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>Our family tried the game, but ended up renaming it "Monotony". I've never understood the appeal... first you get into the art of the shady deal, then you bend a rule or two -- soon you have chaos, just like real Capitalism! 
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In reply to:
Everybody knows (???!!!)
The hell they do. Since the Reading RR has its HQ in Reading PA, it's pronounced the same as the city (Redding). Pennsylvanians always pitied those who were so ignorant they didn't know this.
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"Everybody knows..."
Figured that would get a rise out of somebody! My Pennsylvanian college roommate was always correcting me
vehemently on that. I kept telling her that it wasn't my
fault that Pennsylvanians couldn't pronounce things right.
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Nicholasw pointed that Two of the places on the London board are not streets, Mayfair and Angel Islington:
I saw an interesting drama series on TV where The Angel Islington was a person, an angel. It was set in a sort of alternate London, very interesting stuff, IMO.
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Was it called "Neverwhere" with Peter Capaldi as the angel?
I saw a little of it. It looked interesting.
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Was it called "Neverwhere" with Peter Capaldi as the angel?
Yes it was, and one of the key settings was Battersea Power Station, made famous from the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals LP (for non-Floydians, it came after Wish you were here and before The Wall - approx 1976).
But the series was truly dire, I'm sorry to say. The premise was marginally interesting, but the plotting, dialogue and characterisation were awful. I truly wanted it to be good, so watched much of it, but it just couldn't cope...
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Shanks insisted But the series was truly dire, I'm sorry to say. Just the sort of poor taste and lack of discernment one expects to find built into the genome of a Spurs fan!  I enjoyed what I saw of it, but your post made me think about it, and I realised that much of what you said would explain why I found myself flicking away a lot. I do think though, that the basic premise was more than marginally interesting. So I guess, you blackheart from White Hart, that I won't be calling you out over this. No kukri at dawn - this time!
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shanks: one of the key settings was Battersea Power StationWell, they won't be doing that again, will they? Max: No kukri at dawn - this time!1. Is the maudlin Mumbaikar also a Ghurka? 2. I've haven't even thought about khukris for years - then a friend of mine brings one back from Nepal as a gift and you mention the knife, in the same week, on the board. I'm becoming a bit paranoid. 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Just the sort of poor taste and lack of discernment one expects to find built into the genome of a Spurs fan! Hey!! Just watch your language down there!  I stopped watching football when I realised that there would never be an improvement on the skills of Alf Ramsey, Lou Macari or Danny Blanchflower. The absolute pinnacle of brilliant foorball was acheived during those wonderful years - other teams also did very well, but Spurs were supreme. And this has nothing whatever to do with how many games were won or lost, it is all to do with the spirit of the game.
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shanks: one of the key settings was Battersea Power StationWell, they won't be doing that again, will they?Actually, Cirque du soleil have set up there, and are rumoured to be considering making it their 'permanent' location (from which, no doubt, they will be flinging genetically modified human hoops to all corners of the globe). Actually, the power station hasn't been functioning for yonks (decades even?) and only an unsafe outer shell remains: hence the lack of development - the shell is listed, I think, but unusable. 1. No, the lascivious Londoner is more merry Malayali (or bewilderingly brilliant Bombayite, or crafty Keralite) than gory Ghurka. 2. I've haven't even thought about khukris for years - then a friend of mine brings one back from Nepal as a gift and you mention the knife, in the same week, on the board. I'm becoming a bit paranoid. Nah. As we sceptics like to show - the human mind is geared to make patterns, and will do so at the drop of a hat. Fear not, we are not after you (we already have you - that's why  ).
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