# Best. Damn. Game. Ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 11, 2002, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333 "2002-11-11T23:48:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/21 "2002-11-12T14:35:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SkipMagic \* > The rules say that you have to win by two points (unless one of you reaches 12 first), and you have to have a minimum of 4 points, total. Earlier today I lost a round with a score of 11. Some bastard beat me out by a point. > > _A point!_ HA! I _won_ a game 12-11 today. Of course, I’ve yet to get more than 2 points in a game with you … on the other hand I handed Opal her ass three times:D ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/22 "2002-11-12T14:45:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\*… on the other hand I handed Opal her ass three times:D \*\* Heh-heh. Hey, Opal! Just out of curiosity, does your ass have an “x” for the …um, ya’ know, _thingie_ like the chicken does on that game? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/23 "2002-11-12T16:53:27Z")
Keep in mind, though, that I’m playing at a disadvantage. Since my keyboard tray (which had a little arm with a place for a mouse/trackball) broke, I have my trackball ON MY LEG. This makes it harder to catch and throw chickens. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/24 "2002-11-12T17:54:37Z")
What’s worse than wasting time at work? Knowing there is a perfectly good way to waste time at work but being unable to access it due to being behind a firewall. I like the help info. “If the message “Can’t connect to server” is displayed…you are connected through a LAN behind a firewall/proxy.” “contact your network administrator to configure your network.” I can see how well a call to my network admin might go. Yeah, can you reconfigure my set up so I can access a chicken throwing game on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/25 "2002-11-12T18:35:26Z")
I was just getting the hang of things. Who said “damn moderators” to me? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/26 "2002-11-12T18:50:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*I was just getting the hang of things. Who said “damn moderators” to me? 🙂 \*\* Ahem. :whistles: I could have _sworn_ that “damn moderators” was a genial affectation throughout the world. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/27 "2002-11-12T19:36:51Z")
Heh. No offense taken. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/28 "2002-11-12T19:38:06Z")
This rules! Someone come and play with me, these French pansies are too easy. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/29 "2002-11-12T19:44:14Z")
This rules! Someone come and play with me, these French pansies are too easy. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/30 "2002-11-12T20:06:14Z")
**Skipmagic** 0//n$ me. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/31 "2002-11-12T21:27:46Z")
Hey, were you Frankie? I tried looking for a **Francesca** after reading your plaintive cry for a non-French Chicken Nemesis, but I couldn’t find you. Looks like I did, though. 🙂 Of course, after our first game was at an end, da’ boss came a wandering by. He wouldn’t understand. He would be confused by our shared love for poultry. Such fowlness probably never crosses that family man’s mind. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/32 "2002-11-12T21:38:42Z")
Damn you **Skip**!!! You’re gonna get me fired! ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/33 "2002-11-12T21:41:50Z")
Ha! Come work with me, for mine Boss hath left for an outta town convention. And he won’t be back until next week. An entire week of chicken games. The mind boggles. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/34 "2002-11-12T21:57:36Z")
I can’t get in either… After I get home, run, cook dinner and write my research paper, YOU GUYS ARE DEAD MEAT!!! In other words, I’m never gonna play the dang thing. ::sniff:: ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/35 "2002-11-13T00:08:47Z")
I kept getting disconnected. Sorry, Whatmove. Woo, though. Once it stays connected, it ROCKS. Down with Chickens. ---
**Author:** ![whatmove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@whatmove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatmove)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/36 "2002-11-13T00:13:16Z")
No worries 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/37 "2002-11-13T02:08:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SwimmingRiddles \* > \*\*Down with Chickens. \*\* No, **SwimmingRiddles** , you have it wrong. It’s _Down with Ducks!_ Chickens just have plain old feathers. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2002, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/38 "2002-11-13T14:25:15Z")
Damn shame you didn’t discover this little pastime while your [girlfriend was gone](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=140629), **Skip**. Ahem. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2002, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/39 "2002-11-13T14:33:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by auntie em \* > \*\*Damn shame you didn’t discover this little pastime while your [girlfriend was gone](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=140629), **Skip**. > > Ahem. 😛 \*\* Well, maybe. I’m not sure I would have enjoyed it as much. As it was, the selfish girl came back early from her vacation (she said she was ill, but I’m convinced it was because she missed my puns), so even if I _had_ been involved with the tossing of cluckers back then, my fun time would have been cut short by her sudden arrival home. Not that I’m complaining, mind you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2002, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333/40 "2002-11-13T14:39:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SkipMagic \* > \*\*Well, maybe. I’m not sure I would have enjoyed it as much. As it was, the selfish girl came back early from her vacation (she said she was ill, but I’m convinced it was because she missed my puns), so even if I _had_ been involved with the tossing of cluckers back then, my fun time would have been cut short by her sudden arrival home. > \*\* Nah. You could have played secretly, with the sound turned off, while you pretended to listen to her talk about Mutual Funds or something. I mean she was ill, right, so it’s not like you were going to get laid… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-damn-game-ever/136333.md?page=3)