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May23
on May 23, 2011
at 6:00 am
… Seriously, Dilbert will never hurt you this bad!
So, hope you had a happy Rapture day! I was celebrating it with friends playing Arkham Horror, a very entertaining board game based upon the opus by H.P. Lovecraft. I’m quite happy to tell you that we successfully closed all the gates to the other dimensions! No more monsters and demons will pass. You can all go and continue your lifes in peace now. 
Now that is a really good game. Who did you have as monster? Cthulhu and Dagon are fairly easy to defeat, nothing like Shub-Niggurath or Yog-Sothoth.
There are also other good games out there – for example my friends and I play a lot of “Battlestar Galactica” (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37111/battlestar-galactica) and “Lifeboat” (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4174/lifeboat) both games for the seriously paranoid. Also, because we are all architects, we play “Citadels” (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/478/citadels). As a pub game we discovered the best one to be “Monty Python Fluxx” (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36345/monty-python-fluxx )
ohhh, I loveShoggoth on the roof. Seriously. According to my husband, the people who really like HP Lovecraft took his works and put it to the musical Fiddler on the roof.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Shoggoth_on_the_Roof
Somewhere on the web is the music for it.
Still haven’t had the nerve to try the Nuttilla spread yet. I guess I haven’t found the right cookie to place it on, and placing it on bread, just doesnt seem right
Oh, and I want to know what happens when you microwave it. it says not to refrigerate it.. but, well, I shove everything open in there any way…
If you like Arkham Horror, there’s a great game set in the same Chtulhu Mythos and in the same style, with the same characters, from the same company called The Mansion of Madness. The only difference is that it takes a shorter play time and that in this game, someone plays the forces of otherworldly evil while the rest play the role of investigators searching for clues in the mansion. I’d give it a try!
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/83330/mansions-of-madness
@Kuerdan: Hey, thanks for that! Sounds good. My only problem is to get together enough people to play a boardgame like this. Sigh.
@Kath:Hahaha, there’s a Lovecraft musical? Oh man, that must be brilliant!!…But, nooo, don’t put Nutella in the microwave!! Seriously, it…will…change!!!
@Wings: If I only could remember the name of the monster- If I’d say that it was a weird one that wouldn’t be of any help… Anyway, thanks for the other game tipps! I MUST give a try to the Monty Python one!!^^
but, how will it change?? (now I am really seriouly concidering just *testing* Like marshmello peep change or bad tinfoil change?? Like my husband views a website that asks. should we microwave this??
(these guys do a whole series)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LPzvVzF1Fo
I know that when you leave gummie bears in the car and it gets really really hot, they melt, and then you can’t chew through them, or swallow it to save your life. even if cut up into little bitty bits, you cant chew through them at all.
Yes, apparenlty there are several HP Lovecraft musicals from the historical society. They change it *just* enough that it becomes a parody and then they can dance around the
copyright issues. or, wave monsters about , or something…
Kath – there is a series called ‘Braniac’ on UK TV that does similar things… It answers all the important scientific questions like: ‘Can you walk on custard?’ (It turns out, yes you can!) ‘Whats the best historical method for wiping your bum?’ (Sponge on a stick, apparently) and demonstrations of the best way to blow up caravans…