"Why Bother Working for a Living?" - now a board game for the whole family

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Posted by rockymountainpirate 10 years, 9 months ago

Wow. This is the current Game of Life.

Did I miss the section where the player is stuck watching hours and hours of some trial or looking at pictures of some pseudo-celebrity acting badly? Squirrel! The pablum of the unproductive, non-thinking masses. Maybe this is the punishment in the producers jail.

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Posted by shruggerron 10 years, 9 months ago

Send a copy of your game (no charge of course) to the White House. Just make sure it dissolves into wet Papier-mâché (French for "chewed paper" half way through the play as a metaphor for the second half of this administration.

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Posted by Rocky_Road 10 years, 10 months ago

WOW!

Copyrighted in 1980.

Jimmy Carter was our President....

Fitting!

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  Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 10 months ago
  
  Apparently a whole bunch of people have been playing this secretly in their basements for generations....it finally fricken worked!
  
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    Posted by khalling 10 years, 9 months ago
    
    dang that one card looks like one of ours. I like ours better. there's not only the dark side
    
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      Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 9 months ago
      
      I agree..... I can't believe this is old. I wonder who made it and I'd like to hear their reasons.
      
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        Posted by Rocky_Road 10 years, 9 months ago
        
        Here is some info:
        
        "“Obozo’s America” is a slightly modified version of the original game “Public Assistance: Why Bother Working for a Living?” forced off the market in the 1980s by government-directed action. Government welfare officials working with the NAACP, NOW, and other welfare “rights” groups threatened retailers with protests and boycotts if they dared carry the game, calling it racist, sexist, and classist. If you have one of the original games, it may be time to cash in; owners are getting upwards of $300 for them on eBay."
        
        http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/09/once-b...
        
        http://www.obozosamerica.com/
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 9 months ago
        
        The "ist" gestapo hasn't shut this operation down yet?
        
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        Posted by Rocky_Road 10 years, 9 months ago
        
        Thanks to the internet!
        
        No store owners to threaten....
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 9 months ago
        
        It's TRUTHIST! I think it should be remarketed...immediately!
        
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        Posted by Rocky_Road 10 years, 9 months ago
        
        It is re-marketed. My second link!
        
        The pictures of the original boxed game that started this thread, seem to be off of an eBay auction (?).
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 9 months ago
        
        I didn't look at your links.
        
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    Posted by Rocky_Road 10 years, 10 months ago
    
    Sort of like the Looters Limited Edition of Monopoly?
    
    It actually has a "Jail Jaunt" in the center of the board!
    
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      Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 10 months ago
      
      Gas fill up. Pay 20 dollars. (Well that dates it.)
      
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        Posted by Rocky_Road 10 years, 10 months ago
        
        I got you beat--6 dollars would fill my first showroom new car, a Mercury Capri. Regular was 35 cents, during a gas war between stations....
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 10 months ago
        
        You're pretty old apparently. I remember when it was .78. I could fill up my Chevette for 8 bucks and it lasted the whole week...and I worked 3 towns over.
        
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        Posted by Rocky_Road 10 years, 10 months ago
        
        And your pretty subtle, apparently! ;-)
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 10 months ago
        
        Ya caught that huh?
        
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Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 10 months ago

Is it for ages 7-12....or IQ's under 47? Hmmmmm
Is it a how-to game or a wake-up-and-look-what-you're-doing-you-stupid-asses kind of game?

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