scrawls.

scrawls

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23.1.06

in a slightly superior way to the manner in which the only reason i have ever not won Clue was its not being my turn, i can actually say that (1) i have never lost at Cranium, (2) i draw pretty goddamn well with my eyes shut, thanks, and (3) it's still not a game i look forward to or can really enjoy without the pit of fear that whichever people are on my team will force me to do Star Performer. because i will not. oh no.

but it is kind of fun seeing our south-russian friend (because it's always a highly international sort of dinner party, seeing as how the indian owns the cranium, and one must differentiate the south-russians from the siberians) laugh so hard wine came out his nose. and i'm barely overdramatizing, really.

however: the down side of international sorts of people playing a highly american game is that there are very specific trivia answers, in particular, that people disagree on. The War of 1812 was fought, depending on who you ask, by either the americans and the british, which is the answer that cranium is looking for, in which approximately only 5,000 people died and which ended in a disappointing stalemate (and which is "often only dimly remembered in Britain," thanks, Wiki), or the russians and the french, in which a million people died, the largest army europe had yet seen assembled was decimated, and Napoleon turned back, revealing for the first time that he was not undefeatable. the british burned the well-abandoned white house. the french sacked Moscow, a city of three hundred thousand at the time. now. if we were calling only one of these a "War," and the other a "minor scuffle, yada, yada, yada," i think Cranium might be wrong.

scrawled @ 17:13