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It wasn't ethnically correct, as I remember it, back in the 50s. Here's the original:
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http://midlifebatmitzvah.files.wordp...tesladders.gif
It wasn't ethnically correct, as I remember it, back in the 50s. Here's the original:
http://onceuponawin.files.wordpress....es-ladders.jpg
Yeah man... It's the Fallopian Tube game. The ovaries burst out eggs and you do a die roll to chase them around with the sperm men. The ladders represent some sort of contraceptive devise I think.
You're right though..You lose a turn if you should dare run a white one into a black one. Like your head would blow up or something and the police would have to be notified.
It's been a while...could be confused.
rot
:lol:
I always just called it Chutes and Ladders....but Rot's description is MUCH better!
:clap: Great!
That game was just a little past my time. Here's one from just before then:
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Skeezicks was disturbing.
When I was a kid, all we had were rocks. (My birthstone is Lava.)
When I was a kid, all we had was lava. The Earth hadn't yet cooled enough for rocks to form.Quote:
Originally Posted by W3MIV
We were so poor, we couldn't afford rocks. In fact, we were so poor, the neighbor had to have me. But I do remember playing C&L a lot as a kid..
When I was a kid we were so poor that if I didn't wake up with an erection I didn't have a thing to play with all day long!
Ok, who here used to regularly eat at Sambos? I remember the decor vividly!
Oh yeah, I did. Tiger running around on the wall. Loved the book. Too bad it was considered a racial slam. I was a little kid, what did I know about racial anything.
Still haven't seen any tigers turn into butter.
Ahhh Yep.:naughty:;)Quote:
Originally Posted by N7YA
Just noticed something. The game I mostly remember from those years was Uncle Wiggley as I posted earlier. Comparing the two game boards, it's no wonder why Chutes and Ladders is still around while the poor old uncle seems to have been long forgotten.
To play Uncle Wiggley, you actually had to READ!!!!!!!!
While C & L was mindless. All you had to do is manage to throw the dice (or did it have a spinner?) so that it didn't wind up down your sister's throat and move one square for each dot on the die plus slide down a chute or climb a ladder.
Well, OK, climbing that ladder today might be a stretch for some of the more -- portly -- of today's young'uns, but imagine!!! Kids loving to play a game where you had to READ!!!! EGAD!!! About as far-fetched as hams who actually LIKE to send with a key!!
No, but I remember hearing about the pressure on them to change their name, and eventually, the demise of the chain.Quote:
Originally Posted by N7YA
Im sure it was followed by the usual cacophony of old crackers screaming about the world going to shit, blah, blah...everything has to be PC now, blah, blah....damn hippies/darkies and their "sensitivity", blah, blah...
Funny, Dungeons and Dragons used to remind me of Chutes and Ladders. The only Board Games I really like are Backgammon, Chess and Monopoly. The rest? Meh.
So far as I am concerned, they ALL are bored games.Quote:
Originally Posted by N2NH
I spent many an hour there in HS because the coffee was only a dime. The wait staff didn't like us cuz coffee is usually all we got (had money for). If you really work at it, you really can stick the toothpicks with the plastic fuzzy stuff on one end in the acoustic ceiling tile.Quote:
Originally Posted by N7YA
I used to love Sambo's pancakes when I was a kid.
We used to go there a lot, never thought about it until i got older. And as a former waiter, i got pretty good with the frill toothpicks and a straw as a blowgun...when it was slow, i could nail a styrofoam cup on a top shelf from 15 feet away and make it stick.
As the natives say, i have medicine!
Even cribbage?Quote:
Originally Posted by W3MIV
I had some for dinner last night. Rather gassy today. Better find an elevator. Oops, wrong thread.
Gastroenterrorism.
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