I've just lost the game! [wikipedia.org]

Greetings, Professor Falken. ... A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

In Response to mkinyon (#31661):

There is no way to win. The ony possible thing to do is not to lose.
However once you tell everyone that you've lost they'll think about the game and lose too, until someone else loses and then you lose.

Clear enough?

And I don't like chess, I prefer Rithmomachia.

In Response to Nagy_Vilmos (#31662):

Clear enough?

Of course, it's clear. It's the sort of thing that is amusing for about five minutes, like Mao, Mornington Crescent, or self-referential jokes. And then we finally graduate from high school.

Later still, we post our carefully considered opinions about celebrity chefs to Internet forums. With maturity comes responsibility, after all.

And I don't like chess, I prefer Rithmomachia.

I prefer Double Fanucci.

In Response to mkinyon (#31663):

I started University about the same time as you finished your first degree, so I've been out of 'school' a while now.

I can't discuss celebrity chefs as I don't know half the names (+/- 1/2) under discussion.

Cripple Mr Onion can be fun.

In Response to Nagy_Vilmos (#31664):

...I've been out of 'school' a while now.

Yeah, I know. That's why I was putting on my "how immature to find this amusing" act, old man. It's just a variant of saying "oh, how 90's".

I don't know half the names (+/- 1/2) under discussion.

Pfui, I hardly ever recognize pop culture references around here. You don't really think I know who Craig Wollam is [goats.com], do you? Luckily Dr. Internet is always there for us. Especially when we should be doing something more productive. Like grading this trigonometry homework assignment in front of me.

At least no one has started a damn Sudoko thread here.

In Response to mkinyon (#31666):

I like Sudoko, but like a good bowel movement, it is something that should be done alone and never discussed.

My favorite game at the moment is 'get seat 4C on Friday night'. Since Christmas, only one of three people has got this prized seat on the flight home. I've managed to grab it twice.

In Response to Nagy_Vilmos (#31667):

like a good bowel movement, it is something that should be done alone and never discussed.

Oh, that's right, your oldest will turn 4 in a couple of months. She's certainly past the age where it is an interesting topic of conversation. I assume your youngest isn't discussing much of anything, correct?

By "it", I meant Sudoko, of course.

My favorite game at the moment is 'get seat 4C on Friday night'.

More leg room? Free beer? Details, man, details! These papers need to ripen a while before I grade them.

In Response to mkinyon (#31668):

You are so a 3b it isn't even funny. You are 3b all week, man.

In Response to deerboy (#31669):

I wish. Normally I'm a 29C. You know, the one who is continually bumped by the drink carts and the people waiting in line for the lavatory.

In Response to mkinyon (#31670):

Like I said

"Skills Required: Forgetfulness, Anti-socialness" [wikipedia.org]
   
I'm in...dammit...I lost!
   

In Response to mkinyon (#31670):

22F in da house!
Yeah, for some reason, I always get an "F" in flying...

Well, except for on those lovely vomit-inducing mini-planes that are only 3 seats across. Then I get an A, actually.

In Response to Deathalicious (#31673):

The configuration on the A320 that BA uses has the first four rows with a double and a triple seat so no seat B.

The first three rows are for upgrades, staff and people who don't pay for their own tickets; aka Club Europe.

Cattle class starts in row 4 and seats 4A and 4C have the extra room because there it's still a double not triple.

4C is on the isle and gets the booze bus first.

QED 4C on BA870 is the best seat for me. The cacky bit is that it's the best seat for everyone else.

Finally (I hope) if I take the seat *allocated* by BA's super inteligent computa I would be in 18F everytime. So I always says "Jon's the man and I know Phillip". Then I get the front of cattle. It's not who or what you know, it's how scarry your eyes are...

In Response to Nagy_Vilmos (#31699):

8D!

I don't believe it. I just did my online check in, 20 minutes after it opened and every seat up to row 7 was taken.

Something fishy is going on here. I need the help of Jerrell, several size-4 squirrels, a jar of olive paste and Bob's cattle prod.

It's time to investigate...

In Response to Nagy_Vilmos (#31725):

16A South Bend to Chicago
31E Chicago to Denver
Bleah.

In Response to mkinyon (#31727):

31E? Big(ish) plane then. But was the beer bus still working when it got to you or was it disheveled lump of metal, with no refreshment in sight?

There are only two reasons to want to sit at the back of a plane
1. You've got diarrhoea.
2. Yo want to meet someone who has diarrhoea.

In Response to Nagy_Vilmos (#31730):

I was so waiting to put a ***Woo! Woo! 400 posts!*** when I got there and I missed.

so,

*** Umm, this is #401 ***

I like Munchkin.

In Response to Nagy_Vilmos (#31730):

But was the beer bus still working when it got to you or was it disheveled lump of metal, with no refreshment in sight?

You mean the "$5 for a can of domestic swill" cart? I was tempted to dishevel it myself. I just had a couple of cups of coffee on that flight.

Upon my arrival in Denver, I and the person meeting me spent a chilly 20 minutes attempting to find his car. Denver Goataku, or anyone who has had occasion to disembark at DIA, will appreciate this. My colleague remembered he had parked in row L. All became clear to him when I innocently asked if, on the opposite side of the terminal, there might not be a clone of the parking lot we were unsuccessfully searching.

I was treated to dinner at an excellent upscale Mexican place called Tamayo [modernmexican.com] in the lower downtown area. I had the best mole poblano I've had in years. For liquid accompaniment, I first suffered through a skunky, warm Bohemia, and then switched to perfectly chilled Negro Modelo. With dessert, I had an espresso martini (with Patron XO). Combined with the high altitude, it made for a very pleasant evening.

I rolled in to my hotel at 11:30PM (1:30AM back in my home time zone). Luckily, mid-to-upscale Denver hotels know to provide lowland tourists with plenty of bottled water.

In Response to mkinyon (#31771):

One of the perks of Southwest Air's FFP is that with every free ticket, you get a dozen $1 coupons redeemable at their beercarts. So I can get usually $3 domestic swill beer or $4 domestic swill spirits for free.
Assuming I'm not driving at the other end.

Just went to check in for tomorrow's flight.

For the 9th (I think) flight in a row, I was allocated 19A. This is beginning to worry me.