> > My sister (the older one, the one who doesn't hang out at RinkWorks, but
> > first introduced me to Computer Stupidities) and I would also spend
> > hours "play acting" out different part. Somehow, she always ended up
> > getting the cool Princess part, and I was the lowely Princess's servant part.
> > And whenever the searchlights where on (ok, so they were only advertising
> > some new store opening or something) it was Darth Vader, looking for
> > the escaped Princess and her servant. :) Ahhh...the joys of youth!
>
> ...here again, a different generation but the same idea: we were Roy Rogers
> and Dale Evans, riding out ponies across the desert (vacant lot next door).
> I was miffed because I always had to be Dale Evans, who of course never got
> any of the good lines or much of the action.

In younger days, my two brothers and I used to play at being the Three Musketeers. This was before we were actually old enough to read the book, so there were only three of us, and we basically did whatever we felt like doing, even if that meant picking up whatever was to hand and using it as a ninja throwing star on some imaginary enemy.
Sometimes our sister wanted to join in, so we let her; it doesn't pay to get on the bad side of our sister. :o) We needed some way of linking her to the pretence of being the Three Musketeers; as it happened, our copy of the book had a frontispiece showing a woman being menaced by a man with a gun, so we said that was her.

Of course, when we were old enough to read the book we found out that the woman in the picture was the villainess and the man with the gun was the hero...

Paul