oregon trail
I stayed home sick from school today because I was a little overwhelmed and exhausted. Sleeping till eleven was exactly what I needed to do. I promised myself that if I stayed home I would finish correcting their memoirs and go eat sushi. That's my day. But before I do that, I had the urge to go look at random things from the internet. Of course I ended up looking at pictures from the classic educational video game, Oregon Trail, which was supposed to be a realistic simulation of what actually happened in the great migration west. This is probably why everybody eventually ended up like this:

This will make the following information more hilarious.
I will now copy and paste for you an interesting piece of information gathered from the magical land of Wikipedia!
The game allows players to create custom inscriptions on the tombstones of deceased party members. Perhaps the most well-known example of this is a tombstone found in most copies of the disk image available for download. It reads "Here lies andy; peperony and chease". An email sent to a gaming website claims that this is the result of a schoolboy (going by the name of "Andy") who was inspired by advertisements for Tombstone Pizza (which featured the tagline, "What do you want on your Tombstone?").


1 Comments:
omg thank you for this much needed humor and distraction from TOO MUCH ART. i remember playing this game, a newer version (still like 1998) and including the Hanson brothers in our wagon party. Isaace, Tay and Zac shared a tombstone. poor guys.
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