Now for sale: Blackjack Ace Prediction

[The Mayor]

We now have David McDowell's destined to be a classic book, "Blackjack Ace Prediction," for sale in our online store.

I love the quote on the back cover: "... the final chapter in advantageous blackjack play -- as the cat has finally been let out of the bag." (Michael Dalton).

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By the way, how many of us have ever let an actual cat out of an actual bag? That may be the subject for next month's poll.

--Mayor

 

[The Mayor]

Cats and Bags

I found this using Google...

Let the Cat Out of the Bag
This phrase meaning to disclose a secret is from an old scam of selling someone a suckling pig at market and then surreptitiously substituting a cat for the pig. If one lets the cat out of the bag, then the secret is revealed and the fraud discovered. The scam dates to at least 1530, but the phrase doesn't make its appearance until 1760. See also: Pig in a Poke. The phrase is most assuredly not a reference to the bag that held a cat 'o nine tails onboard ship. The phrase is not nautical in origin as some maintain.

 

[learning to count]

I think the weather is a fraud....

Another near miss Eliot but I am still breathing out here on this god for saken little island!!!! Three months left of H season then we can breath! SO you like tis book? I may have to buy one and look at the pictures!