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We’ve been teaching Ollie a fun game. Take all the Sunday newspaper circulars and go through them, one page at a time. Every person has to point to one thing on the page they will buy. One thing that they need. Or want. Val says she played the game as a kid and the Sears catalog was big fun because it contained just about everything.
She said some pages contained embarassing items, or really cool stuff… men’s jockey shorts to curtain rods to toys. One way to play the “Catalog Game” is to turn the page and each player must point without looking. Whatever your finger lands on, you must buy.
Okay, lame to some of you but it’s fun to play it with a three-year-old because he laughs so much when he has to buy a dress or women’s shoes.
Sometimes we play with a Captain D’s ad, or a Pizza Hut circular. Yes, it’s true. We live in the ass-end of the Great Dismal Swamp and fun is hard to come by. Entertainment options are few.
This is why the Internets are so important to us all. Like the Sears Catalogs from the turn of the 20th century, online catalogs provide
information and have unlimited entertainment value.
This week, we’ve played the Garden Gnome game. When Val plays the game, she invariably goes to the Southern Yard Art filled with $85,000 fireplace mantles and marble columns. One of the most interesting aspects of the southern yard art landscape is the no holds barred approach to what is in and what is out.
The Heidi Klum of lawn decors — “One of you gnomes is safe. The other — out.”
