The Colonel Swears Off Swearing

Another Christmas Bites the Dust

Just a quick photo recap of the winter's gaming so far



Bless us O Mummy!



Ships of the Desert



Sceptre Bearer



Double Agent?



Espionage or Pointless Traipsing About?



Like the Fedoras



Reminds Me a bit of the Mummy Above



Carcassonne



Don't Play This



Mom Always Wins



Never Watched It



Can You Fly a Hot Air Balloon to the Moon?



I Don't Think So



The Colonel Meditates

Guh!

No game night tonight.
Snow. Too much snow.
Ridiculous amounts of snow.
Blast those Archons and their damnable weather machines!
All I ask is a tiny plastic ship and a pair of dice to steer her by.

Bad poetry always ends in a preposition.

See, I have this landlord who's obsessed with french decadence

Opening with the divine Carolyn Jones as "The Existentialist" (1957, same year that saw Audrey Hepburn pursue Epathicalism in Funny Face). Yes, I'd nominate that. Followed by the truly baffling Italian silent L'uomo meccanico.

A sinister robot with a roman nose under the control of the mad Mado.

And what's better than a murderous, lecherous mechanical man? Two mechanical men.

And better than that? A mechanical man with next to nude women.

And so on to the really painful part of the evening, The Cry of the Banshee. Ok, there were witches tit but they cheesed on the banshee, or whatever and what does it mean that they can "make you die a minute every day for a year"? Wouldn't you live longer that way? It did have Hugh Griffith. Say, anybody seen Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad? He was in that too.

Hang on, almost forgot Bill Shatner.

How is that even possible? How desperate (or doped) was he to get involved in the Esperanto epic The Incubus? Apparently only a french subtitled copy of this cursed opus has survived to foist itself on the innocent. Damn French.

Bad Movie Opener, not so bad

My Memory Isn't What It Used to Be

What can exceed the thrill of world travel? Climbing the ladder of sucess? Digging for lexigraphical treasure? A swell game night. Always go for the world map thing. Was a bit becalmed in the Bay of Bengal but still managed to collect enough "tea" and rubies of inestimable value to win this one despite not making it back to home port in Shanghai. Long live the People's Merchant Marine!


North Atlantic


Cargoes

"Endless interest" indeed. "Know Your Merchandise"


To the Sales Clerk

I remember playing this in the distant past.


Careers

But even being "first man in the moon" wasn't enough to take this one. Lost all me money on a second trip to space. How does that happen? Did I leave it on the landing module? And who takes cash to the moon anyway? Game went, as might be expected, to the lawyer.


Experience Necessary

Two quick rounds of lexical dexterity to conclude the evening. The pirate theme was a bit of a stretch. Evil One took this as Lady Luck made up for his narrow loss in a tie breaker with Cargoes but my camera ran out of memory before I could record his victory grin. Next time EE!


Buried Words

Aug-oog-gah!

Game One: "Go For Broke"
The point of this masterpiece was to lose all your money. Actually a difficult feat with the torpid rate of spend. There's gambling and investment even some property to "buy" as can be seen from the pointy tower below. Dr. Kirby was fortunate enough to be forced into purchasing this fine bit of steel construct. It didn't pan out for him though and others came up blessedly empty pocketed. Congrats to comrade "L" for ending this with a laurel wreath on his nog. Who says it can't be fun to try and be a Commie? I can think of several ways to improve the pace of this game. For one ...what about massive lawsuits? Or even more speculative gamboling of an illegal nature? Potential with this one but the rules need a positive overhaul. Let's call it a "C".

Game Two: "Razzle"

Letter cubes are rolled back and forth in a push to get to the opponents goal by finding random words spelled out by the tumblin' dice. A good enough time and a positive recommend as this game had very few rules. No one wants to think TOO hard on game night. The team of "Evil" and that Commie rat from above were the prize takers here. Evidently thee just weren't enough possibility for swears to make Dr. Kirby and Blame Game pay enough attention to win. Grade? C+. Don't look for this here agian very soon. See you next month!

Why wasn't I told about Hawaiian Shirt Night?

EKUCRF


Razzle hands


Go for Broke


Murdered in the market


Biggest crowd ever


Concentrated


Concentrating


Prom Royalty


Sweet Valley High


Made out like bandits


First killed


The heirs


1313 Dead End Drive


Hawaiian Shirt Day at Game Night

July try

Game one: "1313 Dead End Drive"


Nuthin' like "moider" to kick off a game night in high style and fashion. Players draw cards and move any and all pieces around a mansion loaded with death traps. By moving the pawns they own (as cards) and bumping off the remaining pawns, players try to max the cash they carry away. Due to the record massive turn out (7 players!) we played in 4 team sets. At right we see a set of the losing number. Ha! Not enough mayhem in their hearts. The winners were red Frog and his lady guest East Coaster! (at lower right) Kudos to their ruthless elimination of the lesser!








Game Two: "Sweet Valley High"
No sugar in this giant cat fight. 4 teams again vied to see would emerge victorious in the throat slash world of Hi-Skool dating! Claws, fists and feet were the order of the hour as the donnybrook rolled through the halls! Reputations were ruined and hair ripped from roots!In the end the Mistress of Malfeasance was none other than the proud beauty ENID! (below) Bow to her sly sidelong glance you fems of lower demesne! Grovel and lick earth at her haughty feet! Pay obeisance on your faces in the dust and mayhaps she'll allow you to worship from the parking lot at her gala beach party! HA! Oh ...East Coaster and Blame Game were the controlling genius behind this big win.

Game Three: "Concentration"
Yep! Based on the long running TV fave game show this reebus driven puzzler was just about as much fun as it looks. Players try and memory match pairs of items from the board and take home fabulous prizes like an old shoe?!? Well ...there was theoretically big cash for the team with the correct answer. Big "fake" cash! Below we see the winnin' 3! Evil E, Bad man B and corrupt ol' Dr. Kirby! Good work guys but the real winner in all of these proceedings is The KING...Elvis!!! (at bottom) Thank yew ...thank yew vahr much!!!