I always called my character 'Dr. Scarlet.' It annoyed me that the men got to be 'Professor (Plum)' and the women were all 'Mrs.' or 'Miss.'

Well, there was "Mr. Green" there, so at least one man was without fancy title, and the erstwhile deceased, "Mr. Body", but the other man is "Colonel Mustard", and the women are Miss Scarlet, Mrs. White and Mrs. Peacock, IIRC. So it appears that you have a point there. Gender bias in classic board game! We'll have to get Parker Brothers on a recall campaign...

Of course "Miss Scarlet" always gets to go first, though, and for all his education, the stately Professor Plum always goes last.

Being Professor Plum in Clue gives you several advantages early in the game with Clue. Besides seeing accusations by almost all the other players, Professor Plum also has a good chance to be moved to room, removing the randomness that he won't be able to make an accusation in the second turn.

^H^H^H I guess that's not what you meant. :)

BritMonks may not get this at all, as there is no game called Clue in the United Kingdom. It is, for some reason, called Cluedo here, and I have no idea why.

Miss Scarlet can still do it in the billiard room though. With the candlestick.

Ouch! Howabout with the rope? And the lead pipe. <Drop lights, curtiain fall over..> <Exuant, stage left>

because they couldn't very well call it clueso now could they?

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Grygonos

On the advice of counsel, I must decline to answer regarding an ongoing investigation, as anything I might say might be used against me....

I dint do it! I wern't even there when it happened, guvna!.

And is someone really railing against gender bias in a game based on some late 18th/early-19th century Holmesian whimsy?

Well, that's my $.02 worth. No, for refunds you'll have to check our customer service department.

sub whatisit{
  my $it = shift;
  if ($it eq 'yada yada'){
    return(undef);
  }
  else {
    if ($it eq 'get in a car accident'){
      return("vincinity of 38.86540N 77.07163W"}
    else {
      if ($it eq 'write perl script'){
        return ('kitchen');
      }
      else{
        return(\&email(zak));
      }
    }
  }
}
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You know, you can reduce the level of indentation (thus making it easier to read (IMHO, of course)) of this sub by using elsif:

sub whatisit{
  my $it = shift;
  if ($it eq 'yada yada'){
    return(undef);
  }
  elsif ($it eq 'get in a car accident') {
      return("vincinity of 38.86540N 77.07163W");
  }
  elsif ($it eq 'write perl script'){
      return ('kitchen');
  }
  else{
      return(\&email(zak));
  }
}
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I know this is pretty trivial code, but...

I still don't get it. What is this facination with farting. <sp>Flatulism</sp> is a natural thing. Who cares which room of the house you do it in. As my mommy used to say Where ere you be let the wind go free.

Errrmmm... did what? Eat? Drink? Smoke? Have sex? Write a Perl script? Read a book?

Any of those could be most anywhere...

All of which are just fine to do in the study. Woohoo!

CSUhockey3

C.

...Make Dr. Lucky Fall Down...

Crossover with Toon and Kill Dr. Lucky

As in the Steve Jackson "RPG" 'Toon' ?? I played this quite a bit when I was a kid. fun stuff. My main character was a little green four-legged frog with a super-stretchy prehensile tongue of near-infinite length, his name was 'Rogger Ribbit' (doh!). His biggest accomplishment was when he fell off a cliff, pulled a stop sign out of his pocket (you can pull any sort of sign out of your Back Pocket (TM) at any time, so says the book), rolled a successful 'fast talk' roll, and convincing the ground to STOP!!!! It was so fun to play a game with no rules, just like 'Calvinball' in many ways.

How is this game you mention played?

Howdy!

Kill Dr. Lucky is a multiplayer game where you try to kill Dr. Lucky. Players try to get the prospective victim alone with them (and out of sight of anyone else -- can't have witnesses) and then off him. Sort of like the prequel to a game of Clue.

Make Dr. Lucky Fall Down is a crossover variant that was published on Pyramid. The operating rules are Toon; the objective is to make Dr. Lucky fall down. You still have to avoid witnesses, but boggled Toons can be ignored. Dr. Lucky has Luck-8.

yours,
Michael

Two hours later the programmer shows up at the office: "You were right, boss, I feel great! By the way, nice house you've got there...."

I'm sorry, "I have no Cluedo what you mean" (being from the UK, originally).

cLive ;-)

I never did it... in the office :-)

I miss the "on the roof" option ;-)

"In the bathroom. With your mom!" :)

Thank you :)


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We did it in the kitchen,
We did it in the hall.
We did it on the sofa
And up against the wall.

From David Morgan's cover of Little Milton's "Love Her with a Feelin'". (I think Dave added that verse, but I'm not sure.)