Monopoly's Secret Role in WW2

icerose · Sep 18, 2009

I thought this was absolutely awesome!

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/mo...maps-free-pows/story?id=8605905&partner=yahoo

They used the game monopoly to smuggle in tools, maps, and money to POW's and helped what they guess around 35,000 soldiers escape. Is that awesome or what?!

Jcomp · Sep 18, 2009

Wow... that is cool.

[bad pun]

Guess they were taking a really big "Chance" with this tactic... eh? Eh?

[/bad pun]

Tiger · Sep 18, 2009

Jcomp said:
Wow... that is cool.

[bad pun]

Guess they were taking a really big "Chance" with this tactic... eh? Eh?

[/bad pun]

Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO...

blacbird · Sep 18, 2009

Advance to the nearest railroad . . .

caw

Gravity · Sep 18, 2009

I always liked the little race car. Had to have the race car. The thimble sucked...only good for my nasty little girl cousin.

dgiharris · Sep 18, 2009

You know,

you gotta hand it to the Brits, they got that 007 shit down pat

Mel...

CACTUSWENDY · Sep 18, 2009

Thanks for the link. That is neat. (The cannon was the best...)

Fran · Sep 18, 2009

My granddad called it Monotony. He'd have loved this though!

Don · Sep 18, 2009

What a great story. Thanks.

WriteKnight · Sep 18, 2009

If I can't be the race-car, then let me be the shoe...

Magdalen · Sep 18, 2009

Pip-pip! I was often the shoe.

Zoombie · Sep 18, 2009

Awesome

maxmordon · Sep 18, 2009

Ah yeah, read about it a while ago, amazing, isn't?

blacbird · Sep 18, 2009

As no one seems to have mentioned it, and this is, after all, a writers' site, the word in the thread title should be "role" not "roll".

Damn my internal editor, anyway.

caw

maxmordon · Sep 18, 2009

I've decided to check out the old website I found the article and found another one about the black-skinned people at the Nazi concentration camps, would anyone be interested if I translated it into English?

StephanieFox · Sep 18, 2009

maxmordon said:
I've decided to check out the old website I found the article and found another one about the black-skinned people at the Nazi concentration camps, would anyone be interested if I translated it into English?

I would! I would!

p.s.: I was ALWAYS the little dog.

jodiodi · Sep 18, 2009

I was always the guy on the horse. If I couldn't have him, I was the dog.

Bartholomew · Sep 18, 2009

If we could fix the typo in the thread title, that'd be awesome. X_X

robeiae · Sep 19, 2009

Gravity said:
I always liked the little race car. Had to have the race car. The thimble sucked...only good for my nasty little girl cousin.

You're one of those people that would cross your arms, pout, and refuse to play if you didn't get to be the race car, aren't you?

Bird of Prey · Sep 19, 2009

If there was ever a game that promoted and rewarded ruthless capitalism, Monopoly had to be it. . . .

And I liked the dog. I don't remember a guy on a horse.

regdog · Sep 19, 2009

Cool about Monopoly

maxmordon said:
I've decided to check out the old website I found the article and found another one about the black-skinned people at the Nazi concentration camps, would anyone be interested if I translated it into English?

I would

icerose · Sep 19, 2009

blacbird said:
As no one seems to have mentioned it, and this is, after all, a writers' site, the word in the thread title should be "role" not "roll".

Damn my internal editor, anyway.

caw

Yeah I noticed right after I posted it, but by then I had a prompt for an ongoing contest and had to run. Thanks to whichever mod fixed it.

robeiae · Sep 19, 2009

Hmmm...I thought it was a clever pun: roll the dice.

Perks · Sep 19, 2009

I think this may be the coolest article I've read all year. Thanks, icerose!

icerose · Sep 19, 2009

robeiae said:
Hmmm...I thought it was a clever pun: roll the dice.

I'm not that clever, but ty.

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