Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 06:53:53 -0800 (PST)
Title: Azz-eee with one eye(!)

Azi sits at the bar as I retrieve a towel and put some ice into it for his
bloody nose and swollen-shut-eye(!).

"What are they doing in there?" I ask quietly, motioning to the card room
door where Bud and Grubb can be heard muttering to each other.

"They're playing poker, cheating each other, dropping speed and drinking
beer.  Maybe you should go in and smoke some Bud and bury Grubb with
your poker powers."

I groan at his paronomasia, he chuckles, and reaching for another towel
knocks a bottle off the bar into the sink full of beer mugs.  The crash
of glass quiets both rooms.

*par.ono.ma.sia \.par-*-no--'ma--zh(e--)*, p*-.ra:n-*-'ma--\ \-'mas-tik\ n
   [L, fr. Gk, fr. paronomazein to call with a slight change of name, fr.
   Xpara- + onoma name - more at NAME : a play on words : PUN -
   par.ono.mas.tic aj

Whensday again.

later,
d.

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