--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@...> wrote:
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> "Well, I can take a $1000 bankroll and triple it in a week PLAYING MACHINES. I can do it every time, without fail. I doubt if they could do that."
> "You can do it every time, without fail?"
> "That's right, Pat. Every time. Without fail."
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REPLY: The caption and text reminded me of two things.
(1) A story told by Ken Uston in one of his books. A hustler who hung out in the Jockey Club offered Uston slightly favorable proposition odds that he (the hustler) could call correctly (heads or tails) on a coin that Uston brought and flipped. The guy won so often that Uston stopped taking the bet. He never figured out how the guy did it. Anyone??
(2) The original "From where the sun now stands..." statement, attributed to Chief Joseph, though probably written or at least polished by a literate US Cavalry soldier. Whoever said/wrote it, it contains lessons for aging fighters, gamblers, and drinkers.
"I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed; Looking Glass is dead, Too-hul-hul-sote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led on the young men is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets; the little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are — perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."
The GMan
