I had zip, nada, nothing, no idea what to write for this morning’s installment so I went surfing the web for something...anything and then I found this bit of news from Reuters about...well, the game of Monopoly:
If you have ever wanted to rampage through a game of Monopoly like a dinosaur, you're in luck.
The popular U.S. board game is changing out three of its playing tokens, swapping in a penguin, T-Rex and rubber ducky in for the thimble, wheelbarrow and boot, Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based toymaker Hasbro Inc HAS.N said Friday.
The move is part of a broader campaign to update the board game based in part on votes by consumers during a promotional period earlier this year.
The updated version of the game will be released in August, according to the company. Four classic pieces survived the voting: the Scottie dog, car, top hat and battleship, some of which date as far back as the Great Depression. Rounding out the new lineup will be a cat token, added to the game in 2013 as a replacement for the flatiron.
Why, why do people attempt to improve on perfection?
It’s actually been awhile since I played Monopoly, but the flatiron was always my favorite playing token followed by the thimble.
Now, both of them will be gone.
Not that I was ever a big drinker of Coca-Cola (I always preferred drinking the competitor soft drink) but I do remember the fiasco of the New Coke (which tasted like a water-down version of that competitor soft drink).
Maybe it’s simply a getting older thing and a nostalgia for the way some things used to be.
(Old-time Scrabble boards, a plain Lays’ Potato Chip...I could increase the list but will stop there...)
Today’s question: Is there a product or maybe even an event that has changed over the years and you hate the change and prefer the old to the new?
(That you might feel that way about the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is a given!)
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