Katie Doyle, Girl About Town

Monday, Mar. 10, 2003 - 2:34 a.m.

So, I've been reading up on various permutations of "the moo/MOO game," and I have to say, they sound either asinine or boring. One is some form of fraternal hazing I was unable to find details on. One is a computer variation of the game Mastermind, but you play against the computer, and apparently, on at least one server, there was a big hacker thing going on where it was de rigueur to hack in and falsely place one's own name at the top of the list of high MOO scores. Apparently, MOO is very big among the computer geek set. Then there's the dumbest version of all, in which a bunch of people sit in a circle and send one of the group out of the room, where they then, thru a ridiculously convoluted set of rules, elect someone to be a cow and invite the outside person (the farmer) back into the room and start mooing while the farmer tries to guess who the cow is (the others are bulls). Though I think you probably have to be congenitally stupid not to be able to tell, since the cow has to moo louder than everyone else, so unless everyone is yelling "moo" at the top of their lungs, how hard can it be? Then in the third round, everyone is supposed to scream, or only the cow is supposed to scream, thus embarrassing him/herself, but I fail to see how that's supposed to be embarrassing, since everyone knows that as the cow, you are going to scream.

Do you see how inanely stupid that game is? Why in hell would people bother?

I would like to reitterate that when I mention the moo game in these hallowed pages it is NOT any of those, and certainly not that idiotically asinine game latterly mentioned above. The moo game Jason and I used to play at work is a much more sophisticated, albeit probably almost as stupid, game requiring some degree of finesse. And, you know, boredom.

Peace out,
Katie

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