People are weird

Everyone remembers the pencil and paper game Hangman, right? Guess the letters, get one wrong, add another body part, build the gallows, if the whole thing is drawn, you 'die'. Kid's game, right? Of course it is.

Well, I just ran across a review of an electronic version that included this line that made my brain seize: "Hangman Pro (the successor to Hang3000) is a colorful, educational, non-violent word-guessing game,"

Non-violent? You're *hanging* someone.

Tell you what, I hereby declare this game updated for the 21st century. It'll be called Sniper. Instead of gallows, you draw first a circle around them, then two lines at 90deg angles, to make a gunsight. No difference, just the apparatus proxy is updated.

I bet it'll be a *HUGE* hit with parents and teachers... never seeing the slight problem with the logic. Sheesh.

So many things we take for granted and just never think about.

People are weird

Everyone remembers the pencil and paper game Hangman, right? Guess the letters, get one wrong, add another body part, build the gallows, if the whole thing is drawn, you 'die'. Kid's game, right? Of course it is.

Well, I just ran across a review of an electronic version that included this line that made my brain seize: "Hangman Pro (the successor to Hang3000) is a colorful, educational, non-violent word-guessing game,"

Non-violent? You're *hanging* someone.

Tell you what, I hereby declare this game updated for the 21st century. It'll be called Sniper. Instead of gallows, you draw first a circle around them, then two lines at 90deg angles, to make a gunsight. No difference, just the apparatus proxy is updated.

I bet it'll be a *HUGE* hit with parents and teachers... never seeing the slight problem with the logic. Sheesh.

So many things we take for granted and just never think about.