Sometimes a thing gets broke, can't be fixed.

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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.


Sophia Brooks - Jun 07, 2010 3:07:14 pm PDT #4955 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

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.


Strix - Jun 07, 2010 3:07:20 pm PDT #4956 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

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?


Sophia Brooks - Jun 07, 2010 3:10:02 pm PDT #4957 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

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.


Strega - Jun 07, 2010 3:14:34 pm PDT #4958 of 30001

Because I remember there was something where the same person could keep showing you the same card even if they had other ones.

But that only happens if you include something they have in multiple suggestions. Which... means you're made a mistake, really.

Even going around the board you still have to keep track of who has which cards. And what other people make as suggestions, and who disproves what. But it seems like, if you only got to ask one person per turn, the game would take hours.


Connie Neil - Jun 07, 2010 3:20:14 pm PDT #4959 of 30001
brillig

When I Googled it, I found a copy on eBay for $179.00.

Considering the number of pieces and how easy it would be for bits to be bent/rendered unusable, I'm actually not surprised.


brenda m - Jun 07, 2010 3:24:10 pm PDT #4960 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

We played tons of euchre in university. Also mammoth Yatzee games where everyone had like twelve games running simultaneously, like the old ladies at bingo.

Megan, was it you that mentioned Pit? I loved that, but we had to stop playing because my grandmother and great aunt were so cutthroat. Risk was also banned in our house because my mother couldn't take how vicious we all got.


Jessica - Jun 07, 2010 3:33:23 pm PDT #4961 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Cribbage, hearts, and backgammon are my family's staples. We played Monopoly when I was a kid, but my dad and I are too alike for that game to ever go well.

And because we were a family who took long car trips, I spent an obscene amount of money as an adult buying my own copy of the World's Greatest Travel Game on eBay.


Amy - Jun 07, 2010 3:35:11 pm PDT #4962 of 30001
Because books.

I love backgammon. It's the one game I'm pretty cutthroat about, which Ben learned pretty early. I need to teach Sara to play, because checkers get boring.

We had a game I loved as kid, called Waterworks, where you have to piece the cards together to make a pipeline. I rescued it from my parents' basement, and the kids love that one, too.


§ ita § - Jun 07, 2010 3:36:17 pm PDT #4963 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I want you people to call my aunt in New Orleans and tell her about doppleganger werewolves. And you know what? She'll think I'm crazy. But if it had been about Scrabble, she'd still remember.

I can only play Balderdash if I play with my sister. We bullshit alike. Though, now that she has a PhD, I'm sure she can outbullshit me...but she shouldn't.


tommyrot - Jun 07, 2010 3:37:53 pm PDT #4964 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

When is a flash drive a "dongle"?

Sometimes a dongle is a bit of hardware you attach to your computer (I guess they'd all be USB now) that confirms you have a legal copy of some software.