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Friday, January 3, 2014

Murdering the New Year

New Year’s Eve.
A time of food.
Fun.
Family.
And beating the pants off someone at this year’s game of choice.
The game for the last hours of 2013 and the wee, small hours of 2014?
Clue.
What could be better than starting the New Year out with a little bit of murder/mayhem and trying to decide if the victim had been bludgeoned, shot or strangled?
For some time, the players had been trying to figure out the whom, what and where of Mr. Boddy’s demise. Manipulating rooms (Ballroom, study, kitchen, library, conservatory, hall, dining room, lounge, billiard room), characters (Professor Plum, Mr. Green, Mrs. White, Miss Scarlett, Mrs. Peacock and Colonel Mustard) and weapons (Knife, gun, lead pipe, candlestick, rope, wrench); and toying with such statements as: Miss Scarlett in the ballroom with the lead pipe, and Mr. Green in the study with the rope.
The hour was growing late/early.
And our bunch of non-drinkers was growing slightly giddy with the unaccustomed lateness of the hour.
Someone posed the statement, “Look at all of the different ways to murder someone . . . the newer versions have poison. We need poison!”
A whole new dimension in the world of homicide.
To which my son, Erik, replied, “We have it!”
Everyone looked at him.
“Yeah,” he went on. “The Colonel in the kitchen, eating beans. Murder by Mustard gas!”
For fifteen minutes, all anyone could do was laugh.
Perfect way to bring in the New Year.


15 comments:

  1. Hee hee hee hee hee hee... I can't help but giggle! Although I enjoyed our own game at the crucial crossover hour of reading New Moon excerpts in the weirdest/funniest voices we could come up with... I think Dawn won with her California Blonde voice...

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  2. What a priceless comment! I love it when everything converges to make a moment like that.

    Hey, your label is nothing to sniff at, either! :)

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    1. Diane, the REALLY funny part of that is that I didn't see the pun I made until I read your reply!! Unbelievable but true :)

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    2. True genius, then, Jenny! You can make this stuff up in your sleep! :)

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  3. You won't believe this but I have NEVER played Clue before….but it sure sounds fun! If you ever come to Florida, come see me and bring the game with you!

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  4. I haven't played CLUE in years! :-)

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  5. And I thought Mr. Clean, in the bathroom, with the toilet plunger was funny...

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