Balderdash!

Over at Scraps From My Workbasket Miss Jo March is having a Fiesta de octobre blog party. She had a few suggestions for blog posts that we could do as part of the party, and so I thought I choose one! :) But first, one other note of business....beginning this Friday, I will be doing a book review each week. As part of this last stretch of high-school-home-school for me, I will be doing a ton of reading! Which I LOVE! :D So this week I will do a book review, and every week from then on, excepting next week, because I will be at Daughters of Destiny!!! :) Read about last year's trip here: This is the button for the weekly book review post:

It reads: "Love of Literature Review Series" because that is the name I came up with for this series of posts! :P If you will, you can put the button on your blog! :) But to the real subject of this post.... We were commissioned by Miss March to pick one of several topics...I chose to write an advertisement for a favorite game, trying to convince you all why it is the best! :D And this is the one I chose; Ladies and Gents, let me introduce you to: BALDERDASH!!!!

It is a game of bluffing, a game of wits, a game of keeping-a-straight-face-in-the-face-of-accusation....in short...it is a game I find extremely difficult! ;) Nevertheless, it is one of my personal favorite games to play with our family! We are all crazy, and I guess I must be okay at the game, because Sarah spends the whole time shouting out that every strange suggestion is mine! :D This is a game where truth is indeed stranger than fiction, and the very answers you swear cannot be real, are the very ones that are as true as anything! :) So, trying to be authentic to the time period when ads were the most fun, I will make up a little jingle, and entertain you with pictures....
(To be sung to the tune of "Happy Trails" and yes, I know it is a little cheesy. All jingles are.! :P)

Balderda-ash is fun,
We play it quite a lot!
Balderda-ash is fun,
Whether it's cold or hot!
It shakes up all the little grumpy peoples,
Who sit all day and glare through stodgy peep-holes.
Balderda-ash is fun!
So buy this game!
Bal-alderdashhhh iiissss fuunnnn! :D

Now to conclude our little advertisment for this afternoon, I'd like to introduce Mr. Harry Schuyler Grantide. This is he:

This fellow believes he is the best Balderdash player in the world. He has a strategy...takes random letters from the alphabet ( in this case a,b,e, and z, and arranges them so as to Stun and Impress his fellow players. Even if he bluff isn't so great, he thinks he is stunning enough himself to win anyhow. See the little shiny light around his head?...yep. I told you. Vain little man.
These are some rather unfortunate fellows. The moustached one has just lost a game of Balderdash.



As you can see, he is not a good sport! ;) This Ladies and Gents, is the only downside to Balderdash: the losers lose rather badly. ;) Thank you for your time, and tune in next Tuesday at 7:35 p.m. Thank you again."

Anyway, that was just a weak attempt at doing a 40's style advertisement for this most amazingly fun game!! Please play it! :) -Rachel