Pogo meaning the games website. I like playing cribbage once n a while ... wife plays eucher. Wanna play sometime?
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
Hey there Mark...I don't play games online but I was interested to see that your wife plays Euchre. I didn't think that card game was played outside of Canada and seldom outside of Ontario.
Posted by Bill Cosharek (Member # 1274) on :
I didn't know Euchre was exclusively Canadian. That's news to me. But what's more surprising is that Mark's wife plays. I didn't know women were interested in the game. (gonna hear about that) That's a first!
I remember trying to teach my sister-in-law. She could never understand why a red jack wasn't trump when a black suit was called; or visa-versa.
Anyway, Stay Home Dave! (euchre lingo)
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
HAHAHAHA Bill... I AM gonna stay home..it is too cold/damp/windy to think about going anywhere..also 11 pm..time for bed!!!
I really didn't think that Americans played Euchre.
May you never sit with a left bower and king when the guy left of you has the right and an ace!!! Yer GONNA get euchred!!! Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
These must be games for people that live in areas where it's too crappy to go outside and play.
No one around here plays Poker unless it's followed by "Run" and involves driving around on motorcycles, in their custom cars, or in boats. Posted by Joe Endicott (Member # 628) on :
It is a bit of a surprise to hear euchre mentioned. Trying to find people down here that play is darn near impossible. My family is from Indiana, so there may be something to that crappy weather theory.
I'd be up for a game sometime Mark. But I gotta warn ya, I don't play often enough to be a serious threat.
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Hey...
Remember the adage... pass a bower, lose an hour. Dana and I love playing euchere. Must be the "wanna-be Canadian" thing coming out, eh?
Dana taught me how to play cribbage last year. Very cool game. She does whoop my ass most of the time... LOL!
Have a great one!
Posted by Deb Fowler (Member # 1039) on :
Did someone say Euchre? Yes, it seems as though it is the most popular card game in central Ohio besides Poker. My ex wanted me to go with his friends for euchre parties but I was so busy with the sign biz and keeping up with yard work, etc. I didn't play euchre when I was there, since I was so busy with my son, Arthur. At his school, I helped with the kids at the school, teaching them the game of Bridge in the 5th grade class, but don't really know the game that well, ha! The kids were better than me! Moreso, I was constantly busy with Arthur (now 14) and kept him in back to back active sports from age 2. He has been involved every season with either: gymnastics, swimming, Tiger and Cub Scouts, baseball, flag and regular football, basketball, tennis, sledding, hiking, camping and some wrestling. We traveled around the country too, to visit family or just a Sunday drive. When we had a weekend free it usually circled around our passion for vintage vehicle shows and auctions, similar to a letterhead meet, only vehicles: (studebakers and harleys and Indians), so there wasn't much time for anything else. And, in some of these sports, there also came sign work donations or actual jobs. But, all in all, Euchre is a well-loved game in central and southern Ohio, of not all over the state!
[ December 07, 2002, 12:07 PM: Message edited by: Deb Fowler ]
Posted by Troy Haas (Member # 472) on :
My Dad plays backgammon on Pogo almost everyday now that he is retired. I remember when I was younger, about 10 or 11, we lived at an apartment complex that had a pool. My Dad and his friends used to play Euchre all day on Sat. and Sun. while us kids swam.
Leave it to Dave G. to think something is "Only Canadian" !!!! You guys think everything was created North of the U.S. border and us American's just stole it away. I hear Dave thinks his Great-Great-Great-Grandad was one of the folks who wrote the Declaration of Independance for the U.S!!!! When we roomed in Bloomington Dave told me his for-fathers invented the hotel we stayed in!!!!
I hope everyone realizes, and I am sure Dave will too, that I am just razzing him, having a good sport with a friend. If not he can come down here and smack me around for awhile, it would be worth it to see a good friend again
Seriously though, I know lots of people around here that play Euchre and especially Canasta(sp?) I used to know how to play Canasta, but that was years ago and don't think I would remember hardly any of it.
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