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hingehead
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Location: Just Cairns
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32 hours. We can't count white volkswagens (they're really seen above 10,000 feet). We'll have uno, and the mile high club, but have you got any other innovative ideas to pass the time time on a long haul?
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dlowan
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Location: Australia
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Stumpers?
Person a thinks of a word......and gives the initial letter.
Person b to gain the right to ask a question about the word in question, has to "stump" person a.
To stump them, person b makes up a word beginning with the same letter as person a has in mind.
Person b gives person a a clue as to what the word they have in mind is.
If person a cannot guess the new word, person b gets to ask them a question re the word they are trying to guess.
Eg: Person a thinks of a word beginning with "L". (The word is lavender)
Person b thinks of another word beginning with "L"....in this case landmine.
The clue they give is "something you definitely don't want to put your foot in"
Strangely, person a cannot guess this word, and, after a reasonable period of bickering about whether the clue was fair and reasonable, person b gets to ask person a about "lavender".
(In this case, they ask whether it was animal, vegetable or mineral.)
I think we once spent an hour of agreeably passionate argument when I was person a, and person b's stumper word (also beginning with "L") was "The leaping Nuns of Norwich."
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hingehead
Posts: 8743
Location: Just Cairns
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I think we once spent an hour of agreeably passionate argument when I was person a, and person b's stumper word (also beginning with "L") was "The leaping Nuns of Norwich." |
That should suitably annoy the other passengers.....
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littlek
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Location: Boston
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A big pad of blank paper and a pen.
Play hangman, anagram scrambles.....
Or one starts a story with a sentence of two after which he/she folds the paper over and the other continues for a sentence or two without looking back. Continue.
You can play the above with drawings as well. One draws a head and neck, fold paper, the other draws a body, fold paper, next are the legs and feet.
For some reason, I kept coming up with math games..... that's a teacher for you!
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Eva
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Location: Venice, Italy (I can dream, can't I?)
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Break out the Benadryl, the earplugs, the eye masks, the pillows and the blankets, and play "Who Can Sleep the Longest?"
That's what we do on long flights.
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littlek
Posts: 39225
Location: Boston
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| Eva wrote: |
Break out the Benadryl, the earplugs, the eye masks, the pillows and the blankets, and play "Who Can Sleep the Longest?"
That's what we do on long flights. |
That's what I do too!
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dlowan
Posts: 46723
Location: Australia
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| hingehead wrote: |
| dlowan wrote: |
I think we once spent an hour of agreeably passionate argument when I was person a, and person b's stumper word (also beginning with "L") was "The leaping Nuns of Norwich." |
That should suitably annoy the other passengers..... |
Pissed the crap out of 'em on the train from New York to Montreal. 
WE had lots of fun, though.
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cyphercat
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Jeez, I can't believe I didn't make Mr C play travel games with me the one time we had a long plane flight... Next time! I'm bookmarking, these are fun ideas... 
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ossobuco
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Location: Enchanted Land
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I adore travelling places. But I suffer so, poor me, though I'm still basically happy, even when aggravated. First of all I get sneezy. Then I get asthmatic after some time. I am always in coach, so, there is that. There was the time with the kid bouncing his head on the back of my seat... there was the time we were set next to the attendents' kitchen, where they talked throughout the flight, and I wasn't yet liberated enough to get up and ask them to tone it down. Besides which, I am usually exhausted to start with, just with the last minute stuff and getting on the flight. So, there I sit, Ms. Wired. I usually buy a badly written thriller at the airport, but since I don't like badly written thrillers, tend to wander off in my mind, though not to sleep.
30 some hours??
I've taken melatonin tablets with me, but not taken any. Obviously should have taken benedryl.
1) you can spend some time figuring out what time it is where you left from, where you are now, at your various stops, and at your destination.
A computer can do that, but otherwise this can engage you for minutes, and it can be repeated as time passes.
2) have two or even three really good books you actually want to read. Edifying educational books, maybe not the time.
3) diary. Time for that memoir to start...
4) pop up in your seat from time to time, and do isometrics or somesuch, to get your circulation moving.
5) go mad with lap top solitaire games..
so, no, no innovative ideas.
Bet Francis has some ideas. He's a serious traveller.
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margo
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Location: Sydney
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Arm wrestling? Transcendental meditation? Travel scrabble.
Where ya going?
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:19 pm 
