Urglu

This morning while riding the bus to school, I watched as a woman got on the bus with a scarf wrapped around her face like it was 20-below outside. (It was actually 40, with a stiff wind and some snow.) Apparently, she had a cell phone buried under the scarf and was having a single-word conversation with someone on the other end.

I had to chuckle as I recalled the old “urglu” game. For those of you who never had to do one of those ridiculous getting-to-know-you games, the object is to appear to have a complete conversation using only the word “urglu”. In this case, however, I think the word was a breathy “murfff”.

“Murfff…. murfff… murfff. Murfff-murfff. Murfff? Murfff. Murfff-murfff.”