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#1 User is offline   barmar 

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Posted 2020-April-08, 22:09

There hasn't been a post in any of the Laws forums in over 2 weeks. Have we descended into a lawless dystopia due to the pandemic? Did SB succumb to the coronavirus?

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Posted 2020-April-08, 23:43

View Postbarmar, on 2020-April-08, 22:09, said:

There hasn't been a post in any of the Laws forums in over 2 weeks. Have we descended into a lawless dystopia due to the pandemic? Did SB succumb to the coronavirus?

Playing online you don’t get into any of the messy situations SB so loves.
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Posted 2020-April-09, 00:57

Where have all the directors gone. Long time passing.
Where have all the intermediates gone, long time passing?Where have all the intermediates gone, long time passing?Where have all the intermediates gone?Young girls have played them everyone.Oh, when will they ever learn?Oh, when will they ever learn?Where have all the Aces gone, long time passing?Where have all the Aces gone, a long long time ago?Where have all the Aces gone?Gone from Easts hand everyone.Oh, when will they ever learn?Oh, when will they ever learn?Where have all the best leads gone, long time passing?Where have all the best leads gone, long time ago?Oh, when will they ever learn?Oh, when will they ever learn?

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Posted 2020-April-09, 01:23

No bridge, no infractions. On line bridge is not for me, so I’m reading, even bridge books. Hopefully we can play again sometime in the summer.
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Posted 2020-April-09, 03:16

I get the occasional email:
"I last played bridge N weeks ago and I was annoyed when an opponent did X. The more I dwell on it, the more it annoys me, can you help?"
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Posted 2020-April-09, 09:45

Heh. Tell 'em they need to prioritize their annoyances better. :-)
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Posted 2020-April-09, 14:05

View Postsanst, on 2020-April-09, 01:23, said:

No bridge, no infractions. On line bridge is not for me, so I’m reading, even bridge books. Hopefully we can play again sometime in the summer.


Quite the opposite here in Italy.
The directors are running around like blue a**ed flies organising and running online tournaments to keep their players loyal and sane during lockdown, no time to reflect upon byzantine laws for a while.
The rest of the federation seems to be reading books like you.
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Posted 2020-April-09, 17:35

What's a blue axe?
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Posted 2020-April-09, 18:34

View Postpilowsky, on 2020-April-09, 17:35, said:

What's a blue axe?

Either the poster or the software thought blue-arsed inappropriate. I will find out which if this gets censored:

With reference to the bluebottle fly, the colloquial phrase like a blue-arsed fly is used to describe someone engaged in constant, frantic activity or movement.

The earliest recorded instances of this phrase seem to indicate that it originated in the British armed forces.
It is first recorded in Master Mariner (London, 1936), the reminiscences of Claude Lionel Cumberlege (1877-1962), officer in the Royal Navy:

"Not counting all the preparations and the getting up from below of a new sail, I don’t suppose we were much more than half an hour at the job, thanks to a great extent to the cheerfulness and activity of Mani, our pet murderer, who was here, there and everywhere, working like a trojan [sic] and dancing about like a blue-arsed fly in a strange roundhouse."
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