Sentences with phrase «childhood game of telephone»

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It's like playing that old childhood game of «telephone» but the first person in the line was a mentally challenged kid with Tourrette's Syndrome; the message wasn't all that great in the first place, and you're still getting it wrong anyway.

It effectively places them in the unenviable and daunting spot of having to play the equivalent of 50 games of «telephone,» that group activity you may remember from childhood in which participants whisper a message to another participant at the same time.

In Switchboard (pavilion), the childhood game of creating an improvised telephone using tin cans and string becomes an absurd and daunting puzzle.

The effect, which echos childhood games like broken telephone, is that of «an endless chain of subtly displaced meanings and altered utterances» that disrupt our experience of popular culture.