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NaBloPoMo: Do you think you are a good sport?

May 24, 2012 by robertforto Leave a Comment

I am participating in the NaBloPoMo challenge for May. It should be a fun one. It is titled: Play.

Todays topic is: do you think you are a good sport?

That is up for debate. I guess it would depend on who you are asking.

I do not let my kids win at games to make them feel good and I have, on the rare occasion, made a grown man cry when participating in any sport of the backyard variety.

As I have said in my previous posts I am uber-competitive and that is a trait that is either desired or scorned in today’s society.

I firmly agree that  there are no points for second place.

Think about it?

Who came in second in this year’s Kentucky Derby?

Who was second in the NBA Finals?

Who was the runner up on this season of The Voice?

Who was not voted the Celebrity Apprentice this past weekend?

Unless you are on American Idol, I don’t think coming in second place has many perks. Do you?

Does all of this make me a bad sport?

No.

After every game I will always shake the hand of my opponent and tell them “good game.” I will offer a hand to a guy on the field. I will congratulate them for a job well done if they score, knock me down, throw a pick on me or otherwise leave me in the dust.

So in this world of win at all costs in everything from school to sports to business it is not if you win or lose but how you play the game.

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Robert Forto is mushin’ down a dream in the wilds of Alaska. He and is wife are raising two teenagers at Forto’s Fort.


 

 

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Filed Under: Daily Post, NaBloPoMo Tagged With: alaska, Board game, dailypost, Games, Kentucky Derby, Monopoly, NaBloPoMo, robert forto, Video game

NaBloPoMo: Is there any game you are too old to play?

May 23, 2012 by robertforto 1 Comment

I am participating in the NaBloPoMo challenge for May. It should be a fun one. It is titled: Play.

Todays topic is: Is there any game you are too old to play?

What is the old adage? If it is too loud, you are too old?

I think the same thing applies to games.

I guess it would be unfair to play little league, pee wee football, or possibly whack a piñata at a six year-olds birthday party?

But why do we as adults want to take all the fun away from the kids?

We have plenty of games for just us:

Quarters

Beer Pong

Spin the Bottle

7-minutes in the dark with you-know-who

Poker–of various varieties that sometimes may or may not involve removing of textiles.

Then we have video games.

I saw an episode of The Simpons yesterday and the scene was Bart and Grampa sitting on the floor playing some sort of Space Invaders game.

Bart was yelling instructions to Grampa:

Shoot here!

Capature that!

Shoot there!

Within seconds grandpa was dead–his video game ship anyway.

And he says,

“Awww, I got on the floor for this!”

I think that about sums it up, don’t you?

What game are you too old to play?

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Robert Forto is mushin’ down a dream in the wilds of Alaska. He and is wife are raising two teenagers at Forto’s Fort.

 

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: alaska, Bart Simpson, Board game, dailypost, Games, Little League Baseball, Monopoly, NaBloPoMo, Space Invaders, The Simpsons, Video game

NaBloPoMo: CandyLand or Chutes and Ladders?

May 16, 2012 by robertforto Leave a Comment

I am participating in the NaBloPoMo challenge for May. It should be a fun one. It is titled: Play.

Todays topic is: Pick your poison: Candy Land or Chutes-and-Ladders and why?

I have said it twice now. I do not like board games. I think they are a waste of several hours of one’s life and if you can’t find anything better to do, don’t do anything at all. That is a saying that my mom used to tell me.

But in the spirit of good sportsmanship, if I had to choose and it was a life or death decision, I guess I would have to pick CandyLand.

But did you know, The 1950s polio scare produced parental panic—swimming pools emptied, parks cleared out, civic events were deserted. People stayed away from crowds. And parents kept kids indoors. Kawash says frightened parents seeking to prevent their children’s exposure may have seized upon the game as an indoor alternative to the dangers lurking outside.

Wow.

There’s more:  The initial packaging images are reminiscent of the iconic Hansel and Gretel fairy tale, where children were abandoned in the forest. During the polio epidemic, with lengthy hospitalizations, children often found themselves similarly separated from parents.  However, the CandyLand forest is neither dark nor scary. The game helped to ameliorate the parent-child separation, transforming the experience of the polio ward “into a sugar-laced holiday.”

I know, I know. This post was supposed to be about play. Not scaring little kids and their over-protective parents of 2012, a full 62 years since this polio thing.

So lets get down to it and play an “adult version” of CandyLand, shall we?

How to Play the Drinking Game CandyLand

This game puts an adult twist on the childhood favorite CandyLand. This drinking game blends the thrills of a board game with the excitement of a drinking game. Learn how to play the drinking game CandyLand by following these steps.

Things You’ll Need

2 to 4 Players

Alcoholic beverages

CandyLand game

Instructions

1. The game is played the traditional way, but the colors on the card have an additional command. The player picks a card, moves his person and does the drinking rule for that card.

2. Card Drinking Rules: Red = Make or break a rule Blue = All guys drink Purple = All girls drink Yellow = Player takes a drink Green = Make a rhyme Orange = Categories Doubles = Take two drinks and do that card color Cheats = Waterfall The People = Down your drink The Black Dots = Pass out three drinks

3. The winner of the game makes everyone down their remaining drinks all at once.

Tips & Warnings

Please drink responsibly and don’t drink and drive

I don’t know about you but the drinking version sure has to be more fun than sitting around the house watching the Lifetime channel or the struggling Oprah network, OWN.

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Robert Forto is mushin’ down a dream in the wilds of Alaska. He and is wife are raising two teenagers at Forto’s Fort.

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Filed Under: Daily Post, NaBloPoMo Tagged With: alaska, BlogHer, Board game, CandyLand, dailypost, Drinking game, Games, NaBloPoMo, Parent, polio, robert forto, Video Games

NaBloPoMo: What piece do you have to be in Monopoly and why?

May 15, 2012 by robertforto Leave a Comment

I am participating in the NaBloPoMo challenge for May. It should be a fun one. It is titled: Play.

Today’s topic is: What piece do you have to be in Monopoly and why?

You’re killing me smalls!

I just said yesterday that the game of Monopoly has got to be the worst game in the world to play and toady’s topic is what is the piece I just HAVE to be.

Are you kidding me?

If you are going to twist my arm, I would have to say the dog in the classic game. But this game just like just about everything else has sold out to “the man”.

There are more versions of Monopoly than there are flavors at Baskin Robbins.

Some of my favorites are:

Grateful Deadopoly

Klingon Monopoly

Cocktailopoly

And everybody’s favorites: 

Strippopoly

XXXopoly

Then there’s: 

Fishin-opoly

Foreclosure Opoly

White-tail-opoly

and then:

Fairy-opoly

DIY-opoly

Dance-opoly

But as in everything in life (well, mine anyway) can be attributed to the movie:

A Christmas Story, you have

A Christmas Story Monopoly game.

America’s favorite board game is getting all decked out for the holidays with A Christmas Story Collector’s Edition of Monopoly Game.  Relive the funniest and most memorable scenes from this classic holiday film as you buy, sell, and trade treasured mementos like the BB Gun, Hubcap Full of Nuts and Randy’s Snowsuit.  So take off your Pink Bunny Suit, try to repair your shattered Leg Lamp, and be sure to have your Secret Society Decoder Pin handy as you advande to GO!

Includes six collectible pewter tokens:  Fragile Crate, Ralphie’s Bunny Suit, Leg Lamp, Bar of Soap, Broken  Glasses, and Old Man’s Car.

 It’s a Major Award!

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Robert Forto is mushin’ down a dream in the wilds of Alaska. He and is wife are raising two teenagers at Forto’s Fort.

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Filed Under: Daily Post, NaBloPoMo Tagged With: BB Gun, Board game, Christmas Story, Games, Leg Lamp, Monopoly, NaBloPoMo, Special edition

NaBloPoMo:What is the worst game to get stuck playing?

May 14, 2012 by robertforto Leave a Comment

I am participating in the NaBloPoMo challenge for May. It should be a fun one. It is titled: Play.

Today’s topic is: What is the worst game to get stuck playing?

I have said it once and I will say it again. Monopoly.

Yep that is right, the iconic board games has got to be the worst game in the world to get stuck playing.

I once turned down a date with the prettiest girl in school when we were making plans for our first date and she suggested:

“Come on over to my place and we can play Monopoly!”

Hoping she wasn’t suggesting ‘something else’ or somehow there wasn’t a double entendre there but I declined none-the-less.

Monpoly has got to be the most agonizing form of entertainment known to man. Does it ever end? No!

At least back in Lincoln’s day, he passed the time reading books.

Monoply has a good premise. You go around the board and collect your loot while buying up properties and charging your pals rent. Sounds like really life, doesn’t it? No.

Who cares how much wealth you accumulate when it is just funny money.

Hey wait a minute. Isn’t that what got us in the mess in this country? Didn’t it all start with P-BO’s Cash for Clunkers program?

Funny money or not, its 2012 for goodness sake. Who cares who owns a railroad and when can a couple hundred bucks get you out of jail?

I guess if you want you can take a Chance but I’m betting there is more in that Community Chest than a game of monolpy that will take years off of your life, literally. I mean, when has a game ever ended in under sixteen hours.

Who has that kind of time? I would rather spend it on Facebook.

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Robert Forto is mushin’ down a dream in the wilds of Alaska. He and is wife are raising two teenagers at Forto’s Fort.


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Filed Under: Daily Post, NaBloPoMo Tagged With: alaska, Board game, facebook, Games, Huntington West Virginia, Monopoly, NaBloPoMo, Video Games

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