Pass the Bomb!

Advantages: great game, really gets you thinking
Disadvantages: you can be made to look v.stupid!

...I don't know about you lot, but it seems to me that every time we have family over for Christmas or New Year, after dinner we end up playing some sort of board game! This is ok to start with, but does tend to get rather dull after a while. On boxing day of the Christmas just gone, yes you've guessed it - we ended up playing a board game. A member of the family brought it round and it was called Pass the Bomb! Sounds ominous I know (don't worry its not a real bomb!). Well, it was great fun and very different to the usual type of games which go on for hours and people lose interest. The game starts by drawing a card from the pack which is shown to all players. Each card has letters on it and can be two or more letters. A dice is then rolled which tells all players whether the letters shown by the card must be at the start, middle or end...

beanie8844 07.04.2008 · Read review
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The Simpsons: Backstage Pass review

Advantages: Amazing writing, hilarious
Disadvantages: None

...The Simpsons: Backstage Pass is a collection of four episodes featuring some of the best bands of the past and the present. The four episodes are "Homerpalooza", "A Tale of Two Springfields", "The Otto Show" and "Homer's Barbershop Quartet". "Homerpalooza" is one of my personal favourites and concerns Homer, who seems to be having a mid-life crisis, so he takes Bart and Lisa to the Hullabalooza festival where, through some bizarre coincidences that could only happen in The Simpsons, he gets to fulfill his rock star dreams by touring with the festival. The bands here are amazing, from classic rockers (Peter Frampton) to newer, indie rock (Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins) and really shows the difference in musical tastes between then and when the show started, and also since Homer was a teenager as well. "A Tale of Two Springfields...

Walter_Kovacs 08.01.2009 · Read review
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To Roam aroun Rome by a Roma Pass!

Advantages: Queue jumping, don't have to worry about entrance fees
Disadvantages: Can not be cost effective

...The Roma Pass was something a work colleague mentioned to me, although she did not know the name just there was some card thing that gets you benefits. So I looked up things to do in Rome and eventually came across the website for the Roma Pass through a link from another website. The Roma Pass website is: http://www.romapass.it/?l=en The website gave me a great insight as to what the card was, there are 2 types of cards, so it explains what both offer and how much they cost. The standard (red) Roma Pass costs 23 Euros, and the Roma & Piu (blue) Pass costs 25 Euro's. The website goes on to have tabs for museums, events, a virtual tour, information, download and buy. I opted not to buy ours online, and decided I would get them when there. The website sells the cards with this strap line "The Cards that offers you...

Absy_Baby 28.07.2009 · Read review
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Pass The Bomb - Careful It Might Go Off

Advantages: Improves Vocabulary, Family Torture At Christmas
Disadvantages: Sweet Mother Of God It's Annoying

...I was introduced to the game by The Blonde's parents at a large family gathering on Boxing Day this year. I used to like those people. Pass The Bomb - The Explosive Game That Will Blow Your Mind... No, No it won't. No really, it won't. The premise is incredibly simple. Start the timer (Conveniently shaped like a bomb; see what they did there!) and draw a card with a selection of letters on that must be contained, in that order, within the word you put forward. When the "Bomb Goes Off" the person left holding it is out. Also forbidden is repetition and making words up, they will also lead to you being out. Which apparently is a bad thing... So, the length of the game depends on 3 things. When will the timer go off? Can you actually remember the words you used to pick up on repetition and vocabulary knowledge (Although...

beevorm 30.12.2006 · Read review
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The 'Masters' of 'Puppets'

Advantages: Flawless Heavy Metal record, technically stunning time signature shifts with occasional classical structuring
Disadvantages: 20 year old production job, could do with a re-mastering

...Time for my ultimate review of what I feel is the finest metal record of all time, 'Master of Puppets' by the masters themselves, 'Metallica'. Myself, a fan of Heavy Metal entirely because of the music from these guys. It was the 'Black' album that started it all for me in the early 90's upon hearing 'Enter Sandman' on the radio; I was pulled out of my stupid Pop childhood, and taken away into a darker musical place I liked very much. I immediately purchased a copy of the 'Black' album and upon hearing this I read more into the band learning of their thrash roots and much more diverse heavier past. So I sought after their older material beginning with 'Master of Puppet's'. Which brings me to today, where I have quite a collection of 'Metallica's' music having trawled CD fairs for the rarities and odds and sods to build that collection...

ondeafears3 10.02.2008 (05.02.2008) · Read review
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Pass me that Pass!!!

Advantages: Superb value, all Tussauds attractions included, great discounts, Now Unlimited Entry!!!
Disadvantages: Up-front expense

...As of the October 2007 the Tussauds Annual Pass(TAP) has been replaced by the Merlin Annual Pass. The Tussauds Group was bought out by the Merlin Entertainments Group - this group includes the Sea-Life Centres, the Dungeons and other parks such as LegoLand. The Tussauds Group has ceased to exist and along with it so has some of the advantages of the TAP. Due to some very poor Customer Service I will not be renewing my Annual Pass. Thank you to all the people that reviewed this little blog-like review!! "Why are you reviewing an entrance ticket??" You might ask, well quite simply it's the best value ticket around - and thats what this site is all about - isn't it? GREAT VALUE The Tussauds Group Annual Pass is essentially 52 entrance tickets all stored on one 'credit' card. Unless you can get it at a discount then it...

philwalsham 28.04.2006 (12.09.2008) · Read review
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Breakheart pass

Advantages: Good Adaptation of a MacLean novel
Disadvantages: Film a bit grainy

...trouble with a supposed prisoner, Levi Calhoun, on the loose, and indians within its walls. As I previously said it keeps close to the book, although the ending is different in execution if not outcome. I would recommend this as a good film to be purchased at £5, and is a good enough watch, even if I personally still prefer the original book. The only downside from the DVD is the limited nature of Extras, not surprising for a 1975 film, and there is only the Original Theatrical trailer, as an added bonus. Also in some of the scenes the film does look slightly grainy but can be ignored especially with some of the scenery that is filmed as the trains pass through some snowy mountains....

mrtimharry 19.02.2008 · Read review
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Metallica - Master of Puppets

Advantages: Very deep lyrics
Disadvantages: Last album with Cliff Burton

...The album Master of Puppets is the third studio album by America?s highest selling Metal band. It was released March 3rd 1986 and has since sold over 6 million copies in the USA alone. It is also the last album to be recorded with bassist Cliff Burton before a fatal bus accident while touring for the album. The album is considered one of the greatest thrash metal albums of all time and is considered a classic by critics and the band alike. The songs mainly focus on losing control and the intensity of the riffs really shows this. Lead vocals/ guitar: James Hetfield Drums: Lars Ulrich Bass: Cliff Burton Lead guitar: Kirk Hammet Battery- 5:15 The opening track begins with a very harmonic tune using three acoustic guitars until bass and drums come in to play a more distorted version of the harmony. But a minute in is the reason that...

s-gilly 17.06.2009 · Read review
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The Pass

Advantages: Nice deisgn
Disadvantages: Needs more content

...OK. You are bored, the kids are bored, even the goldfish looks a little jaded. So, what are you going to do about it? Feed the goldfish (that's his idea of a good time!) and as for you and the rest of your family? Visit www. the-pass.co.uk. The first thing you will notice about www. the-pass.co.uk, is not only is it an extremely interesting website to visit and use, it is also extremely easy to navigate, too. And to be fair to www. the-pass.co.uk, that's not always the case with other websites, is it? Some of them are designed by people who want to show off their skills or who are totally inept at good website design. Of course, some of the websites that I have visited have apparently been designed by people who, although totally inept, want to show off their "skills." Not so with www. the-pass.co.uk! This web site is user...

Martinscholes 13.11.2005 · Read review
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Can you Master This ?

Advantages: Good amount of games to choose from
Disadvantages: The sound at times is terrible

...Master all classics is a game for the Nintendo DS console which is giving you the chance to play the games you might remember playing all the time but as board games. You initially begin by setting up a profile which is pretty simple to do and you put down your name and a small picture and then you begin to play the games. How it works You get to sit there and look through a selection of games which are there to play. Once you have selected a game you wish to play you sit there and you begin to read the instructions and practice some tutorials about the game. Now these are pretty easy and most of the games have about 3 to choose from which is good and the other good part is that if you?re still unsure after the tutorial you get to play them all again until you are glad you are ready. Once you finished the tutorial you...

languagetimothy 17.11.2009 · Read review
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