Snakes and dildos? Isn't that a kid's board game?

I always wondered why Snakes and Ladders is called Chutes and Ladders in the US.

Is it just that it makes more sense to slide down a chute than a snake?

Or was there fear of Biblical Meaningfulness? If kids' game pieces were allowed to slide down snakes, would that be too much like the Fall of Man, when the serpent got our incestuous ancestors kicked out of the Garden?

Wow, I had no idea it was such an old and moral game:

"Snakes and Ladders originated in India as a game based on morality called Vaikuntapaali or Paramapada Sopanam (the ladder to salvation). This game made its way to England, and was eventually introduced in the United States of America by game pioneer Milton Bradley in 1943.


The game was played widely in ancient India by the name of Moksha Patamu, the earliest known Jain version Gyanbazi dating back to 16th century. The game was called "Leela" - and reflected the Hinduism consciousness around everyday life. Impressed by the ideals behind the game, a newer version was introduced in Victorian England in 1892, possibly by John Jacques of Jacques of London.

Moksha Patamu was perhaps invented by Hindu spiritual teachers to teach children about the effects of good deeds as opposed to bad deeds. The ladders represented virtues such as generosity, faith, humility, etc., and the snakes represented vices such as lust, anger, murder, theft, etc. The moral of the game was that a person can attain salvation (Moksha) through performing good deeds whereas by doing evil one takes rebirth in lower forms of life (Patamu). The number of ladders was less than the number of snakes as a reminder that treading the path of good is very difficult compared to committing sins. Presumably the number "100" represented Moksha (Salvation). In Andhra Pradesh, snakes and ladders is played in the name of Vaikuntapali

The squares of virtue on the original game are Faith (12), Reliability (51), Generosity (57), Knowledge (76), Asceticism (78); the squares of evil are Disobedience (41), Vanity (44), Vulgarity (49), Theft (52), Lying (58), Drunkenness (62), Debt (69), Rage (84), Greed (92), Pride (95), Murder (73) and Lust (99)."

I love you wikipedia. I don't care what anyone says.

GRRRRRR RIOT FIGHT!

this pretty much sums it all up.

So...you want to murder someone because they said something you dislike? For (favorite religious icon/marvel superhero)'s sake, you're more of an asshole than Asherdan.

This asset has no lames.

Just thought I'd point that out while it's still true.

Asherdan just likes to play the devil's advocate. Not a bad thing, it's just something he enjoys, I think.

I remember google image searching "Chris Onstad" back in the wee days of my addiction. This is what I found.

I was sorely confused, friends. Sorely.

Have you not loved and lost...a beer?

I go through this almost everynight, but so that a child may live.

Y...you were going to kill a child?

every night.

luckily he's too drunk to do it.

I'm afraid that my drunken posting has become a thing on assetbar.

Yeah, ok, so I'm back from a minor league baseball playoff game (Bulls vs Bats, that's a tough one for me) and quite few beers plus a double Powers at the James Joyce for afters.

oh shit I'm back at home! hey guyss

I know this is basically adorable to me.

I thought Natty was bad, and it is, but then I met Milwaukee's Best ICE, and I died a little inside.

hahaha, like narrangansett or Bull ICE 40s

its good bong beer.

just keep me cold!

http://chappie.stanford.edu/archives/1996-1997/the_transmitter_faces_south/rainier_beer/

A lot of other old Onstad material there too.

fuck it

A promising start! You really DO have to keep it cold.

Does anyone remember a couple years back when Onstad put some links on here to some of his friend's stuff (or something along those lines)?

I seem to remember a poem about a college girlfriend and a bum masturbating while looking directly into his eyes...anyone?

Go back one or two strips and someone left a link in the comments to an Onstad Stanford monkeyboy comic, where if you then click on his name you can see other stuff, including that poem.

"girlfriend" from 6/21/99? I thought that might be it but it isn't...it was something called..i think college girlfriend...or something along those lines....it had something about a drive through and a homeless guy masturbating while looking directly into the authors eyes and it being creepy...I don't know if onstad even wrote it but I know it was on the site....it was only a feature for a few months

1997 - 2004 Chris Onstad

Makes it seem like he was working on this comic for 7 years.

RIP

...oh wait, what?

Dear Mr. Onstad,

I gave this comic a 5. Mainly because it's just simple and kinda stupid and not meant for the eyes of thousands of people and that's alright because that's OK.

~woodenteeth

Is this the genesis of the Asherdan hatred?

As I understand it, some years ago Onstad administrated a discussion forum in a way that hurty wurted asherdan's feelings.
When assetbar was created, asherdan leapt at the chance to be an ass on a discussion forum once more. That's basically it.

I have a lot of love for Rainier and thus for this strip.

The time I almost threw up on my girlfriend in bed after drinking all those Rainier tall-boys? I'll blame it on the one Olympia I had.

Rainier is really good, but it gives you a bad hangover.

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