When I was in college, I was having a party in my dorm room. My dorm room parties were tame compared to my fraternity parties. I decided that we needed party games. I went to the local KMart and purchased a Pin The Tail On The Donkey game. While I was putting up the poster for that game, I remembered the Why Can’t We Be Friends album by War included a poster with a picture of the band. All members of the band were black except for harmonica player Lee Oskar. With his white man afro and bushy mustache, I thought he was Puerto Rican although he is originally from Copenhagen, Denmark. I hung the War poster on the wall for the party so we could also play Pin The Tail On The Puerto Rican. While we played both games, my new spin on this traditional game was a hit.
The following year, I was going to throw another party. Pin The Tail On The Puerto Rican was so much of a hit that I wanted to do it again. I had saved my War poster but didn’t save the Pin The Tail On The Donkey game. I searched every store in town but couldn’t find another one. The closest thing I could find was Feed Bugs A Carrot, featuring Bugs Bunny. Like the other game, I found this at KMart. The idea of both games was the same so I thought I could come up with a modification that would work. I found an Ozzy Osborne poster with him sitting on a throne. That evening, we enjoyed playing a few rounds of Feed Ozzy A Carrot.
