I won a monopoly tournament once, at a scince fiction convention. Got my picture in the paper.
Me with my teddy bear, G. T. Bear, playing against some kid, and a guy in a vampire costume, and I forget who the 4th guy was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Monopoly
The reason the guys at work found it funny was that our agency regulated monopolies.
That was back when I was in the Ashcroft administration, and still thought I had a future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_tax
The game of monopoly was invented as an open source simulation to teach the single-tax theories of Henry George. How it became a Parker Brothers (TM) monopoly is a story in itself, one I won't tell in
this somewhat restrictive format. I is a proud graduate of the Henry George School of Social Science, SUNY, got my economics certificate when I was 18.
