"It's time for people to show their cards."

July 28, 2003 10:35 AM

"It's time for people to show their cards." Ostensibly modeled after these, and perhaps a step up in quality from these, they look to face competiton from these. A game of Texas Hold 'em, anyone?
posted by subpixel (13 comments total)

These are perhaps even nicer...but why not collect them all?
posted by uosuaq at 10:56 AM on July 28, 2003

"Each complete deck features accurate and illuminating facts about 52 Bush administration officials and their closest cohorts, plus two jokers."

If there's only two jokers, then it's not a full deck.
posted by kfury at 11:11 AM on July 28, 2003

Rummy! ha haaaaa, I'm good, baby.
posted by zekinskia at 11:18 AM on July 28, 2003

Well, at least they made Bush one of the jokers...
posted by uosuaq at 11:18 AM on July 28, 2003

And then there are these.
posted by grabbingsand at 11:22 AM on July 28, 2003

Don't forget this.
posted by internal at 11:22 AM on July 28, 2003

A trend that should never have been born refuses to die.
posted by gwint at 12:50 PM on July 28, 2003

For a while back in the 80's, everyone in Seattle had an opinion-usually negative-about Brian Bosworth, all star college running back-turned-Seahawks number one draft pick. His shaved hair and nasty demeanor instantly elevated him to media darling...er...target. People even went so far as to produce "I Hate the Boz" t-shirts and sell them in the Kingdome parking lot before games.

I always thought the guy was dumb, until I learned a few years ago that the producer of the t-shirts was none other than the Boz himself.
posted by tomharpel at 1:19 PM on July 28, 2003

Boz was a linebacker, not a running back. And I thought the bigger reason he was hated was that he was supposed to be a superstar, but turned out to be a complete bust who was more concerned about his own fame and image than actually playing football.
posted by nath at 2:03 PM on July 28, 2003

A trend that should never have been born refuses to die.

Do people even play cards anymore?
posted by soyjoy at 2:17 PM on July 28, 2003

Do people even play cards anymore?

Dude! I use my Icy Manipulator to tap your Serra Angel. What a question.
posted by Skot at 2:29 PM on July 28, 2003

Do people even play cards anymore?

I tell your future with the tarot, mon!

In all seriousness, considering that the modern card deck was derived from Tarot, which was designed, apparently, to tell stories about Mary Magdelene and the sacred feminine, I've got no problem with people using cards to tell the story of a man who shouldn't have been king.
posted by thecaddy at 3:01 PM on July 28, 2003

Do people even play cards anymore?

i play poker, (almost) every Tuesday night, though i'd be laughed off the table if i brought an Iraqi's Most Wanted (or Least Wanted, or Deck of Weasels, etc.) deck.
posted by mrgrimm at 4:59 PM on July 28, 2003