Just missing the bartender's guide
We had a pre-emptive New Years party last night which means a couple of bunches of kids in the choir and related big people get together to, them, gawk at a DVD between screaming sessions while Yahtzee is played by we upstairs. And the dice did fly. I am not a game person due to the conviction at the outset that I will smoke everyone and I will make the cover of Yahtzee World soon there after. Then I don't. But this bout of the Yahtzees was not that bad.
Yahtzee is like Jenga which is not unrelated to Spill and Spell, the last being a 1957 copyrighted game in which the dice have letters upon them. All are based on the clatter of things hitting a table-top to add to the excitement, the heightening of the mob mentality that such sport triggers, that advances the apparent evaporation of the fluids at hand. Shaker of dice. Shaker of martini. See? That is what the guy with the big floppy bow tie is really thinking.
Comments
Gordo - December 30, 2006 1:25 pm
Man, I haven't played Yahtzee in ... decades. Is that your set? Very nice.
Alan - December 30, 2006 1:31 pm
See? The internet is a fomenter of lies. It is merely an image I stole. It is, however, the set that I recall playing in early 1970s cottage visits.
Gordo - December 30, 2006 2:31 pm
You see, I KNOW what the internet is all about. That's why I asked.
gorthos - December 30, 2006 3:44 pm
We have a regular Yahtzee set somewhere but what we all love is our handheld electronic version. Sure its a one player game but fun fun.
My wife won't play me Scrabble anymore because even though I come up with words she HAS to look up like FUG, whe is more wiley and always beats me soundly. Probably because I spend the game trying to spell naughty words and racial slurs to upset her mindset.
gorthos - December 30, 2006 3:46 pm
Sorry that shold have said vague antiquated racial slurs thats she refuses to accept as words..
hmm.. no sean, Fuzzywuzzy is not a real word
look it up
it is not
here it is, in a Kipling story
that doesn't count,
What about woggy
Stop it or you sleep on the couch..
etc..
Gordo - December 30, 2006 8:01 pm
For some reason, that doesn't surprise me at all, Sean. :-)