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Oct
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A Risk Worth Taking |
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bacon bits lords, ladies, lads and lasses.
This week you find us reveling in our somewhat guilty pleasure. Matthew and I have crossed swords more than once on the Parker Brothers battlefield. He is a worthy adversary, but lacks the will to destroy. There is a very good episode of Red Dwarf that references Risk for its entire duration. Unfortunately I cannot remember the series, but needless to say Rimmer leads a large number of peace loving machines to their ultimate destruction. I
shamefully admit that I did in fact hand paint my own playing set, Oh noble plastic soldiers. I salute you.
Good day loyal readers! Welcome to a fresh installment of Art Depreciation. Today we bring you Michael’s reinterpretation of John Trumbull's “The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis (at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781)” Michael, being British (and not knowing any better), believes that Cornwallis and Washington were on the same side, perhaps fighting the YPA (yellow plastic army) forces massed in South America. I assume that by this point, Irkutsk and Kamchatka had already fallen (as they tend to do). And yes, as he says above me, we have been known to throw down the gauntlet on the great cardboard front. He usually wins, but that's the way things go… The episode of Red Dwarf he’s referring to is Meltdown |
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one of the redlands
