“Heads I win, Tails you lose. That’s just the way it is Alfredo. I can’t help if you never win. Maybe you’ll have better luck next week….We’re going to have a gun fight, bring your knife.”
MENSA APPLICATION TEST: “If dividing these two sugar cubes into seven equal amounts equals the distance from Bombay to Paris, what is my age?” / “62!” / “Correct, how did you arrive at your answer?” / “I have a brother who is thirty one and he is only half crazy.”
When my wife and I were newly married (and poor), we played Yahtzee frequently. She gets real excited when she gets 5-of-a-kind. Maybe too excited. The sound she made one night, I’ve only heard her make during one other activity. I still pick at her about it.
all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Google Chrome can automatically translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. First work by him used here.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2482 (July 1, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.
BE THIS GUY almost 4 years ago
There went Pedro’s Social Security check.
Strob Premium Member almost 4 years ago
“Close but no cigar – You’re out of the Dutch Masters commercial.”
Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Pascual had just lost his best horse on a dice roll, oh and his wife as well.
mwksix almost 4 years ago
“I say sir, those may be LSD sugar cubes, but are they worth an entire fortnight’s wages?”
Papared25 almost 4 years ago
“It’s true, Pablo. Using new math that 4 and 2 now equal 7. You lose again.”
juncarlo almost 4 years ago
“Come on, Manolo, you lost, it’s your turn to pay for the next round of beers.”
Kind&Kinder almost 4 years ago
There’s one born every minute.
gopher gofer almost 4 years ago
oh, man, snake eyes again…?
Egrayjames almost 4 years ago
“Heads I win, Tails you lose. That’s just the way it is Alfredo. I can’t help if you never win. Maybe you’ll have better luck next week….We’re going to have a gun fight, bring your knife.”
DATo almost 4 years ago
MENSA APPLICATION TEST: “If dividing these two sugar cubes into seven equal amounts equals the distance from Bombay to Paris, what is my age?” / “62!” / “Correct, how did you arrive at your answer?” / “I have a brother who is thirty one and he is only half crazy.”
Buzzworld almost 4 years ago
J Short almost 4 years ago
Painter trying to use up all the brown paint he got at the Lowe’s 20% off sale.
Kirk Barnes Premium Member almost 4 years ago
When my wife and I were newly married (and poor), we played Yahtzee frequently. She gets real excited when she gets 5-of-a-kind. Maybe too excited. The sound she made one night, I’ve only heard her make during one other activity. I still pick at her about it.
Reader almost 4 years ago
Unfortunately, Pedro’s lucky number was 14.
Call me Ishmael almost 4 years ago
He’s a genius – remarkably stable/ yet he has to admit he’s unable/ to account for his loss/ on every toss../ (it’s the magnet under the table).
Radish the wordsmith almost 4 years ago
You won, now you have to be president.
Another Take almost 4 years ago
“Oh my head! Dice is so complicated! Tell me again about the rule where you get to assign any value you want to a die that rolls off the table…”
Rev Phnk Ey almost 4 years ago
See- you’re only supposed to eat one cube.
Linguist almost 4 years ago
How White House aides decide who gives tRUMP the daily intelligence briefing…
Calvins Brother almost 4 years ago
“Now then, the cosign of the total of these dice are equal to but not more than the side you can’t see, see?”
prrdh almost 4 years ago
It was the last straw. Blaise vowed to invent the mathematics of probability to figure out why he never won.
mabrndt Premium Member almost 4 years ago
The Dice Players or the Dice:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simo-Gomez,-Els-daus.jpg
has info and links that point to more info about this painting. File history has strip coloration image.
https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/g/gomez_polo.htm
https://prabook.com/web/simo.gomez/1892521
https://www.enciclopedia.cat/ec-gec-0030426.xml
http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/10950/simo-gomez-polo
all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Google Chrome can automatically translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. First work by him used here.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2482 (July 1, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.
MissScarlet Premium Member almost 4 years ago
The young fellow standing is so pleased because he just won a ticket on the Titanic’s maiden voyage.
d1234dick Premium Member almost 4 years ago
in the den of thieves everyone was cheating and they all knew it, what fun!
GoComicsGo! almost 4 years ago
“… and then we went and saw Jebediah… or was it Jeremiah?… No I think it was actually John…”
Running Buffalo Premium Member almost 4 years ago
OK … so I wasn’t could at counting cards. I was SURE that I would be ok at counting dice …