oh man, me and my brother would have 8 hour games sometimes. he will never let me forget about my mobile hotel ponsy scam

This comic reminds me why I hate Monopoly

...I'll tell you what I'd like *you* to do with your Toblerone bar

You certainly thought of that and discarded it for being overly naughty and obvious. Yet, I feel it's the imposing version. Isn't humour a lemon that begs for being squeezed? :-)

...rather a compelling version, I guess. Us non-native speakers have funny ways, sometimes. Hey, wait, I'm a bloody foreigner but I'm a native-speaker, too, come to think of it. But you get my drift... Humor ist, wenn man trotzdem lacht. No, I'm not fussy, why do you ask?

my family used to play monopoly regularly, until my english husband got into some weird intense grudge match with my cuz' german girlfriend. we all fell away, and indeed, fell asleep, but they continued. at 2am i had to take the pieces out of their nerveless fingers and proclaim the game a draw. we never played again...

...17-day-long game... Then I took the greens and yellows... Boardwalk/Park Place followed... Those poor people, they never stood a chance.

Ah! That's why I don't play monopoly anymore. Any luck bastard will continuously beat you for 3 or more hours.

My brother and I would play Monopoly. I hated it because he would ALWAYS win it. On the other hand, I loved RISK and he hated it because I would always win that. Both games are won decisively and losing is protracted. My brother threw the RISK board across the room several times growing up...I don't remember ever throwing the Monopoly board.

Thanks for the memories Scott.

That's why we called it "Monotony" in my house!

And I'm obviously clueless, but today I noticed the repeating background for the first time - very funny!

@ Whiterabbit - it's an English/German thing, don't worry about it.

As for being able to play monopoly and not losing freinds - there is only one thing to do, Do NOT open the box, put the box back in the cupboard and play something else.

*puts down box, backs away slowly* *Pulls out cross* May the power of christ compel you . . . to burn the game!

I disagree... I think if RICK is the one doing *blank* with the bar, then he gets to exact his own revenge... plus, look at Rick's face - what's more "imposing" than being threatened with deadpan delivery? As it was a lead-in to the next line (sometimes, we have to read the whole thing to get the humor), it's perfect as written... maybe the point was to get YOU to fill in that blank...

well, in that case, you better not pull out Trivial Pursuits either!

I will memorize these instructions and always do the opposite. It's much more fun.

You're right, Trivial Pursuit is just as bad.
It can get to the stage where just playing snap can become a full contact blood sport as well though.

Monopoly is still a lot more fun than Socialism, where all the properties are worthless and no one has money to buy them from the government anyway. Half of the spaces are "Go To Jail" and the other half are "Stand in lline for shoes and bread".

"...in Soviet Russia, Boardwalk build hotel on YOU!"

Maybe it's a matter of preferences: while I wouldn't mind at all getting my revenge, I'd much rather have my opponent do funny things with Toblerone bars to himself--helping in *that* process just isn't my cup of tea. But yes, the next line would need to be amended, it's implied: "That's your business, sir, but you'll be charged even if you don't eat it." Arguably, killing redundancy squeezes what needs squeezing even more effectively. Scott: just my 2c, the strip is fine, of course. I guess it's just a matter of two loyal fans being, um, anal about issues. However, if that's fine with your alter ego, who am I to object?

ah, yes, the memories of sore-losing family members... my father would always declare "EARTHQUAKE!" if we were playing a board game he'd gotten bored with... and we lived in Miami...

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play

In my house if you went to the bathroom you were likely to be robbed, or your property to be taken because of "emanate domain" and given to someone else that could better use it.

It made Monopoly a much tougher game.

SWEET! wish it was like that @ my house, . . . but NO!

Yep, this is exactly why I hated Monopoly! The being charged even if you don't eat it is priceless, though!

...don't make me say dirty things in your native tongue and then quote Einsteurzende Neubauten lyrics at you....'cos that's about all I really COULD do.

ah Izzy, you should see our horrorshow of board games...all consist of a scrabble board and a bad idea, like the time we decided to allow esperanto and klingon slang terms...or the time we thought the all-hebrew version might be a fun idea...then there was strip scrabble, and of course scrabble, the drinking game...which became another version of strip scrabble, which became another game entirely. but it all beat the hell out of monopoly