Episode #0510

 

Roger:  I said "chess" not "chest".
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Roger:  Can we play? I'll let you be the shoe?  And you can be the bank if you really want to.

After centuries of manipulating people like the pieces on a chessboard, Angelique/Cassandra found playing the actual game to be quite boring in comparison.

roger:"laura might not have been a good wife my dear...but she was as hot as FIRE in the kip.you're as cold as ICE."

cassandra:"i don't really think it's a fair comparison do you?"

A/C: Well if you won't "king" me I quit!
R: Really Cassandra, you're being rather peevish don't you think?

Roger: I'll have you mated in three more moves.

Cassangelique: Not if I can help it you won't!... oh you mean in the game.

C: "I ask for a game of naked, drunken Twister, and this is all I get!!  What an old stick-in-the-mud!!"

RC:  "Quiet my dear.   Bacchus, god of brandy, is making it hard to concentrate..."

Angelique muses back on the 18th century when games of chess substitued for birth control, especially if sheep's bladders were in short supply   

Look Magazine Nov '59. "A quiet evening at home with Larry and Vivien"  

 

 

Two posts in row of references I don't get... sheep-bladders?  Larry and Vivien?   Olivier?   Tate?   The Logger?    What name did the bladders go by?

I think the sheep's baldders are made by Trojan now 

Two posts in row of references I don't get... sheep-bladders?  Larry and Vivien?   Olivier?   Tate?   The Logger?    What name did the bladders go by?

Since Wille has answered what sheep's bladder's were used for in the 18th century, (I think I read Giacomo Casanova had a special carrying case), Larry and Vivien refers to Sir/Lord Laurence Olivier and then wife Vivien Leigh.  I thought Louis looked especially Olivier-like here.
Michael

Cassangelique:  I don’t know why you’re so angry Rodger.  I promise I didn’t squeeze the charmin.