Merry Christmas, dudes.

Haven't played that one. The guy at my board game store recommended it too, though, so I'll have to check it out.

Just thought of this... if you've got kids, you should check out Ticket To Ride. It's one of those board game nerd games that has crossed over into mainstream territory. Super easy to learn, plays quickly, and is a lot of fun. It's like the next Monopoly, only not boring.

My one problem with Dominion is that it's mostly an individual game. Everybody pretty much does their own thing, and the game just goes. But it's still a ton of fun to play. You have any of the expansions? I haven't gone down that road yet.

@REV: Puerto Rico is so rad. But that's my problem. I can't get any of my actual friends to play it. I have to go sit at a board game store and play it with other nerds.

Pfft. You'd get laughed out of town if you went to the board game shop I hang out at and asked for Chutes and Ladders. They would run you out of town, but, well, that would involve not sitting.

As a big tea drinker, I gotta say that a tea kettle is a fine gift. Especially if you've got a reason for getting that specific one. You can put other cute things inside the tea kettle to make it even better. I'd go for a libido boosting tea and a box of rubbers.

I actually went to school in Santa Cruz and never played disc golf. I have no idea why.

The embarrassing part is that you were at Marshall's, when Ross has way better prices!!!

I have a conflicted relationship with this kind of stuff. I almost cancelled my score because I planned on getting a perfect score on the games, and on test day, one of them just totally stumped me. I have no idea why. But, on that game I got every single question wrong and I knew it. So going into the test I really…

Ahhh... LSAT memories. Thanks!

I learned this lesson the hard way a couple years back. Since then I've kept every allen wrench from every piece of furniture I've ever bought. I have no fucking clue where they are, but they definitely exist.

Yeah, I don't get it. But I guess guys that tall would probably have their knees destroyed getting hit down low all the time. You ever meet a guy who's like 7' tall and never played basketball? That's fucking infuriating.

How do you candy your bacon? Just brown sugar, or do you do something fancy? I think I'm gonna have to try that for my New Year's party.

Yeah, there's serious potential for injury there. Too bad the XFL isn't around anymore. They'd allow it for sure.

Well, shit. That's a bummer. It falls under the umbrella of "unsportsmanlike conduct," which is pretty much bullshit because it's what you do in another sport. Seems pretty sportsmanlike to me.

Very serious football question DUAN

Luckily BA is super easy, and doesn't require memorizing tons of crazy code sections or anything.

Girlfriend is out of town. AleSmith Yule Smith for me, and Skyrim until I pass out.

I didn't know that. My memory is bad. Are you telling these dudes you're dating that you're in love with one of your guy friends? Cause I could see them being jealous about that. Or maybe they can just tell when you hang out with them. Or maybe they're not as jealous as you think, but the fact that you know you're in…