# Nose Ails Minnow Loud... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nose-ails-minnow-loud/96468 "2001-12-02T16:36:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nose-ails-minnow-loud/96468/1 "2001-12-02T16:36:33Z")
Alright: raise your hands all of you who took more than five seconds to figure this one out. Up here, at this time of the year, there’s this advertising on TV for a gameboard where you see this salesman (HINT!) knocking one someone’s door only to be given a card (yeah, she was expecting him:rolleyes: ) on which it says: ‘Nose Ails Minnow Loud’. Well, after four tries reading out loud each one of the words (faster and faster each time), he finally shouts, beaming with confidence, ‘NO SALESMAN ALLOWED!’ and gets the door slammed to his face. There’s another ad, as hilarious I might add, where the secret sentence is ‘Will you marry me?’ When the tricked groom-to-be _finally_ gets it, the bride-to-be responds with a resounding YES!, to the utter amazement of her future companion in life (it’s just dawning on him, you see). At which point, the entire TV audience ROTFLs. There are supposed to be 300 of these cards (no doubt each more witty/challenging than the next) in the game. Which should, theoretically, take the guests up to dinner time. Once you’ve gone through the stack, what do you do with the game before the next party/get-together comes around? Do you throw away the game, disqualify yourself because…you know all the answers and it wouldn’t be fair to the other players? Pray for a second edition to come along real quick? **:::sigh:::** ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nose-ails-minnow-loud/96468/2 "2001-12-02T16:45:58Z")
Odd rant, I know but I had to get it off my chest. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nose-ails-minnow-loud/96468/3 "2001-12-02T17:48:46Z")
Ummm…maybe they have expansions for the game- extra card sets, perhaps? That’s what most board games of this nature do- Trivial Pursuit, Cranium, etc. ::shrug:: If that’s your biggest problem in life today and warrented a Pit rant, count yourself a very lucky person. Zette ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nose-ails-minnow-loud/96468/4 "2001-12-02T19:59:59Z")
I don’t know: maybe it’s having to suffer through the commercial repeatedly. Yes, I _could_ switch channels but it DOES irritate me each time I see it coming on. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nose-ails-minnow-loud/96468/5 "2001-12-02T21:33:26Z")
I don’t know if they publish extra card sets, but I know they haven’t changed their commercial in EIGHT FUCKING YEARS (‘eight’ is an estimate). Just another reason to dread Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nose-ails-minnow-loud/96468/6 "2001-12-02T21:46:58Z")
Um, I still don’t know all the answers to all the cards in Trivial Pursuit, and that’s just the original edition. Sure, there are a lot more questions, but still, it’d be hard to remember all 300. And they will, as said, certainly be coming out with expansions. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nose-ails-minnow-loud/96468/7 "2001-12-02T21:54:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manduck \* > \*\*I don’t know if they publish extra card sets, but I know they haven’t changed their commercial in EIGHT FUCKING YEARS (‘eight’ is an estimate). Just another reason to dread Christmas. \*\* More proper ‘PIT’ angle…😃 ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nose-ails-minnow-loud/96468/8 "2001-12-02T21:56:44Z")
Have you tried this game? A man of considerable intellect such as you would definitely be climbing up walls within a minute or two. They can put out all the expansions they want, the sad reality remains.