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Post by Tex on May 6, 2012 7:59:16 GMT -6
OK it doesn't have the James Bond appeal of baccarat, but if you make it by Ginny's Little Longhorn Saloon in Austin on Sunday afternoon and shell out $2, you get a number on a large board laid out over a pool table. They throw a live chicken on the board and the first number the chicken shits on wins $100. This will catch on at Monte Carlo in no time.
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Post by Merlot Joe on May 6, 2012 9:50:51 GMT -6
That sounds like a fair game.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on May 6, 2012 10:36:07 GMT -6
They should really call the game "craps".
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Post by Tex on May 6, 2012 11:18:58 GMT -6
The chicken must be the crapier in that case.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on May 6, 2012 11:29:02 GMT -6
I'm really looking forward to the TV version of this game.
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Post by Tex on May 6, 2012 18:21:58 GMT -6
The sport of kings
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on May 6, 2012 18:32:52 GMT -6
They have a version of this game in India, except they use elephants.
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Post by Tex on May 6, 2012 18:43:34 GMT -6
Maybe they thought about that at Ginny's but thought it might be rough on the pool table. I may ease by there for a beer one Sunday afternoon and try to get a picture.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on May 6, 2012 19:10:13 GMT -6
If they can train the chickens to shoot out ping-pong balls, that would really be something.
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Post by Tex on May 6, 2012 19:58:14 GMT -6
When I was 10 or 11, there was a trained chicken in San Marcos (30 miles S of Austin) that would play basketball with a ping pong ball for a dime. When he got the basket, a piece of corn fell into a tray for him.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on May 6, 2012 20:28:47 GMT -6
Kinda sounds like *my* job.
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Post by Tex on May 6, 2012 20:35:58 GMT -6
Sounds like all of our jobs some days. Some days you are the chicken - some days the bingo card.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on May 6, 2012 20:43:48 GMT -6
Most days, I'm what's in between the chicken and the bingo card.
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Post by irisheyes on May 16, 2012 21:49:45 GMT -6
Tex, I've been there. They have a chicken in a like 3' x 4' chicken wire cage on the pool table, with a hundred people yelling. I believe chickens to be barely sentient, but it seemed so wrong. I was more amused hanging in the parking lot watching cars crash into each other and the cement poles there to prevent crashing into the buildings. Parking lot totally Level 9+ in difficulty.
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Post by Tex on May 16, 2012 22:02:10 GMT -6
I have an old Ford truck I can take. At least here is a sport where I think I understand all of the rules.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on May 16, 2012 22:18:54 GMT -6
I'm holding out for chicken shit checkers. King me.
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Post by irisheyes on May 16, 2012 22:27:46 GMT -6
Longhorn bingo!! Last year for the Texas/Oklahoma game, my BFF gay-friend Chad and I flew to Iowa for the Texas/Oklahoma game. His parents used to raise longhorns in Iowa, but now only have two as pets. We loaded one on to the trailer to go to his brother's bar for the game. BTW, loading a longhorn onto a trailer is NOT for the feint of heart! At the bar's lawn next to the parking lot, we set out in chalk the graph and let him go. Too bad he had been fed too many apples to coax him into the trailer, and diarriahed all the way to the bar, he had nothing left! Eventually, he pooped. But what a wonderful weekend. Working the farm with Mom, helping preparing for the winter (Dad had fractured his heal falling off the scaffold painting the barn, so we went to help).
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on May 16, 2012 22:32:08 GMT -6
Too bad he had been fed too many apples to coax him into the trailer, and diarriahed all the way to the bar, he had nothing left! Eventually, he pooped. But what a wonderful weekend. Glad to hear Chad recovered after his "accident".
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Post by Tex on May 17, 2012 6:40:44 GMT -6
I nearly had a wreck on I20 years ago while following a cattle trailer. I had just washed and waxed my 61 Galaxie Convertible. A cow started blowing liquid shit out if the trailer. I locked up the brakes and went into a sideways skid. Was able to recover from the skid but don't follow cattle trailers closely anymore.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on May 17, 2012 14:35:58 GMT -6
And just who had the best skid marks after that, the cow, the car or you?
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