As a substantive answer: who lost the original pieces?
Tom Send a noteboard - 26/06/2010 08:50:08 PM
If someone else lost them, then I don't know what was wrong with your parents.
If YOU lost them, then your parents probably didn't want to buy another set because they expected you'd lose those, too. My parents were sort of like that, and it taught me to take care of things if I wanted to keep them.
Case in point: of the dozens of board games that I have, the only piece I am missing is one German fighter plane from the original 1982 version of Axis & Allies, and I suspect my brother is responsible for that loss. There are no water marks, sticky spots or stains on any of the boards.
So, at least in my case, I got the lesson.
If YOU lost them, then your parents probably didn't want to buy another set because they expected you'd lose those, too. My parents were sort of like that, and it taught me to take care of things if I wanted to keep them.
Case in point: of the dozens of board games that I have, the only piece I am missing is one German fighter plane from the original 1982 version of Axis & Allies, and I suspect my brother is responsible for that loss. There are no water marks, sticky spots or stains on any of the boards.
So, at least in my case, I got the lesson.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
When I was little, I had a checker board with two missing pieces
- 26/06/2010 08:13:25 PM
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What is an NES and SNES? *NM*
- 26/06/2010 08:27:40 PM
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Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System *NM*
- 26/06/2010 08:31:15 PM
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It was too hard to just write "Nintendo" and "Super Nintendo"?
- 26/06/2010 08:47:01 PM
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Re: It was too hard to just write "Nintendo" and "Super Nintendo"?
- 26/06/2010 10:49:18 PM
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That says more about the people you know than about the consoles themselves... 
*NM*
- 26/06/2010 10:55:32 PM
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*NM*
- 26/06/2010 10:55:32 PM
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Since you people are the people I know and he was talking to all of you...
- 26/06/2010 11:00:03 PM
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*NM*
In that case, you may overestimate how many of the "people you know" know those abbreviations. *NM*
- 26/06/2010 11:22:18 PM
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*NM*
- 26/06/2010 11:22:18 PM
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As a substantive answer: who lost the original pieces?
- 26/06/2010 08:50:08 PM
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Probably because checkers can effectively be played with mismatched pieces.
- 26/06/2010 09:40:14 PM
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We used to do that
- 26/06/2010 09:58:30 PM
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I think teacup pigs are definitely a yes. *NM*
- 26/06/2010 11:00:32 PM
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I didn't even know about teacup pigs until I saw that episode *NM*
- 26/06/2010 11:24:26 PM
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~clears throat~
- 26/06/2010 09:53:00 PM
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Oh. My. God.
- 26/06/2010 10:01:51 PM
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If you use that pussy shit I will reach through this computer and bitch slap you. Seriously. Jesus!
- 27/06/2010 03:44:55 AM
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Oh, you're so manly and cool.
- 27/06/2010 04:24:11 AM
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I didn't want to be the first to say it
- 27/06/2010 04:39:08 AM
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The slapping you part was joking, the cute text being a pussy move is not. *NM*
- 27/06/2010 05:35:31 AM
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It isn't rhetoric, it's the truth. A cute text message is pussy bullshit.
- 27/06/2010 05:34:32 AM
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Well.
- 27/06/2010 05:49:59 AM
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Re: If you use that pussy shit I will reach through this computer and bitch slap you. Seriously.
- 27/06/2010 09:39:35 AM
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Re: When I was little, I had a checker board with two missing pieces
- 26/06/2010 11:01:40 PM
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A cute text? What, are you ten years old?
- 27/06/2010 03:48:23 AM
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