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Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6772
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 01:52 pm: | 
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Apparently we need to hire a new Cynique--the old one can't cut the mustard no more.
What are the qualifications we should submit to potential applicants?
I submit this to the group for discussion |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12243
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 02:08 pm: |
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I take it you haven't been checking out my responses to your BS contentions since you probably don't have sense enough to click on to "last week" instead of "last day" at the bottom of the page.
But be advised that playing cards on line is far more stimulating than yawning through your drivel. Scuse me while I go "shoot the moon."
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12244
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 02:21 pm: |
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And I hope it offended you greatly that I raved over a YouTube video featuring Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. And just in case you missed it, your rambling irrelevant response to my saying that there was not a historical precedent to this controversial presidental contest between a black man and a white woman, what I said could be summed up by saying that you came across as a pathetic guppie trying to launch red herrings. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6774
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 02:32 pm: |
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Scuse me while I go "shoot the moon."
(Now not only are we going to have to hire a New Cynique, we are going to have to pony up bail money for the old one!!! |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12247
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 02:41 pm: |
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Who is the "we" that is going to "hire" a new Cynique, chrishayden? Are you somehow under the impression that you head up the department of human resources on this site? Guess no one has broken the news to you that you are just an entry level office boy who loiters around the water cooler spouting a bunch of inanities befitting your status as a big drip. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6775
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 03:56 pm: |
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From the Urban Dictionary:
Definition--
shoot a moon
6. shoot the moon 11 up, 44 down
when a prostitue agrees to lick your ass out
Monkey Boy shot my moon last night like you wouldn't believe!
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Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12248
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 05:53 pm: |
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I can't believe that an old nigga like you who pretends to be so street wise doesn't know in card lingo that in the in the popular game of Hearts a/k/a "Dirty" Hearts, shootin for the moon means you take all of the hearts plus the queen of spades, a feat which results in your opponents each getting 26 points and you getting none, which is the object of a game where less is better. Why didn't you just google the game of hearts, dumb-dumb?? |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1259
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 06:32 pm: |
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Does the "shoot the moon" still apply when it is a wife or girl friend? Or is it called "tossing salad" in that case. Humm maybe tossing salad applied in the jail house context...
"Running a train" is has a similar double meaning. In the contract games of Whist or Spaded I've been a conductor of the train many times. Call me a prude, but the other type of train gives me the willies.
At 12,248 posts I can't image another Cynique however applicants should have:
- Life Experience (youngins need not apply)
- Literate
- Opinionated
- Thick Skinned
- Did I say Thick Skinned?
- Above Average Intelligence
- Touch typist
- Agressive
- The Luxury of spare time
- Witty
- Articulate
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Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1260
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 06:34 pm: |
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pardon the typos... I'm too lazy right now to delete and repost -- but you get what I mean... |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12252
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 07:02 pm: |
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I was wondering if this expression was peculiar to black folks but the various sites where Hearts is played use this phrase while making a big thing out of a player accomplishing this coup d'tat, offering congratulations and fireworks. One site is even designed like the night sky with a big ol moon looking down, smiling.
Round these parts we call taking all of the books in Spades and Bid-Whist, "Running a Boston". Why I don't know.
NASA also has its version of shooting for the moon.  |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12253
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 08:11 pm: |
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BTW, Troy, I love that list of traits you compiled for my "replacement". If she can touch-type, maybe Hillary Clinton could fill the Bill. (no pun intended.} Looks like Hildawg might have a little leisure time on her hand, too. |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1261
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 11:12 pm: |
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I forgot the person must be;
- tech savvy
- patient
Yeah we call it "running a Boston" too Sometime I just say "Running a train to Boston"
I don;t know why they call it "running a Boston" either but they is probably a perverse sexual meaing behind that too.
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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2875
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 10:39 am: |
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LOL--you all are taking me back! You know, I was an adult before I knew the correct name of the game was not "Bid Wisk." OK, here's one: Anyone ever play the card game Spoons? |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12259
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 12:36 pm: |
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Yes, I've participated in some very hectic Spoon games. In fact at the end of a session, me and the other players would compare "spoon wounds". |
Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 182
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 01:25 pm: |
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Yvette, I thought it was Bid Wiss for years!
I say, "shoot the moon" and "running a Boston."
When you, Ms. Cynique, and I are all in the same city, I predict mad card games. Maybe we can terrorize NYC and Troy can be our fourth! |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12261
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 02:01 pm: |
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I'm sure there are lurkers and other regulars who are reading these posts and thinking, "DUH". Nothing is more boring to those who don't play cards than those who do play cards.
But to me, card players are a special breed. And I think you can tell a lot about someone by the way they play cards. Especially guys.
Whist is an old game that dates back to the royal courts of Europe. Bridge, bid-whist and spades are all variations of this game. |
Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 183
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 02:35 pm: |
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But to me, card players are a special breed. And I think you can tell a lot about someone by the way they play cards. Especially guys.
Indeed. My boyfriend and I have learned which couples we can play couple vs. couple (i.e., their marriage/relationship is strong enough to withstand the heat when one partner's flub collides with another partner's relentless competitive streak)--and when we're better off playing boys vs. girls.
We were playing spades recently with a friend who had never played before (a black man from the South who never played spades--a rarity!). My bf, who is an excellent spades player and uber-competitive, gladly took him under his wing and had him playing like a pro in no time. Until the game-winning round. He flubbed like a true amateur. My bf didn't let on that he was livid. But I noticed he got up immediately and went to the bathroom. He had to go in there and calm down! |
Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 184
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 02:37 pm: |
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Oh, I can't help but make an observation about the genesis of this thread and its subsequent evolution. In the words of any old-school black preacher on any given Sunday: "What the devil meant for evil, Gawd used for good!"
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12263
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 03:08 pm: |
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Does your quote refer to me, or to cards, FK??
It's especially interesting to play Spades on line with faceless anonymous people who you only know by the name they've given themself. But the names chosen can supply a clue. And I can always kinda get an inking as to whether or not my partner is black. There is a space where you can chat along while playing, and the white folks are making little silly remarks or rooting each other on. But us niggas play real fast and get down to business. And if we start losin, we exit before the game is over. F**k dis s**t!
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Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 185
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 03:16 pm: |
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LOL, the quote refers to Chris Hayden's devilish self!
And you sound like a black comedian, Cynique, lol. I am reminded of being taught spades as a college students by some die-hard black players, all a generation or so older than me. They meant business. For the rest of my life whenever I sit down to play, I'll hear, "PLAY TA WIN, DEE! PLAY TA WIN!" They CLOWNED me when I messed up, so I learned really quickly not to mess up! |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2878
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 03:18 pm: |
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Cynique: Yay! ANother Spoons player! In my extended paternal family folks would take to locating and hoarding their own personal "Spoons decks" of cards like pool sharks and their personal sticks.
Spoons used to be how we'd vet prospective girlfriends/boyfriends/spouses and friends of our family members. I recall (at one point in the 70s) one new spouse and her successful initiation into the family via Spoons. After being left out of the lurch repeatedly, she played a particularly aggressive round where she pounced so forcefully across the table for a spoon that her tube top rolled down and her Girls came out! That didn't stop her from triumphantly getting her spoon! LOLOLOL! |
Yvettep
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Post Number: 2879
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 03:25 pm: |
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When you, Ms. Cynique, and I are all in the same city, I predict mad card games.
Well, FK, I am not sure any of you serious folk would want me for a partner. My family was so super competitive that they caused me trauma. You know how most adults "go easy" on kids until they become proficient and confident enough to comptete? Not my clan! I recall once one of the kids in the family in tears at the end of the game after losing. SOmeone pointed out, hey, maybe we were a little hard. THe kid's own mother just shook her head, as she raked up the books from the table and began shuffling, and said, "No, uh-uh. Should have been paying attention to the trump cards."
Once every few years I rack up the courage to play card and other games intently and aggressively. Then I go back to being a sideline instigator! |
Ferociouskitty
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Post Number: 186
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 03:38 pm: |
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Tube tops and spades...all we need now is some Candies shoes, Daisy Duke cut offs, and a Nehi orange soda! |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12264
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 03:42 pm: |
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I know you ain't talkin to me! Well, - maybe I could swing the NeHi orange "pop" as we call it in this parts. |
Crystal
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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 404
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 06:34 pm: |
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For a while now I've been thinking about starting a bid whist book club. Give us something to talk about besides trash during the game. Of couse this probably wouldn't go down too well with the diehard card sharks who like to concentrate on the game. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6777
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 12:47 pm: |
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Should the new Cynique ALSO have had to had a torrid affair with Billy Eckstine in the 1940's? |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12265
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 02:33 pm: |
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When I belonged to this bridge club, gossip was always a priority with the players, Crystal. We somehow managed to both dish the dirt and make grand slams! |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1264
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 06:42 pm: |
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"...her tube top rolled down and her Girls came out!" Oh My! I wished I witnessed that -- LOL.
I love playing cards and dominoes too. On of my favorite ways of spending an afternoon is play cards (outside ideally) and drinking beer. Doing this for 12 hours is not a problem.
I grew up playing spades but I preffer Bid Whist.
I rarely get an opportunity to play any more. Folks are just busy (too busy if you ask me).
The Jackie Robinson foundation used to host an outdoor concert; I never say a show cause we spent literally the entire time at a card table playing "Bid" all day long. We would play with folks all over the north east and see a lot of the same faces every year -- we had so much fun. The Jackie Robinson Foundation unfortunately ended the concert a few year back.
My Philly peeps to pay Pinoccole (sp?). You have to by a special deck of cards to play this game. We did not play that coming up. Everytime I play with those folks I have to relearn the game. But they still have no mercy (may kinda people). I learned to play spoons in Philly too.
In college we would literally play from sun down to sun up.
My mother used to always say "Troy hates to lose" or "Troy you are just too competitive".
They would play games for "fun"; I would play to win.
I don't have fun unless I'm trying to win and I hate playing with people who are not doing the same.
Probably why I enjoy Poker now. I have a game coming up Saturday.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12276
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 04:02 pm: |
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There are places on line where you can go and play bid whist, too. But you have to pay for a subscription. I guess players are provided with a board to click on to numbers and suit preference and "uptown" or "downtown" or "no-trump" options.
Some of my fondest memories of the past have been centered in card playing settings. Good times! |
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