Topic: THEY'RE OFF AND RUNNING (Read 23527 times)

Ben · « **Reply #90 on:** July 25, 2005, 12:10:08 PM »

I want to see March of the Penguins also. It looks charming.

MBarnum · « **Reply #91 on:** July 25, 2005, 12:13:19 PM »

The person I am MOST excited about meeting at the Burbank show is

MR Rex Reason!

MBarnum · « **Reply #92 on:** July 25, 2005, 12:19:24 PM »

wOOHOO AND HURRAH! I just won this wonderful British version of the poster for my favorite film ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE (know in England as SIX INCHES TALL)...it only cost me 19 pounds which seems like a good price...although i have no idea how much that really is. LOL!

I am just happy to have it!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #93 on:** July 25, 2005, 12:24:18 PM »

That's about $34, DRMBARNUM according to my handy Yahoo currency converter.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #94 on:** July 25, 2005, 12:24:54 PM »

PIT!!!

I love that game. And UNO!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #95 on:** July 25, 2005, 12:25:12 PM »

Brake pads and car maintenance are most annoying.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #96 on:** July 25, 2005, 12:25:27 PM »

But not as annoying as feeding and saddling a horse everyday.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #97 on:** July 25, 2005, 12:29:43 PM »

Ain't it the truth, DR DtM. You made me laugh!

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #98 on:** July 25, 2005, 12:49:14 PM »

I'm not much of a gambler: In Vegas, I like the restaurants and I occasionally will drop some money in the slots. If I lose more than twenty, I quit.

I'll ocassionally play poker, but I hate all the elaborate games. I like 5-7 card stud or draw. Maybe one wild card.

Board games: I love Scrabble, Boggle, Trivial Pursuit. I like the old versions of the games...the regular Genus version, Silver Screen, the Baby Boomer Edition, and one that is about the Twenties up to the Fifties...can't remember the name.

I haven't played Clue in years. We have a couple of Board games that are based on the popular parlour game like Dictionary. But we like just the regular old version. We also have a variation we play where we take a film book like Leonard Maltin's. A description or log line is read of a movie and then everyone has to write out a title for the movie and everybody guesses on which is the real title. Many just blow it off and write hysterically funy titles. We use two such titles for the name of the game: California Screaming...the description was about homicidal surfers. And Mary Poplar...about supernatural trees.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #99 on:** July 25, 2005, 12:52:28 PM »

Oh I like that movie title game idea, DR CP.

Interesting. And the Blockbuster Movie Book would be good for that....not much else, that's for sure.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #100 on:** July 25, 2005, 12:55:19 PM »

Here's one:

"Woman goes undercover in a sex clinic after her sister, a former patient, dies mysteriously."

Jrand73 · « **Reply #101 on:** July 25, 2005, 12:57:12 PM »

"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But You Were Afraid to AX!"

Jrand73 · « **Reply #102 on:** July 25, 2005, 01:15:16 PM »

Oh well. I thought it was funny.

Off to a HOT rehearsal....heat wise that is.

MBarnum · « **Reply #103 on:** July 25, 2005, 01:17:16 PM »

Yes, poor Myron!

Bobby and Cissy just popped into my mind...I loved them when I was a kid!

Matt H. · « **Reply #104 on:** July 25, 2005, 02:15:24 PM »

How could I have forgotten about Hearts? I remember the hours and hours of hours spent playing Hearts during my freshman year in college, especially on the weekends.

Hadn't thought of that in many years.

Matt H. · « **Reply #105 on:** July 25, 2005, 02:17:37 PM »

Yes, Iread about the death of Myron over the weekend, too, but just never got around to mentioning it.

George · « **Reply #106 on:** July 25, 2005, 02:18:32 PM »

DR Rodzinski, check your (work) mailbox in a few days. DR Tomovoz, check your mailbox in a couple of weeks, or so.

Matt H. · « **Reply #107 on:** July 25, 2005, 02:18:43 PM »

What's the name of the game where you have to hum or whistle a song (can't use lyrics) to your partner/team? We used to play that on workdays at school when he had finished our work.

Matt H. · « **Reply #108 on:** July 25, 2005, 02:20:19 PM »

I just could not keep my eyes open this afternoon when I got in from lunch. After reading awhile and watching some TV, I had to lie down for a nap. That's the first time that's happened all summer.

I just hope I don't regret that tonight when I'm trying to fall asleep.

FJL · « **Reply #109 on:** July 25, 2005, 02:50:51 PM »

Everybody in our house sends good wishes to DR Elmore. That's great news.

My biggest gambling addiction of late has been the hours I spent today on the Unseemly Trivia question when I could have been earning good cash money doing real work and being a productive citizen.

But really, the up side is I've learned even more about theater and film from getting stumped on this one than I did from the ones I've gotten right.

Danise · « **Reply #110 on:** July 25, 2005, 03:10:52 PM »

Evening all! What wonderful news to come home to—DR Elmore has a clean bill of health! Hoo and Ray!

As for the games, I’ve never been much of gambler. I confess I do spend two dollars a week on the lotto. It started on my birthday and I’ve played the same numbers this whole time. I keep hoping that my numbers will come up someday.

I’ve never been to Los Vegas and don’t really have any real longing to do so. Unless they get a show there that I would really like to see or someone **special** was playing there. The gambling angle holds zero interest to me.

Since I was an only child, I almost never had anyone to play board games with me so I played against myself many, many a time. Clue, Bats in the Belfry, The Mummys Curse (or was it Tomb?) Mouse Trap, Life, Mystery Date are the ones that come to mind.

I could get my Mom to play Rummy with me from time to time but I’ve never played Poker or Hearts or Gin or Cribbage. I wouldn’t mind learning them.

Computer games are fun and you don’t need anyone to play them with! The computer is always a willing opponent and I wish I had one when I was growing up. It taught me how to play chess.

I also enjoy Mahjong, a puzzle program (don’t have to worry about losing any pieces) and many of the role playing games. I’m not much on the shoot’em ups.

Meant to tell you all that I got that new Vonage router but haven’t had time to hook it up. If it works the way they say it should, I can call anywhere in the US of A and it won’t cost me a penny more then the $24.99 a month fee. That’s as much as I pay for local phone service only now.

Well, that's all the news that is news around here. Have a good evening all!

Matt H. · « **Reply #111 on:** July 25, 2005, 03:16:12 PM »

DR Danise wrote: "Computer games are fun and you don’t need anyone to play them with! The computer is always a willing opponent and I wish I had one when I was growing up. It taught me how to play chess.

I also enjoy Mahjong, a puzzle program (don’t have to worry about losing any pieces) and many of the role playing games. I’m not much on the shoot’em ups. "

Yes, if there had been computers growing up, I wouldn't have had to constantly pester my family to play board games with me. You couldn't play Clue with one or even two people, so having the computer play the other players has been a godsend.

I learned to play Bridge via the computer. I always wanted to learn how, but my mom just didn't have the patience to teach me. After I learned how, I used to beg her to find a fourth and for us to play, but my parents died before I ever got to play bridge either with them or against them.

Matt H. · « **Reply #112 on:** July 25, 2005, 03:17:18 PM »

Oh, meant to add that I also love computer mah jongg and also played a lot of backgammon with my sister-in-law back when I was living at home with the folks.

bk · « **Reply #113 on:** July 25, 2005, 03:17:56 PM »

I get the oddest e-mails sometimes, via this site. Apparently, I've become The Answer Man. I guess they get her by googling various topics, but today's e-mail was really strange - a lady in Canada wanted to know where she could find the poem of Dangerous Dan McGrew, which her dad used to recite to her all the time.

Of course, the poem itself is called The Shooting of Dan McGrew, but one little "dangerous dan mcgrew" via google got me to the poem, which I cut and pasted into an e-mail response.

bk · « **Reply #114 on:** July 25, 2005, 03:19:11 PM »

I have shaved, and shortly I will shower, and then shortly after that I shall be on my way, walking to the service station that was doing the work on the motor car. I shall then hie myself to my mail place, and then I shall come back here, do a few things, and then be on my way to Ye Olde Hudson Theater.

bk · « **Reply #115 on:** July 25, 2005, 03:27:16 PM »

Welcome six GUESTS! We're talkin' about games of chance. We're talkin' about board games.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #116 on:** July 25, 2005, 03:38:46 PM »

Quote from: Michael Shayne on July 25, 2005, 05:37:30 AM

Why Cluedo?

I do not have a clue. Or even a clew or a cleudo.
It was not a decison that consumers made.

TPunk · « **Reply #117 on:** July 25, 2005, 03:39:20 PM »

When I was growing up I enjoyed playing Oregon Trail on the computer. You played the role of an early settler and had to shoot buffalo and make decisons about what supplied to buy. Every now and then, someone in your party would "die from dysentery." It was quite fun (playing the game, not dysentery).

TPunk · « **Reply #118 on:** July 25, 2005, 03:41:00 PM »

Right now I enjoy playing various card and domino games with Rodzinski's family (they are crazy competitive and will mock you mercilessly!) and playing Mickey's Tetris Challenge on Nintendo.

TPunk · « **Reply #119 on:** July 25, 2005, 03:44:46 PM »

Congrats on the clean bill of health Elmore!

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