'Heart Of Gold'
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.
Games I loved: Milles Bournes, Trivial Pursuit, Connect Four, Yahtzee, Scrabble, Backgammon
Games I like(d): Clue, Battleship, Connect Four, poker, Uno
Games I loathed: Monopoly and most chance games. I really hated (and still pretty much do) any game the outcome of which was entirely based on chance. I just did not see the point.
I loved Masterpiece. I think if we found a Masterpiece set and a Clue set, we could TOTALLY put together a Leverage game, Tom.
Yahtzee! I forgot about that one, played that as a kid, play that now.
Isn't that essentially the basis of Catholicism?
I think that is essentially the basis of Protestantism. The Catholics thought that there was good and evil in everyone, and you could "earn" good by good works, confession. Eventually this led to corruption and selling of indulgences and all sorts of things.
The Protestant view (in the Reformation) was that everything was black and dark in all of our souls, but some people had a pre-determined "cloak of grace" that covered up all the nastiness. And since it was all pre-determined, you had no control over whether you were going to heaven or hell BUT you didn't know which was you were to go, so you needed to act good just in case. It never really made since to me, but I was taught this at a nominally Catholic college, so maybe I am wrong.
Hah! Leverage, the game: [link]
We played card games and Risk. Sometimes Monopoly but my brother always got caught embezzling when he was banker.
Predestination is not found in all branches of protestantism -- that's the Calvinists.
I think if we found a Masterpiece set and a Clue set, we could TOTALLY put together a Leverage game, Tom.
If I had only known. I saw a Masterpiece game at a rummage sale only 2 weeks ago.
Did Helen Thomas just wake up and say to herself, "Fuck it. I'm old and I'm gonna say some outrageous shit today."?
Apparently? I guess she's Lebanese-American, so maybe not super impartial, but...yeah. Weird. Disappointing, cause...crazy. Jews should go back to Germany and Poland? Yeah, that's a GREAT plan, Helen...
I am bummed because I've admired Helen Thomas for YEARS. She chose a crap way to retire.