Playing complicated board war games for “fun” always reminds me of this scene from Lawrence of Arabia:
Simple, No?
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
My wife bought me this tee shirt:
And it’s true.
There’s a very funny episode of Big Bang Theory where the nigh-autistic protagonist and physics professor Sheldon discovers SPI’S “Campaign for North Africa.”
He is enjoying a foretaste of heaven. Everyone else who wants to access his living room is not…
Ah… those long gone Saturdays of 8 hour wargaming and pizza!
“War games” sharpens the mind as does Monopoly and Scrabble. Chess anybody?
@ David WS.
Back in 2002 I was a member of our local Yacht club international sailing team Representing NZ at a Pacific Rim Regatta at Bellingham, Washington state. My wife bought me a T shirt to wear each afternoon after sailing when we all went to the club for post racing ‘refreshment’. The T shirt read, “Please do not buy this man any more beer – signed, his wife.”
In reply a few years later, I bought a T shirt which read, ” My wife says I have only two faults – I don’t listen……… and something else.”
🙂
“give a man a beer, and you quench his thirst for a day; teach a man to homebrew, and you make him a monk.”
This is timely, as a couple of the boys who are available and I are about to dust off the old World in Flames game for another go. I’ve always seen playing wargames like that scene in Back to School when the economics professor gives Dangerfield an exam consisting of one question in a thousand different parts yet the answer ends up being simply ‘four’.