FEBRUARY 6th - Other Than That It's a Really Good Game
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On this day in 1935, the Monopoly board game by Parker Brothers went on sale. The game can be traced back 1903 and Lizzie J. Maggie Phillips, but it wasn’t until 1935 that Monopoly as we know it came to be. It’s great game. I mean, sure, if you get lucky enough to land on Boardwalk and Park Place and you throw a couple of hotels on those bad boys, you’re in the colored money and pretty much running stuff. But it is still a fun way to pass the time. Plus it always makes dining at McDonald's more enjoyable. The only gripe I have about this iconic American board game is the quite unrealistic expectations of jail that it promotes. Imagine: the family is sitting around playing some Monopoly trying to teach the young one the importance of money, when little Tommy gets thrown in the clink for landing on the Go-to-jail spot. Granted this could influence Tommy to avoid trespassing, and with just a little speech from Mom and Dad it could impress the dangers of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The life lessons pretty much fade away after that. Sure, Tommy can’t collect his $200 dollars if he is in prison, but then nobody in real life gives you 200 bucks for making it around the block. Then there’s the whole get-out-of-jail-free card which is completely unrealistic unless you were an athlete before OJ Simpson's little trial or you are a high-ranking politician. And then three times around the block and you just get out? And you continue to play the game and buy properties without anybody questioning your integrity or giving your grief about your time spent in the pokey? I think not, Parker Brothers. Completely unrealistic. Little Tommy’s first impression of prison is that it ain’t so bad. Fast forward twenty years and little Tommy has smashed into a station wagon full of orphans while wasted on coke, injuring some people severely and gets some legitimate time in the pen, where he is introduced to a large, angry, Scandinavian inmate named Goulash who offers to protect little Tommy for a price. And that price isn’t the inability to collect 200 dollars, my friend. And it’s probably not just cornbread either. But that’s my only gripe. Other than that it’s a really good game.
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On this day in 1935, the Monopoly board game by Parker Brothers went on sale. The game can be traced back 1903 and Lizzie J. Maggie Phillips, but it wasn’t until 1935 that Monopoly as we know it came to be. It’s great game. I mean, sure, if you get lucky enough to land on Boardwalk and Park Place and you throw a couple of hotels on those bad boys, you’re in the colored money and pretty much running stuff. But it is still a fun way to pass the time. Plus it always makes dining at McDonald's more enjoyable. The only gripe I have about this iconic American board game is the quite unrealistic expectations of jail that it promotes. Imagine: the family is sitting around playing some Monopoly trying to teach the young one the importance of money, when little Tommy gets thrown in the clink for landing on the Go-to-jail spot. Granted this could influence Tommy to avoid trespassing, and with just a little speech from Mom and Dad it could impress the dangers of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The life lessons pretty much fade away after that. Sure, Tommy can’t collect his $200 dollars if he is in prison, but then nobody in real life gives you 200 bucks for making it around the block. Then there’s the whole get-out-of-jail-free card which is completely unrealistic unless you were an athlete before OJ Simpson's little trial or you are a high-ranking politician. And then three times around the block and you just get out? And you continue to play the game and buy properties without anybody questioning your integrity or giving your grief about your time spent in the pokey? I think not, Parker Brothers. Completely unrealistic. Little Tommy’s first impression of prison is that it ain’t so bad. Fast forward twenty years and little Tommy has smashed into a station wagon full of orphans while wasted on coke, injuring some people severely and gets some legitimate time in the pen, where he is introduced to a large, angry, Scandinavian inmate named Goulash who offers to protect little Tommy for a price. And that price isn’t the inability to collect 200 dollars, my friend. And it’s probably not just cornbread either. But that’s my only gripe. Other than that it’s a really good game.
This day has been Marked.
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