... Oh. Okay. I didn't grasp that, or I'd have tackled the argument differently. Thanks for not taking offense. ... Looking at your comments in that light,...
... I ... I guess with me it's partly just a matter of too much getting to be too much. A few weeks ago I reached a point with it that I was telling people, ...
... Got a laugh there, too. Thanks! ... Oops... sorry about that, Mr. paene. It's a compliment, of course! [And then Angela said:] ... Leader of men,...
[Odin's Ravens] ... But when that thread started out, I thought I had the Real Rules, and I was proposing a variant to make that one element more interesting. ...
... Then I yield the point: You've cited an instance that demonstrates the value of players devising their own rules changes. ... No kidding! Wow, small...
... The explanation I've heard is that the bits are made from maple, hence the figures are "maple people". The phrase then got monged into "meeple". I don't...
Daniel Jackson (Mr. Spader) was interpreting the 7th, crucial symbol of the cartouche...and said it was a pyramid with the sun on top, with these two meeple...
OK ... here's the second list I've compiled. I published my first list yesterday: Last Chance Games. Those are games that I'm going to give one last chance...
... I must say, I'm getting a lot more laughs out of being cranky than I was getting out of trying to be nice! Good work, Chris. StvenC -- "Be naughty. Save...
In a message dated 1/1/03 3:53:52 PM Central Standard Time, ... I was under the impression that it originated from one of these game-related discussion groups...
... fascinating. ... It's short for "My People." Iceman's wife is supposed to have invented the word. If it wasn't Jenn it was one of the other Boston women....
... Dave is mostly correct. It is short for "My People" and was coined by fellow UGer Alison Hansel, who, quite incidentally, married a heck of a nice German...
... anti-creativity rant> I responded to this a couple of days ago but apparently my email server is having problems. The gist of it was to hint that you were...
In 1999, Steve Zanini sent this note to all of us lurking about on r.g.b... ... I found the posts that followed to be intriguing and compiled them to produce a...
I wander in from my extended vacation... ... Mmmm...Saturn Bomberman. Great game. It was the de facto standard when it came to 4+ player video gaming at my...
As a wacky segue from meeple speak, comes this QP pertaining to Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers (why isn't hunterers? - no, that's not the QP) Anyone else...
might as well chime in with my "games played this week" list... I spent the week in a cabin in SE OK, with the in-laws, whom I've only recently introduced our...
... FOUR years ... results is ... from those ... those!) ... Well I thought I had posted mine over in SF last night, but it still hasn't shown up yet, which...
I'm afraid your QP is in danger of being squashed by an avalanche of nickels and dimes. In a message dated 1/2/03 9:48:07 AM Central Standard Time, ... Yep. I...
On 12/31/02, Nick wrote: Nick> Do you stay up for the big midnight hoopla, or phone it in and hit the Nick> sack before the new year drives by? Nick> Bonus on...
<Subject: Qp - Off Track Betting> ... Yeah, it was only a wacky attempt to see how many people were back from holiday anyway. Still, I realize that a lot of...
are these meeples in action fugitives from the lot of 12000 someone bought? That looks like SO much fun! ... From: Mark J. Edwards <danger.mouse@...> ...