In a message dated 5/30/2007 11:35:38 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
skiphughes@cox.net writes:
Stations was the OLD Evil Empire. I'm not sure, but John Kelly or I
might have been the first to call them that, but it's ancient history...
....................
THE HISTORY OF VIDEO POKER
BY: Will And Muriel Durant And JT
Back before the Bob Dancer classes, before the Lenny Frome classes, back
before the false prophet posed for a picture by a rock near Lake Las Vegas, way
back, were the real roots of Video Poker.
A young retired English teacher named, Jean Scott, decided the gaming world
needed Advantage Players or AP's for short. It was in the late 50's when Jean
conducted baby carriage tours of Las Vegas casinos with the future stars and
guru's being pushed along by proud moms. There was little baby, Skippy
Hughes,who could never seem to get the alphabet right. he'd get as far as
"...hijklm.." then scream out "NSUD" to his mom's dismay. Equally as troublesome was
little Daniel Paymar who was engrossed in writing a tome about Video Poker
that would withstand the sands of time. A teeny weeny Mickey Crimm was
literally kicked out of Kindergarden by his refusal to count higher than ten by
blurting out "Jack Queen" in place of eleven and twelve. There was Paly Paladin
who was always throwing spit wads at other baby carriages, especially little
Bobby Dancer's. Of course I was there too, but more engrossed in looking up
skirts and with what was under my little blue blanket to ever become a great
star like the others.
We all sensed Bobby Dancer would become the number one guru someday. Well,
he was just different. He was the only kid alone in a twin baby carriage.
Maybe his perfectionism was developed because his mom learned about the Steven
Wright joke. "You used to have a twin brother but he didn't listen to me." At
any rate, little Bobby coined the term "Stadium Sweepings" during one tour
that passed through a sports book. Bobby leaned out and picked up losing tickets
for future IRS audit battles to prove he lost more than he won.
There were other than gaming tours, like the time all the carriages were
pushed through the back alley of a Catholic church just after the priest threw
out some used holy water. When all the carriages passed over the puddle the
moms and babies alike exclaimed, "We've got new wheels."
The rising little stars quickly became hated by casinos everywhere, so, just
like, Jesus, there is a substantal number of years missing from Video Poker
history as they all went underground into a grotto or something. A heartbroken
Jean Scott still can be seen carrying on with the bitter truth that none of
the little tykes in her charge were the slightest bit interested in learning
good English grammar stuff at all any. I mean. Learned good grammar all at...
well, you know.
JT
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