Jul 03, 2009 22:11
This is not like my recent posts. I was watching an episode of American Dad in which a scene plays out where Roger asks Steve if he would like to play a game of Jenga. This brought me to remember how I told a bunch of elementary school students at the after school program I worked at that the creators of jenga were a brazilian family that lived in poverty whose only means of entertainment was to carve blocks of wood from bamboo chutes and play the game we all know today as jenga.
This got me to wonder about the true origins of Jenga and I found this on wikipedia:
Jenga is a game of physical and mental skill created by Leslie Scott, and marketed by the Milton Bradley Company, a division of Hasbro. In Jenga, players take turns to remove a block from a tower and balance it on top, creating a higher and increasingly unstable structure as the game progresses. The word jenga is derived from kjenga, the Swahili verb "to build"; jenga! is the imperative form.
So there you have it, there are about 30 people who will be adults shortly that are living a lie.