SCHOOL'S OUT!!!!
ahem...
I may be a bit excited.
I've got two words that are going to make all the pain go away. Miniature Golf.
Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
ChiKat - Jun 07, 2010 8:53:57 am PDT #4754 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Zenkitty - Jun 07, 2010 8:54:07 am PDT #4755 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
They never let you join in any of the reindeer games, eh?
No! Meanies! runs away and hides
morality pictures
nasty freaking moralising piece of puritanical propaganda
Wait, what? In a board game?
Maybe I'm just as glad we didn't have it. We had enough puritanical moralizing as it was.
Kathy A - Jun 07, 2010 8:57:53 am PDT #4756 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I grew up with board games! Monopoly, Tripoly, Sorry!, Pit, Operation, Which Witch?, and so many others.
Oh, and card games, everything from gin rummy to cribbage, poker, canasta (with my grandparents), pinochle (with my aunt and uncle), and endless games of solitaire (which I always cheated at by pulling out the turned-down cards from the bottom of the piles).
juliana - Jun 07, 2010 8:58:55 am PDT #4757 of 30001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
SCHOOL'S OUT!!!!
For summer? Or just forever?
(Sorry, I automatically go to the Alice Cooper place when I see that phrase.)
Zenkitty - Jun 07, 2010 9:01:51 am PDT #4758 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
We played Monopoly, and checkers and Chinese checkers, neither of which I remember how to play now. My folks played a card game called Rook, which I never played and have no idea how it's done.
Mostly I spent I my childhood in a self-imposed timeout, in order to avoid other humans as much as possible.
Jesse - Jun 07, 2010 9:03:09 am PDT #4759 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I will still cheat at Solitaire if I'm playing with actual cards....
And I've never seen a kid freak out over a board game more than Chutes and Ladders, holy crap. It's apparently super traumatic to be sent down the chute. I can only imagine if it had been a snake!
brenda m - Jun 07, 2010 9:03:59 am PDT #4760 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I have no memory at all of the moralizing imagery. Subtlety is kind of lost on me sometimes, and I'm sure that was no different as a kid.
Did anyone else have Uncle Wiggly?
Amy - Jun 07, 2010 9:07:09 am PDT #4761 of 30001
Because books.
We had the Uncle Wiggly game!
P.M. Marc - Jun 07, 2010 9:08:44 am PDT #4762 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Wait, what? In a board game?
This is the thing that bothers me most: it's a game of chance -- spin the wheel, land where it puts you. So adding moral lessons in the form of images (top of a chute shows a child doing something naughty, bottom of a ladder shows a child doing something good) to a destination determined by a random spin of a wheel just makes my skin crawl. Like you're subconsciously being blamed for what's just luck of the draw. It's everything that I find disgusting about American attitudes packaged in a box and fed to our children.
Jesse - Jun 07, 2010 9:09:58 am PDT #4763 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Calvinism, right?