OT-Turkey & all the fixings!

[Ellie]

Once I got on here I realized not everyone celebrated Thanksgiving. I just want to say "Happy Day".

[Mofo Rising]

I was just going to post something to this effect.

Since I can't be with my family (little distance of some 2000 miles), I spend Thanksgiving with my friends.  Lots of turkey, lots of drinking.

Hope everybody else has fun.

-Mofo Rising



Post Edited (11-27-03 15:43)

[Scott]

For me today it's Turkey, Walking the Dog, Exercise, and a game of Monopoly with my Daughter while watching MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET on NBC.

Seen some of the parades from New York and Philadelphia while preparing Thanksgiving dinner this morning. Those marching band drumlines from Texas, Ohio, and Illinois were really good for marching bands.

[Susan]

For me it's wine, turkey, snacks, wine, and about 3 days of RISK..i always feel like global domination on holidays....

[Scott]

Oh, Wow I played RISK for years as a teenager.  Is it the board game or the newer PC version?

How about that George W. Bush going to Iraq today for Thanksgiving? This is a great president taking the battle to the enemy. My only complaint is we are giving that country back, but as far as the President he's the best thing going at this time. How about his speech in England last week? He's a great one.

[Susan]

>>Oh, Wow I played RISK for years as a teenager. Is it the board game or the newer PC version?<,

I'm all about the board games..it doesn't seem people really play board games anymore so it's always hard to find willing participants (aka victims) - but I absolutely LOVE them. I have the old risk game (i saw there's a new 2230 AD game or something with snazzier looking pieces). Of course I hate how the newer boards fold into a square..makes game playing harder since it doesn't lay flat. The only new game I have is the collectors Clue game (only because the pewter pieces are cool!) but all my old games are hand-me-downs from my childhood. And alot of those were bought secondhand at yardsales..lol. And i've always had a tradition of saving all the scorecards and dating them...makes it interesting to whip it out and say "hey look, i beat you 3 times in a row back in 1985!"

I don't doubt i need help.....

[Scott]

Yea, I use to have the game CLUE. Mr. Green did it with the candlestick in the study. My favorites were Col. Mustard and Miss Scarlet. I also remember the score sheets. Here is my short list of board games that I played alot.

Stratego - I designed my own boards to go with the pieces from original game. One with a multi-floor castle. Actually made cardboard castle with measured spaces for the pieces

Monopoly  - I use to play this alot in the summers with friends while watching the Gong Show in the 70's.

Risk - One of my favorite games. It took a while before someone bought this one for me, but when I finally had it it became my favorite game.

Tank Battle - Battle of the Bulge was one of my favorite war movies and these tanks were to cool.

Battleship The classic

Carrier Strike - Like the movie Midway. Aircraft carriers and planes. Shoot down the planes and sink the carriers.

Payday - Fun game for everyone.

Life - The game of life. I use to put the extra people under the car. Even as kids we found living the adult life interesting as we went through different stages in Life.

Trouble  - Loved that little popcorn machine. I used that device for other board games that I made up. One was a race car game that was an oval track with 4 lanes and if you popped an odd number you could switch lanes.

Electric Football - With the vibrating playing field. Those plays never really went the right direction, but it was fun and I passed many hours away with that thing. (not really a board game, but I thought I'd throw it in)

Battling Tops  - Never actually had this game, but a neihbor did and I loved it. The tops would be wrapped with a string with a finger holder and you would rip then into a shallow bowl shaped area and when they touched they would fly out of the arena because the tops had like 4-5 sides and when the tops spun they would hit those knobs and someones top would be eliminated.

Checkers - Played when very young with my father.

Chinese Checkers - Fun game. I like when you have mutiple players.

Chess - Believe it or not I never played this game till about 7 years ago when my Father In Law taught me the moves. I've become good at it, but my 15 year old daughter can beat me most of the time. This is actually the best of all board games. We've been playing  it often over the past 7 years.

Scrabble This is the game we play as a family often for about 7 years also. We have the Anniversery rotating board. Always fun.

[Susan]

I had most of the games above (still have em actually). Also played "Six million dollar man" and other novelty games of the time. Have the old old old Password game, boggle, spill and spell, perquacky, Facts in Five (a much more involving and difficult game similar to scattegories).....i'm big on word games, Sorry, Payday, Life, I think I had a glow in the dark Stratego. Growing up we never really had the kiddie games of chutes and ladders and hungry hippos, if I wanted to play those i went to my friends houses. Except I think we had "Numbers up"

 But early on I got used to watching and then later playign the more complicated games with my family. I  also had a really neat old maid deck of cards that I have no idea what happened to. And i think i'm so monopolied out i'll never play that one again...

[JohnL]

I guess I'm the exception. Other than the classics (checkers & chess), the only board games I've played have been Scrabble and Battleship. Oh, I did have a copy of Mousetrap with a missing part, but never really played it much.

I love Battleship though.

[Susan]

How can one not love battleship? Although I have issues, I think boys in general tend to be sorer losers than girls (from life experience even now i see how the boys HATE losing that they'll try and cheat or throw the game). During one battleship game my brother kept "excusing" himself during my turn...which was fine since it gave me time to think. Then he'd return and kick my butt. Come to find out he was sneaking out the side door to the house and going to the back sliding glass door (strategically located directly behind me) and jotting down all my ship locations on a napkin...

[ulthar]

This Thanksgiving was kinda a first for us ... we usually go and spend it at my sister's house, which is more or less the central location for my family.  This year, partly because my wife had to work all night Wed. night, we decided to 'just stay home.'  She wanted to cook a real Thanksgiving dinner herself; in the 7 years we've been married, and the nine years we have been a couple, we have never done this.

One of the highlights was watching the Dog Show on tv ... I have never watched a dog show on tv before, but while flipping around looking for something to watch, our 15 mo old daughter got a big kick out of watching the fuzzy, floppy dogs run around the screen.  She was so delighted by this, I just could not change the channel.

We also watched Miracle on 34th Street.  Great stuff.

And the Dolphins actually beat Dallas!

I actually cooked our turkey on the ole charcoal grill ... and I must say, it came out perfect.  First time for that, too.  Add to that the homemade bread (no bread making machine, either), the homemade stuffing, the homemade mashed potatoes and other fixin's my wife put together, and we had a great, thankfully quiet, dinner.  It will be one I remember.

[FearlessFreep]

it doesn't seem people really play board games anymore so it's always hard to find willing participants (aka victims) - but I absolutely LOVE them.

My wife and I played Scrabble last night.

Other than that, yesterday was pretty depressing.  I'm unemployed and looking for work.  When the rest of the world shuts down for weekends and holidays, it  also shuts  down the ability to get work.   Unfortunately, people keep eating and we keep using water, electricity, etc..life goes on.    I'm in the middle of a long weekend of watching my resources dwindle and my chances to renew them idled

[JohnL]

>How can one not love battleship?

I always wanted to write an updated version of Battleship for the computer. It would have options like one-space decoys, ships that can move between turns etc. The problem was that I only know how to program the C64 and since I'm not great with assembly, it would have been all in BASIC and horribly slow. :(

>even now i see how the boys HATE losing that they'll try and cheat or throw the

I've never had to cheat at Battleship. :)

[FearlessFreep]

I always wanted to write an updated version of Battleship for the computer.

You could do it as a web application with two remote players in a game over browsers.

[JohnL]

>You could do it as a web application with two remote players in a game over
>browsers.

Yes, except for the fact that I don't know how...