While I'm all in favour of trousers with lots of pockets (I pretty much only buy and wear trousers with multiple zip or velco pockets) and filling said pockets with stuff...
How the hell do you keep your trousers up? :P

Also, why would you carry your passport everywhere? Has America gotten so security crazy you need to be able to identify yourself at any moment?

Also again, I only just realised that said iPod and not iPad (my next question was going to be how big are your pockets that you can fit a tablet in them)

I certainly hope not, since I don't even have a valid passport.

I'm off to a grand start!

Good point, I can see why that would confuse. The actual game will be called "Murder on the Wing."

I'll take an observer spot please.

That's true.

Once I put in the rake and the weedwhacker, there's just no room for a tablet.

You have time to read but not enough time to watch a film once in awhile? I'm calling you out, bruh.

P.S. Here is CSPVG's list of three essential must read, always have on you books:

1. Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais - A giant and his friends stumble about France, have philosophical debates (I think) in sign language, and drink a lot.

2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy - It made me cry but also feel manly.

3. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - The most beautiful book ever written (that I have thus far read). No joke.

Were you a Boy Scout? Whenever I go anywhere these are the things I take with me (in a backpack) :

2 notebooks (for writing), 2 pens (again, for writing), a versatile knife, a lighter, water, zune mp3 player+headphones, wallet, phone, keys if applicable.

I like having things as well but find having a backpack allows for more comfort and variety in the things I can bring along, as well as allowing for higher degrees of agility/mobility (with the bag on or off, as well as simply what pants I can wear. Also, with it, I don't have to have anything in my pockets at all, it's all in the bag.)

I do have a few pairs of pants that have multiple pockets beyond standard that are useful for times when I want to be able to do that for whatever reason.

I can read anytime - films require equipment, and appropriate surroundings, and two hours of uninterrupted time.

1 above sounds dreadful. 2 was dreadful, and utterly hilarious in it's inability to appropriately create suspense by virtue of beating up the reader with horror so unbelievable, it became comic. 3 I always meant to read this, but those "Penthouse Forums" don't read themselves, and there's just never enough time.

Yes. Started as a Cub. Lasted until the day I was finally allowed by my parents to quit, about seven horrific, abusive years later.

The Boy Scouts can go screw themselves. Go screw themselves right in their screw holes.

That's why my boys don't scout. They throw body checks and play cantatas.

I think the forum ate my post. Well done, forum.

So: Yogsloth, fair enough.

What are your top three randomly selected books that you have read but also like, then?

What is that like 1 or 2 years of regular Boy Scouts? I was a cub scount + boy scout, for a long time, but I agree, the whole organization and most of the guys in it (just like most guys in general), can go F themselves, agreed. I am glad to have learned a lot of the things I did there but it's a horrible organization/institution with a lot of negative aspects to it as well. I would have much preferred to have a similar learning system held by a different group, co-ed of course. I have a lot of perspective about it all since I was in it for so long (and my dad was a scoutmaster.) Anyway...

3 of the most beautifully written stories (I don't say books because 2 of the stories below each take place over 2 books.) that I have read (I cry easily at a lot of varying things that hit me in different ways, all of these make me cry at different times for different reasons, all have some parts that the reason that they're just so well written) in no particular order :

Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Imajica (2 books) by Clive Barker, and The Snow Queen + The Summer Queen by Joan D. Vinge.

Another exceptionally well-written book is "The Sparrow" by Maria Doria Russell.

Since we're going to be trapped in this wing who knows how long, maybe I'll get some reading done. Good thing I brought my backpack with some books in it!

Not for me.. but I'll answer:

1) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
2) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
3) No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

Okay, #3 is technically a play... but you can get it in book form!

Leonard/Dess should both play. It'll be grand. And who knows, you may both be dead by D2 anyway, right? One can always hope. You could still be in the observer thread before you know it!

If we can get dedo/cristi plus either of those two on board, it can be ready to launch either tonight or first thing (pacific time) tomorrow with a D1 deadline likely noon PST Mon.

Extending to 12-13 would require a bit more prep time since, while it's been designed it requires some new text plus changes to existing text (plus editing/triple-checking to make sure everything gets converted correctly), which starts to be a bit more problematic in terms of launching into the weekend and having a deadline fairly early next week (Tue?).

Wooooo. Three? Can I pick fifty?

Let's go with:

1) Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card. More than just a sci-fi novel, it's an entire philosophy of child-rearing and exceptionalism. So inspirational I named Boy #1 after the main character.

2) Dune, by Frank Herbert. Feints within feints within feints; politics, philosophy, religion, societal structure and evolution - again, more than a novel - a true treatise on the nature of humanity and what it means at a fundamental level to be human.

3) Harry Potter series - NOT COLIN CREEVEY! ANYBODY BUT COLIN CREEVEY!!!! YOU MONSTERS!!!

That's amusing. The original OP text for the game included a nod to No Exit.

I changed it to an equally influential classic: "Mr. T: The Man with the Gold - An Autobiography."

When dess said he was observing I almost immediately said "aww, just play, you can always subtlety try to get killed early or hope you draw a suicidal role!"