what­ever new fan­gled gad­get passes for paper these days). Write on it:

  1. Your favourite domes­tic pet
  2. Your favourite wild animal
  3. Your favourite dessert

And for each, the spe­cific attrib­utes about it that make it your favourite — ie, what appeals so strongly about each.

Go ahead, I'll wait. Won't take you more than a cou­ple of minutes.

Fin­ished? Ok, good. Well, here's what I answered:

Fave pet: a cat — rea­sons? It's inquis­i­tive, sassy & elegant

Fave wild ani­mal: the shark — rea­sons? It has an effi­ciency > 1 (until recently thought impos­si­ble), it's fast, incred­i­bly beau­ti­ful & a lit­tle scary

Fave dessert: durian — rea­sons? the sheer per­ver­sity of it, it's exotic, and orgasmic(ally tasty)

So what does this all mean? Well, there's a rea­son I left the expla­na­tion till the end — so you could write your answers down (yes yes, I know you're read­ing ahead. Stop being cheeky, & jot them down).

An inter­est­ing side note. Almost 20 years ago, I did one of those jour­ney­ing expe­ri­ences, where you find your power ani­mal. I'm not totally sure about the prac­ti­cal use­ful­ness of this infor­ma­tion, but I'm curi­ous about every­thing, so I gave it a shot any­way. For me, it turned out to be a hedge­hog. I kinda realised, over time, that that was a good rep­re­sen­ta­tion of myself. Prickly as hell on the out­side, squishy on the inside. Also inter­est­ingly, my favourite dessert has changed rad­i­cally over the last cou­ple of years, since I started aggres­sively on this heal­ing path.

So, side note aside, here's the inter­pre­ta­tion, I know you've been dying for it:

  • The pet is what you look for in a partner
  • The wild ani­mal describes your own attributes
  • The dessert is how you like sex

.. and I looked at my list, and I thought to myself "You know? That's a lit­tle bit bloody scar­ily accu­rate". I'd guess this also means my power ani­mal has changed (although the impli­ca­tions of this are beyond me).

September 24, 2008 – 13:26 | By Si | Posted in fun, life | View Comments
  • Jen­nifer

    hmmm…my answers were:

    1. mon­key — i love how human they seem, and their play­ful agile per­son­al­i­ties. very inter­ac­tive. i never had one as a pet, but they seem like they'd be so much fun! and they're adorable.
    2. wolf — fierce, pow­er­ful, noble. they gen­er­ally mate for life, and are take care of their pups.
    3. che­r­i­moyas — very durian-like, with­out all the funk. some­times they smell a lit­tle fecal when they're not ripe yet but they are sweet, creamy, and i like how the flesh splits from the seeds (errr…talk about sex­ual over­tones, lol)

    almost all my exes referred to me as very cat-like or feline. i have a sin­gle blonde hair that grows on my cheek. my first boyfriend called me "whiskers". LOL.

  • Joel

    I actu­ally had this done on me at Burn­ing man by a friend.

    Except it was your favourite colour (you), power ani­mal (part­ner), water (sex).

    Hmmmm.

  • http://sidawson.org Si Daw­son

    bloody old Burn­ing Man eh?

    I'm skep­ti­cal about the power ani­mal being your part­ner. Ok, SO not an expert here, but my under­stand­ing of them is that they are an inner reflec­tion of your­self — your higher/inner self. Which would pretty much make them more likely to be your­self than another.

    Think­ing about con­ver­sa­tions I've had with other peo­ple, their power ani­mal was always a super good descrip­tion of them, not who they were look­ing for.

    but then, that's burn­ing man all over — always inter­est­ing, always enter­tain­ing, but you can never be 100% sure that what's hap­pen­ing is actu­ally true, or just some­one (includ­ing your­self) mess­ing with you :)

  • http://sidawson.org Si Daw­son

    Pretty inter­est­ing that you're described as feline, yet a wolf is from the dog fam­ily. What do you make of that?

    I had to wiki che­r­i­moyas — never heard of them. Turns out that over here they call them cus­tard apples. Wow, I love those! SO tasty. Still pre­fer durian for the weird­ness fac­tor, in terms of desserts, but oh boy, they're def­i­nitely a goodie, I agree.

  • Jen­nifer

    hmm…well my ini­tial thought was a lion or a pan­ther or some­thing feline, but then when i thought about which ani­mals i really admire, the wolf came to my mind, fol­lowed by the owl. both have played sig­nif­i­cant roles in my life…

    "women who run with the wolves" is an excel­lent, excel­lent book.

    i've seen an Owl Spirit — granted I was smok­ing salvia with my girl­friend in her cabin on for­mer Native Amer­i­can soil, but still…

    so durian still, over cus­tard apples, eh? weirdness…hmm…tell us more about your sex­ual kinks! ;-)

  • Jen­nifer

    p.s. my ini­tial domes­tic ani­mal was "cat". :)

  • http://sidawson.org Si Daw­son

    *huge laugh*

    well, I wouldn't describe myself as kinky so much as exploratory (uhh) — always keen to try some­thing new, inter­est­ing, mind bend­ing etc. buu­uut, not going to get into more detail than that in a pub­lic forum *grin*

  • lyn­ni­vere

    1. Your favourite domes­tic pet.

    A Bull Ter­rier.
    He is fier­cly loyal, has intinct to match his incred­i­ble charm & is a clean beast. No wild unkempt beasts in my bed! (lol.. ahhh)

    2. Your favourite wild animal.

    This is a Don­key Divine.
    Don­keys are pow­er­ful phys­i­cally & bril­liant smart. They make noise when it pleases them & they pro­tect bet­ter than any ol' farm dog ever did. Oh, & that busi­ness about being Stub­born.. ha! You don't know the half of it!

    3. Your favourite dessert.

    A Yummy Fresh Fruit Smoothie.
    It's creamy divine & The Real Thing, Baby!
    So deli­cious & irre­sistable.. I just can't get enough.
    As Cold­play put it.. "Give me real, don't give me fake." ;)

    How funny! All true. *lol*

  • http://sidawson.org Si Daw­son

    exactly my response when he first asked me the questions.

    It def­i­nitely left me scratch­ing my head going "Huh? What just happened?" :)

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