Jogos de cartas

Mark: Mãe, queres jogar um jogo de cartas? É muito giro!! Há o Presidente, o Antes Presidente e o Olho do Cu.

Adivinhas

Eu: Que animal é branco com riscas pretas?
Luke: Um tigre!
Mark: Um tigre branco!
Eu: Certo! Um tigre da sibéria.
Luke: Ganhei eu, disse primeiro!
Mark: Não, não ganhaste, disseste só tigre, não disseste o apelido!

Amanhã - Workshop de Mario Bros

Vá, congela as porcalhonas!

Isto de ouvir os miúdos a jogar wii tem que se lhe diga...

Lego Harry Potter

Watching the trailer for Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4, while waiting for its release on the 25th.

Xeque ao Rei

Mark: Posso dar mensagens ao Rei?

Eu não penso sempre na wii

Luke: Mãe, eu não penso sempre na wii. Penso em ficar musculão, brincar com carrinhos, jogar às escondidas...

Conversas soltas

Ó pá, perdi o poder!
Queres que te guarde o chapéu de bombas para o dinossauro?
Boa, duas vezes a entalar a ganhar!
Ó mãe, um homem sem pés, tipo minhoca, prendeu a princess!
Pus as cadeiras lá em cima - forem para o ar!
Queres que faça a magia outra vez?
Guarda a tua pistola, se faz favor!
Peço imensa desculpa!
Eu quero ter a alavanca!!
Ó mãe, vê, eu estou a matar battle droids para lhes tirar o poder.
YESSSS! Oitenta!
Espera, siga-me!
Agora sou forte por causa de ti.
Estamos os dois em flor de fogo.
Isso não interessa, o que interessa é hélice.

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

Almost better than the game itself

Em cima do meu prato

Em cima do meu prato há pizza.
Em cima do meu prato há pizza e queijo azul.
Em cima do meu prato há pizza, queijo azul e ervilhas.
Em cima do meu prato há pizza, queijo azul, ervilhas e pernas de frango.
Em cima do meu prato há pizza, queijo azul, ervilhas, pernas de frango e marmite.
Em cima do meu prato há pizza, queijo azul, ervilhas, pernas de frango, marmite e fizzy water.
Em cima do meu prato há pizza, queijo azul, ervilhas, pernas de frango, marmite, fizzy water e beterraba.
Meterraba?? Batirrabo?? Buttrabo? Raba é o rabo das meninas!!!

Jogar ao Pinóquio

Monopoly Junior

Language is getting more and more creative...

Here today, goo tomorrow

See the countdown to Easter, which is also the Cadbury's creme egg end of season.

More on CremeEggGooTube, including the Mousetrap:

And, from this playlist, the Mousetrap - special edition:

There's also this game:

Are you ready to help us Egg-scape?
Help us!!
The egg-centric collector of rare eggs, Sir Eggbert Shellby has kidnapped some of our friends to preserve them for eternity. Please go to his museum and free them so they can get our goo out.
Goo’d Luck.
Play The Great Eggscape.

360

A new game by Professor Erno Rubik, inventor of the iconic Cube, is tipped to become a best-seller when it goes on sale later this year.

The Rubik’s 360 is set to repeat the success of the maddening Cube, which became an overnight sensation almost three decades ago and remains the world’s fastest-selling toy.

Now the reclusive Hungarian inventor hopes to recreate the buzz of Rubik’s Cube with his new game, featuring six balls trapped within three transparent plastic spheres.

The puzzle, shown to the Sunday Telegraph ahead of its unveiling at a toy industry fair in Germany on February 5, confronts users with the same frustrating challenge – a task that is simple to understand, with only one possible solution, yet extremely difficult to execute.

Players must get the coloured balls from an inner sphere into matching slots on the outer sphere by shaking them through a middle sphere that has only two holes.

More in Rubik's Cube inventor is back with Rubik's 360, The Telegraph

Candy

Great game by Beleduc.

Insey Winsey Spider

Insey Winsey Spider - another nice game by Orchard Toys. Thanks to our neighbours!

Insey Winsey Spider climbed up the water spout;
Down came the rain and washed poor Insey out.
Out came the sunshine and dried up all the rain;
And Insey Winsey Spider climbed up the spout again.

Nursery Rhymes - Incy Wincy (Itsy Bitsy) Spider:

Christie, Poirot & Marple

Deftly, on hands and knees, he began to sort the ashes from the grate into the fender, handling them with the greatest caution. Suddenly, he gave a faint exclamation.
"The forceps, Hastings!"
I quickly handed them to him, and with skill he extracted a small piece of half charred paper.
"There, mon ami!" he cried. "What do you think of that?"

I scrutinized the fragment. This is an exact reproduction of it:—

I was puzzled. It was unusually thick, quite unlike ordinary notepaper. Suddenly an idea struck me.
"Poirot!" I cried. "This is a fragment of a will!"
"Exactly."
I looked up at him sharply.
"You are not surprised?"
"No," he said gravely, "I expected it."
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, by Agatha Christie

Newly discovered recordings of Agatha Christie are causing excitement among aficionados, but they seem not to contain any clues to the biggest Christie mystery of them all: what was going on when she vanished from home in 1926, and turned up after a massive police hunt a week and a half later in a Harrogate spa?
More in Agatha Christie's vanishing act: an expensive hoax? (including the recordings and links to 1920s newspapers), Times Online (see also Agatha Christie's secret tapes discovered).

Released today 2 DVDs: Collection 7 of David Suchet's Poirot and Series 3 of Geraldine McEwan's Miss Marple. Suchet is the one and only Poirot but McEwan, although very good, has to contend with TV adaptations where Christie's plots are sometimes completely murdered! So, Joan Hickson is still my favourite Miss Marple.

Agatha Christie's Poirot (with David Suchet):

Agatha Christie's Marple (with Geraldine McEwan) - new series trailer:

Miss Marple (with Joan Hickson) - The Body in the Library

Agatha Christie's 100th Birthday. Poirot meets Marple:

There are other Marples too. Margaret Rutherford's Marple could not be less like Christie's Marple. Too silly!

Poirot and Marple's anime in Japan:

A little game to play: Guess the names of Christie's characters before it's too late in a fun game of hangman...Christie style! in Appointment with Death. I am no good at this - I read the books too many years ago.

Agatha Christie photo trail, BBC

From wiki:
Agatha Christie
Miss Marple
Hercule Poirot
David Suchet
Joan Hickson
Geraldine McEwan
Margaret Rutherford

Apodeictic

I choose to save Apodeictic (unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration). I think mathematicians can use it a lot!

Collins Dictionary

The introduction of 2,000 new words into the forthcoming edition of the dictionary has meant that some of the lesser known and used words have become endangered and face being lost from the publication.
A list of 24-threatened words has been drawn up and some celebrities have taken up the challenge of rescuing a word from oblivion.
Stephen Fry has chosen the word "fusby", which means short, stout or squat.
Andrew Motion, the poet laureate, is lobbying for the retention of the word "skirr", which means a whirring or grating sound as made by the wings of birds in flight.
More in Collins dictionary asks public to rescue outdated words, The Telegraph.

It may appear agrestic to ask, but The Times is calling on its readers to come to the rescue of words that risk fading into caliginosity.
Dictionary compilers at Collins have decided that the word list for the forthcoming edition of its largest volume is embrangled with words so obscure that they are linguistic recrement. Such words, they say, must be exuviated abstergently to make room for modern additions that will act as a roborant for the book.
Readers who vilipend the compilers’ decision and vaticinate that society will be poorer without little-used words have been offered a chance to save them from the endangered list. Collins, which is owned by News Corporation, parent company of The Times, has agreed that words will be granted a reprieve if evidence of their popularity emerges before February, when the word list is finalised.
Times readers can help to lift the malison on their favourite word by voting for it at the Comment Central weblog on Times Online, which will use its influence to persuade the public that the winning word is compossible with everyday speech.
Some words on the 24-strong list will also have a lucky periapt in the form of a celebrity champion, who will attempt to overcome their word’s caducity by using it in speeches, articles and on television.
(...)
Will you vote to save them? Some of the words heading for extinction:
Abstergent Cleansing or scouring
Agrestic Rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth
Apodeictic Unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration
Caducity Perishableness; senility
Caliginosity Dimness; darkness
Compossible Possible in coexistence with something else
Embrangle To confuse or entangle
Exuviate To shed (a skin or similar outer covering)
Fatidical Prophetic
Fubsy Short and stout; squat
Griseous Streaked or mixed with grey; somewhat grey
Malison A curse
Mansuetude Gentleness or mildness
Muliebrity The condition of being a woman
Niddering Cowardly
Nitid Bright; glistening
Olid Foul-smelling
Oppugnant Combative, antagonistic or contrary
Periapt A charm or amulet
Recrement Waste matter; refuse; dross
Roborant Tending to fortify or increase strength
Skirr A whirring or grating sound, as of the wings of birds in flight
Vaticinate To foretell; prophesy
Vilipend To treat or regard with contempt
More in How you can help to save some cherished words from oblivion, Times Online.

More from Collins:
Collins Dictionary
Collins Language Blogs from the Collins Language team in Glasgow, UK
Collins English Dictionary at MySpace

Also from Collins, the very useful:

Musical chairs

Capacity of the lecture room = 70
Conference participants = 71
The one left standing has to give a talk...

Musical Chairs

Stick Man

Stick Man, by Julia Donaldson, author of Gruffalo - out recently, on the 1st of September. Next Amazon order...

Sneak a peak:

It turns out there are lots of Stick Men out there. From walking stick shops, like The Stick Man:

To Stick figures like this:

And there are tons of pages about these, with games, humour, software, etc, like Stickpage. Here's Stick Man Attacking Windows:

What about playing Hangman online?

Hangman game

More:
Free Hangman Games
Hangman at wiki

New Cluedo

Speaking of games, there is a new Cluedo:

Thank you for coming. You may be wondering why you have all been called here, to the drawing room. I am afraid there has been a terrible murder. Colonel Mustard is dead.
Yes, madam, you may well gasp. The Colonel has received his last orders. And he is far from the sole victim, I am afraid. Mrs Peacock struts no more. Miss Scarlett's blood soaks the Persian carpet. Professor Plum is beyond reinvention. The Rev Green hasn't a prayer. And Mrs White, doyenne of the kitchen? Her goose is cooked.
Who killed Cluedo's Col Mustard? on The Independent

According to wikipedia (see Cluedo and Cluedo reinvention), the characters have been reinvented:
Miss Scarlett becomes Kasandra Scarlett, a famous actress often featured in tabloids.
Reverend Green becomes Jacob Green, a go-to guy "with all the ins".
Colonel Mustard becomes Jack Mustard, a former football player.
Professor Plum becomes Victor Plum, a billionaire video game designer.
Mrs Peacock becomes Eleanor Peacock, a manners freak from a political family.
Mrs White becomes Diane White, an ex-child star seeking spotlight.

More:
Cluedo - official site
Clue at Hasbro
CluedoFan

The UK TV series: