Re: Another "Pole Shift"

From: Bookman (thebookman_at_kc.rr.comNULL)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 09:38:54 GMT

"Peter J Ross" <gadfly@NOSPAMmeow.org> wrote in message
news:cf398j.3vvc6ll.1@nntp.petitmorte.net...
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:16:38 GMT, Bookman wrote:
>
> > "Peter J Ross" <gadfly@NOSPAMmeow.org> wrote in message
> > news:ce6kag.3vvh3bj.1@nntp.petitmorte.net...
>
> <...>
>
> >> However, we could meanwhile proceed with the major arcana (as you call
> >> them) or trumps (as I call them), since there probably aren't many
> >> kookologists who would refuse an addition to their .sig that showed
> >> they were held in high esteem by their peers.
> >
> > Trumps/major arcana, either way works well enough for me.
> > I have a taste for fancy verbiage, is all.
>
> I find it satisfying to point out to kooks who believe in the Mystical
> Powers of Tarot [TANMPOT] that the Tarot deck was invented to play
> card games with, a couple of centuries before it was used for
> fortune-telling. That's why I always use the terminology appropriate
> for the deck's original use.

News to me about the gaming side of it, which in no way makes me
respect the Mystical Powers of Tarot [TANMPOT] any less.

>
> However, a Kook Tarot Deck would need as much Tarot mythology as
> possible.

Good point.

>
> >> If you and I [tinyai] are going to organise this, we probably ought to
> >> disqualify ourselves from nominations, but reserve the titles "Dealer
> >> of the AUK Tarot Deck" and "Shuffler of the AUK Tarot Deck" for
> >> ourselves, in order to show where the real power lies. ;-)
> >
> > Indeed. Muahahaha! But who gets which?
>
> Whoever posts the ballots is the Dealer, whoever doesn't is the
> Shuffler. The senior post of Dealer is yours if you want it.

Not at all. As the FNVW for AUK, the senior ko0k-vote group,
the senior post of Dealer naturally falls within your venue.
(The fact that I am a lazy S.O.B. has no bearing on the matter ;)

Besides, I can do a riffle - cascade shuffle (as taught by my late
great-uncle)
with some little dexterity. Oughta count for something.

ESL! 

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