I was wondering if there is any way possible that Helen Thomas was just being old and crotchety
"I introduced Agnew to the ways of love, dammit! I can say what I want!"
Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets. But that's air through the engine. It's past. We're business people.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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.
Volans - Jun 07, 2010 11:34:47 am PDT #4861 of 30001
move out and draw fire
Liese S. - Jun 07, 2010 11:48:59 am PDT #4862 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Awesome.
beth b - Jun 07, 2010 11:49:54 am PDT #4863 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I used to play Life with kids I babysat for. I always lost spectacularly. I always ended with billions of children and no money
billytea - Jun 07, 2010 11:51:24 am PDT #4864 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
We had this marvellous game in England which was British Rail, and you had to work out how to get from place A to place B most efficiently, and we were all up on the entire rail system plus tourist destinations.
Oh my gosh, I would LOVE that game!!
I think it's still available. If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's part of a whole series of rail games. The original was Empire Builder; Eurorails is in the series too.
Kathy A - Jun 07, 2010 11:58:44 am PDT #4865 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Backgammon was a game my sister and I got into in high school. Euchre was the hot card game in our high school before I started, but I learned to play so I could partner with my older siblings and cousins. By the time I started high school, though, it was a dying fad, and after freshman year, I didn't play again until a few decades later.
§ ita § - Jun 07, 2010 12:01:23 pm PDT #4866 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's part of a whole series of rail games
Were you thinking of Great Game of Britain?
Hmm. Now I'm wondering if I can get a good backgammon game for my phone.
meara - Jun 07, 2010 12:02:49 pm PDT #4867 of 30001
We played euchre all the time in high school, but it's a very regional game.
Hil R. - Jun 07, 2010 12:03:40 pm PDT #4868 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
We had a month of school left after the calculus AP exam, so our teacher used it to teach us how to play bridge.
billytea - Jun 07, 2010 12:07:12 pm PDT #4869 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Board games and card games were a huge part of my childhood, and indeed adult life. As a teenager I was particularly into strategy wargames, like Squad Leader or Rise and Decline of the Third Reich. (Props to my dad for owning Diplomacy too; there began my love of multiplayer cutthroat games. My parents also owned this odd little game called Spy Ring, which I found fascinating.)
At uni it was trick-taking card games, primarily 500 and Black Lady. Pit was a revelation. Nowadays, the card game I'm most into is Race for the Galaxy. I've played it, occasionally obsessively, for well over a year and it just never gets old.
billytea - Jun 07, 2010 12:07:38 pm PDT #4870 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Were you thinking of Great Game of Britain?
No, British Rails.