Archive for September, 2007

I can see why they added IV to the name. It is an easy poker fix along with providing life support. They don’t show the hole cards but they often mentioned what they were. The commentary by Terrence “Don’t call me Johnny” Chan was right on. The play is team poker and there lies the rub. (more…)

No, not sports with the poor schmuck tumbling off the ski jump; we’re talking poker. We argue whether poker is or isn’t a sport. What we neglect are adjectives. You might consider collegial, familial, fraternal, or whatever other ‘ial’ you come up with. We are missing the secret handshake but we have the secret language down pat. (more…)

PBS ran the BBC’s political satire show of that name back in the 60’s. With David Frost and a number of other good writers/performers, it was a current preamble to shows such as Monte Python. I’ve always enjoy Brit ‘humour’ as it parallels my humor attempts and seems to get them in as much trouble as it has gotten me. (more…)