You probably already know about Boring Meeting Bingo, also known as Bull$#!t Bingo. First you make a bingo card with a grid five boxes wide by five boxes high. Into each of the twenty-five resulting boxes you write catchwords or catchphrases that are likely to be used during the meeting. When one of those words or phrases is used during the meeting, you put an “X” through it. When you get five “X”s in a row, either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, you shout out “BINGO!”
You may also know that there are online random bingo card generators which use specific lists of catchwords and catchphrases to generate bingo cards for Education Bingo, Marketing Bingo, Software Bingo, etc.
Well, I want to play denominational-specific Unitarian Universalist Boring Meeting Bingo in the worst kind of way. But I haven’t been able come up with enough Unitarian Universalist catchwords and catchphrases. I have to attend several meetings a month where I want to play this game, and I’ll want to play against other people, so I’m going to need forty or more UU catchwords and catchphrases.
So I need your help. Below is my list of UU catchwords and catchphrases thus far. Please add your contributions to this list in the comments below! (I left out acronyms because they seem too easy, but maybe you can convince me otherwise.)
- anti-oppression
- fiscally responsible
- policy governance
- herding cats
- mission statement
- empowerment
- prioritize
- safe congregation
- win-win
- walk the talk
- lay leader
- interfaith
- stewardship
- inherent worth
- process observer
- check-in
Ideally, I’d like to come up with a ton of these bingo cards to bring to General Assembly (oo, add that phrase to the list), our annual denominational meeting. Imagine hundreds of people bending over their bingo cards during some terminally boring discussion — when suddenly at the back of the hall, someone stands up and shouts “BINGO!” — pandemonium ensues…. [Update: Niko tells me that Boring Meeting Bingo did take place at General Assembly back in 2005. Maybe someone can track down one of those bingo cards and give us the catchwords and catchphrases used on those cards?]
covenant
caring community
congregational polity
spiritual not religious
fair share
non-creedal faith
green sanctuary
canvas
Spirit of Life
language of reverence
(I think you should add the initials in. Every bingo card has a few freebie spaces on them. DRE, R.E., UUSC, UUA)
religious humanism
group meditation
Not really what you’re looking for, but what’s any UU event without “Coffee”
This is so fun. I’m going to make an Academic Bingo for our first faculty meeting of the year. Heh heh.
Too funny. Please consider the following:
covenant (verb)
affirm
right-relationship
You can run web pages through this keyword generator to get more ideas:
http://www.addme.com/keyword-density.htm
Jean, don’t work to hard–the work has already been done for you
here.
“too” I meant “too” hard!
I second “affirm” and raise you an “honor that,” and also “justice” and “equity,” with a dash of “youth” and “young adults.”
And perhaps “life-time UUs” and “spiritually wounded.”
;-)
strategic plan
trust the process
welcoming congregation
recovering___ (fill in the blank denomination, e.g., “recovering Catholic”)
“birthright UU”
Beloved Community
Hi Angela – The education cards are close, but some miss the mark a bit for higher ed. We don’t — yet, anyway — have “parent teacher conferences” “SPED” and other public school stuff. Although, a lot of these are darn close to what we say in meetings. A little whiteout and I think we may be ready to proceed. Trial run tomorrow…!
Jean @ 10 — You wrote: “Trial run tomorrow…!”
Do tell us how it went….
Sigh. It didn’t go very well. I was the only one who played wholeheartedly. In fact, when I (along with my two partners) recognized that we had a bingo…I was the only one who shouted: BINGO! No, even I didn’t shout BULLSHIT! But being the lone BINGO shouter was … well … lonely. I got a long, grumpy look from the Dean.