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Governor's son selling "Don't Drop the Soap" prison boardgame
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The son of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is peddling a board game titled “Don’t Drop the Soap,” a prison-themed game he created as part of a class project at the Rhode Island School of Design. John Sebelius, 23, has the backing of his mother and father, U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary Sebelius. The governor’s spokeswoman, Nicole Corcoran, said both parents “are very proud of their son John’s creativity and talent.” . . .
I just love his Karelia Suite.
“Fight your way through 6 different exciting locations in hopes of being granted parole,” the site says. “Escape prison riots in The Yard, slip glass into a mob boss’ lasagna in the Cafeteria, steal painkillers from the nurse’s desk in the Infirmary.”

The game includes five tokens representing a bag of cocaine, a handgun and three characters: wheelchair-using ‘Wheelz,” muscle-flexing “Anferny” and business suit-clad “Sal ‘the Butcher.’” . . .

h/t Jules Crittenden, who notes that an earlier version of the AP story contained a few more salacious details about the game:

An earlier version that moved on the wires had a quote about “No one enters through the front door,” something like that, not sure what that’s supposed to mean, and mentioned something about getting cornered by the Aryan Nations in the showers, but a subsequent version moved minus that, with the unusual notation that it had been edited for length. That was odd. Never seen that before. Wish they’d do a little more of that, as wire scribblers write like there’s no line count sometimes, and cutting for space can be a damned nuisance.

Doesn’t exactly sound like a game designed with unity, hope or change in mind, though.

Posted by: Mike 2008-01-28
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=221998