'War Stories'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Perhaps you should contact Oliver Sacks?
Oh please don't - according to 2 completely unconnected sources (1 fellow neurologist and 1 ex-patient) he's a great writer but a TERRIBLE doctor. You ever notice how his books are all about incurable cases? That's because he's not very good at helping people get better.
damn.
bubble burst and it isn't even 8 am.
This kind of makes me want to bust out the Monopoly board.
No shit. That makes it a whole different game. I can see it causing more fights to break out than Risk played that way.
Ha!
I recall that we always played the "short" form of Monopoly - and that when you play Monopoly with children (which is what I and my brothers are) there are somethings that you don't bother with - like auctioning property.
One of my co-workers has a son who is playing with a couple of local municipal bands. One of them has Johan de Meij guest conducting and he contributed music to the LotR symphony. Isn't that cool?
And in Mexico a 15 year old was arrested for "cartel killings" - he says he started murdering people when he was 11. Yikes.
In happier news: check out this Iron Throne cake.
I don't think I have ever played Monopoly the whole way through. I always found it super boring. Although maybe with this auction things it would work. The funny thing is that without the auction, the only thing that ever seemed to make it fun was cheating and bribing the banker and stuff
Even played by the proper rules, Monopoly is still pretty flawed. It can be fun while properties are still unowned and you're trying to finish your sets, but thereafter, working your way to a winner can be a bit of a grind. (And it's usually apparent who the winner will be a while before it happens. This is another area where common house rules make things worse.)
If you like the auction mechanism, here are some other games worth looking for:
Taj Mahal
Ra
Modern Art
If you like trading games, here are some good options:
Bohnanza (I love this one, it's light and can really get people into the swing of things)
Pit (adrenaline rush!)
Genoa
Settlers of Catan
Settlers of Catan
This is an awesome game.
Fox is going to limit next day streaming on Hulu to paying cable customers.
Love Settlers of Catan!