BS: Trump card is it politically incorrect

Subject: Trump card is it politically incorrect
From: The Sandman
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 03:11 AM

In the game Whist, there is a trump card, should this be changed as it is unfair on a particular suit of cards, are trump cards now politically incorrect

Subject: RE: Trump card is it politically incorrect
From: Will Fly
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 03:25 AM

It's also a suit in Bridge - but I always bid No Trumps...

Subject: RE: BS: Trump card is it politically incorrect
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 03:33 AM

Well, I've heard that the phrase "calling a spade a spade" is now considered politically incorrect by some. I'd suppose we should be bowing our heads when using the term "Trump" nowadays...

But I moved this thread out of the music section....

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Trump card is it politically incorrect
From: Will Fly
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 03:38 AM

Good grief Joe - you're up early. Or is it late to bed?

Subject: RE: BS: Trump card is it politically incorrect
From: The Sandman
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 03:44 AM

Joe never sleeps, he only takes cat naps

Subject: RE: BS: Trump card is it politically incorrect
From: Mr Red
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 03:53 AM

I think yer Precedent* is playing solitaire.

*(sic joke)

Subject: RE: Trump card is it politically incorrect
From: BobL
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 04:06 AM

Why should we? After all, we kept Spades after the word became a term of racist abuse, and I don't recall anyone objecting.

Subject: RE: BS: Trump card is it politically incorrect
From: Mr Red
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 04:40 AM

and what is next on the non-PC list? Rough Diamond ?

(Oh! Shit! I just used a euphemism for Trumpy)

And Poker seems somehow fitting in the context!

 Note to self -- mentioning "Dead Man's Hand" is not good etiquette 

Subject: RE: BS: Trump card is it politically incorrect
From: Hrothgar
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 06:08 AM

The Last Trump
Andrew Barton Paterson
From "Rio Grande's Last race and Other Verses"


'YOU led the trump,' the old man said
With fury in his eye,
'And yet you hope my girl to wed!
'Young man! your hopes of love are fled,
''Twere better she should die!

'My sweet young daughter sitting there,
'So innocent and plump!
'You don't suppose that she would care
'To wed an outlawed man who'd dare
'To lead the thirteenth trump!

'If you had drawn their leading spade
'It meant a certain win!
'But no! By Pembroke's mighty shade
'The thirteenth trump you went and played
'And let their diamonds in!

'My girl! Return at my command
'His presents in a lump!
'Return his ring! For understand
'No man is fit to hold your hand
'Who leads a thirteenth trump!

'But hold! Give every man his due
'And every dog his day.
'Speak up and say what made you do
'This dreadful thing — that is, if you
'Have anything to say!'

He spoke. 'I meant at first,' said he,
'To give their spades a bump:
'Or lead the hearts, but then you see
'I thought against us there might be,
'Perhaps, a fourteenth trump!'

They buried him at dawn of day
Beside a ruined stump:
And there he sleeps the hours away
And waits for Gabriel to play
The last — the fourteenth — trump.

Subject: RE: Trump card is it politically incorrect
From: Felipa
Date: 31 Jan 17 - 06:31 AM

This thread is now a lyrics thread thanks to Hrothgar