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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!oasys!blackjack!mhart
  2. From: mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.peeves
  4. Subject: Re: Peeve du jour
  5. Message-ID: <mhart.728001579@blackjack>
  6. Date: 25 Jan 93 22:39:39 GMT
  7. References: <C19qnx.8wr@vcd.hp.com> <1993Jan23.043709.17206@netcom.com> <y5Kls*B01@prolix.apana.org.au>
  8. Sender: news@oasys.dt.navy.mil
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  11. In <y5Kls*B01@prolix.apana.org.au> dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
  12.  
  13. >!Peeve: Playing the 'dictionary' game: Someone is designated
  14. >        dictionary, chooses a word in the dictionary, and asks if
  15. >    anyone knows what it means. If not, then everyone writes
  16. >    down a definition, and hands it in to the designated dictionary,
  17. >    who reads them all out, including his own dictionary definition,
  18. >    and the players try to guess the real definition.
  19.  
  20. Also sold commercially as "Balderdash".
  21.  
  22. General!Peeve: games.  Love 'em; almost any type.
  23.     Specially Trivial Pursuit, Outburst, cards (hearts, spades,
  24.         cribbage, gin), Rummy-O, Uno, and on and on.
  25.  
  26.     Hate those 50's & 60's songs games, like Songburst and Encore.
  27.         Just don't know enough of those 'oldtimer' songs - 
  28.         my wife does though!
  29.  
  30. --
  31. |   Michael G. Hart                   mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil    |
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  33. |     You think _I_ speak for the government or the navy?  HAH!      |
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