# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southpaw)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/61 "2005-09-27T13:47:50Z")
Either the car or thimble. Although it didn’t matter as I have _never in my life won a game of Monopoly_. Even when I cheated, I still managed to lose. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/62 "2005-09-27T14:00:45Z")
Always the hat…Always ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/63 "2005-09-27T14:13:13Z")
The car or the top hat, but in the end it didn’t matter, because I’d always lose anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/64 "2005-09-27T15:52:50Z")
Today’s _[Medium Large](http://www.drinkatwork.com/mediumlarge.html)_ seems appropriate. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/65 "2005-09-28T03:22:18Z")
I was the dog or the car. My brother, who beat me religiously, was the guy on the horse. My wife says she was the iron. ---
**Author:** ![Delepine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Delepine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delepine)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/66 "2005-09-28T03:47:59Z")
Good grief! I must be older than dirt. I’m sure I was always a white wooden milk bottle. Have I imagined such a thing? ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/67 "2005-09-28T05:19:12Z")
Toto ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/68 "2005-09-28T08:20:39Z")
Battleship. Always battleship and heaven help anyone else who lays hands on it. I also cheat. A lot. To me cheating is more fun than winning. mm ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/69 "2005-09-28T19:32:46Z")
I’ve always liked the battleship. If I can’t get that (and now, my eight-year-old son grabs it first, just to mess with me 😉 ), I’ll go for the racecar. I really \*want \* the battleship, though, dammit… ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/70 "2005-09-29T01:08:43Z")
Wow, how the memories come back! Shoe or Wheelbarrow, sometimes Scottie Dog, until the arrival of Dead Junebug. Dead Junebug was the slumlord King of Mediterranean and Baltic Avenues, piling on the ramshackle tenement hotels, until the fateful day he circled tooooo close to the lamp next to Dad’s barcalounger, ricocheted off and hurtled down to destroy the entire neighborhood. All his desiccated legs cracked off, hurtling through the streets of Monopolyland, his irridescent torso spinning wildly toward Broadway, rolling over the fancy hotels and unsuspecting tourists. It was never about the money to me… ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467/71 "2005-09-29T01:48:14Z")
I always tried to be the car. If that was taken, I’d grudgingly take whatever was left after everyone else had selected their pieces. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peice-were-you-in-monopoly/322467.md?page=3)