Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Issue: 93   Editor: MikaArdai


Bloody Dice! DezialBrown
So I'm sitting here at the type-writer staring at the crisp white sheet and wondering where I'll take this week's article entitled - Bloody dice.

Since that first glorious moment (second only to the time Katy Lou made a man of me down in the old lime quarry) when the devil's own water spun me into a giddy daze of drunken mischief, the excitement of laying down cash for a gamble has been with me.

Oh I'd tossed pennies and scooped jacks but this was the real deal where men's fate rested on the outcome of some dog-eared cards or a pair of ivory cubes still sweaty from the man before.

Gambling and booze are merry bed-mates and when you get a'drinking; those gambles don't seem quite so big. A pat on the back is all a man needs to put his house on black.

But Roulette is a big fish game. You don't spin the wheel unless you've got the candy. But Blackjack is a game of skill and that's my game. I like those dirty little thrills I get and its not the broad's fingers in my lap neither. Oh she knows where her next fur is coming from but nothing can beat the sweetness of a win.

Moral of my story, readers?

Set aside a little cash to play with and stow those magpie savings under the mattress for a rainy day. Don't go becoming that guy floating down river because he got too deep.

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