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There's a street game where the card sharp shuffles 3 cards, first showing that one of them is a queen - the lady.  There are usually 2 or 3 accomplices. Accomplice 1 bets and wins a couple of times. A crowd gathers. Accomplice 2 encourages a mark or sucker in the crowd to bet.

The mark may win. Accomplice 2 also bets and maybe wins. Now several marks may be persuaded to bet. They will lose. The game is fixed.

Accomplice 4 is keeping a sharp lookout for the Bill. If he sees them coming, the table will be turned over, the money grabbed and all 4 will melt into the street.

I have a feeling that Accomplice 4 is about to shout...

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Jun 24th, 2008 at 10:49:32 AM EST

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