07-21-10 – These Foolish Games

One random thought I’ve had recently is that I think (unfortunately, as the case may be) we need to pay more attention to our theme titles and consider ways to make them as indicative of the theme description as possible.

Maybe instead we should make them so incomprehensible that people need to read the description to know what to post 😯

HAHAH that’s a good thought, too. I did half wonder if the themes were more “abstract” in wording, if people would bother reading the descriptions. Maybe I should look up how many DQ’s there are with more abstract theme titles vs more obvious theme titles.

Sure. Like you need more work. Have at it!

Look, I’ve been at it nearly 5 months, you’ve been at it 5 years. You got me by 12 fold. You know what I was going for, and you’re the moderator. Write the appropriate T/D and lets just get’er’dun.

But I don’t want dq’s for images without people visible playing the games. If the game pieces provide enough context that the game implied is obvious, I want it to be a ‘go’ (collect $200). I can accept that families in the Ozarks play ‘Spin the bottle’ and ‘Strip poker’ together[da-da-dee-dee-dee-da-dee-dee-dee…]. As a gay guy, I can’t begrudge old family habits; hell, if it weren’t for inbreed’n, I would not be here today (see my family tree for details; the kissin’ cousins start 6 generations back).

And ‘sports’, as I’m sure you understand I meant them, are definitely DQ. Football, baseball, basketball, soccer and hockey (ice or otherwise). Beyond that, I don’t think we’d see enough entries to make a difference.

**Oh, and gymnastics are okay, so long as it’s men’s gymnastics, and the tights are white, and not black. White is so much more…artistic.**

Yeah, that’s the ticket. Artistic.

It’s too late to take my spin the bottle shot with the models I had lined up 🙁

Even if you can’t get Ginger and the Howells on short notice, I’m sure a shot with Gilligan, the Skipper too; the professor and MaryAnn would be just fine.

GOLF IS NOT A SPORT!

(it’s a way of life 😉 )

My ‘no sport’ objective was to keep out the football/baseball/basketball/soccer/and ice hockey shots. We see those images all the time in the papers. Golf, too. I wanted images we don’t see all the time.

You approved mine. Full-scale athletics, no profit, definite rules, definite winning team, and it’s not football/baseball/basketball/soccer/hockey/pro wrestling…

Should be fun, wot?

Am I going to have to go into fits of dithering over whether or not it qualifies? Please say no, please say no, please say no…

No.

Let it roll (pardon the pun).

Further, …this got way too complicated. If I wanted this much drama, I’d date gay men, instead of just having sex with them.

If it’s not obviously some testosterone-injected-boy-playing-make-up/dress-up-except-it’s-not-rouge-it’s-to-keep-from-the-light-from-preventing-me-from-seeing-the-ball-and-these-tights-are-called-a-uniform-so-the-cup-and-tight-jockstrap-makes-it-okay-and-oh-by-the-way-that-pat-on-the-ass-is-TOTALLY-heterosexual-because-this-is-sports-and-that-makes-it-mas(th)culine….

…or the lesbian (I mean testosterone challenged) equivalent thereof..

then let it slide.

Sheesh. I just didn’t want ‘games’ to mean ‘sports’ for this contest. I trust your judgement on making that call.

Take it with a grain of schwetty balls. Or a high grain alcohol. Either or.