I'll Say She Is!
Monday, 30 June 2003
PPF Fun and Games
GreyDuck's Meme:

PAST: What game did you really enjoy playing as a child?

I can't really remember enjoying board games all that much, I seemed to have lacked patience back then (big shock). I think I enjoyed Uno, and I have some fond memories of playing a card game called "Spite and Malice" in the summertime with my grandmother and aunties.

PRESENT: How about now? Do you play at all, or have you grown too old for that sort of silliness?

We have a friend who's nuts for all these whacky, off-beat games, mostly made by a company called "Cheap-ass Games" (I think). When we visit him we'll spend hours, every time a new game or two. It's been some time since the gang has played that French card game with the driving motif, the name of which escapes me.

FUTURE: What game will you be infamous for playing in your later years?

Whatever the volunteers who visit the poor old folks home want to play.

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Mille Borne. My sis and I played that game all the time during one stretch of our childhood...
MB is one of my all-time favorites. I learned it in I believe 6th grade French, and have played it for years.
"I will Coup-Fourre your ass!"
"Rally 1000", a Mille Bornes clone, is the most frequently used application on my PDA.

Hmmm... when you throw down an accident card in MB, does that mean you're causing a bloody coupe?

Actually, Coup Fourre is a French fencing term for 'counter thrust'
I was making a pun. Coupe (two-door automobile) as opposed to coup (unexpected stroke, act, or move).

Mille Bourne, loved that game