Some of you don't seem to know about Goth Bingo. Goth bingo is a simple web page that we did a while back. It's more if an in-joke (or conceptual art, if you will) than a game that people play. The idea is simple - print out a card, take it to Camden market on Saturday (or the pub on a Thursday night) and cross off the things that you see that are on the card. The first person to get five in a row wins. ¹

Now I am working on a couple of variations of this. These will surface in due course, but for now I would like suggestions on what to put in the lists.

One is the more usual buzzword bingo, with buzzwords (from "Web 2.0" to "SOA") chosen from today's IT office environment, to be played in company meetings. I need baffling yet popular phrases for this one.

The other is Celebrity Bingo - ripped from tomorrow's headlines - those of a trashy tabloid, anyway. Print out a card, choose a celeb, and keep reading your loathsome scandal rag. Anything that appears in print about them that matches the events on your card (e.g. "Drunk in public", "wardrobe malfunction", "stopped by police", "visits 3rd world country", "adopts a baby") could make you a lucky winner!¹ For this one I'm looking for things that have actually happened to famous people, yet are improbable or just plain weird. Hopefully it will end up on the fine edge between ironic celeb worship and shadenfreude humour.

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1) You don't actually win anything from me. You can set up your own betting pool if you so wish. but you do win the game.²

2) Which I have just lost. Rats.