Shiny Happy Bingo

[EyeScream]

I'm sure most of these are recognizable as things that are said to suicidal individuals on a regular basis and which are unhelpful, mean-spirited or completely beside the point. Most of them are such common tropes that one could probably play this game easily. I added a few that might be uncommon but that I've heard personally, and the free space is meant to encompass anything especially trite and meaningless that I've forgotten to include.

Winners: vertical, horizontal, diagonal and four corners.

Let the games begin.

[jennymarie]

We have a bingo!

or

bingo, b, b, b, b, b, b, bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

Call it.

[EyeScream]

lol. I don't have a bingo, because as creator of the chart it would be unethical if I gave myself one.  :Ang:

[jennymarie]

Oh, I disagree. Are you saying that the inventors of Lo Giuoco del Lotto D'Italia NEVER played Lo Giuoco del Lotto D'Italia????

:lv104: :lv104: :lv104:

The game's history can be traced back to 1530, to an Italian lottery called "Lo Giuoco del Lotto D'Italia," which is still played every Saturday in Italy. From Italy the game was introduced to France in the late 1770s, where it was called "Le Lotto", a game played among wealthy Frenchmen. The Germans also played a version of the game in the 1800s, but they used it as a child's game to help students learn math, spelling and history.

When the game reached North America in 1929, it became known as "beano". It was first played at a carnival near Atlanta, Georgia. New York toy salesman Edwin S. Lowe renamed it "bingo" after he overheard someone accidentally yell "bingo" instead of "beano". He hired a Columbia University math professor, Carl Leffler, to help him increase the number of combinations in bingo cards. By 1930, Leffler had invented 6,000 different bingo cards. [It is said that Leffler then went insane.]

http://inventors.about.com/library/inven...lbingo.htm

[EyeScream]

LOL 

I played the game, but when I was making it I placed the phrases I had heard in such a way that they didn't line up vertically, horizontally, diagonally or four corners. So I can't win. Otherwise I would have been rigging it. and that's bad.  :Hpr:

[Lurker.In.The.Night]

Eye, I have to say, that looks like pure awesomesauce. 

[liz]

I have another game I like to play at the office....Bullshit Bingo...

Every 'catch phrase' they use at work (ad nauseum) has it's own square.

During a meeting, if you can check off 5 phrases in a row...stand up and shout BULLSHIT!

After all, we need to streamline the whole process while thinking outside of the box and providing excellent customer service.