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Well, my amazing expanded compact game kit is coming along nicely and I'm happy with it.  Now I am going to start looking at the individual board games I want to build up my overall game collection.  What could be better to have for a single guy who doesn't have people over very often than a bunch of games?  I've already ordered the Nostalgia edition of Sorry (eBay!), and I may have accidentally got a really good deal (eBay!) on good-quality poker chips.  In addition, I'm thinking:

• Risk Nostalgia Edition


• Stratego Nostalgia Edition


• Clue Nostalgia Edition


• Monopoly Nostalgia Edition


• Scrabble Nostalgia Edition


• Pit Tin


• Mille Bornes Collector's Edition


• Sequence Tin


• Abalone

[Poll #400452]

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Okay, the music meme.  Now, I have 6862 songs on iTunes, many of which I don't know, so I skipped and only included ones that I think others will know, too.  Here are a bit of the lyrics from the first 25 to meet my criterion.  Guess the song and artist, and you win love and adoration from the masses.  The numbers in parentheses that follow the quotes are the difficuly level, 1 being easy and 10 being way-too-hard, based on the populatiry of the song and the difficulty of the lyrics I chose.  Those which are cover versions are marked as such.

1. "A collie that's classy... A laddie needs a Lassie." (4)


2. "Jimmy crack corn and I don't care, Jimmie crack corn and I don't care... I don't care, I don't care..." (7)


3. "And but and or, they'll get you pretty far!" (3 - cover)


4. "Don't step on my tippie-toes, Pinnoccio's got a broken nose." (7)


5. "Bloody Mary Mother of God, Grampa's on the hobby horse again. Dampen broken pants chafing, I'm running out of ethnic friends." (8)


6. "Just like that murder in '73, just like that robbery in '62, all these things that've happened to me, I've kept 'em all in." (5)


7. "People listen attentively, I mean about future calamaty, I used to think the idea was obsolete until I heard the old man stamping his feet." (5)


8. "I have looked all over the place, but you have got my favorite face.  Your eyelashes sparkle like gilded glass, and your lips are sweet and slippery like a cherub's bare wet ass." (2)


9. "Don't you ever be sad; Lean on me when times are bad.  When the day comes and you're in doubt, in a river of trouble, about to drown." (5)


10. "All the people I know are musicians.  I revolve around music; it's all I know!  THey've each got their own little thing that they like" (6)


11. "Wake up and smell the cat food in your bank account but don't try and stop the tail that wags the hound." (2)


12. "...the sequence of a life form embrazed in the sand, soaking up the thirst of the land" (6)


13. "Their response, it didn't thrill us.  The locked the door and tried to kill us.  We escaped from that gas and met Jar-Jar and Boss Nass." (2)


14. "An old cowboy was ridin' out one dark and windy day, upon a ridge he rested as he went upon his way..." (3)


15. "I get away, almost every day, with what the girls call, what the girls call, what the girls call... The girls call murder." (5)


16. "Big men often tremble as tehy step aside.  I thought I was big once; she changed my mind." (4)


17. "Girl downstairs, she's so big and bold.  Grandma warned me that she was too old.  We used take me swingin' in the schoolyard swing." (7)


18. "What else could I say?  Everyone is gay.  What else could I write?  I don't have the right." (2)


19. "In this context there's no disrespect, so when I bust a rhyme YOU BREAK YOUR NECK!" (4)


20. "If I were on his boogie list, I'd get out of town." (3)