The everyday blog of Richard Bartle.
RSS feeds: v0.91; v1.0 (RDF); v2.0; Atom.
6:19pm on Sunday, 31st October, 2010:
Comment
My dad gave me some sets of playing cards he had, knowing I collect them. He has dozens of sets of his own, of course (what, you thought I got my love of games from out of nowhere?), and showed me some.
One of these was from Ireland, which he'd bought when he was on holiday there a few years ago. It was just a regular scenic deck, but I figured that if someone wanted to sell a lot more novelty decks to tourists, all they'd have to do would be to make every single card in the pack be a joker.
Hey, if people think your entire country is populated by permanently jolly folk who all have an idiosyncratic, off-the-wall sense of humour, you may as well make some money off it. So there you go, Irish entrepreneurs, my gift to you: sell packs of Irish playing cards consisting of 52 jokers ("plus two jokers").
I'm back home now and am once again too cold to type coherently, by the way...
Latest entries.
Archived entries.
About this blog.
Copyright © 2010 Richard Bartle (richard@mud.co.uk).