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Renewed Interest in the Post “What Happened to Miracle Whip?”
There has been renewed attention to my now 3 year old post “What Happened to Miracle Whip?” Apparently, it’s the most read post in the last week or so, judging from my Top Posts list. I’m not sure why, so I’ve reopened the comments section, which I closed a while back because they all were…
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Where is the Hideout of the Calvinball Cribbage Crowd?
Today we went back to playing standard 6-card cribbage and it was a relief! After all of the Calvinball cribbage variations we’ve been muddling through, getting back to a standard game felt great. I thought of a name for an imaginary group that comes up with all of the cribbage variations (whether they exist or…
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Bigfoot and UFOs May be More Than Lore But 11 Card Cribbage is Out the Door!
Today, Sena “suggested” that we try make up our own version of the 11-card cribbage rumor. Recall that I picked up the idea from the American Cribbage Congress (ACC) web site that two of the many variations of cribbage are the 11 and 13 card games. I had e-mailed the ACC on Friday (two days…
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Autumn is the Time to Slow Down
We visited the Terry Trueblood Trail and relaxed. The temperature was in the 60s, just a little on the breezy side. Everything seemed to move slower, except for the lady bugs which tried to keep warm by landing on us everywhere they could. I thought they would get into my rolled up blue jean cuffs,…
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When Tariffs and Cribbage Boards Collide
I’m going to take a chance and mention tariffs in this post because it figures importantly in our cribbage game pastime. We have several cribbage boards we’ve bought over the years and one of them is from Ontario, Canada. Michaud Toys is a company in Ontario which makes very nice wooden toys, many of them…
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Oddball Cribbage Variants Marathon Today and a Catatonic Squirrel!
All morning long today we played the oddball cribbage variants and we are wiped out! It’ll drive me to drink! Sena is to blame for this. She “suggested” we play all 4 of the new multi-card weird cribbage variants we learned just in the last few days: 7-card, 8-card, 9-card, and 10-card. What did we…
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A Few Thoughts on Calvinball Cribbage
OK, so Sena and I have been experimenting with a few cribbage variants in the last few days and I ran into this Calvinball comment on a Reddit cribbage thread about 10-card cribbage. Yes, people play that! I’m afraid to look on the web for 11-card cribbage although Sena asked about it. Briefly, 10-card cribbage…
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OK, is 8-Card Cribbage a Thing?
We’re still getting used to the 7-card cribbage game and guess what Sena asked me today? “Is there an 8-card cribbage?” So, I looked it up on the web and, sure enough, there was a Reddit thread a year ago with only one relevant entry. It was from someone asking if anybody else played 8-card…
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We Are Muddling Through 7 Card Cribbage!
We’ve been working pretty hard today trying to teach ourselves how to play 7 card cribbage. There’s not a lot of information on the web about the game. The gist of it is that you play to 181 and each player gets 7 cards with 5 cards to the dealer’s crib. You can have 4,…
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I Shall Wear My Trousers Rolled
Sena noticed that I didn’t roll up my trousers the way you’re supposed to do it. I had no idea. I guess you’re supposed to double roll the bottoms of your trousers. I got to wondering how James Dean rolled the bottom of his jeans. It turns out he didn’t, at least in the film…
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