OT: RIAA and Their Law Suits

[Loser]

"Tilt" means you're no longer rational about the game, no longer in control of yourself. People get this way when they lose enough money that they get scared, then they do stupid things to get it back.

People also do this when they let other things in their life interfere with the game. One Saturday night, I got a call from a young lady I was seeing that really set me off. I went back to the table and continued to play, still ticked. I was throwing money around until I noticed my stack (the amount I had on the table) was getting low and tried to figure out how that happened. Needless to say, I figured it out. Calmed down after a smoke and a shot. (Yep, that'd be what you call 'self medicating'. Don't do that kids, you are not qualified to treat your own problems. )

I was using the way I speak when I said 'trip kings'. It just means Three of a Kind, Kings. That'd be a nice strong hand in a five- or seven-card game played 'straight up', but not one with wilds.

I was once dealt a Straight Flush to the King natural. Unfortunately it was in a quirky seven card draw game we call Anaconda, Pass the Trash, or That F**king Game. In this game you start out with seven cards and pass, to your left, three, then two, then one, with rounds of betting at all the predictable intervals. This means you do not get to keep five cards out of the seven you are dealt... That's the closest I've been to a natural Royal.

I've never played agaisnt family, as my parents ans sister are fairly puritan. I have played agaisnt my friend's family, however. Some nights it's just me and a table full of Junglings.

[Atrocities]

""Tilt" means you're no longer rational about the game, no longer in control of yourself. People get this way when they lose enough money that they get scared, then they do stupid things to get it back. "

Tilt often happens after you have had a few drinks. This is why Casino's server gamblers free drinks.

If your going to gamble, follow rule 8, Don't drink.

[dogscoff]

I once zipped a four-penny side overdraw on a cold cracker day. There were six of us, and my friends just couldn't believe it. Then, immediately afterwards, I got a seven-bleat hogwild and reamed the old greenknuckle in teeth! Of course, next thing you know the legs open and suddenly all the lads are polerushing to get themselves deep fur-buried.

Ahhh, those were the days. Laugh? I nearly uncreamed my spangwettle!

[Loser]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
If your going to gamble, follow rule 8, Don't drink.

Actually, I've found I play better with a shallow shot of hard liquor and a careful amount of some stimulant, coffee since I've stopped smoking, again. (Ack! More 'self medicating'! Don't try this at home kids. Chemicals are not the solution. )

But only a little too much and I'm

[Atrocities]

Feed the kitty or leave the city.

Seven down, slip the nought, suicide king kills, ***** gives it up on dime down, role a duce and call it momma, match the pot come low hog or one eyed jacks. Cowboys are king.

[ September 18, 2003, 16:54: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Loser]

Strangeness

[Baron Munchausen]

No, not 'strangeness' at all. It's standard business practice these days to sue over anything and everything you can find grounds to file over. And in this case there's a particularly large bonus if they win. Due to a quirk in copyright law you can have the copyright cancelled on works that have been 'abused' in a certain way. If Sharman/Kazaa wins, which is unlikely but still slightly possible -- and will take many years of appeals of course, it could result in just about the whole catalog defended by RIAA being dumped into the public domain. That would give them a great big pool of free stuff to grease their network and attract more people to see the ads that are their actual source of revenue.

[ September 24, 2003, 18:49: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]