Time to pull the peg out of the plastic car

[Baron Scicluna]

I always went the college route, and if I could, I bought stock. That would almost always be the winning combination.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

In the version I had the lowest paying occupation by far was teacher. As the son of a teacher that kind of messed me up.

Even worse than the non-college route?

 

[tea and ease]

Just a little love for the thread title, because although I had no clue what the heck you might want to talk about, I was intrigued. Also, I hated that game.

 

[maumann]

The wheel was fun to spin till it got worn and no longer spun.

That's probably why he died at 99.

 

[maumann]

I'd take one look at that and just go back to UNO.

Draw four. And change it to Blue.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Draw four. And change it to Blue.

biscuit!

 

[heyabbott]

I think that makes it a fairly decent facsimile of real life.

It's the perfect representation of Life, it's a random spin of the wheel. If you're born to a hedge fund owner in Greenwich Connecticut there's a 90% chance your life is going to be mostly pleasant. If you're born to a homeless woman in Mogadishu there's a 90% chance your life will be a series of miseries.

 

[Hermes]

We had the 1960 set in the basement where the cars looked like 1957 Chevys and salaries were, like, $3,000 a year.

I swore as a kid if you lifted the wheel off its stand and spit in the center it spun better.

Art Linkletter got a cut of the profits from the game, I once read somewhere.