Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 23, 2009

Hey….are we gonna cut or shuffle?

Shut up and draw….and I mean that in all senses of the word.

Spacy wants to use his deck cuz it’s a matrix pack.

But Big Ace wants to shuffle cuz he’s got a matrix shuffler!

Hey Big Ace- you may win all of Tray-C’s money but you’ll never get his stash.

That’s not his “stash”, it’s yours, it is your payoff. Why would you play for what you already possess?

I hear you, Grokenstein - I think Brozman is a failed student of MC Escher school

Big Ace has a plan. When Tracy isn’t looking, he will pull the high card out of his Ace-hole.

Does anyone look at these drawings before they are published?

Here we go with the smack talk again! Tracy practices card tricks at home while watching Mr. Wizard. He’s gonna try his luck on Big Ace with the KOC’s money. (sigh)

Fosdick, that reminds me of an old Superman (TV version with George Reeves) episode (saw it on Old Nick odium) where a cardsharp has a special deck with which he wins–till Clark “flames” the deck and subs in a fair one.

Margueritem: I count at least three senses. Great comment!

wndrwrthg said, That’s not his “stash”, it’s yours, it is your payoff. Why would you play for what you already possess?

Yes, true, but don’t forget, it’s “double or nothing” so the stash is apparently another load of cash in a “briefcase”

Love the Bobblehead Reference….

I wonder if Tess is at home practicing her selling skills to swindle old people out of their insurance money…..

I’m waiting 2 see if these hustlers make it 2 the World Series Of Poker on ESPN…

Welcome to the latest edition of DECK TRACY! OOOH! This suspense is just killing me!

Some talk of senses, some (sigh) but my sense of smell tells me, all is not well.

If nothing else the laddy from Woodstock set the tone on how to effectively (sigh) He used them as explanation marks to register exasperation,

His Exemlar has become an error perpetrator, piling on almost faster than we can count. Current story displays more than a whiff of flaws,.Money has been OUT of the briefcasce since last week Wednesday.Now, neatly back in the briefcase ! Not a blooper deserving a North Korean stutter missile but good enough for a “Mattie (sigh)”

Let me ask the Naperville Studio a question. If the Scam allows B.O $750,000 which is then stolen back, how come Big Ace’s “share” is 100% ? Are Jack and his men who did all the work, took all the risk to be rewarded with zero%? and be happy with just Kudos ?

What happened ? A “careless” shake of the dice here?

But tomorrow two new uncorked ones will hit us. As the ENCARTA Dictionary’s “example” (under the definition of “sigh”) advises us … “Like a wind passing through the trees”

Sniff ! (?) Could they mean flatulence ? Oh ! And that reminds me … of the “pums”! (sorry, “puns”)!

When does Bugs Bunny interject, “can I stay on just one card?”

It’s come down to the shuffle.

…and we lose.

Never use someone else’s deck if you can help it, especially if he’s not playing with a full one.

So the case contains double of whatever BA is suppose to get (1.5, 3, 6 million, whatever). If Tracy wins, he takes the case back. If BA wins, he keeps the case.