The Master
Your post of his winning ways reminded me of one of Doug's comebacks to me. I was teasing him one day about his last name, Winslow. (He pronounced it WINS-LOW.) I needled him and asked if he had ever thought about his name much since he didn't give it out to many people maybe he was ashamed of it and I pronounced his name slowly using different syllables, saying WIN-SLOW. He piped back faster than a mongoose retailiating from a cobra strike, "AT LEAST I WIN". :thumbup:
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JoeyA
When OHB passed away Smorgie made a comment, it was meant in a different way then I took it and I called Smorgie on it. LOL, he banned himself and apologized too everyone in the free world for making it.
After that, he told me that when he died I could make a funny comment about him lol.
Everyday since he passed away I have thought of something funny and then I changed my mind,maybe it wasn't that funny, and now I have ran out of time and I have no zippy one liners for my poker buddy.
So I just will say how it's funny that we ended up being friends and poker buddies.
He has such a flair for the game, it wasn't about the money it was winning,,,,lol.
I told Smorgie that I would make him laugh everyday when he first told me how bad it was getting, sometimes I would just ramble on about the goofy things that were happening at my house about the flipping furnace that will break on the coldest day "ever' on record books, the flipping squirrel's that moved into the attic, the raccoons that would knock at the door for food and start howling if you never showed, lol.
Smorgie would make some comment, and we would laugh. I think he made me laugh more, but who's to say.
Also he had the best one liners for the bullies and the bluffers at the table
Near the end it was too hard for him to sit at the desk and use the computer, so his lovely and brilliant wife Barbara set him up in a lazy boy so he could recline and still play poker and read the forums, he would lay there and play without typing much, sometimes, we would just play and not even talk, lol.
I never saw him at the poker table the last week, I got a pm from him on the saturday it just said hugs nothing else, I just knew somewhere in my heart that it was time for him to go.
Now when people ask where he is I say he passed away and I think he's playing pool, eating chicken wings, and trading one liners with some of the best.
hugs my friend, I'm sorry I couldn't think of a funny one liner I should have got you to write one for me,,,,LOL
Your post of his winning ways reminded me of one of Doug's comebacks to me. I was teasing him one day about his last name, Winslow. (He pronounced it WINS-LOW.) I needled him and asked if he had ever thought about his name much since he didn't give it out to many people maybe he was ashamed of it and I pronounced his name slowly using different syllables, saying WIN-SLOW. He piped back faster than a mongoose retailiating from a cobra strike, "AT LEAST I WIN". :thumbup:
:bow-down::bow-down::bow-down:
JoeyA