You can vote at 18, drink at 21 ...

I get lots of free magazines. People seem to like asking me to subscribe to their magazine for free. I get the pretty boring Home Magazine. I get the always fun and often strange Budget Living Magazine. And I get the totally sketchy, suggestive article headlines but less interesting articles, so sketchy that I hesitate to leave it lying around, Best Life Magazine.

I also get Computer Games magazine. I read this one when I'm bored, even though I don't have time to play many games. (They did tell me about Hamsterball, though, which is lots of fun.)

In the June issue, the column at the back is called "Of Human Bondage: The latest moves in the game ratings game." I don't think the article is online. But it talks about how the game ratings board is trying to keep up with ever more intricate and violent games. And how kids tell their parents that the "M" rating stands for "Minor", when it really means "Mature 17+".

Delia Stone, a spokesperson for the FGRB, is quoted throughout the article. (I don't know who the FGRB is. Family Games Rating Board? All I know about is the ESRB.

Anyway, midway through the article, Ms. Stone comes up with a very memorable quote. The set up is the aforementioned kids who convince their parents that M stands for Minor.

"And then the parents come to us and ask why their children are playing games that teach them to beat up hookers, which isn't an appropriate activity until you're well over 18."

If you diagram the sentence, it might work, since the word "activity" references playing the game, instead of beating up hookers. I think.