Vidoe games more like . . .
. . . when Space Invaders first came out, a guy asked me if i was a member of the "One Hundred" club yet. I asked him what the hell he was talking about, and he said people who had pumped one hundred dollars into Space Invaders. I stopped playing video games, except at home on consoles or computers.
@Setanta,
Here in the Sandwich Isles the 100 Club has an entirely different meaning. It's the veterans' organization for the Nisei (Americans of Japanese Descent) Hawaiians who served in the 100th Infantry Battalion (Independent) which eventually became first battalion of the 442d Regimental Combat Team, the most decorated military unit of its size in World War II.
[Did I just digress?]
I would certainly hope not. I'm gonna have some fried baloney sammiches . . . want one?
@Setanta,
Thanx just the same but I just had breakfast.
If you had a regrettable affair with Miss Streisand, would that mean that you rue Barb?
@ehBeth,
A meter is about 3 foot high and you put quarters in it. Which is different from football which has 4 quarters and is measured in yards. Which reminds me I need to mow mine. Yard, not football.
In Canada, they have abandoned the bad old days, everything is metric . . . well, some things aren't--football fields are still 110 yards long. (You know those Canajuns, everythings gotta be different.)
Of course, if you go to the store, they sell butter in packages of 454 grams, and if you get a jug of antifreeze, it's a four liter jug. But that's neither here nor there.
@Setanta,
Quote: But that's neither here nor there.
Actually, I think it is both here and there. Here in your case and there in my case.
If it was in my case, and oow it's in your case, what the hell is going on here ? ! ? ! ?
SECURITY ! ! !
Yeah, you'd best get Set's "oow" outta your case, Parados.
"Game set and match" said Gene Rayburn as he turned towards the television audience.
@panzade,
You hardly ever see matches in use any more. Everybody carries Bic or Scripto disposable lighters nowadays.
@Lustig Andrei,
you're right...the smell of a lit match reminds me of Boy Scout campfires and fireworks.
@panzade,
Know what I miss? Those big wooden kitchen matches you could strike on any surface to light. I actually learned how to strike one on my thumbnail, the way you see tough guys in old Western movies do it, one-handed. Then they outlawed the suckers or something. They don't make 'em any more. Been years now.
@Lustig Andrei,
I can still smell the sulphur.
@cicerone imposter,
you peeps couldn't digress if a digression took over your body and controlled you.
@dlowan,
Getting somewhat pretentiously serious about this kind of topic sure makes you a party-pooper!
@dlowan,
dlowan wrote:
Why, for instance, when we talk about separating the sheep from the goats, are the sheep seen as good and the goats bad?
Seems unfair. I love goat cheese!
...and you're maligning the queen of digressia!
@Lustig Andrei,
So, you're trying to say that you're matchless? Oh, the conceit . . .
