Bloggerdash

At the Easter festivities at my in-laws' house, we played a rousing game of Balderdash. You know the game - you read a word and then everyone makes up definitions for it and then the group votes on which one they think is real.

Some of the words were pretty funny. So, I'm going to share a couple of the words and their real and fake defintions (as I remember them) and see how you do.

Shaftesbury:

A. A dish of lamb and gravy served in parts of England

B. A faulty beam in a mine

C. Pottery sold in New England in the 1900s

D. An English statesman

E. A wide-brimmed hat with feathers

Xat:

A. A loophole during April tax season

B. A carved totem pole of various North American Indian people

C. Criminal behavior

D. Skin tags growing on the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands

E. A device used to measure seismic activity

Got your answers ready? Here's a hint - both times I voted for answer E and was wrong (Darn Dad and Casey tripping me up!)

Drumroll . . . The correct definition of Shaftesbury is D. And the definition of Xat is none other B. I thought E. was a great answer but my brother ripped me hard on it. "Ladies and gentleman as you can see on the Xat, San Francisco has just been hit by a powerful earthquake." Can you pick which definitions you think I wrote?