For Eileene’s birthday, I got her some short skirts and short shorts. They were a good choice; twice this month alone she’d expressed a desire for skirts that (a) were shorter and sexier, and (b) fit better since she’s lost so much weight. It saves her from shopping for clothes, a task both of us hate, and she can wear all these items in the safe knowledge that I find them all reasonably attractive. But clothes, to my mind, remain a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153practical\u00e2\u20ac\u009d gift, and not a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fun\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one. No matter how much we may mature, birthday and Christmas gifts should include some fun.<\/p>\n
So I also got Eileene a card game. It’s called Poo<\/em>, and the box art consists of a screeching monkey. Guess what this game is about.<\/p>\n So classy it ain’t. I have doubts about its strategic depth, too: a glance at the rules and components suggest simple mechanics to match a simple goal of piling up 6 points of poo on rivals to knock them out of the game, with predictable block, clean (heal), and lose-a-turn cards. The only explanation I can find for the Origins \u00e2\u20ac\u0153card game of the year\u00e2\u20ac\u009d award is the sheer naughty factor, which is definitely ripe. We’ve already engaged in some pre-adolescent snickering at the artwork. (Defensive card: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Friend’s Face.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lose a turn: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just a Fart.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) And really, that’s about all you can ask from a $10 deck of cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For Eileene’s birthday, I got her some short skirts and short shorts. They were a good choice; twice this month alone she’d expressed a desire for skirts that (a) were shorter and sexier, and (b) fit better since she’s lost so much weight. It saves her from shopping for clothes, a task both of us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}