ELASTIC BANZAI !!!

A game of skill and endurance concocted by my associate Coxy and yours truly.

Place:
BT Connect (business internet) support office, Cardiff, circa 2002-3.

Time:
Every Friday afternoon, 5 - 5.30pm, when the management had left.


Quite a simple premise, but this became a staple precursor to our Friday evening piss-ups, with HUGE crowds* gathering to watch.


Apparatus required:
Post-It^® Notes (those ones which are about 5 inches wide)
A number of elastic bands
Two opposing desks in an open-plan office
An independent adjudicator

Rules:
-The two contestants** sit at either side of the desk facing one another. Players should be sat ideally approximately a metre apart.

-Player 1 is given three elastic bands (N.B. it is useful to have a few spares standing by. Also note that consistency of stretchiness and length is important in determining a fair result).

-Player 2 wears a Post-It^® Note as a visor (á la the blast shield on Luke Skywalker's helmet during Jedi training). This is for a) protection and b) the element of surprise, a vital element in Elastic Banzai. Player 2 then places hands behind the back of his*** chair.

-Player 1 shoots his three elastic bands at Player 2's face. (Hint: The length of time taken before releasing each elastic band adds to the tension in the receiving player. This is a useful tactic for taking your opponent unawares.)

-Player 1 then wears a Post-It^® Note, and play passes to Player 2.

-The player who says "ow!", "ouch" (or any utterance deemed by the adjudicator to voice displeasure or pain) fewer times after half an hour is declared winner and pussy magnet****!


*Literally tens of people
**i.e. Coxy and I. Usually we were the only ones foolish enough to compete
***Disclaimer 1: This game is not recommended for girly girls and their lovely, pretty faces
****Disclaimer 2: Neither player is likely to get any fanny as a result of playing this game
(LLPaulJ 's momma said knock you out, Mon 12 Jan 2009, 16:23, 2 replies)

As an enhancement
I reckon both players should have worn a Post-It note visor - add an extra level of skill to the proceedings for participants and hilarity for the audience at cackhanded aiming.
(annexed, Mon 12 Jan 2009, 17:42, closed)

BT Caithness
Im 17 and currently work in bt up at the top of scotland in caithness.

Me, a 50 year old woman, and her daughter, play deathball, rules are pretty simple. we sit in sort of a triangle, with desk dividers in the middle. The aim of the game is to throw it as hard as you possible can at the person to your right's head while they're on a call. if you get hit, you have to ask the customer to hold on while you pretend to do something, and subtly do a darth vader impression into the mouth piece.

After this day however, we'll play elastic banzai
(Jacques Lally Honk has been beating wood since, Mon 12 Jan 2009, 19:01, closed)