This one is for the nerds Have you played Broken Telephones before?  One person whispers a phrase into the ear of another, who passes it forward, and so on through the chain of participants.  At the end, everyone laughs at the absurd incoherence of the result.  The game reveals an uncomfortable truth: We hear what we think we hear. Distortions are inevitable. Such is life.  It’s funny when children play it. Poetic, even. But it’s something else entirely when, in the “real wor