The Off Topic Topic

[Razgovory]

I'm going to have to back Neil on this one.  Everything after Aliens has been crap.

You're siding with Tim

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.  Unless it's on fire or something.

[The Brain]

The Game of Life is a much more accurate portrayal of the modern economy anyway.  Put your cash on the Market strip, spin the spinner, watch your retirement disappear gambling on Wall Street.

I miss the old sets where you could sell your children.

[Liep]

Yay! We get to watch for white smoke again.

[Josquius]

I've never in my life that I can recall finished a game of monopoly.  It always went on way too long and people had to leave.

[Eddie Teach]

We always had trades, sometimes involving 3 or more people, where everyone ended up with a monopoly.

Also I just realized why Park Place always seemed to be the hardest property to get- it's 7 spaces after the Go to Jail square. So statistically it is going to be the least likely square to land on.

[Josephus]

The Game of Life is a much more accurate portrayal of the modern economy anyway.  Put your cash on the Market strip, spin the spinner, watch your retirement disappear gambling on Wall Street.

I miss the old sets where you could sell your children.

You can't do that anymore?

[Josephus]

Yeah we used to do trades too. In fact that was the fun part. After all deeds were sold we would trade back and forth  until everyone had monopolies. My strategy was always to get the Park Place monopoly and the cheap brown one, the first trio right after Start. This gave you a nice, yet affordable, strip to own. Putting hotels on those cheap brown properties was capable of bankrupting people, especially if they just finished paying rent on the dark blue properties.

[garbon]

The Game of Life is a much more accurate portrayal of the modern economy anyway.  Put your cash on the Market strip, spin the spinner, watch your retirement disappear gambling on Wall Street.

I miss the old sets where you could sell your children.

You can't do that anymore?

As far as I remember, in the newer sets you don't get cash for the children you had.

[Josephus]

That was the only point to having those four kids in your car, is you got to cash them in  at the end.

[garbon]

That was the only point to having those four kids in your car, is you got to cash them in  at the end.

I think now when you have that happen - you get a life tile which I think is typically worth some hidden amount of money (you flip over once you are retiring). So now less about child slave auction.

[Admiral Yi]

The inventor of The Etch and Sketch was a Frenchman!

[MadImmortalMan]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2272031/Vladimir-Putin-hires-Boyz-II-Men-boost-Russian-birth-rate.html

[jimmy olsen]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2272031/Vladimir-Putin-hires-Boyz-II-Men-boost-Russian-birth-rate.html

I'll do the hard work for free.

[Eddie Teach]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2272031/Vladimir-Putin-hires-Boyz-II-Men-boost-Russian-birth-rate.html

I'll do the hard work for free.

Ok. Here is assignment:

[Ed Anger]

Mart is in danger:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/9862776/Sorcery-crackdown-Chechnya-leader-orders-hard-line-on-wizards.html

Sorcery crackdown: Chechnya leader orders hard line on wizards