Updated: the Blogophone game took a turn for the surreal.

Remember a few weeks ago when I suggested a new bloguverse game/meme/time-waster called Blogophone? The concept was to work like this: 1) I create a message and tag it to a single blogger. 2) That blogger interprets my message and repeats it on their site, changed or not. 3) The second blogger sends the message along to a third, and so on.

Essentially I wanted to see if I made a statement about a movie, directors, a celebrity – whatever – if others would reinterpret that message, twist and turn it around as they passed it about and how far it would go. I figured that others would want to put their own particular spin on what I’d said.

As experiments go, I wouldn’t call it a success. But it wasn’t a failure, either; it just got very weird very quickly. Then it kind of died twitching.

My initial message was:

In Live Free Or Die Hard, Len Wiseman shows more respect and understanding of his source material than that shown by Transformers director Michael Bay. Therefore, Wiseman is a better filmmaker than Bay.

I sent it to Piper. He said:

Please flip me and ride hard, oh wiseman because I respect you and understand. I don’t wear course material because it transforms my skin into something resembling the career of Michael Bay.

Curious.

Piper sent the message along to SamuraiFrog, who posited:

Cheese dip and nice cards, Joe Theismann, your cause would expect you to win my hand. I won’t wear your materials until I warm to the Redskins or become something careening into Montego Bay.

SamuraiFrog then forwarded the Blogophone to Splotchy where it became:

Jesus hip and dice cards, yo’ thighs man, your claws would accept two to win my hand. I won’t wear your warm cereal until I warm you the red fins or be some dumb thing-a-reeny in a monkey, okay?

Splotchy tagged Bubs, but it looks like this thing has limped its last.

I will say that, in lieu of an actual film discussion, this was the next best thing: a handful of bloggers flexing their creative muscles in the pursuit of something odd and amusing, and it’s impossible to be disappointed by that.

Piper’s comment on the result was, “Please tell me you’re going to do this again and pick someone more mature.” Not a bad idea, my erudite blogging pal. Here’s a new message:

Ratatouille and The Simpsons Movie deserve, hands down, to be this summer’s biggest blockbusters. They show more innovation and dedication to purely visual filmmaking than the robots, superheroes, pirates and wizards combined.

This time I’ll toss it over the wall to Ray. Here are the original rules:

1. At the bottom of your post, include your version of the statement, changed or not.
2. Pass it along to one single blogger.
3. Link your post back to mine here.