[Thread Game] #Whamageddon2021 - WHAM FREE DIE HARDER

[GasBandit]

Fucking Starbucks.

Dude. You went into a starbucks. That's like... going to a dairy in the "don't hear a cow moo" game!

 

[grub]

I haven't been inside a store in over a year, the drive thru is so handy. But with all the shortages in this neck of the woods, I felt I had to in order to not hold up the line.

 

[PatrThom]

Whamhalla avoided...for now.

--Patrick

 

[Sparhawk]

I swear the local radio stations and stores' piped-in music are savvy to this game now, because every time this song comes on, it's the Taylor Swift cover. They're lulling me into a false sense of security, I know it!

EDIT: I was right! They got me this morning as I was dropping Li'l Z off at school. Oh well, at least I can spend the rest of my XMas season stress-free*.


(*Well, no more Wham!-stress. The rest of it....ugh.)

You’re not out. 3rd rule is it must be the original Wham! version of the song.

 

[General Specific]

You’re not out. 3rd rule is it must be the original Wham! version of the song.

I think that's what she's saying, she was getting the Taylor Swift version and then she got the Wham one

 

[jwhouk]

This is correct.

 

[Shawn]

I'm out. 12/8/21 at 3:53am. Stupid hotel lobby holiday music line-up.

 

[Frank]

I'm glad the 3rd rule applies or Little V's cover that I just heard because of Youtube autoplay would have ended me.

 

[Bubble181]

I'm three hours into a six hour shift in a christmas market. Loud poppy christmas music blasting the whole time. Plenty of Last Christmas, but No Wham version yet...

 

[PatrThom]

Loud poppy christmas music blasting the whole time.

Warrrrrr....iiiiiis....ooooooverrrrrr
Nooooooowwwwww...

--Patrick

 

[Bubble181]

I'm three hours into a six hour shift in a christmas market. Loud poppy christmas music blasting the whole time. Plenty of Last Christmas, but No Wham version yet...

Well, that was too good to last. It was until 6pm, and at five to six, as the very last song, they finished with the original. Ah well.

 

[Tress]

I’m out. It was at 7:16pm PST.

Betrayed by my own child.

 

[Tinwhistler]

To make it more fair, I've been going into grocery stores instead of curbside pickup.

Look Halforums! I'm braving Covid for this game! Are you not amused!

Still safe.

 

[blotsfan]

I’m in the grocery store. They’re playing Christmas music. I have a feeling it’s coming. Two songs later I am out.

 

[phil]

How many more need to suffer before wham is held accountable for their crimes?

 

[Celt Z]

I suppose you could write Andrew Ridgeley a strongly worded letter. Dunno if you're going to get much of a response from George Michael.

 

[Sparhawk]

I suppose you could write Andrew Ridgeley a strongly worded letter. Dunno if you're going to get much of a response from George Michael.

I would expect George Michael’s response to be more spiritual in nature.

 

[Celt Z]

Ouija boards are the unwanted calls of the afterlife. Thought you could rest in peace? Nah. Bunch of 12-year-olds want to know if their crush likes them. AGAIN.

 

[bhamv3]

Ouija boards are the unwanted calls of the afterlife. Thought you could rest in peace? Nah. Bunch of 12-year-olds want to know if their crush likes them. AGAIN.

F-F-S-L-E-A-V-E-M-E-A-L-O-N-E

 

[PatrThom]

Hear Wham!’s Last Christmas reimagined by Japanese experimental rockers Boris

The band have issued a surprise two-track Christmas single, dubbed Noël

www.guitarworld.com

No problem telling that this one was a cover.

--Patrick

 

[mikerc]

 

[GasBandit]

I keep forgetting that All I Want For Christmas by Mariah Carey doesn't also disqualify me from this game and I keep thinking I've lost... but I haven't yet.

 

[PatrThom]

I've heard it only one other time this passed Mon while I was waiting in line at the bank.
It's apparently much less common than I thought.

--Patrick

 

[Celt Z]

Around here, The Wham orginal in getting played more and more the closer we get to Christmas. I haven't heard a cover of it in over a week. I swear this is on purpose. (Also, the Grinchy ambulance, who, as part of the townwide Santa visit/parade, had the original blasting over its speakers.)

 

[Tinwhistler]

Spoiler: still alive

 

[Sparhawk]

I’m still around and testing my luck more today by having to go to the mall theater to see No Way Home.

 

[Tinwhistler]

I survived
I even tried to make it more fair by going into the mall, and into grocery stores. Still, I wasn't out in public as much as I'd be in an 'ordinary' year so it doesn't feel like much of a win.

 

[Sparhawk]

I also survived, been in several stores over the past couple of weeks. Even took a day trip up near Tin’s crochet clatch last weekend, with the wife skipping to random Christmas music stations on the drive there and back.

 

[DarkAudit]

Survived. A few Walmart and Food Lion trips, but they didn't get me.

 

[bhamv3]

I surprisingly survived this year.

 

[evilmike]

I haven't been paying the most attention, but I was out as of 8pm Christmas Eve. I was out taking pictures and a car drove by blasting the song.

 

[MindDetective]

I lived!

 

[GasBandit]

I made it, but like Tin, I don't feel like I was ever really in the line of fire.

 

[Tinwhistler]

After 2 years of winning in a row: Winning is not nearly as fun as telling the war story of how you were taken out.

 

[PatrThom]

Winning is not nearly as fun as telling the war story of how you were taken out.

Someone should make a Saving Private Ryan/1917-esque GIF of someone running through wartime, narrowly avoiding being hit by George Michael.

--Patrick