One reason why my sister is the best possible sister on this planet

[TheLeen]

She gave me a Pacman board gane for my birthday.

Apparently, she and her fiance spent months cutting, sawing, printing and gluing stuff… including a wooden board, ruleset, box, all sorts of pellets and fruits, special dice, and no less than 300 quiz cards with carefully researched geeky questions and answers.

I’m smitten!

I’ll take pictures some time this week and playtest it, too, as soon as possible ;)

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[TheLeen]

My best friend made me a birthday cake.

Complete with wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.
It has a lamp on “top”, too. Can’t really see it in the pictures though.

Bless her.

[James]

Marleen, you have the worlds bestest friends! Amazing cake!

[ChrisM]

That is good.

And happy birthday.

[hummingbird]

Oh yes! Me want.

Happy Birthday, hun.

[Dave]

Happy Birthday.

The tone was well raised.

[Seb Patrick]

Absolutely nowhere near as good as that, but :

Two years in a row! Shame we didn’t sort a party for series four, but never mind…

[Ian Symes]

Good face, idiot.

[TheLeen]

Thanks for the well-wishes. My birthday was two weeks ago (see first post) ;) but I’m visiting my home town this weekend, so I only got my cake now. Stefanie is an artist with cakes. She told me I could pick something – anything – and she’d make it into a cake. Actually, she said, “pick anything… or the TARDIS.” :D

It is a long tradition in my family, too. I got an awesome Enterprise-D for my fifteenth birthday. I really have to find the blurry photo. It was very sweet – my mum made this, hm, wooden frame for it. The round cake was the saucer bit, then there were two additional cakes with candles for the warp coils, everything covered with silver icing, chocolate letters on the top, and my sis drew the faces of the crew onto white square stickers that they used as windows. Picard was waving out of the window ;p

Seb, your TARDIS looks great too (better than anything I could make, heh – my mother passed the cake gene on to my sis)!

[Ian Symes]

I think we’re all losing sight of the big issue here, which is: “does Marleen’s best friend have nice norks?”

[TheLeen]

She’s telling me to tell you that her norks are, in fact, fabulous, and also she’s just come out of the shower.

[Seb Patrick]

>Good face, idiot.

This would be a devastating insult coming from anyone other than you. Or Iain Lee.

[Smeg4Brains]

> and also she?s just come out of the shower.

That’s a coincidence….I’ve just come IN the shower.

[Arlene Rimmer BSc SSc]

There’s a computer in your shower? Isn’t that dangerous? And not good for your electronics?

[Tanya Jones]

Wow. All these nice people are making me feel inadequate.

[TheLeen]

I know, me too :( I think all of us :( that’s why we try to out-tinker each other every year… well, it’s a tradition.

[ChrisM]

>that?s why we try to out-tinker each other every year

I’m not sure what ‘out-tinker’ means. But it sounds kinda dirty.

[pfm]

Seb, why do you look like you should be a panelist on a panel show with Frankie Boyle or David Mitchell?

[TheLeen]

My (lengthy) review at Noise to Signal, for those interested.

If you are one of those, it would be very, very kind of you to leave a comment for my sister to read :)

[Ridley]

This would be a devastating insult coming from anyone other than you. Or Iain Lee.

Ian “Lee” Symes

[Ben Paddon]

I had the MB Pac-Man board game when I was a kid. Brilliant game. Brilliantly pointless.

[TheLeen]

I’ll review that one soon, too.

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