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So would Congress.

I always liked Barrel of Monkeys in my youth. But I was more of a Perfection fan, overall.

I was a big Operation fan as a kid, but it probably put me off a medical career.

I guess the AMA is lucky you didn't become a malpractice insurance investigator.

I loved Monopoly, but I did not become a real estate buyer.

Does anyone else remember Mystery Date?

Nope. Is that what turned you gay?

(apologies if that isn't as funny a remark as it seems. I've had a few glasses of wine already)

It wasn't all that funny, but I wasn't offended. I actually think it was seeing Charo at a young age that turned me gay. She was so scary.

My sisters had Mystery Date. I always wanted to play it with them, but I wasn't allowed because it was "just for girls".

That didn't make me gay, but it was a very early clue that I was.

My favorite game was Solarquest .

It didn't turn me gay, but did give me a lot of experience orbiting Uranus.

When I was very, very young, I asked if I could play a game of Mystery Date because I thought it might help me understand girls.

It didn't, though observing the adults in my family who found out about this taught me a bit about things like expectations and conformity.

Oh, man! I hated Mystery Date and used to dread the moment when my friends would bring it out to play.

It was a great source of relief to me when Mom refused to buy it for my older sister because the former thought it was "silly and pointless."

I suppose the next logical step would have been my dressing up as a dude to replace my deceased older brother on the local super-team. I wonder now why that never happened...

A lot of games are silly and pointless, which is kind of the point.

Out of curiosity, what games did your mom approve of?

So far as I can remember, pretty much all the others.

Her attempts to imbue us with the killer instinct so necessary to life under modern capitalism via games like "Monopoly" and "Ticker Tape" were obviously a colossal failure-- at least in my case.

Once when playing Monopoly, my brother got both get out of jail cards and stuck them behind his ears. After playing for a while, he landed in jail and paid the $50 to get out of jail instead of using the get out of jail free cards he still had tucked behind his ears.

We never played using the "money on Free Parking" variation in Monopoly (which is not part of the official rules anyway), so the first time someone mentioned it, I had no idea what they were talking about.

We would alternate; sometimes the money from fines would go in the "Free Parking" chest, sometimes it wouldn't.

There was this one time where we played Monopoly with very special House Rules.

1) Three Players would go around the board and keep collecting the $200/lap as they passed GO.

2) When they land on an unowned property, the realtor (4th Player) would sell it to them complete with hotel for 100x his income/lap.

3) Of course $200 is hardly enough to buy a $40,000 hotel on Baltic Avenue, so they'd call in the 5th Player to write a Adjustable Rate Mortgage with interest only payments of $40/lap for 5 laps then resetting to 1% per lap plus principal to be amortized over 100 laps.

4) There being only about $15,000 in money on the board it quickly ran out at the bank. So the Bank Player needed more cash to write more mortgages for the 3 other players. So he called Player 6 who worked on Wall Street to buy the mortgages using their AAA credit.

5) But even Player 6 had only so much credit. He came up with another plan; he would package these mark them up at a profit and sell them to foreign Pension Funds because they had an endless supply of Orange $500 bills because Rich Uncle PennyBags told the Monopoly players to buy big Japanese SUVs, Electronics and clothes made in sweatshops, plus all the gasoline it took to drive the SUVs to Monster-Mart to buy all these things.

Do blank posts count as non sequitirs?

I believe a double post disqualifies me from winning. But it will not stop me from posting.

Ah, well, then . . . back to Monopoly.

My favorite icon was the top hat.

I liked the dog, because I liked the idea of a dog becoming a real estate mogul.

Most of my friends preferred the car.

I'm with HWW: the hat.
like OM, most of my friends wanted the car.

of course, this was only an issue when using other people's versions of the games. The one my family had was much older; it was a set of wooden pieces. The houses and hotels were also wood, and the box was smaller, as it didn't house the game board.

At various times I've preferred the hat, the thimble, the statue, the dog and the iron. I remember everyone else always wanted the car.