A little bit weird, a little bit political with a lot of humor.
Man, this brought back a lot of memories
Published on September 5, 2004 By historyishere In Just Hanging Out
I was just thinking about this silly game that used to get played when I was a child called MASH, which stands for Mansion/Apartment/Shack/House. Basically, it was this little folded game(I never really understood how the folding was done. I mean, they were a work of origami as far as I was concerned), which you had a little list and by using the numbers inside, you'd figure out who you would end up with, where you'd live, what you'd drive, what you'd do for a living, how many kids you'd have and what kind of house you would own.

I tried it out again today... and apparently I am going to have 3 children by my wife Katherine Heigl(I used the movie 100 Girls for my choices), I will drive a red Shelby Cobra, I would work as a screenwriter, own a mansion and live in LA. Not bad... not bad at all.. a little unrealistic for my current starting point here, but it is a nice set of goals to try to get to...

All in all, playing M.A.S.H again was a pleasant trip down memory lane... why don't you try it out too and post your results.

Comments
on Sep 05, 2004
Oh, yes! I remember this one!! We did it on paper and not with the origami thingy - which by the way, I still know how to make. I'm going to marry my husband Chris (whew!), drive a purple PT Cruiser, have 6 kids...sheez, where will they all sit, live in a mansion in Germany where I'll be a counselor. Better start those German lessons.

Thanks for the blast from the past.
on Sep 05, 2004
Yay! I totally remember this game! We used to play it all the time when I was little . . . the way we usually did it, was to draw a line down the paper, and one in the middle so that there were four sections, and then we would use our age as the number of "passes through" until we had marked out all but one in each category.

Like this:

M A S H
Escalade I my husband
Chevy Trailblazer I David Duchovny
Hummer I George Eads
____________25_____________
Hawaii I 2
Texas I 3
New York I 4
I

I'd be living in a mansion in Texas, driving my 4 bratty kids to soccer practice in my Escalade while my husband, the gorgeous George Eads from CSI, is pretending to pull a dead body out of a dumpster. Eh . . . I could take or leave it.

Fun game, neat memories, history.
on Sep 05, 2004
D'oh! I can't get it to line up right . . . pretend like it looks like it's divided into 4 sections, OK?
on Sep 05, 2004
yeah, getting things to line up... that is a tough thing to do with proportional typefaces....

Good choices both of you
on Sep 13, 2004
Hahahha historyishere I remember playing that M.A.S.H game in grade school!! oh those were the days :
on Sep 13, 2004

You will live in House.
You will drive a rasberry red Ford tracker.
You will marry Derek Gander and have 10 kids.
You will be a trashcan digger in kansas.
: here are my results OMG KILL ME NOW PLEASE!!!!
on Sep 13, 2004
I was already marriad oncet and i already have 2 kids ( and omg i do not wana work as picking through trash in kansas : ) i needed this lil laugh thank you history
on Sep 13, 2004
ok, I live in a house with Natalie Portman, drive a red 2004 Hummer H2, have 27 kids, live in Antarctica, and am president....

Given all the other results, I could deal with living in Antarctica
on Sep 13, 2004
Isn't that like the start of a movie there Gideon? I guess you have to repopulate the earth with her.... and doing a bang up job of it as well.
on Feb 15, 2005
I remember that in 5th grade and i'm only in 7th grade. Now there is a new on called M.A.S.H. I.T. mash stands for the same things but it stands for Igloo/tepee. I just took this today and here is what I got I will marry Travis (I like him right now) and have twins for kids, I will live in a mansion, I will be driving a red converdeble, and be a teacher in Flordia. Not bad, I like it I'm going to show his and my friends at school tomarrow.
on Feb 15, 2005
HAHA! who could forget MASH?!?! My brother and myself used to entertain eachother for hours with this game. We'd even add more silly categories like underwear color or person you'd cheat on your significant other with...lol...the good ole days!