The first Quilt Scout of the month of March is up today, so I’d like to send you to the fine folks at Quilts, Inc. to check it out. I have to warn you: You will probably get sad. Why?
The Monopoly game people took the thimble out of the game.
Bye, Bye, Monopoly Thimble: The Quilt Scout Is IN (and Annoyed.)
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15 responses to “Bye, Bye, Monopoly Thimble: The Quilt Scout Is IN (and Annoyed.)”
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outrageous!
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I have my old Monopoly game. I will keep using the thimble and the iron in solidarity!
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I saw this when they first announced it, and I too was bummed. I’ve always chosen the thimble even before I could see. I’m so glad I still have my Monopoly game with thimble intact. If I have to buy a new game, I’ll take my thimble from my old game.
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I’d rather have a thimble than a cat any day. Though when I was a kid, my favorite thing to do was put the scotty in the roadster and have him drive around the board.
I think an emoticon will become dated after a shorter timespan than the thimble.
I just checked the interwebs and found photos of early pieces. I think I would’ve picked the bathtub every time!
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You all could have voted to keep the thimble instead of whining about it now.
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Dorothy!
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I happened to see a story about this on the internet one day a while back and I did vote for the thimble. It has always been the one I chose every time I’ve ever played Monopoly. I guess there weren’t enough votes, however.
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This is SEW wrong!! Guess we were all sewing during the voting – SEW sad!
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This was crushing to me. I accepted when the iron was pulled. But, THE THIMBLE? Travesty.
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I got through 3/4 of your column and thought “Well, I’ll just use my OWN thimble- take that, Monopoly!” And then I read your last line and beamed at our shared brilliance. 🙂 xoxo
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Sorry to see the thimble go, but I love your suggestion to use your own. BTW, I tried most of the links on the page, and pretty much none of them work! Yikes!
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This is so funny to me. Yesterday my 5 year old granddaughter asked me if I wanted to play Monopoly with her.
As we were getting the game ready, (she always likes to do the money), we began to choose our pawns. I chose the cat, she chose the dog. I then asked her what I was last time, and she said “the thimble.” I didn’t realize the thimble was on it’s way out, I would have picked again for old time’s sake. -
NOT GOOD!
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OK, Mary Fons, put up yer dukes! Scotties are not a wimpy breed. They are personable, sturdy and very loyal. Their popularity was high during the Depression, when Monopoly was released.
All kidding aside, the thimble should definitely stay in.
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This lovely little OpEd in our local newspaper:
http://www.centralmaine.com/2017/03/22/monopoly-thimble-more-than-it-seems/
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