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GypsyPirate Regular user 110 Posts |
It was clever though... Maybe they just figured hearts should be red... you know, cause they are, afterall...
Magic Mark
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Metalepsis Loyal user 232 Posts |
This thread should make a comeback...this is fantastic.
How about cardsorting algorithms? This is useful for returning a deck to factory order. I know this is coputer science exposure, but well, uhm...I study AI and they are wimps http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/harrison/Java/sorting-demo.html M |
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KARDMECHANIC Regular user Perris, California 105 Posts |
George Washington was a devoted card player.
When Thomas Jefferson was chosen by the Continental Congress to compose the Declaration of Independence, he turned to card playing in the evening to relax from the hard work of his historic task. Benjamin Franklin made and sold cards. Also, he used small pieces of cut-up cards as insulation on a machine he made for his experiments in electricity. President Eisenhower probably was the best bridge player to occupy the White House. The men who sailed with Columbus played cards. A Community Card Party in Bathgate, Scotland, on February 16, 1959 made headlines in newspapers around the world when Mrs. Andrew McLean was dealing cards for herself and three of her friends. When she picked up her hand she was astonished to see she had dealt herself all 13 hearts. Her three friends were even more stunned to discover that one of them had all the clubs, another all the diamonds, and the third held the entire suit of spades. She had dealt the hands from a new pack on the first deal of the game, but the women all agreed afterwards that the cards had been properly shuffled and cut. Players at the other tables confirmed the hands. The chances at dealing such hands are very remote. Mathematical odds against each of four bridge players receiving a complete suit have been figured at 2,235,197,406,895,366,368,301,559,999 to one. There are fifty-two cards and fifty-two weeks in the year, four suits and four seasons, 13 cards in each suit and 13 weeks in each season, 12 court cards and 12 months in the year, red cards to represent day and black cards night. The names of all the cards can be spelled with exactly 52 letters not only in English, but in Dutch and Swedish as well.
What do you mean it came from the bottom of the deck?
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Andini Special user Columbus, OH 685 Posts |
Catmouth, you took what I was gonna post! Oh well, Ricky Jay's Bible analogy is a little iffy when you get to the court cards. Also, there's so many numbers in the Bible, it's easy to fit it into a 1-10 system.
On the topic of Vietcong Aces of Spades, I bought one of said aces from an army supply store. A friend of mine saw the ace earlier and told me I should check it out. I went in, bought it, and the guy told me a bit about the history (nothing more than what's been said...just that they were laid on the bodies of the dead). It's rather neat looking, actually. There is a skull and crossbones in the spade and the back contains some foreign words. I'll post a scan in a bit. Also, that 666 discovery is really weird! |
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TheCaffeinator Regular user Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada 126 Posts |
Ah, c'mon...all these responses and no one mentions the story of the guy who killed himself in prison with a pipe bomb made from a hollow bedpost stuffed with the pips torn out of a deck of playing cards (hearts and diamonds, specifically).
This has nothing to do with the "Suicide Kings," BTW. ;) |
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r1238ex Regular user 102 Posts |
Very interesting reading, ... any new discovery?
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MagicJuggler Inner circle Anchorage, AK 1161 Posts |
You can tell whether the cards are face up or face down by feel alone by feeling the edge of the card. The cards need to be brand new. Because of the way they're cut the edge is more rounded on the face down side, and slightly sharper on the face up side. If you have sensitive fingers you can tell the difference just by brushing your finger against the edge.
Matthew Olsen
I heard from a friend that anecdotal evidence is actually quite reliable. |
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panlives Inner circle 2087 Posts |
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On 2004-03-30 10:06, AltaCartomagia wrote: Yes, indeed. This was a Cosmic Watergate until the night I snapped this photo… …I have since been hounded by Men in Black, phone calls in the dead of night, black helicopters that follow me to and from work, electrical anomalies in my kitchen and the nagging fear that I have been abducted and probed in certain nether-regions of my body that should forever remain unnamed. Click here to view attached image.
"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes. |
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Andy Gemini Regular user England 119 Posts |
That's a great pic! Have you been working on that for 7 years though?!!! LOL
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panlives Inner circle 2087 Posts |
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On 2011-12-05 12:36, Andy Gemini wrote: Thank you! It took me that long to work up the courage to release this evidence that we are not alone…hey, I am the one who is now taking all the Alien heat. THEY do NOT want US to know about the real purpose of the Playing Cards that have infiltrated Human culture….
"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes. |
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Vlad_77 Inner circle The Netherlands 5829 Posts |
The Four of Spades is known as The Devil's Bedpost.
I will have to dig it up in Apocalypse but Harry Lorayne was told that the court cards actually DO have names for historical personages. Somebody posted seven (!) years ago here quite a bit about US Special Forces and their use of The Ace of Spades. The Mafia has the US Special Forces beat however. During what was known as The Castellamarese War which saw the Black Hand's overthrow by the Mafia, the Ace of Spades was placed in the hand of those who were whacked. I used to work as the Map Specialist at Penn State University before going into magic and music. We had a map that when folded properly looked like a pack of cards! This map was used for US Army Intelligence in the Second World War. The map was folded in such a way that unless one knew HOW to unfold the map properly, it would pass muster as an innocent pack of cards. Unfolded incorrectly and the map would be useless because the folds were designed to destroy the very evidence the map detailed. We found the map while doing "weeding" of the collection - one of the largest in the United States and THE repository for captured Nazi maps - and immediately had it professionally archived and placed in a secure area under lock and key. Ahimsa, Vlad |
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Leo Reynolds Jr Special user 864 Posts |
Vlad Bicycle explains a thing on the ace of Spades during WW2 on theie web site http://www.bicyclecards.com/about/bicycle-cards
Best Leo Jr |
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pepka Inner circle Uh, I'm the one on the right. 5041 Posts |
We all know that there have been MANY Bicycle back designs made by USPCC over the years. The one we are most familiar with is the 808 Rider back. The newer "Mandolin" cards that many magicians use are also called Bicycles, but there is not a single Bicycle anywhere on the back.
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Merc Man Inner circle NUNEATON, Warwickshire 2537 Posts |
Tally-Ho (Circle) & Fox Lake are both one-way backs - although given the dire quality these days of cards from the USPCC, the majority of packs are given their misaligned margins!
Barry Allen
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Opine Traveler Veteran user 342 Posts |
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On 2011-12-05 15:48, Vlad_77 wrote: The four of clubs, actually. And the Jack of Clubs is sometimes called "the Pam." |
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motown Inner circle Atlanta by way of Detroit 6127 Posts |
Quote: Regarding the Devil's Bed Post, I came across this:
On Dec 6, 2011, Opine Traveler wrote: In fact, Captain Frederick Chamier (1796 – 1870), in his novel “The Saucy Arethusa” credits sailors for naming the Four of Spades the Devil’s bedpost. Captain Chamier, author of “Ben Brace: The Last of Nelson’s Agamemnons” and “The Life Of A Sailor” published “The Saucy Arethusa” in 1836 which was turned into a play one year later as “Arethusa: A Naval Story.”
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