Talk:MASH (game)

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Bias

Saying a Yugo or a ZAZ as a car is negitive is rather bias in my opinion, but I don't know what it should be replaced with... --JumboDS64 (talk) 23:28, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Slang term "mash"

According to EtymOnline.com, "masher (n.) c. 1500, "thing that mashes," agent noun from mash (v.). Meaning "would-be lady-killer, one whose dress or manners are such as to impress strongly the fancy of susceptible young women" is by 1875, American English, perhaps in use from 1860, probably from mash (v.) on notion either of "pressing one's attentions" or "crushing someone else's emotions" (compare crush (n.)). ... Also in use in late 19c were mash (n.) "a romantic fixation, a crush" (1882); mash (v.) "excite sentimental admiration" (1882); mash-note "love letter" (1890)."

Seems awful likely there's a connection between this very old slang and the titular very old game. Does anyone have info regarding this?--2604:2E89:B4D2:0:D0E:1FA0:C314:455B (talk) 10:18, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tinker, Tailor predecessor

I was browsing the wiki and found this. The section "Alternative versions" describes a girls' fortune telling game documented in 1927 which bears remarkable thematic similarity to MASH.

I suppose the spiral thing as the number you modally divide to get the results is the defining aspect of MASH. But i think it would add something to this page to detail that "he loves me he loves me not" style of girls' divination games, modally dividing some arbitrary physical quantity to answer a series of questions about their future, have been around in various forms. I don't have the time to make a full edit right now but yeah Voidify (talk) 11:09, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]