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Shifty Nipples posted:They are burrowing snakes so I think it helps to have a little head. I've been using this line for years
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A game room in an old house is where you put game you've killed, not where you play Hungry Hungry Hippos.
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Jerry Cotton posted:A game room in an old house is where you put game you've killed, not where you play Hungry Hungry Hippos.
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SLOSifl posted:I don’t see any difference here. The hippo can't be hungry if it's dead 
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Hippos hunger after death
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not even death can quench their immortal bloodlust VV theres still blood in there purple death ray has a new favorite as of 12:22 on Oct 26, 2018 |
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purple death ray posted:not even death can quench their immortal bloodlust They eat balls though.
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Jerry Cotton posted:They eat balls though. I thought that was Mr. T? 
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Big Grunty Secret posted:I thought that was Mr. T? Wow. Talk about digging deep into the past. Although wasn't that Chewbacca? I can remember running across that from my first ISP job back in '97.
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Proteus Jones posted:Wow. Talk about digging deep into the past. Although wasn't that Chewbacca? I can remember running across that from my first ISP job back in '97.
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Proteus Jones posted:Wow. Talk about digging deep into the past. Although wasn't that Chewbacca? I can remember running across that from my first ISP job back in '97. Both existed. Mr. T came first.
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Dross posted:Both existed. Mr. T came first. Chewbacca lost a game of Soggy Biscuit to Mr T?
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Jerry Cotton posted:A game room in an old house is where you put game you've killed, not where you play Hungry Hungry Hippos. That doesn't seem to be true at all. The earliest use I can find is this court decision thing, which uses game room to refer to a place where gambling takes place. This thing from 1906 specifically refers to a gaming room as a place to play recreational games like chess, ping-pong, etc.
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A drawing room however was definitely not a room for sketches and doodles, it was a room that guests would withdraw to after a meal
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Dilb posted:That doesn't seem to be true at all. The earliest use I can find is this court decision thing, which uses game room to refer to a place where gambling takes place. This thing from 1906 specifically refers to a gaming room as a place to play recreational games like chess, ping-pong, etc. When I hear “gaming room” I think parcheesi, cards and what not. When I hear “game room” I think of heads on walls and other taxidermy horrors. Like big game trophy room The informal poll in group text to family and friends supports this. And since only people I know personally are real, this is the way it is everywhere.
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Jerry Cotton posted:They eat balls though. purple death ray posted:theres still blood in there I can’t believe I just figured out that piss AND blood are stored in the balls
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Proteus Jones posted:When I hear “gaming room” I think parcheesi, cards and what not. Hmm... Hunting trophies were the anime statues of the early 20th century.
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Huh. Diablo ate my balls.
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Aphrodite posted:Hmm... The 19th century Fench equivalent of "would you like to netflix and chill?" was "Would you like to see my japanese art collection" so anime is eternal.
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Wasn't the Meiji equivalent, "Do you want to see my European art collection?"
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Dilb posted:That doesn't seem to be true at all. The earliest use I can find is this court decision thing, which uses game room to refer to a place where gambling takes place. This thing from 1906 specifically refers to a gaming room as a place to play recreational games like chess, ping-pong, etc. I said old and even underlined it. Anyway I figured it out when looking at floor plans of a few old houses and wondering why the gently caress there would be a "game room" between the back entrance and the kitchen(s), until it clicked. e: I don't have those at hand but Google gives an example of this use:  (this time with a hyphen but that's just because English ortography is entirely incidental) 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 03:58 on Oct 28, 2018 |
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Ah, that’s the problem. You underlined “old” and I spent about twenty minutes trying to click on it. I bet a lot of people were confused if it didn’t work for them either. What did the link go to anyway?
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https://twitter.com/OxfordWords/status/1056444230875238400
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1609s it meant "board" or "fragment," further origins from brotel, "brittle" in Middle English. Makes sense. Fragment -> dust
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A little late but I read the Wikipedia article about 'parlours' the other day (god knows why), and wondered if that came up. And despite "parlour games" being a big thing, apparently nobody in old-timey Australian newspapers ever used the phrase "game parlour", so I guess that's not an alternative. Since that's boring, have some parlour games I just read about :
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uvar posted:Since that's boring, have some parlour games I just read about : No wonder all the doctors back then prescribed cocaine and heroin and poo poo, life was boring as hell.
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uvar posted:[*]1872: To do the thing properly requires two boys... We might as well say here that the trick, game, or performance, as we choose to term it, is called the 'Old Woman Finding her Key-hole'... This sounds like a weird sex game
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uvar posted:[*]1917: A measuring contest makes a good game for an evening party... Begin with the longer distances, and do not divide inches with these. If the door, for instance, is 84in. high... Ah, the YOSPOS parlour game or "height chat" as it is known today.
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In 50 years when the average person spends their evenings having sex with animes in VR they gonna find out about Jenga and think the 80s-90s were so dull.
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I can’t figure how to google it, but does anyone remember that british victorian wargame that was basically an ancestor of Warhammer, DnD, and so on? One of the first mass-marketed ones iirc. And specifically how it insists that it’s great fun for Gentlemen, Boys, and Some Bright Girls. No proper ladies in my tabletop game, no siree bob.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I can’t figure how to google it, but does anyone remember that british victorian wargame that was basically an ancestor of Warhammer, DnD, and so on? One of the first mass-marketed ones iirc. H.G. Wells’ Little Wars from 1913.
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Rascar Capac posted:H.G. Wells’ Little Wars from 1913. And I thought my dream was owning a full wargaming table. There they are with a whole room.
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It's not "just figured out", cause I learned it on Thursday, but a graveyard is attached to a church (like, part of its grounds), and a cemetery is separate.
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My small, granular diamond is also named bort
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Topical: The music in the commercial in Halloween 3 is 'London Bridge is falling down'. I always thought it was catchy but I don't know why it took me so long to make that connection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7-uC0LDllM
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This guy is not Archie Bunker.
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WICKEDLY A BIRD posted:This guy Are you sure? 
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WICKEDLY A BIRD posted:This guy You know, a lot of conversations make more sense now.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Are you sure? 
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