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I have a woefully incomplete record (this was in the days pre-digital-cameras, so all I have are about 50 thumbnail sketches because I was kinda lazy about archiving them all...but suffice it to say that there was a solid string of them that were SW-related due to the theatrical release of the SE trilogy), and I have no idea where that might be at this point, but the thing that started it all off was that my neighbor in my college dorm had a white message board with a Smurf-blue dry-erase marker, which I would regularly use to doodle a smashed Smurf. That was, I believe, what sparked the challenge. The next one was hung from a noose, which seriously freaked out his girlfriend (no mean feat, mind you, since this was a person who had extensively studdied Jack the Ripper lore to the point that she was unflinchingly convinced that she knew who he really was, and she had pretty much memorized her videotape of the Angela Lansbury theatrical/film version of Sweeney Todd).
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I'm guessing the puck didn't travel as smoothly as it would have if it were riding on a proper cushion of air. I'm not sure I could stomach that experience. I used to be a pretty decent air-hockey player in my day. Not from anything I'd call true skill, mind you, but from a combination of violently ruthless offense, and an understanding of the fact that most people don't hug their goals as closely as they should, meaning that a wild diagonal shot has an surprisingly good chance at either going straight in, or deflecting off the backside of their paddle. The ability to precisely aim became fairly unimportant against most of the people I ever played against, but someone who really knew what they were doing could pretty much shut me out.
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Many years ago my friends and I used to play this game where you take a piece of paper (and a pencil for each player) and fold it in half. Each person draws their spaceships, planes, ect (which usually 'stick-like' with a small circle for the main body and short lines for wings, fins, whatever). The person who starts draws a dot on their side, folds the paper and colors the dot in on the back. The resulting transfer from the pencil would show up as a 'hit' on the other side. Sort of a poor man's Battleship..
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