"O.K.! maybe it's your lucky night, just tell us where that red is, now."
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"O.K.!"
Interesting, to me, at least, that nobody altered the abbreviation of "oll korrect" to "okay" until the 1920s. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, O.K. is the only surviving acronym of "deliberate, jocular misspellings" from a slang fad in Boston and New York in the 1830s. Examples of ones that didn't survive were N.C. for "nuff ced" and K.G. for "no go." This strange twist of language is about as dumb and intriguing as Cockney rhyming slang. But it's nowhere near as deep and inventive. Probably nowhere near as dumb either. Those fucking Cockneys, man.
"maybe it's your lucky night"
It's not. Remember, the game is a scam.
"tell us where that red is"
I can tell you where it isn't: on the table in front of the boys!
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