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I think you can tell a lot about a person by looking how they entertain themselves, especially with the games that they like to play.

For example, people who really enjoy Scrabble should never be trusted to place a 911 call:

911 Operator: Nine-one-one operator, what is your emergency?
Scrabble Whiz: Incipient recalcitrants have acquired perfunctory ingress to our zayat!
911 Operator: I’m sorry, I am not authorized to dispatch emergency personnel in order to provide a triple word score.

On the other hand, if your girlfriend is out partying with her hoes and needs a ride home, there is nobody safer than a guy who is interested in LARPing (Live Action Role-Playing, with fake swords and armor and stuff), since he will spend the entire drive talking about his hand-sewn leather gauntlets instead of trying to feel up the carload of drunk chicks.

We here at SomaCow have our own preferred games, too. Of course, our favorite is the “Fire J” game, in which, oddly enough, I actually hold the high score.

Geoff, being the cerebral type, likes a mentally-stimulating challenge. His game of choice is the “Rubik’s Cube”. He even had one custom made, complete with Scratch-n-Sniff technology, and regularly astounds us by solving it in record time (clicky each pic-y):

Mickey, of course, is a more “hands-on” kind of guy. It should come as no surprise that he is a big fan of the game “Twister”, although he puts his own personal spin* on it:

Me? I like the classics. No, not chess or card games. More like “Ker Plunk”, “Don’t Break the Ice” and “Ants in the Pants”. But, for bringing out the artist in me, only one thing will do:

*Spin! Ha! Twister! Ok, that’s not funny.