Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 11, 2013

It still doesn’t make sense to me why they would decide to do away with the iron. There aren’t a lot of that type of roadster around anymore either, or cannons.

I liked them all; not sure why they picked a cat.

If I ever play Monopoly again, I think I’ll use junk from around the house instead of the supplied tokens.

I agree with you, Iron. I voted for the ousting of the thimble, but you were declared the loser….

But now the game won’t supply any iron.

They’ll have to change the nutrition labels.

What?

Growing up, we played my Dad’s first edition Monopoly game. I hate to think what it’d be worth today if it hadn’t been played to death over the decades! Half the original tokens were missing, so I never knew there was supposed to be an iron. Or racecar. The rules sheet was crumbling, so we made up our own rules. I still don’t know what you’re supposed to do on Free Parking, but I like what we used it for!

so, in other words….this is the end of the Iron Age…..

It’s ironic that they chose to get rid of the iron.

or, make your own tokens. we did as a kids, because at least one of those tokens and many of the houses and hotels were missing.

Ha ha, I am one of the nerdy few who LIKES to iron, always while watching a favorite movie of course.

I couldn’t agree with you more. A truly awesome weapons platform. I see pictures of current navy warships and say to myself, very nice, but where are the guns? I wonder how many of those 16" shells you could fire for the cost of one of the missiles the current ships carry. As Nab pointed out, they could also carry modern munitions. I’m sure there was a psychological effect for ground troops hearing the sound of those massive multi-ton shells screaming in on their positions that survivors never forgot.

generations will now grow up playing the game without asking: “what is this piece supposed to be?”

and not one lick of spit.

actually, there was a big voting thing… vote for your favorite new token & vote to save your favorite old token.

Point? You read the comics for points? Better you should head over to the editorials for “points” cause there ain’t none here!

There’s a water hazard at a local golf course that has collected 2 of my irons.

“The point of this strip being … ?”IMO, it doesn’t need a point. To me, it’s funny as is. I thought it was the best of this week, so far.

I suppose that once you’re out of irons it is smooth sailing

Does Parker Brothers assume we’ll all run out and buy another copy of the game because they put a new token in?I still have my copy of the “original” and one of the Millenium edition (bought at a garage sale) where they had all new tokens. That didn’t do too well, I think.

I think it’s ridiculous why they would take away a Monopoly piece…

MORE CROCS!!!!!!!

now that irony

We have a well used set that has wooden houses and hotels. (from the 40s or 30s, it was my mother’s

The bank (to the innocent) represents all of the “powers that be” behind the scene. Actually being a landlord is just another disagreeable chore (if one is honest and tries to provide a good product, expecting tenants to appreciate it). Good people do not benefit from others in any way (slaves to masters is another illustration) that I dare not mention.

I have read somewhere that the original Monopoly game didn’t come with tokens. You were supposed to use whatever you could find around the house.

Maybe the new game should have 2 sets of tokens: the originals for those that like things as they were, and updated ones for those that like it more modern.

Iron-y

Monopoly had a poll a while back where you could vote for your fav. Guess iron lost.

For those that don’t know, and there seems to be a lot of you, the Iron was picked because voting was open to the public and that’s what they picked to drop. And they picked the cat as the most popular, for some freakish reason. Additionally, all the old pieces, as well as all the new pieces that were voted on (there were several) will be available in the deluxe version of Monopoly. This is actually really old news at this point. The voting went on last year, I seem to recall.

When they did the “Save Your Token” campaign, several major companies campaigned to help save or add tokens such as the thimble and cat. The iron did not get this support. http://www.npr.org/2013/02/06/171310935/monopoly-fans-dump-iron-token-for-new-cat-piece

The thimble is pretty lame. Personally, I’ve always been a Top Hat man.

Through the craft of precious metal clay, we can now design and create our own tokens. If you like Sculpey and Fimo, you’ll love precious metal clay. (Not trying to sell you anything) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_clay

@Nabuquduriuzhur:air burst or ground burst?I think with proper fuzes they would do both…

Sing along with Sherlock: “Any old iron, any old iron…”

Oh the irony…

There’s a battleship in Monopoly?

Hey, iron, look on the bright side: you’re out of print. That may seriously increase your value.

Iron is acting a lot like Rat.