Except a John Hughes movie would have been more like "Footloose" than "hide from the queers." But the advantage to all this is that we no longer have the illusion of moral progress in Mississippi. Stuff like this lets us know what they're really thinking behind those polite southern manners.
As for the Scrabble thing, I've run into a few variants of chess in my day, and they never last either. Some of the Monopoly stunts are fun to read about, like games played with real money.
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Date: 2010-04-06 11:44 pm (UTC)As for the Scrabble thing, I've run into a few variants of chess in my day, and they never last either. Some of the Monopoly stunts are fun to read about, like games played with real money.