The Folklore of Magic #16: “Poker” Slang and Geordie Tait
I recall the little debate that shook the forums here on StarCityGames after Evan Erwin wrote his Battle Royale Round 6: Live Nude Girls article. Geordie Tait, manly man that he is, leapt onto Erwin like Evan was a May bishop… All for the offence of misusing poker terminology in a Magic article. But despite that Evan was wrong, I still have a slight problem with Tait’s argument. It’s not that he’s made factual errors; it’s that he’s made theoretical ones.
I was in a university seminar the other day, and my professor, who is, I suppose, about fifty years old, used an expression I’d never expected to...…
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