# What peice were you in Monopoly? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 20, 2005, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467 "2005-09-20T01:29:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/41 "2005-09-20T08:41:59Z")
I have no idea why my font size got so large. Frankly, I’m a little scared to post this, just in case it grows… On preview: Whew. All good… I hope… _clicks submit and closes eyes_ ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/42 "2005-09-20T09:51:15Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > I have no idea why my font size got so large. But that was freakin’ _hilarious_. There was NO mistaking that you, in fact, were the dog. My sisters and I always fought over the dog. Iron was my second choice, because you could run it smoothly along the board for however many sqaures you advanced…_just like you were really ironing!!!_ We didn’t have the bag o’ money in our set. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/43 "2005-09-20T10:00:34Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > and other like cheap metal pieces can? wow - you had a futuristic set 😃 Such was the awesomness of the battleship. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/44 "2005-09-20T11:26:23Z")
The iron? Nobody could be the iron! The iron had to sit on the pile of money in the middle of the board. I liked being the shoe. Everybody else fought over the car, but I liked the shoe. So shoe me. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/45 "2005-09-20T11:39:11Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > I have no idea why my font size got so large. I dunno, might have something to do with the ‘size=5’ tag you’ve got there… I was always the car. Well, not always. I seem to recall that the car was kinda popular, so sometimes someone else got it. In that case I was the horsie. [sub]I agree with **lorene**. That was hilarious[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/46 "2005-09-20T12:14:25Z")
Almost always the battleship. My brother always used the dog. Others got the leftovers. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/47 "2005-09-20T12:32:51Z")
I was the hotel. Did it bug anyone else how everything was a shrunk down version of something else, except the thimble was really a thimble? If a dog was 1 inch long, shouldn’t the thimble have been about the size of a small pea? ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/48 "2005-09-20T13:08:48Z")
I always wanted to be the “puppydog”. Wow. Haven’t played that game in about 20 years… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/49 "2005-09-20T13:15:52Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > I was the dog. This sounds like a _Therapy Moment_. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/50 "2005-09-20T13:20:30Z")
I didn’t care, I just wanted to own the orange and red properties. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/51 "2005-09-20T13:20:42Z")
My first Monopoly set didn’t have the horse , so I was always the dog . When that set wore out and was replaced , lo & behold… there ws a horse , which I immidiately claimed as _mine_. Hi ho Silver… AWAY !! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/52 "2005-09-20T13:25:54Z")
I am always the dog. Like **Shirley Ujest** I use the doggy pee all over everybody else’s property. Course I also like to sniff the “butts” of the other pieces when I land beside 'em. Or, if I land in jail, I like to howl while I’m there. I’m kinda annoying to play Monopoly with. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/53 "2005-09-20T14:41:46Z")
Well we lost all of the original pieces except for the hat, horse, and car. So, we got better pieces. A blue rock, a penny, a play-dough flower, a clay eye, a plastic archer, a plastic snowman. I don’t have any piece I always use. My dad is always the hat, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/54 "2005-09-20T15:11:15Z")
We would mix and match pieces from [i[Clue\*. I was the pipe wrench. Also: Colonel Mustard in the Lounge with the Dog. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/55 "2005-09-20T15:40:27Z")
I was always the Man on the Horse or the Dog. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/56 "2005-09-20T16:01:14Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > Did it bug anyone else how everything was a shrunk down version of something else, except the thimble was really a thimble? If a dog was 1 inch long, shouldn’t the thimble have been about the size of a small pea? It’s not to _scale_, Lisa. I was the car, right up until I realized it was faster to just randomly designate a person as winner before starting, thus saving three hours. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/57 "2005-09-20T16:17:25Z")
My siblings and I would always fight over the Man on the Horse–only we called it the Statue (notice how it looks kinda like a park statue?). Whoever was fastest on the draw got it and left the others to fight over the alternates (usually the iron, the car, or the thimble). ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/58 "2005-09-20T17:08:56Z")
> [@Mooch](#): > > We would mix and match pieces from [i[Clue\*. I was the pipe wrench. > > Also: Colonel Mustard in the Lounge with the Dog. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You are sick. I like it. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/59 "2005-09-27T12:33:54Z")
I can’t believe I missed this thread! I was the horse, then the train, now it really depends on the set… Queen Amidala, a tornado, taz, pikachu, R2D2… ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/60 "2005-09-27T12:54:17Z")
> [@Jayn\_Newell](#): > > I dunno, might have something to do with the ‘size=5’ tag you’ve got there… I don’t know what was going on that day - I remember trying to italicise “dog” (because that’s how it sounded in my head: “I was the _dog_”) but no recollection of touching the little size tag dropdown menu. And I certainly didn’t do it manually, but I quoted myself to check, and there it was, plain as day. Weird. And I’m taking yet another gigantic risk right now, posting while near my infamous “insomnia drop” - reaching the brink of exhaustion in my insomnia loop that I simply pass out. It’s posting roulette. Let’s hit submit and see how I do. [sub]On preview: meh[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467.md?page=4)