re: #165 DaddyG

Stephen Spielburg presents a three movie epic:

Rock - A new strata

Paper - The wrapper strikes back

Scissors - Return of the cutlery

Anecdote:
My brother and I do RPS to decide who picks up tabs after dinners, bar bills, and other miscellaneous decisions of that sort.

So, soon after he got married a RPS decision came up between him and his wife (who is a Chinese-descent Malaysian from Kuala Lumpor). So they did RPS and instead of a “normal” rock, paper, or scissor sign she did one my brother did not know.

Brother: “What’s that?”

S-in-law: “Bird. It drinks water (their equiv of paper), and it beaten by rock. (So it’s a Scissor equivalent.)

Brother (humorously): Bird?!? So it loses to all of them. Rock crushes bird, Scissors cut bird up. Paper wraps it for market.

Story proceeds to end in an unamused sister-in-law…

But not that “rock” appears to retain it’s universal appeal.