Awesome.
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
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.
Liese S. - Jun 07, 2010 11:48:59 am PDT #4862 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
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.
JZ - Jun 07, 2010 12:09:37 pm PDT #4871 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Erin, just knowing that Mrs. Mooney existed has improved my day.
One year my family went up to Tahoe almost every single weekend, and we spent every single night playing cribbage. I don't even remember how to play it anymore, but just seeing the board and the pegs makes me feel all content and warm and summer-nights-y.