Totally pointless thread...

[Lefty]

I agree. There are a lot of folks out there who need it. Then again, I think maybe not everyone can be as normal as I am.

[Rocket J. Squirrel]

[Road Runner]

Caribou gorn....

RR.

[Tomcat]

I got a full house guys, Kings over eights , so it looks like im taking the pot.

[Steff]

I don't have to work today. I will spend a good part of the day packing for LOS. I leave next Tuesday. Seeing the suitcase ready to go seems to make the last few days waiting to board the plane more bearable.

[Lefty]

The dead man's hand is a two-pair poker hand, namely "aces and eights". The hand gets its name from the legend of it being the five-card-draw hand held by Wild Bill Hickok at the time of his murder (August 2, 1876). It is accepted that the hand included the aces and eights of both the black suits; although his biographer, Joseph Rosa, says no contemporary citation for his hand has been found, the "accepted version is that the cards were the ace of spades, the ace of clubs, two black eights (clubs and spades), and the queen of clubs as the "kicker". The term, before the murder of Hickok, referred to a variety of hands. The earliest found reference to a "dead man's hand" is 1886, where it was described as "three jacks and a pair of tens."
There are various claims as to the identity of Hickok's fifth card and there is also some reason to believe that he had discarded one card. The draw was interrupted by the shooting and he never got the fifth card he was due.
The Stardust in Las Vegas had a 5 of diamonds on display as the fifth card; in the HBO television series Deadwood, a 9 of diamonds is used (although the show posits that another player falsely invented the hand in order to further his own newsworthiness); the modern town of Deadwood, South Dakota also uses the 9 of diamonds in displays; and Ripley's Believe it or Not shows a queen of clubs. Saloon no. 10, in Deadwood, South Dakota, the namesake to the saloon in which Wild Bill Hickok was shot while holding the infamous "dead man's hand," shows the fifth card as the 9 of diamonds. The Lucky Nugget Gambling Hall, which holds the historic site of Saloon No. 10, displays the 5th card as the jack of diamonds. At least two of John Ford's films feature the aces and eights hand as a foreshadowing of death. In Stagecoach (1939), the hand is held by Luke Plummer (Tom Tyler), soon to be shot by the Ringo Kid (John Wayne) while in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Liberty Valance draws the hand just prior to his death. In the novel (also film) Along Came a Spider by James Patterson, Jezzie Flannigan tells the story of how her father won his gun with a hand of aces and eights - she also uses 'Aces&Eights' as her computer password. The Motörhead song Ace of Spades makes reference to "..the dead man's hand."
The Las Vegas Metro Homicide Division uses the dead man's hand in its insignia.

thanks to wikipedia

[Tomcat]

Richard " the cheat" Turner when asked why he cheated said.....

" i dont like that random stuff"

[Tomcat]

The Four of Clubs used to be known as " The Devils Bedpost" and has some nasty connotations

( re edit see below)

[whore]

Its the four of clubs thats known as that.

[whore]

Am actually taking a break from poker for a couple of weeks. I have been card dead for about 3 weeks now.

I have some strange superstitious things I do when this happens to help me get out of being card dead.

[guydesavoy]

(Tomcat @ Jun. 24 2010,17:23) so it looks like im taking the pot.

better than taking the crack

[Lefty]

License to kill possums by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill possums at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote.

[Lefty]

"I smell possum poontang. And the only good possum poontang is dead possum poontang, I think." ~ Lefty Spackler

[f0xxee]

(Lefty @ Jun. 25 2010,14:21) They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong.

In other words you are going to lose.

[Lefty]

Just quitting and walking away ain't the same as losing. You lot were there too. Not much help it seems in retrospect.

The Aussies are just lucky we slowed the Japs down in the PI, a few decades earlier, because we all know what their next intended invasion target was.