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Struggling for a way to combine your love of simulated cut-throat capitalism with your love of the Adelaide Crows, classic Coca-Cola ads, Réunion Island, or the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror? Look no further than one of the
1,235 special-edition Monopoly boards. Browse the full street layout of 64 national variants at
Monopolybase, or check the going price on
225 official Parker Brothers -opolies from Aachen to X-Men. If even that's not good enough for you, you can always
(as discussed here),
roll your own.
(Plus 35 Harry Potter games, 100+ rejuvenating house rules, and more from Israeli board-game blogger Yehuda Berlinger.)
posted to MetaFilter by ormondsacker
at 4:22 PM on August 13, 2007
(28 comments)
The comic-opera Huey Long: Journalist, teacher, legal advisor to the abortive American-Indian-run
state of Sequoyah,
‘Alfalfa Bill’ Murray (wiki) ran Dust Bowl Oklahoma with an iron fist - calling out the National Guard forty-seven times in four years and setting off a
three-day armed standoff with the state of Texas. In 1932, his “Bread, Butter, Bacon, and Beans” Presidential platform was so badly eclipsed by The New Deal, his delegates officially threw their votes to a
joke candidate (balloting).
Unlike his fellow
Depression-era populists, Murray continued as a public figure post-war, campaigning for worker’s rights, the United Nations, segregation,
exporting the Jews to Madagascar, and winning the Cold War by putting ethnic Russians in internment camps. Seventy-five years on, he was honored by the Oklahoma legislature for the only bit that actually
mattered, aretheyrite?
posted to MetaFilter by ormondsacker
at 9:51 AM on May 20, 2007
(7 comments)
