I love it when you get to explain new things to someone and it sounds like you’re just making things up.
Hey, want to know what this thingie is called? It’s a shuttleCOCK!
Or when teaching how to play Cribbage:
“I have 15-2, 15-4, 15-6 and a pair for 8 points. Oh, and because my Jack is the same suit as the cut card I get an extra point!”
“Ok, I thought you were making up rules before but now I’m sure of it.”
“No, it’s a real rule. It’s called ‘nobs.’”
“Uh-huh.”
“Now if you’d cut a jack, it’d be ‘his heels.’”
“Riiiggght.”
Hehehe… shuttle
I spit Earl Gray (hot) all over my keyboard, thanks a lot.
You are welcome.
While we’re at it: Poop deck. The bridge kinda qualifies as a poop deck.
Phrase I just heard on Blandings: “Bats the shuttlecock from the feathered end”…
PG Wodehouse was a brilliant satirist!
