A few suggestions:1. I agree that by the time the players have moved their pieces from the first square to the last, all the squares being inns or coffee houses, they probably will be seeing snakes. But ladders are just asking for trouble.
2. Perhaps the board could be decorated with a pattern of snakes, and ladders -- and even snakes climbing up ladders -- symbolising short-cuts between two loci in the four-dimensional manifold of space-time. It would remain purely a game of chance but it would be enlivened by an element of the unexpected.
3. There would be fewer arguments among the players if the pieces remained on the correct squares without sliding off, which in turn would be more likely if the board is flat on the ground rather than vertical.
Sir Newton became inquisitive at that point about these "short-cuts", and whether they were anything like the "worm-holes" whereof, he wot,* Mr Hawking had written. Making an excuse about needing a pie from Mrs Miggins' Shoppe next door, I slipped out and caught the next time machine home.
I think that's Peter Greenaway with the notebook at the left, stealing some ideas for his next movie.
* By his trowel, also.
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Looks like the teabagger convention is moving on to its "getting spanked with a trowel" phase.
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I think the squares form the Periodic Table of the Alchemical Elements... I say, what's the atomic number of "phlogiston"?
No whammies!
Don't be silly.
That's the Periodic Table of Fine Pastry Deserts.
I'd know it anywhere...
...I'll have the #6 combo with a side salad instead of fries
For those who aren't regular visitors to Respectful Insolence, here's the Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense (thnx Alison).
...you know, if you (having as little useful occupation as I) look closely at the legs of the patrons of this establishment, you will note a startling fact - almost without exception, they are struggling with sets borrowed and/or hastily attached (conjoined pair in the left foreground is particularly pitiable)
...I will title this "Despite Having a lovely Hat and Coat, all the Correct Tools, and Access to a Comprehensive List of Pubs and Coffee Houses, I was Refused Membership in the Masons Because of My Wonky Legs"
Wonky legs really are no excuse when excellent prosthetics are available at #99, Fleet Street.
In the whammies clip, that is Condi Rice at 1.19 I think. A gal has to relax somehow, I guess.
In terms of the board game and associated square boomerangs I feel that a combined game could have been a winner although they would have, of course, have to use magnets and who knows how they work.
Also I see that the Hooke game has the starting point at 20 which is due to Hooke's fear of numbers below 20. This is what happens when your mother is frightened by a dozen eggs.
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