I'd have to go back to the various Rootes group history books to get all the
names right but you could easily get all the street names from the various
Rootes-operated plants, and a few places in the States (Carroll Shelby's shop
and Hollywood Sports Cars instead of Waterworks / Electric Co.?). For the
tokens, use the different Rootes cars. Don't get stuck driving the Humber. You
have to use Lucas dice - they don't roll doubles.
Theo Smit
tsmit@novatel.ca
B382002705
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wright, Larry [SMTP:lrw@aop.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 8:53 AM
> To: Tigerlist * (E-mail)
> Subject: Playing Games
>
> (You can just tell I'm interested in Sunbeam-related CRAP almost as much
> as in the car itself)
>
> I get, perhaps, two dozen mail-order catalogs a week, and I usually look
> through them all. This weekend I got "The Lighter Side" (I think that's
> the name). Well, I've seen quite a few variations on Parker Brother's
> game Monopoly: Washington-opoly, Elvis-opoly, Simpsons-opoly, who cares?
> These guys offer "_____-opoly", a roll-your-own variation, where you
> name everything yourself, with property cards, labels for the board,
> etc., you run through your computer printer. About thirty bucks for the
> kit.
>
> Geez, this would've been fun for United at the hospitality suite, if I'd
> seen it a month earlier. Rootes-opoly!
> Hey, what'll we name all these properties? In ascending order, V_____
> B_____ at the bottom, where at the top (SUNI?). How about replacing the
> railroads with racetracks where Sunbeams did (do) well? And Chance
> cards: "Get paint flakes in fuel line, go back two spaces", "Get caught
> doing 125 on the freeway, go directly to Jail, do not collect $200",
> "Find a dozen NOS heater valves at yard sale, take another turn", etc.
> Hey, Norm Miller did something similar on the List a while back, now you
> can have the home version! Officially, let's say the houses are
> color-code 86, the hotels Carnival Red (it has been decades since I've
> played, I think they're green & red).
>
> Yeah, but who gets to use the race car playing piece?
>
> Lawrence R. Wright
> Purchasing Analyst
> Andrews Office Products Div. of USOP
> lrw@aop.com
> Ph. 301.386.7923 Fx. 301.386.5333
|