Fun game, but NEVER play it with anyone who has rules lawyer tendencies.

Yes this. Also true for Mao. Unless you are with playfully contentious people, that way lies sharp objects and alibi seeking.

Jesse, it wasn't something the software was supposed to tell you about? That's a major major pisser. My return got kicked back, but in time for me to resubmit ahead of the deadline.

I remember we played a lot of Illuminati in university. It was so bad that people wouldn't want to get up and pee. I don't remember thing one of the rules, just that it induced the most severe paranoia, more than Diplomacy, at which I was actually (technically) cheating.

Jesse, it wasn't something the software was supposed to tell you about?

I do believe it was something the software was supposed to tell me about, but damned if I know exactly what happened. So annoyed!

Is 5 pieces of regular paper per ounce the actual rule of thumb, or did I make that up? To top things off, I'm almost out of stamps, and have no idea how I would get to a post office. I wonder what the mailroom at work can do for me?

GRRRRR.

Jesse, that massively sucks. I am sorry.

OK, am taking deep breaths now. And remembering that I can be in a Turkish bath in just over a week....

Also, Jen, I voted for your roommate, and not only because we have the same Le Crueset!

I was hoping that this would be a quiet week at the office. But then today happened, and now I would like to resign from adulthood, please.

Apparently a lycanthrope is someone who (because they're mentally ill) thinks they're a werewolf, and a doppleganger is a ghostly double.

This is so wrong. Lycanthrope = werewolf. The question there would be whether the person was correct or delusional. A doppleganger doesn't have to be ghostly. In literary criticism, at least, it is merely a double, frequently one exhibiting opposite personality traits. William Wilson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Picture of Dorian Gray are all considered uses of the doppleganger.

I am with Ginger.

f curse, i am pretty sure my introduction to the word doppelganger was Flowers in the Attic.

Never let it be said that bad fiction doesn't teach you anything.

I would like to play Balderdash with Buffistas. With others, I either am (a) right or (b) people think I'm right all the time, so i always win.

dcp, I know, but my purse? It is the black hole of stuff. My touch, I always have and NEVER leave anywhere, so it would be more reliable than a wee flash drive, stuck in my home laptop, when I am at school. Or in the OTHER purse, or in the work PC, when I am at home.

I used to have a nurse's necklace watch, when I was teaching in a room with no clock, and that was great. I need a retractable flash-drive necklace, that is cute.

Can I bedazzle a flash drive?

When is a flash drive a "dongle"? Also, if I never have to hear my boss at the theatre talking about his "dongle" again, it will be to soon.