I used to have a hippie friend who was a frequent shopper at the local "head" shop. One day he asked me to play a card game he just bought. I asked what the rules were and he said, "That's just it, man! There are no rules!!!!! No fascist telling you how to play! No CIA dictating your life! This is a game for the PEOPLE!" He dumped out the cards and I swear they were just random pictures of things just like the pictures you see on this page. No numbers, no suites, no duplicates, just pictures. I spent two excruciating hours trying to "play" this game. My friend was happy as a bug playing with his glass of milk and chocolate chip cookies beside him.
Me? I'm wondering if we should petition the fascists to re-involve themselves with the card game industry.
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there are some special chocolate chip cookies that, if eaten, can liven up any type of activity. if you ate the cookies you might have seen the game differently ;p maybe it was the milk
It sounds like a variation on the game 52 Pickup to me. ;)
Excellent poodle!
Hi mantoe, I always thought that it was special brownies that made things interesting.....
Hi Uncle Eddie, what's a "head" shop?
That sounds really frustrating. The hippie mentatlity towards recreation is the same mentality they have towards art education "no rules! everyone is creative!"
A "head shop" was an establishment that proliferated throughout the urban areas from about the mid-sixties to about the mid-seventies, selling, among other things, rolling papers (for *AHEM* certain types of "cigarettes"), roach clips, bongs, psychadellic posters, underground comix and newspapers, and other types of "novelty" items that today would get you a year to five in the state pen.
(Think Spencer's Gifts with better quality crap!)
That card game sounds just like "Calvinball". No rules!
Thank God for fascists! Otherwise the whole world would be Calvins, and we'd all be destroyed.
And everyone would be stinky.
Here's a picture of a vintage HIPPIE HALLOWEEN COSTUME!
See ya
Steve
Reminds me a little of 1000 Blank Cards
http://www.geocities.com/nconner23/bwcards.html
...although, I can tell you right away *that* game's a lot more fun.
Steve: Nice costumes! Now I know what I'm gonna be on Halloween!
Hippies never understood that you can still have all the rules & break them if you want to. It's just that if you break them, you have to face the consequences.
"Wait man, NO RESPONSIBILITY! NO CONSEQUENCES! FREE LOVE! FREE CARDS!"
Fascists won't infiltrate the playing card industry until they can steal oil from it. Same reason they avoid Darfur.
"Fascists won't infiltrate the playing card industry until they can steal oil from it. Same reason they avoid Darfur."
You're a hippie.
Shawn:
Calvinball was fun! It was fun because there were rules, they just kept multiplying as the game went on. Plus, Calvin and Hobbes (and even the babysitter, wossrname) were more creative than most hippies. Face it, hippie creativity tends to go up in smoke. Ahem.
Eddie:
Was the point of the game to create a story? I think I have a deck of those. "Once upon a Time," perhaps? But there were words, and there were rules to making the story and playing your cards, so maybe not.
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