A French army officer who fought against the British during the American Revolutionary War.
What's he doing on Wordy Wednesday?
Because ROCHAMBEAU is also the name given to the popular game of Rock-Paper-Scissors. One theory is that it was named after this officer because it was used by him and others during said war. But not likely. Another theory is that when this game was included in the Children's Bureau handbook in the 1930s, we had growing tensions with Japan where the game likely originated, so they didn't want to use the Japanese name. In the early 1930s, there had been a celebration in connection with the ROCHAMBEAU statue, so that could have been on the minds of those creating this handbook. But who really knows? Not me.
It's also spelled Roshambo.
My question is, why couldn't they just call it Rock-Paper-Scissors? I guess ROCHAMBEAU has more flare to it.
If you've not heard of ROCHAMBEAU (Rock-Paper-Scissors), it's simple. Played with two or more people. Everyone playing starts with one hand fisted and chooses one of three options. Can you guess what those three options are? You guessed it; rock (fist), paper (flat hand), or scissors (first two fingers extended like a pair of scissors).
Rock beats scissors because a rock can crush scissors. Scissors beats paper because scissors cuts paper. And paper beats rock because paper covers rock.
I never got how paper beat rock by covering. If anything, wouldn't it protect it from the rain and such?
Back to the game. On the count of three, each person puts their hand in the shape of one of these objects and see who wins.
Some people will use this to make decisions. If it's a decision of low consequences, this could be a good option. Things like what to have for dinner or which movie to watch. But I wouldn't leave who to marry or a job choice up to Rock-Paper-Scissors. But that's me. If you're comfortable with ROCHAMBEAU being your sole decision maker, that's your choice.
So if you're going to play, is there a way to increase your chances of winning? Here's a video that might help.
But now if a lot of people know this, won't that skew the effectiveness of this approach? If you play with the character of the TV show Friends, all bets are off.
My favorite Rock-Paper-Scissors scene. (From Friends)
Fire? Water Balloon? LOL!!!
"Well played Phoebe Buffay . . . and Joey too!"
I love their creativity!
COMING SOON
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT ~ A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This is book 1 in the Quilting Circle series.
Washington State, 1893
When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT is now available for pre-order at only $2.99--the low price for pre-orders...later it will go up. A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This book releases in ebook on July 1, and will be out in paperback by mid-June.
“Holly & Ivy,”my #HistoricalRomance novella in A BOUQUET OF BRIDES COLLECTION, takes place in 1890, in Washington State. It’s about a young woman who accompanies her impetuous younger sister on her trip across the country to be a Christmas mail-order bride and is helped by a gallant stranger. #BouquetOfBrides
A doctor or an Amish wife? She can choose to be only one…Kathleen Yoder comes home after fourteen years in the Englisher world. Practicing medicine means sacrifice—no Amish man will want a doctor for a wife. Widowed Noah Lambright offers a cottage as her new clinic, seeing how much Kathleen’s skills can help their community. But as their friendship deepens, could love and family become more than a forbidden dream?
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MARY DAVIS is a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. She has five titles releasing in 2018; "Holly & Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection in January, Courting Her Amish Heart in March, The Widow’s Plight in July, Courting Her Secret Heart September, & “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection in December. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.
Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of over thirty-three years and two cats. She has three adult children and one incredibly adorable grandchild. Find her online at:
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