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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #240 on: April 07, 2011, 07:41:28 PM »
Del is just a thieving Magpie.  I ante a new game with with a broken G string. 

If you thought I was talkin bout anything other than a guitar string you are sick.
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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #241 on: April 07, 2011, 07:51:19 PM »
Ah am, Ah did and Ah'm disappointed.  ;D ;D ;D WM
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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #242 on: April 07, 2011, 07:53:20 PM »
Del is just a thieving Magpie. 

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Re: The "Card Game"
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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #243 on: April 07, 2011, 08:12:07 PM »
Leo throws in a page from an English/Italian dictionary with the term La Gazza Ladra highlighted.
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #244 on: April 07, 2011, 08:43:38 PM »
The Thieving Magpie.  :) MM
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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #245 on: April 07, 2011, 10:56:12 PM »
I'll see your Magpie and raise you a Navajo Rug


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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #246 on: April 25, 2011, 06:26:30 PM »
Leo throws in the town of Iowa Hill what still has never had power er phone service an folks still live there.  I think they is all hidin.
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #247 on: April 26, 2011, 11:53:37 AM »
Modoc chips in with the town of Vaya in the Black Rock desert of Nevada.
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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #248 on: April 26, 2011, 03:10:22 PM »
Juggs, get Wildman a beer over here an let him steel 'is nerves.  We jus' got started.
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #249 on: April 26, 2011, 03:11:04 PM »
Delmonico tosses in Monowi Newbrassky, a town recently featured on Only in America on the History Channel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monowi,_Nebraska
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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #250 on: April 26, 2011, 03:33:02 PM »
Yer welcome WM.  Don't think you met Juggs yet.  She stays low since we started shootin at a low down hombre awhile back.

Leo throws in Kentucky Flat, CA.  A town where even if ya lost a finger ya could still count all the folks on yer hands.  It comes with a genuine rundown pony express station.  They got a differnt kind a grass police up there. 
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #251 on: April 26, 2011, 03:41:11 PM »
Delonico tosses several towns along the Burlington RR, heading east to west, Crete, Dorchester, Exeter Friend, Geneva, Harvard and so on. (Some have went away)  Notice anything funny?
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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #252 on: April 26, 2011, 03:56:32 PM »
Del ya not talkin alphabet soup is ya? WM

Yep, we call them the alphabet soup towns, the RR built stations along the route and named them in order.  ;D  There are a couple lines that were like that.

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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #253 on: April 26, 2011, 05:15:52 PM »
Delmonico looks at his cards, finds two 3 of clubs in his hand, he folds and tells everyone to go to Michigan: ::) ;D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan
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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #254 on: April 27, 2011, 07:37:42 AM »
Delmonico looks at his cards, finds two 3 of clubs in his hand, he folds and tells everyone to go to Michigan: ::) ;D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan

Why does everybody want me ta go ta Michigan?  I can't count all them that recommended it ta me over the years.
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"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #255 on: April 27, 2011, 04:53:03 PM »
Member, Davey Crockett said you can go to Michigan I'm goin' to Texas. ;D
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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #256 on: April 28, 2011, 05:34:36 AM »
Woke up this morning & thought I was in Michigan, but it was only Omaha :-\ Thought about ya Del when we blew through Lincoln about 10:00 last night.

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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #257 on: April 28, 2011, 09:37:17 AM »
Woke up this morning & thought I was in Michigan, but it was only Omaha :-\ Thought about ya Del when we blew through Lincoln about 10:00 last night.

Ah yes, Omaha, better you than me, what's up in Omerha?
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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #258 on: April 28, 2011, 10:27:27 AM »
Ah yes, Omaha, better you than me, what's up in Omerha?

Technology conference for teachers - a whole team of us came down, have to do a presentation here next year.

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Re: The "Card Game"
« Reply #259 on: April 28, 2011, 11:20:11 AM »
Technology conference for teachers - a whole team of us came down, have to do a presentation here next year.

Cool, you might mention it to them that The Fort is having their tent sale if you want, who knows, they might want to stop and buy stuff they never knew they needed. ;D
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