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[EMAIL] Lucy to Devon, 08 Oct 05
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cyberinsekt
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 		[EMAIL] Lucy to Devon, 08 Oct 05
Next deal...

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From: Lucy Brown
Sent: Saturday, October 8
Subject: Buckets of Snot



Hey Penguin-Boy,

The picture of the salps you sent was particularly disgusting in light of your comment that they look like snot. It's a glamorous job you've got down there. Hauling buckets of snot out of freezing cold water. Makes me want to roll the windows down, which I did since It Is Warm Here. And I went and had tamales at Conchita's just for you. And they were fabulous.
Okay, enough of being a bitch. Can't wait until you get home, even though I know you are actually in pig heaven out there freezing your ass off.
Lucky used to take me to Conchita's all the time. Can't stop thinking about him these days.
Remember that time I had to move back in with mom and dad because I was so broke, and everybody was telling me to quit the cards? Lucky told me to keep playing. 'Play harder,' he said. He said I would break through, that I'd be one of those people who made it. Like I'm going to be the next Chris Moneymaker.
Then when I lost really big, and I knew I had to walk away from the cards, you know, he tried to talk me out of it. He offered me the money I'd lost. And I told him to screw off and give the money to mom, and SHE told him to screw off and stop trying to bribe his way out of having Corrupted Her Daughter, and...
So there's this flaky good-natured con man trying to give away like a hundred grand and none of us will take it, and he was absolutely a bad influence and he was absolutely the one person in the family I loved the most-
--But I wouldn't talk to him anymore. And what I told myself was, Lucky was the one guy who could talk me into playing again. That's what I said. I was taking the moral high road, I was the GA Centerfold of the Month.
...except now sometimes I think maybe part of me was just ashamed to see him anymore because I was a loser.
Loser.
Loser.
Loser.
And I was used to being a loser for everyone else (not counting Penguin Boy). But I couldn't bear to be a loser for him too.
And then he was dead.

Christ, like you need to hear this. Go play with your snot.

Yr crybaby sister

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Here's your next card. http://www.lastcallpoker.com/user/profile.aspx?username=andadaughter

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Pauloulou
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 		Chris Moneymaker is an OOG person by the way. I always see him on the PokerStars.com commercials during Celebrity Poker Challenge. I love that show. Embarassed Anyways, I guess Mr. Moneymake (I wonder if that's his real name) won some big tourny and cashed in a million dollers or so, and that's why Lucky referred to him when he was talking to Lucy. So yeah, just saving you some Google time. And yeah, I got that email too.
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 		Any reason for the capitalized letters in the email? I did a forum search to see if this had been discussed, so Trout me if you must, but I checked! Laughing Anyway, I wondered why she might have capitalized "It Is Warm Here" and "Corrupted Her Daughter." Question

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Mokey Fraggle wrote:
Any reason for the capitalized letters in the email? I did a forum search to see if this had been discussed, so Trout me if you must, but I checked! Laughing Anyway, I wondered why she might have capitalized "It Is Warm Here" and "Corrupted Her Daughter." Question


I think it's just a stylistic thing, sort of a self-mocking emphasis when you're using a cliche. At least, that's how I use it, for example, when I fly off In A Huff.

Or when I get annoyed with my father's volunteer work and say that he couldn't help me paint my room because he was too busy being a Pillar Of The Community. Wink

I think Lucy's doing the same thing. I doubt that she really feels that Lucky has "corrupted her," so I think she's mocking her mother's respectable-person angst about Lucy's relationship with Lucky, who seems to be a bit of a black sheep.
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Pauloulou wrote:
Chris Moneymaker is an OOG person by the way. I always see him on the PokerStars.com commercials during Celebrity Poker Challenge. I love that show. Embarassed Anyways, I guess Mr. Moneymake (I wonder if that's his real name) won some big tourny and cashed in a million dollers or so, and that's why Lucky referred to him when he was talking to Lucy. So yeah, just saving you some Google time. And yeah, I got that email too.


Chris Moneymaker won the most prestigous of poker tournaments a couple years back. What makes him different than other winners of this event is that he was an amateur player, this being his first professional tournament. He won his seat from the online poker site pokerstars.com (which is why he now advertises for them), and ended up winning the million dollar prize, against several poker greats.

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 		Changing the subject, I'd never heard of salps before. A quick Google search reveals them to be most peculiar creatures. Even if you're not interested in the biology, look at some of the pictures that an image search yields: the photographs of chains of salps are eerily beautiful.

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