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Title: Picking Brains Post by: snoopy1239 on November 20, 2007, 06:11:29 PM Does anyone know what the card that dealers use to protect bottom of pack is called?
Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: 77dave on November 20, 2007, 06:13:06 PM The cutting card is called a postillian (sp)
strangly enough we were talking about that last night Tikay is even going to mention it next week on pokerweek and where the word comes from Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: boldie on November 20, 2007, 07:58:58 PM The cutting card is called a postillian (sp) strangly enough we were talking about that last night Tikay is even going to mention it next week on pokerweek and where the word comes from Does he pull the story about where it comes from out of his postillian? Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: TightEnd on November 20, 2007, 10:46:04 PM Postillion
Name the famous autobiography that uses this word....... Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: The_nun on November 20, 2007, 10:47:42 PM Dirk bogarrt
Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: TightEnd on November 20, 2007, 10:48:13 PM Dirk bogarrt Yup, go to the top of the tighty class Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: The_nun on November 20, 2007, 10:48:59 PM Thin k i misspelt..do i still receve a star
Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: TightEnd on November 20, 2007, 10:50:39 PM Thin k i misspelt..do i still receve a star Bogarde, real name Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde but yes ;topman; Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: The_nun on November 20, 2007, 10:52:29 PM aka des
Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: danafish on November 20, 2007, 11:18:42 PM Postillion I think it's spelled - something to do with the dude who rides behind the guy who's steering the horse, in the 17th century, or something...
By the way I beat your arcade high score. :) Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: The_nun on November 20, 2007, 11:20:05 PM French?
Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: dik9 on November 21, 2007, 04:22:44 PM Most of the gambling phrases in casinos derive from the French and horses for some reason?
Quiz ...... Anyone know what the true meaning of croupier is ? Heres a clue ;izimbra; Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: RED-DOG on November 21, 2007, 04:59:19 PM It's the top of a horse's hindquarters, and also the piece of driving harness that sits beneath the tail.
Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: dik9 on November 21, 2007, 05:02:02 PM AKA Horses Arse, well Croupe is anyway lol
Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: Karabiner on November 21, 2007, 05:57:56 PM I always thought that the postillion was the guy who rode one of the horses in the team that pulled the mail coach.
Post/postillion What that has to do with a piece of plastic placed at the bottom of a deck of cards has thus far eluded me. Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: Rod Paradise on November 22, 2007, 09:52:44 AM I always thought that the postillion was the guy who rode one of the horses in the team that pulled the mail coach. Post/postillion What that has to do with a piece of plastic placed at the bottom of a deck of cards has thus far eluded me. He rode on the rearmost horse though - the postillion card is the one at the back of the deck? Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: phatomch on November 22, 2007, 09:34:21 PM The question you should be asking is why do dealers still use postillions..
Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: Karabiner on November 22, 2007, 11:25:48 PM The question you should be asking is why do dealers still use postillions.. Personally speaking, I prefer it when they do, dealing American style. Title: Re: Picking Brains Post by: dealerFROMhell on November 23, 2007, 08:17:51 AM "Pitching is for Ponces"
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