I'm having trouble deciding which is more perplexing...

[conuly]

the fact that CVS sells pumpkin spice cough drops... or the existence of Yankee Candle Monopoly.

I do believe that branded Monopoly has gone a step too far.

Comments

[sallymn]

The cough drops sound okay... but what do I know, I love butter menthol ones despite many doubts as to whether they ARE cough drops or just plain sweets...

[conuly]

Menthol = cough suppressant, so they're medicine.

[polydad]

Misreading is so much fun. Here I am, trying to figure out how the Yankee Candle Monopoly is enforced...

Not sure where that poor lost little 'the' creeped in, but there are enough of 'em running around that it'd be like trying to identify where one particular stray cat came from.

[jessie_c]

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who was wondering that.

[goss]

the existence of Yankee Candle Monopoly.

*DIES*

What...even. o_O

[conuly]

That about sums it up.

[wpadmirer]

I really don't understand branded Monopolies. I mean, I get why people do them, but I don't get why anyone buys them.

[conuly]

In the case of Yankee Candle Monopoly, I can only imagine it's out of a perverse sense of curiosity.

Though the person I heard about it from got it because "You like boardgames, and she likes candles, right?"

[sabotabby]

NGL I would buy the pumpkin spice ones.

Yankee Candle has gone too far as well.

[conuly]

Of course, if this Monopoly is scented like pumpkin spice when you open it....

[bibliofile]

Pumpkin spice cough drops seem an almost inevitable outcome in a world that likes to pumpkin spice even things that don't normally have a scent or flavor, like glue gun glue sticks (I am not making those up).

The candle-branded Monopoly is just, well, perplexing is nearing understatement.

[adrian_turtle]

I can see the appeal of making glue-gun glue sticks smell like something different. I think the glue smells unpleasant, though it doesn't smell all that strongly unpleasant. It has to have some smell, because of the solvent. It's like those scented markers. Most of them smell like fruit, but the brown ones are supposed to be cinnamon. (They actually have slight overtones of clove, because it's so easy to make stuff smell like clove and people perceive it as a general "spice" scent. Change the label and the color and you could call that one pumpkin spice.) Why would you put perfume in a pen? Why would you make a PEN smell like FOOD and put it in the hand of a CHILD? How many of those things got licked over the years?

[conuly]

I once got a pickle scented marker as a freebie in a box of cat food.

[elainegrey]

I am not perplexed by pumpkin spice cough drops, but my eyes rolled so hard that my brain was flattened like a pie crust.

[conuly]

A pumpkin pie crust, I hope.

[greghousesgf]

they should make Boardwalk Empire Monopoly sets and they don't.

[conuly]

Don't give them ideas.

[rivendellrose]

If the Yankee Candle Monopoly had scratch-and-sniff squares on the board, I could maybe see a point to its existence. Or if the point was the buy up shop space in malls and fill it with Yankee Candle Company stores, maybe?

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

So which scents are the cheap properties to put flophouses on?

[rivendellrose]

Hmmm, that would get pretty subjective, wouldn't it? I don't know their scents well enough to make a reasonable (or even funny!) statement, alas.

[conuly]

Pumpkin spice, I'm sure.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Axe and Dudebro

Where does the Mountain Lodge go? (I have not actually smelled this, but the tumblr-sphere swears by it)

[low_delta]

It's kinda too bad that all of these themed board games are Monopoly, instead a game that most people actually like.

[conuly]

Although I've heard it's actually playable if you follow the rules instead of your own house rules.

[low_delta]

The only house rule we ever played with was the pot that you collect on if you land on Free Parking. And we didn't always play with that. But I don't think that significantly changed things.

I had a friend who never lost of a game of Monopoly in his entire life (although he stopped playing in his early twenties). That may have something to do with why I dislike the game, since I played with him a lot. But there's something weird about it. It's intriguing and annoying all at the same time. And probably the weirdest set of rules for such a widely played game. If it were released today, it would get the worst ratings.

[conuly]

Wait, so you guys did auctions too?

[low_delta]

Auctions? No, I don't think so. Hmm... there were probably other "obscure" rules that few people used. I was thinking more of the made-up house rules.

[conuly]

I figured you probably didn't use auctions. Hardly anybody does except That One Guy. But I'm told that auctions specifically (and not allowing any 'fun' rules that infuse cash back into the game) are what make it moderately playable, which is why i asked.

[swingandswirl]

Yankee Candle Monopoly, for sure. Like, how does that even WORK?

PS cough drops are at least somewhat understandable, given Americans' deplorable tendency to add pumpkin spice to the damnedest things.

[conuly]

I'm dying of curiosity, but I refuse to buy it to find out.

[foliedemars]

LOL forever at Yankee Candle Monopoly. I bet it's sold at Cracker Barrel.