…and cooking for all their pals when they show up at dinnertime.
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That makes two, One more son to add to the wife and the oldest and it will be everyone but me.
That’s how it usually is.
The finish of the Martha Raye Rule 5 story
Posted: September 27, 2009 by datechguy in odditiesTags: david carden, family, history, nostalgia, poker, rule 5 sunday, the army insider
As promised here is the end of the Martha Raye story from Retired Sgt. Major David C. Carden’s book The Army Insider:
Here I was, a country boy from Nebraska playing poker with a movie star. Golly! The game was five card stud. One hole card and four up. Best hand wins. Hole cards were dealt around the table and one card up. My hole card was an Ace. Maggie had a deuce showing. Bets all around. Next card paired my top card and Maggie’s duce. More bets, some people folded. Third card up I had an Ace and Maggie had a face card. This round of betting just left her and me. The last card up didn’t do either of us any good. The last of the $200 went into the pot and I was calculating my winnings. Aces over had her two pair beat. I gingerly turned over my Ace and she said, “Nice hand young Sergeant, but not good enough.” as she turned over her third deuce. That’s how I met Martha Ray.
From what I understand his luck at poker never got better, but it was a different story for his sons. One of the funniest things I ever saw in a poker game were his two oldest sons over my house at a couples poker night with their wives. You never saw two people play such cuthroat poker in your lives. You couldn’t make a bet without them raising each other through the roof and even worse they always managed to get the cards. ALWAYS.
The funniest poker story ever? I’ll save that for next Sunday.
Datechguy: Dental pioneer
Posted: September 22, 2009 by datechguy in oddities, personalTags: dentists, family, history, nostalgia
Well went to the dentists to check on my implant.
Our regular family dentist noticed the crown was loose so she referred me back to the dentist that did it decades ago.
We had a great time reminiscing over all kinda things, then he finally took a look.
The 20 year old implant is fine, the reason the crown is loose is the plastic washer is worn.
The thing is it was the 3rd implant he had ever done (it’s now a specialty of his) The implant isn’t made anymore, and the washer isn’t made anymore, when I had this done my kids weren’t even born.
So we are going to leave it be, it doesn’t hurt, it’s not causing any trouble, if he happens upon the part he’ll let me know, but since it is SO old he and the surgeon might decide to have me come in again just to get data on how that old model hold up over two decades of use.
So I may be an object of study, that doesn’t happen every day.
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