And here we have the lowest common denominator in the game of Draw Something. Using words as part of the drawing is generally considered cheating—especially when a player actually spells out the word you’re trying to guess. (Yes, that has happened.) However, in the example below, the words weren’t so much about cheating as they were my sophomoric attempt at Beavis & Buttheadian humor. Sometimes I use words I think a specific player might understand and appreciate. For example, Stephen Colbert might enjoy my patriotic reference to Team America. I’d probably be chastised for my poorly illustrated eagle, but he’d appreciate the thought. On the other hand, if I were playing this game with Sarah Palin, I’d have to rethink the entire drawing since she doesn’t seem to have a strong grasp of pop culture, irony or geography. (Along with advanced arrow-drawing skills, a Draw Something expert must have the ability to quickly produce a chicken-shaped representation of the United States.) Draw Something isn’t for everybody, but as you can see by my example above (along with this one, this one, this one and this one), you don’t have to be an artist to participate. In fact, it’s probably better for…

If you give a woman a fish, she eats for a day. If you teach her to fish, she eats for a lifetime. If you teach her to draw a person fishing, she’ll have an entirely useless skill set and will starve.