Shilling For Hasbro

I guess I am just getting ornery in my old age.

Flipping the TV dial, I landed on what I thought was a Council meeting but instead I saw an infomercial for the Monopoly game with the spokesperson being our Mayor. I wondered if he was practising for his new career.

That got me to thinking, what other Board games could the Mayor sell so that the City could get a royalty on each one purchased to help reduce taxes, or rather to allow the Mayor to spend without increasing taxes. Naturally, there would have to be a Windsor twist to each one:

• CANADA-OPOLY--the let's beat Matty with a P3 bridge game


• Risk--the outsourcing CUPE jobs game


• SNAKES and ladders--the DRIC Road environmental game


• Jeopardy--the Mayoral/Council re-election game


• Scrabble--the 400 Building Audit game


• Diplomacy--the what our Mayor lacks game


• Trivial Pursuit--the airport hub/canal game


• Clue--the arena sole source build it in the east end instead of downtown game


• Candyland--the taxpayer pocketbook game


• Ouija Board--the try and figure out what Edgar (aka Eddie) is doing game


• Balderdash--the what goes on at Council game


• Twister--the Mayoral machinations we are put through on the simplest matters game


• Go--the what some Council members should do game


• Stop the presses--the what may happen to the Star if Canwest goes broke game


• Sorry--the I helped him get elected game.

Let me know if you can think of any other games that we can play in Windsor.