"Thirty Things that Need to Stage a Comeback"

[Tango Yankee]

Some of the most mentioned board games, at least in my experience, are monopoly, life, and scrabble.

One classic that I enjoy but feel it needs four players to really be challenging and enjoyable is Parcheesi.

 

[ScionPI2005]

Is that the one with cone-shaped pieces?

Not that I know of. The version I have has marbles.

 

[Michael Carter]

Over the years the toy companies have tried to "modernize" board games to make them more "exciting", such as adding electronics to Battleship to make noises--and they require batteries. Bleah.





The Air Force's phase-out date for fatigues was 1 Oct 1990, but BDUs were hard to come by. The first week of September I deployed to the UAE for Operation DESERT SHIELD in fatigues! No, we didn't get the "chocolate chips." I had deployed to support an Air National Guard unit, the members of which were in BDUs. Their wing king saw me in my fatigues and ordered that they issue me BDUs. Free BDUs... worked for me!

With the advent of everyone wearing BDUs as the uniform of the day the AF relaxed the rules for utility uniforms and made them pretty much the same as the service uniform. I wasn't pleased with that, either.



What, Karaoke doesn't count?

Cheers,
Tom

I wasn't in late enough for BDU's, but if you wore fatigues at Whiteman, you likely worked in the missile field or other maintenance function. If you worked anywhere else there was an office, lab, or admin function you wore blues. That wasn't a rule 100% of the time, but it was close to it.

Most people who wore each of those uniforms rarely wore the other except under certain circumstances.

I ran the field for four years and could count on both hands the number of times I was in blues. After a promotion and re-assignment to a staff position I rarely ever wore my pickle suit.

Upon seeing the 'new' woodland camo BDU's I thought they were the ugliest uniform I'd ever seen. They don't seem to be getting a whole lot better. I'd never be caught in a staff position wearing BDU's unless it was mandated.

 

[Chas]

Dignity needs to make a comeback.

 

[scottyrocks]

Not that I know of. The version I have has marbles.

Okay, different game. But your comment reminded me of another game I liked - chinese checkers. Six-pointed star full of holes, with lines connecting them. You started with marbles arranged into one of the points. The object was to get all your marbles to the opposite point before your opponent did. Blocking and jumping were strategies.

 

[Edward]

One classic that I enjoy but feel it needs four players to really be challenging and enjoyable is Parcheesi.

Now, remind me, that is what we in the UK know as Ludo (hence 'Cluedo' being renamed as 'Clue' in the US as the pun would be lost on that market)?

Ludo:

Dignity needs to make a comeback.

Agreed. Much as I enjoy his early electric years, so-called 'post-conversion' Dylan is, imho, vastly underrated.

 

[Chas]

Well, I wasn't thinking about Dylan, I was thinking that the virtue of public dignified behaviour needs to make a comeback.

Celebrities and public figures need to stop airing their dirty linen in public and indulging in publicized whining and "poor me" B.S. The collective body politic needs to suck it up and carry on.

We (western society) should practice more of two particular virtues known to the ancient Romans - Prudentia — "Prudence" — Foresight, wisdom and personal discretion and Severitas - "Sternness" — Gravity and self-control.

 

[Edward]

Well, I wasn't thinking about Dylan, I was thinking that the virtue of public dignified behaviour needs to make a comeback.

Oh, I know - I'm only messin'

Celebrities and public figures need to stop airing their dirty linen in public and indulging in publicized whining and "poor me" B.S. The collective body politic needs to suck it up and carry on.

I hear ya there.... between royals bitching out their divorce on television and other vacuous celebrities whining when the press, whose attention they positively demand, turns on them. Don't want it all over the papers you've had an affair? don't cheat on your partner then. Even a soccer player should be able to comprehend that.

 

[rue]

Agreed. Now that I know as much as I do about these celebrities, it's hard to part with my money to watch them on the big screen or turn on the TV to watch them play a sport. I don't care what their politics are unless they're running for office and I don't want to know that they are addicted to cheating.

 

[Edward]

Oh, don't even get me started on the language of 'addiction'..... I'm all about mental health - I'm a diagnosed depressive myself - which make me all the angrier when folks like Michael Douglas seek to abdicate responsibility for their own poor behaviour by claiming to be 'ill'.... Boohoo... I'm not a cheating little weasel, I'm a poor sex addict. Pity me! I'm not greedy, I'm a shopaholic! Pity me! I'm not advocating judgemental attitudes, but there's understanding and then there's abdication of moral responsibility for one's own choices....


Edited to clarify: when I posted this, I was referring to Michael Douglas' claims of 'sex addiction' as an 'illness' some years ago, not the very real, and obviously severe, cancer which he is currently battling, and over which he has my sympathy.

 

[bunnyb.gal]

Back to dignity, yes, please. Remember when the studio system would do its best to cover this garbage up? Now it seems that the celebrities and their reps just can't wait to get this stuff out there? Yuck.
And as for John Q. Public, letting your life partner find out after the world at large that you have some social disease or are bedding their best buddy, well, that's just repugnant. My idea of hell would be nothing but Jerry Springer on the TV for an eternity.

 

[LizzieMaine]

There have always been scandal rags that dredged around in the cultural muck and sleaze -- but the difference between now and then is that the scandalmongers weren't respectable. Bernarr MacFadden in the twenties published by far the sleaziest daily newspaper that has ever existed in the United States -- the New York Evening Graphic, nicknamed the "Porno-Graphic" -- and he lost several million dollars in the process. He, and his paper, were considered a joke by any serious-minded person -- the New York Public Library refused to even archive the paper. Today he'd have his own cable network.

 

[Foofoogal]

My idea of hell would be nothing but Jerry Springer on the TV for an eternity.

lol lol lol so true.

 

[marcoshark]

I think that was the paper that the late Sam Fuller started at. Imagine, the youngest reporter on the police blotter at 17! He would use those experiences in his writing and movies!

There have always been scandal rags that dredged around in the cultural muck and sleaze -- but the difference between now and then is that the scandalmongers weren't respectable. Bernarr MacFadden in the twenties published by far the sleaziest daily newspaper that has ever existed in the United States -- the New York Evening Graphic, nicknamed the "Porno-Graphic" -- and he lost several million dollars in the process. He, and his paper, were considered a joke by any serious-minded person -- the New York Public Library refused to even archive the paper. Today he'd have his own cable network.

 

[Foofoogal]

More time. Surely people were not as busy. Too much to do always. I love the Holidays but tiring just to think about them coming up.

 

[SGT Rocket]

Most of them listed, particularly hats, fountain pens, double features, discreet voices (especially in libraries), supper clubs (very much so), and train restaurants. To those I would add radio drama, real hood ornaments, patriotism in the public schools, the use of military fatigues only when in the field, and telephone exchanges (CItrus 6-3536, etc.).

I know this is a very old post that I'm replying too, but I agree 100%, I think. I'm about to wiki supper clubs. I've seen a few here in Minnesota, but I haven't a clue as to what they are.

 

[Feraud]

There have always been scandal rags that dredged around in the cultural muck and sleaze -- but the difference between now and then is that the scandalmongers weren't respectable. Bernarr MacFadden in the twenties published by far the sleaziest daily newspaper that has ever existed in the United States -- the New York Evening Graphic, nicknamed the "Porno-Graphic" -- and he lost several million dollars in the process. He, and his paper, were considered a joke by any serious-minded person -- the New York Public Library refused to even archive the paper. Today he'd have his own cable network.

The respectable angle is correct. Smut gone mainstream is a lame concept. It frequenly leads to serious lapses in judgement in adults.

 

[Geesie]

real hood ornaments

 

[MikeBravo]

Now this is a hood (bonnet) ornament

 

[Smithy]

Now this is a hood (bonnet) ornament

That's a goodie MB but for me this is still my favourite bonnet adornment...