L.M. this is exceptionally great. My favourite gif-set so far.
Thanks, sal, with all the footage I go through, the stuff that translates in an interesting way is still a surprise to me.
agree. i love this.
is it bridge, because yesterday, i not only passed the best funeral home sign in toronto, a v. weird theater with red flocked wall paper, but also apparently the school of a famous canadian bridge player.
so i hope its bridge
What, ya think my relations are a bunch of fucking intellectuals? They're playing three-spot (Kaiser). Been playing that game as long as I can remember. Years ago, when one of my uncles was on his death bed, the rest of my uncles and aunts set up card tables in his hospital room.
I too love this one.
Robert Kroetsch's novel What the Crow Said has a months-long game of schmier, also a prairie card game. Has the nice same feel to it as these pictures.
I never heard of Shmier, looked it up and this site says its played mostly in Ontario, Minnesota and Wisconsin. (large Mennonite population out west might play it)
When I was really young I remember being at my dad's parents' home in Hyas, Saskatchewan. The house was full of patchwork quilts and doilies, wood stove heating, a pump room for water and an outhouse. I'm not sure what that side of the family played, but I remember some old man there who always made a great show of not playing cards as he "didn't believe in them."
Yeah, I went to that site, too. And took issue with it, because it didn't credit the Canadian prairies with playing it.
i thot people on the praries played hand and foot, at least my relations do
Never heard of it, the only other game my mom's family played was Rumoli, a poker board game.
(Mom & Grandma never let me win)
(They didn't let each other win either)
(The women in that family eat their young)
we played rumoli as well, i never won.
http://www.pagat.com/rummy/handfoot.html
I love rumoli. Particularly the odd texture of the play sheet. Kind of paper, kind of not.
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- L.M. 1-11-2008 6:29 am
L.M. this is exceptionally great. My favourite gif-set so far.
- sally mckay 1-11-2008 2:16 pm
Thanks, sal, with all the footage I go through, the stuff that translates in an interesting way is still a surprise to me.
- L.M. 1-11-2008 7:27 pm
agree. i love this.
- nanmac (guest) 1-11-2008 11:18 pm
is it bridge, because yesterday, i not only passed the best funeral home sign in toronto, a v. weird theater with red flocked wall paper, but also apparently the school of a famous canadian bridge player.
so i hope its bridge
- anthony (guest) 1-12-2008 8:49 am
What, ya think my relations are a bunch of fucking intellectuals? They're playing three-spot (Kaiser). Been playing that game as long as I can remember. Years ago, when one of my uncles was on his death bed, the rest of my uncles and aunts set up card tables in his hospital room.
- L.M. 1-12-2008 9:28 am
I too love this one.
Robert Kroetsch's novel What the Crow Said has a months-long game of schmier, also a prairie card game. Has the nice same feel to it as these pictures.
- M.Jean 1-12-2008 7:44 pm
I never heard of Shmier, looked it up and this site says its played mostly in Ontario, Minnesota and Wisconsin. (large Mennonite population out west might play it)
When I was really young I remember being at my dad's parents' home in Hyas, Saskatchewan. The house was full of patchwork quilts and doilies, wood stove heating, a pump room for water and an outhouse. I'm not sure what that side of the family played, but I remember some old man there who always made a great show of not playing cards as he "didn't believe in them."
- L.M. 1-12-2008 8:24 pm
Yeah, I went to that site, too. And took issue with it, because it didn't credit the Canadian prairies with playing it.
- M.Jean 1-12-2008 8:54 pm
i thot people on the praries played hand and foot, at least my relations do
- anthony (guest) 1-15-2008 8:54 am
Never heard of it, the only other game my mom's family played was Rumoli, a poker board game.
(Mom & Grandma never let me win)
(They didn't let each other win either)
(The women in that family eat their young)
- L.M. 1-15-2008 10:15 am
we played rumoli as well, i never won.
http://www.pagat.com/rummy/handfoot.html
- anthony (guest) 1-15-2008 5:25 pm
I love rumoli. Particularly the odd texture of the play sheet. Kind of paper, kind of not.
- M.Jean 1-15-2008 6:35 pm