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  • #208187
    Ben Paddon
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    Found on b3ta, which for some reason I still visit from time to time.

    #208188
    srmcd1
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    My only surprise is that it wasn’t invented sooner.

    #208189
    Seb Patrick
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    Most swear words are actually valid in tournament Scrabble, anyway. The only ones that don’t tend to be are ones that are compounds of multiple words – so the likes of CUNT, SHIT, FUCK, TWAT, PISS, BOLLOCKS etc. are all valid, but PISSFLAPS isn’t. DICKHEAD is, though.

    #208190

    Just in time for my Grandma’s 90th birthday. Ta!

    #208191
    Ben Kirkham
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    Eh, Seb. We know how to swear us lot, don’t we? :)

    #208195
    HelloMabel
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    Why is Z fighting with S for possesion of CUNT? Is CUNTZ a word now?

    #208196
    Danny Stephenson
    Keymaster

    It is in da hood, bruv…

    #208201
    anniescribe
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    Mabel, you ignorant zcunt …

    #208206
    Blisschick
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    I’m married to the son of a sailor. This game I can play.

    #208207
    redhead85
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    > Eh, Seb. We know how to swear us lot, don’t we? :)

    What is it they shout in the slums? UGGY UGGY UGGY!

    #208210
    anniescribe
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    And my only edge is being raised lower-class hillbilly … good for cussing, maybe not for spelling.

    #208238
    Blisschick
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    >>>And my only edge is being raised lower-class hillbilly … good for cussing, maybe not for spelling.

    I don’t think the spelling issue is limited to just hillbillies, anymore. Have you read the interwebs lately? Oy vey!

    #208264
    Danny Stephenson
    Keymaster

    0][ v3y, i think it’s spelt now…

    #208271
    HelloMabel
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    > And my only edge is being raised lower-class hillbilly … good for cussing, maybe not for spelling.

    Whereas I was brought up to be a pretentious wuss who believed that people who cussed were bad people. As a kid I once asked my aunt why those guys playing ping-pong kept saying “bullcrap.” Told that it’s a swear word, I started crying because I had said it out loud!

    If I could talk to ten-year-old me, I would shake her by the shoulders and say, quit being such a goodie-goodie twat.

    #208273
    anniescribe
    Participant

    See, I knew all the words by the time I was five. My dad was kind of like the one in “A Christmas Story.” Only without the lamp.

    #208274
    Ben Paddon
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    Only I didn’t say “fudge.”

    #208275
    peas_and_corn
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    >See, I knew all the words by the time I was five. My dad was kind of like the one in “A Christmas Story.” Only without the lamp.

    The networks screen this movie every Christmas, so I got the option of watching it. Last time I got as far as the lamp being “accidentally” broken and changed the channel. It was such a weird movie, it felt more like a series of events that happened in December than a Christmas movie.

    #208276
    Ben Paddon
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    I saw it for the first time a couple of years ago (cropped to 4:3, annoyingly) and it is perhaps best described as cute, but lacking substance.

    #208279
    Blisschick
    Participant

    Oddly, twat and titties were in our family vocabulary and not considered vulgar, but anything else was considered a cuss word. Considering the context of my family, it’s weird looking back on it.

    #208280
    anniescribe
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    I think ACS is rather a Midwest movie – other Midwesterners I know largely like it and can relate their childhoods to a lot in it. That’s not to say nobody else CAN, but I do think region plays a little into how substantive you find it. Also, your time period – I grew up in the 70s, but we lived in a rural area and I spent most of my time with grandparents and their friends, so there’s a lot in ACS that matches stories they used to tell to entertain me as a little kid, from the 1930s and 40s.

    #208282
    Ben Paddon
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    Yeah, my last girlfriend absolutely loved A Christmas Story, and she originally hails from Ohio.

    #208285
    Pecospete666
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    The Bumpus’s dogs! And the tounge frozen to the flag pole are the parts I liked,and the Leg Lamp!

    #208289
    HelloMabel
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    My Okie side of the family loves that movie, and many of them can quote it as easily as I can quote Red Dwarf lines. The leg lamp inspired a running gag at our Christmas parties, in which mannequin legs got passed to a different man each year in the Dirty Santa game. They finally ended up as the bumpers for Uncle Mike’s boat.

    Oh, the shenanigans we got up to in the rollicking Reagan years!

    #208290
    Yaron Ru
    Participant

    Goodness me, we need a mobile version coded and released YESTERDAY!

    #208326
    Pete Part Three
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    I often see A Christmas Story cited as an influence on The Wonder Years and if it truly was (and there are a couple of similarities), I salute it.

    I’m not keen on the episodic nature of it, but love the bit where Ralphie swears in front of his dad, or when he fakes an alternative cause for his eye injury. Both of those bits hit home.

    #208327

    Seriously, no one’s going to mention the bunny outfit?

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