blackberry spotto: fun game for the whole family

Have you ever played the game "spotto" on a road trip? Regular Lawyer used to play it with friends and family on childhood trips down south. The aim of the game was to spot as many different VW buggies (or "Herbies") on the way to the trailer park.

These days, Regular Lawyer plays a different version of spotto on trips down the terrace or at the pub, the aim being to spot as many pompous colleagues as possible playing with their blackberries. The scoring goes something like this:

• 1 point: spotting of regular lawyer git with head up arse pretending to check email messages on the blackberry.
• 2 points: spotting a serial offender jackass. You know, the types with an obsessive compulsive neurosis that requires them to check the blackberry every 5 seconds, like the next call could be a deal-breaker. (Regular Lawyer doesn't know what a deal-breaker might be, but Regular Lawyer's important collegues seem to bandy the phrase around while looking concerned and repeatedly checking their blackberries).
• 3 points: spotting a blackberry pretender. These guys pose like cool kids, pretending like they don't really care about their blackberry, but secretly they need it like Simon Watters needs a colonoscopy (you'll know what Regular Lawyer means if you read Simon's regular 'From the Vine' contributions to Brief).
• 5 points: spotting a complete nob-cheese. This guy pretends to take important calls on the blackberry, talking loudly with big words, only to find the thing rings when it's attached to their ear. Nob-cheeses, like truffles, are rare but worth their weight in gold when you sniff them out.

Regular Lawyer posted a score of 23 today at lunchtime. Regular Lawyer invites its members and readers to better that score.