The best way to win at Monopoly? Soak it in lighter fluid and drop a lit match on it.

Then go find Acquire (boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5) if you like the property collection.
or I'm the Boss (boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/115) if you like the wheeling and dealing.

Interestingly, both games were created, decades apart, by the late great Sid Sackson.

And, while Scrabble is ok, needing knowledge of arcane two-letter words to win is a drawback. What has Sid Sackson got for us? Buyword (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8920/buyword). Plays 1-4 players in less than an hour. Almost no downtime as all players play somewhat simultaneously. The man was a genius.

There is a whole world of board games that you won't find on the shelves of Wal-Mart. Settlers of Catan is sort of the granddaddy of them. There have been other good games before it. But Settlers was intentionally designed to be the opposite of the crappy games you see in big box stores.

This is a non-commercial site that has all the resources you need to find out about them:

www.boardgamegeek.com

I think it's fine if you have them post credits. The movie has been over for about ten minutes by then. You get to sit back and rehash the movie a little. Then you get a peek at what's next.

It's not the actual technology. Not that many years ago, when people saw someone flying a remote controlled plane or helicopter, it was interesting. Then they started being called "drones" and everyone got mad.

Same thing with the military drones. There are people who are perfectly fine with a plane that has a human pilot in the plane dropping bombs in combat. But if the human pilot is not in the plane, it's somehow wrong. It's the exact same result. The only difference is the pilot is in a different location. But call it a plane and you have a positive connotation. Call it a drone and you have a negative one.

Skittles do taste different. The five original flavors were all sweet fruit flavors. Then they decided to change green from lime to green apple. So now you've got 4 sweet flavors and one bad sour apple version that leaves a chemical aftertaste.

The rainbow is ruined.

Lord of the Rings is a pretty dense fantasy. At points, it's like reading a history book. If you like fantasy, you may like the books. Harry Potter is much more accessible, which is why more kids are reading it. But the first book doesn't have the best writing. It's a good story, and excellent world building. But not great.

If you want to mix in a little of the fantasy/sci-fi, I'd go with classics like Ursula LeGuinn or Harlan Ellison. Or if you want more contemporary, Jay Lake's Green series or any Paolo Bacigalupi.

Llamas apparently also are good at guarding flocks.

Fantastic selling point. I like the bit where the knitting group feels a strange energy in a room full of swords, as opposed to being totally comfortable in a room dedicated to things designed to kill people.

Tony Zhou's videos are amazing breakdowns of the science and art of making movies.

There's a city called Worcester in Massachusetts. Whenever you hear advertisements that use the name, you get all sorts of different pronunciations, with war-sess-tur being the most common. But in Mass, they call it Wis-tahhhhh.

Hey! I'm in your club. My friend and I almost died at Lincoln Park. The bored, distracted teenager didn't check the bar on our seat. We were in the front. So when the coaster tipped over the edge for the first drop, the bar flipped up and both of us flipped up out of our seats. The only reason I didn't go over is because my heels caught on the bottom of the seat. Otherwise, I was fully airborne and about to go bouncing down the tracks with a train rolling over me, or falling to my death off to the side.

Once the rest of the train was pushed over and it started rolling, we were flung back in our seats. We did not enjoy the rest of the ride. I did not go on anything even remotely coaster like for a couple decades.

Loved the Monkees as a kid. Saw them play in the 80s, without Mike Nesmith, and it was great fun. Whenever I hear a Monkees song, I then have the overwhelming urge to find an episode of Banana Splits. I don't know if it is because they are similar comedy, or if they were on consecutively when I was a kid.

Treasure Planet is a good movie, and an excellent pirate movie.

People I know seemed to love Bolt. Does the love really not go beyond my small monkeysphere?

I think I disagree on Princess and the Frog. I tried watching it three times. Twice I fell asleep and the third I think I just wandered off. My wife bought it. The kids sort of liked it, especially the much younger ones, but it hasn't hit the screen since. I honestly couldn't tell you why. I think it's because it didn't seem like a story to me. More of a collection of tropes stuck together.

I think people need to start using the term "clicktivism", as in "That's not activism. That's just clicktivism."

And for Daniel Webster and all the others who seem willing to throw a new word in the dictionary because it's popular on the internet for a few weeks, here's the definition:

The policy or action of using technology to fool yourself into thinking you are bringing about political or social change.

The jacket doesn't "essentially absorb most of the light from the flash". It reflects the light back so that the camera's automatic exposure thinks there is a lot of light and reduces the exposure.

Pro Photography Tip: If you are taking a serious picture, while you are framing your subjects, check for douchebags.