>i>Your challenge, readers, is to choose a common household object, well-known game or hobby and invent a completely fictitious origin story for it, the sillier the better. Off you go.

You mean Call My Bluff then?

Heist! The hilarious game of armed robbery set in Linslade! was actually inspired by real life events. I once stole a giant diamond from the post office in central Leighton Buzzard and got into a lot of trouble for it. Luckily, I had a 'your henchmen have been watching Buffy and feel inspired - they break you out of jail' card, and so all was well.