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did you end up winning the indy 500

i did but you won't see me on the news because i gave the trophy to felix rosenqvist so he could be first instead, his last big win was like a decade ago or something so i felt like he was due some flowers. and i try to stay humble

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So mummy curses- who in the audience has been cursed by a pharaoh before? I'm seeing a few hands. Well I once got cursed, and let me tell you there's no worse mummy to get cursed by then the white pharaoh of utah. I was just trying to buy some fishing equipment and then BAM suddenly any food I eat turns to jello and instead of scarabs I kept getting swarmed with those invasive beetles that look like ladybugs. Yeah the orange ones that die on your windowsill.

But yeah long story short my buddy Robbie, he's a mechanic but he knows a thing or 2 about pharaoh curses, and he tells me I gotta return what I took from his pyramid, but I didn't keep the receipt for the fishing rod I bought so that wasn't an option. So instead we just had to go beat the shit out of him. Thankfully the Bass Pro Shop people were very understanding and let us do our thing as we clobbered him. Robbie brought a tire iron and hoo boy the pipes on that white pharaoh when he got him in the knees. Eventually he just lifted the curse so we would stop. So that's the end of that story. I mean Robbie converted to mormonism a while later but he always gave me that vibe so I'm not sure if he got cursed.

I read this out loud to my sibling like i was sight reading and I genuinely started dying at "so instead we just had to go beat the shit out of him"

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Ok. So in the early 80s the board game Monopoly was quite big, so to capitalize on this a group who called themselves The Parker Sisters (a play on the company that owned Monopoly at the time, The Parker Brothers) approached board game company called Fire Island Games with an idea; Monopoly, but gay. This resulted in the following game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11862/gay-monopoly

Now as you can probably tell, this game actually does more to stand out compared to your average Monopoly clone; it has a round board, it's own Mascot in Ollie Gaytor, all the money costs being in really annoying amounts, and a trivia mechanic where landing on certain spaces will result in you answering a question about either historical queer figures or the "hanky code" popular among gay men of the time. Now a notable problem with that last one is that this game was apparently somewhat of a rush job. After all Monopoly had only been on shelves for what, 48 years at that point. Who knows how much longer the fad will last? But anyways a lot of the trivia is just straight up wrong. (I don't have a definitive number as to what percentage but I know it's at least SOME).

Now unfortunately like all good stories the tale of Gay Monopoly came to an end, and all due to a simple mistake. You see; the reason games like Chicago-opoly, Horse-opoly, and Bibleopoly (yes those are all real) are allowed to exist with no involvement with the official Monopoly brand is that way back when that you can't copyright the word "monopoly", however you CAN copyright having the full word "monopoly" in the title of your board game. So as long as it's -opoly and not monopoly it's fine. (with the exception of ghettopoly, which is as bad as it sounds, but that's because the rube who made it chose to represent himself in court).

So basically since Gay Monopoly had the full word "monopoly" in it's title (fun fact a differnt part later made Gayopoly but it's far less interesting), they got sued by The Parker Brothers, which confused Fire Island Games, since apparently they thought that The Parker Sisters had the license to use the Monopoly brand. So they got sued into the dirt and Gay Monopoly was killed forever.

very interesting!! Sucks that it's no longer around cause it sounds entertaining

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for this x

sonadow

go on I know you're insane.

I need to start consuming more sonic media Sonic Prime changed me as a person

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just letting you know I love you /p

Wahhhh I love you too /p!!!!

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favorite part of Chuck?

ooo it's been a while since I've watched the show but from what I can remember, one of my fav moments (arcs?) is Chucks red test. Sarah realizing that this is not the life she wants Chuck to have only for him to kill someone and she doesn't know how to feel about it. Except he didn't actually kill someone Casey did it for him. All the miscommunication and angst in Chuck and Sarah's fake relationship was great and it didn't make me hate the show. Another moment I liked was most of the Bryce and Chuck moments, and now that I'm gonna rewatch the show I'm gonna pay a little more attention to them.

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Hello, maybe you don't know but remtix is not a real artist and they are stealing arts from original artists without their consent and even removing their watermark, you should avoid to rb from them

posting this for publicity, if anyone liked or reblogged this from me please delete your reblogs and go to the actual artist @/B40_04K on twitter (thank you @miyakuli)

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Good luck on your history exam!! I also have exams this week 💔 One is an in class essay for an African American Studies course and the other is for Management Science 😔 And then I have another exam next week for Macroeconomics 😭 (already had one for that last week…) Exam season is killing me

sorry for the late reply 😭😭 got the results back, 44/50 on the multiple choice, 30/50 on the written essay. Not too bad, better than my midterm haha. I also wish you luck on your exams!