Chinese whispers

"Chinese whispers" was a colloquialism for a phenomenon of oral communication. As the First Doctor once tried to explain to James, Hebron and Daniel, a story could get very confused as it was told and retold. If, to give the Doctor's example, a man told two other men that he had three oxen and a box that travels through space, a person several steps away from the original two men might say that the original man had ten oxen and a box that travelled in time. (PROSE: ) The Tenth Doctor compared the history of the planet Messaline to the game. (TV: )
Category:Jargon, slang and colloquialisms
Category:Communication
Category:Truth
Category:Psychology from the real world
Category:Games from the real world