Taboo

[magid]

I started thinking about a metro-Boston version of Taboo, and what cards there would be.

• Diesel Cafe, without saying Davis Square, sweetie, dyke, coffee, or pool table
  
• Fenway Park, without saying Red Sox, baseball, green monster, world series, or Kenmore
  
• Harvard Yard, without saying freshman, Widener, Memorial Church, square, or housing
  
• smoot, without saying Massachusetts Avenue, bridge, MIT, hack, or drunk
  
• big dig, without saying central artery, construction, tunnel, Zakim bridge, or (what?)
  
• swan boat, without saying public garden, commons, pedal, pond, or (what?)
  
• cheers, without saying bar, sitcom, Norm, drink, or (what?)
  
• Boston marathon, without saying run, race, Hopkinton, miles, or Heartbreak Hill
  
• Bunker Hill, without saying college, battle, Breed's, monument, or revolution
  
• Dukakis, without saying governor, president, Kitty, Olympia, or Greek
  
• minuteman, without saying revolution, battle, militia, bike trail, or patriot
  
• Patriot's Day, without saying evacuation, St. Patrick, Lexington, Concord, or April
  
• molasses flood, without saying tank, drown, explosion, downtown, or 1919

Comments

[bitty.livejournal.com]

• polyboston hangout
  
• yawkey way
  
• pahk the cah
  
• a lispy ent holding a meeting
  
• boston's giant anus
  
• my old boss's signoff
  
• annual nutballs on boylston street
  
• stop after north station
  
• loser in hawaiin shirts
  
• Umass mascot
  
• massachusetts' bullshit holiday
  
• mmmm... cookies...
  

[magid.livejournal.com]

*grin*

It's not supposed to be impossible, after all...

[ceo]

Patriot's Day has nothing to do with Evacuation Day. (Well, it kind of does, as the aftermath of the battles led to the evacuation of Boston by the British, but that was almost a year later.)

[magid.livejournal.com]

I guess they're linked in my head, anyway, if only as "weird local holidays". Suggestion for what you'd put instead?

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

>> Fenway Park, without saying Red Sox, baseball, green monster, world series, or Kenmore

If you said "traffic jam on Storrow Drive", Fenway might be among my first guesses. ;)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Hee! The game isn't supposed to be impossible, after all (and much easier without the timer :-).

Somehow I tend to think of move-in day, with someone inevitably getting a truck stuck under one of the bridges. (Yeah, those signs telling them not to drive trucks on Storrow are there for a *reason*, not just their inconvenience. Idiots.)

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

Move-in day ... ah, yes, I had blanked out momentarily on that little joy. I think I escaped it one year by fleeing to a friend's house in Westborough for the weekend.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I was lucky enough to not live near where it was really a problem, except for one year. I got caught in it a couple of times, foolishly trying to get to kosher food in Brookline (back before there was Trader Joe's carrying kosher meat and cheese on this side of the Charles).