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Sophistocated Ladies:
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Individualist, world traveller, medical researcher and celebrated member of the infamous Hell-Fire Club
On the Irish Hellfire Club: No Smoke Without Fire:
| Quote: | The history of Dublin's Hell-Fire Club, Rathfarnham
Overlooking Dublin city from the south west, at an altitude of 383m (1,264 ft.), is a foreboding ruined hunting lodge, marked on Ordnance Survey maps as the 'Hell-Fire Club'. Current urban lore insists on telling us that it was - and still is - a site commonly used for the practice of 'Satanism' and other occult activities, and that the Devil himself made a brief appearance there at some unspecified time in the past. In a story similar to the one attached to Loftus Hall (a haunted house on the Hook Peninsula), a mysterious stranger seeks shelter on a stormy night, and a card game ensues. A member of the household drops a card, and sees that below the table, the otherwise affable and charming visitor has a cloven hoof. His or her screams made the Devil aware of her discovery, and he at once vanished in a thunder-clap leaving a brimstone smell behind him' (Seymour and Neligan). (From a post Oct. 30/98 post by daev at blather.net Shitegeist blog) |
| Quote: | | Of the female members, one in particular stands out: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Wharton's mistress and a notable figure in her own right. Lady Mary was a strong-willed individualist who was not content with the polite life of a married lady. She travelled extensively on the Continent without an escort and was rumoured to have infiltrated the Sultan's harem in Constantinople, where she discovered the secret of the smallpox vaccine. (From Freemasonry Watch). |
Indeed:
| Quote: | Regular racing had begun at York nearly 30 years before. In 1708 the corporation, noting that it would be 'of advantage and profit to the city' and that Sir William Robinson had offered his land on Clifton and Rawcliffe Ings as a course, promised to subscribe £15 a year towards a plate. Racing began the following year and was given corporation and city support throughout the century. In the winter of 1730 the wardens of Micklegate Ward were ordered to drain Knavesmire by enforcing the existing commission of sewers, and in the following spring the pasture-masters were told to spend £100 levelling, spreading, and rolling the ground; the meeting was first held there that summer. The attraction of the races never failed and in the middle of the century the amenities of the course were improved by Carr's grandstand and a new road leading to it. (fn. 86) Further buildings were added in 1768.
The assemblies which, though primarily a winter entertainment, were associated with race week, probably began about 1710 as weekly meetings in the King's Manor at which there were dancing and card games. They were certainly well attended in 1713 when Lady Mary Wortley Montagu mentioned them in a letter; it was probably after this that they began to be held in what had been Sir Arthur Ingram's house near the minster. (From The eighteenth century: Social life', A History of the County of Yorkshire: the City of York (1961), pgs. 245-50, accessed: 22 Jan./06, all at British History Online 18th Century Social Life). (Footnotes omitted) |
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Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland
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By Malachy McCourt
| Quote: | Now, the status of women in medieval Gaelic Ireland was hardly a grand one; they were defined by their relationship to men -- some man's daughter or some man's wife. They did, however, have certain rights that their counterparts in England and Europe did not, dealing with ownership of property. A married woman in Gaelic society retained her property - in most European cultures ownership was transferred to the husband - as well as retained her maiden name. This right of ownership would be the subject of some of Granuaile's greatest and serious battles.
...That Granuaile was her own person there is little doubt. She hadly fit the mold of the traditional Gaelic woman. She had a penchant for swearing, a reputation for being sexually adventurous, was known for her violent temper, and had an apparent fondness for gambling. She did not wrap herself in a pan-Gaelic/Irish flag - indeed that would been impossible for it was the very independence and disunited nature of the Gaelic order that brought about its downfall. Like all those around her, Granuaile acted solely to ensure her own survival and the survival of her family, as long as the two did not interfere. When one of her sons joined with her archenemy Bingham, she quickly made war against him! In fact, the tales that have come down through tradition aver that Granuaile was often "warring" while twice in official English records it is calculated that by 1593 she had been "warring" for more than forty years. (I truly love this woman's boldness. What her enemies called "piracy" and "treason" Granuaile described to Elizabeth I herself as her "maintenance by land and sea.") (From Chapter XI, Grace O'Malley - Granuaile, p. 120-122) |
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Annie Duke,
the best woman poker player in the world, one of the pros endorsing UltimateBet.com.
January, 2006
| Quote: | Play your cards right and you can balance a high-stakes career as one of the world's top poker players and raising four children. That's what Annie Duke, 39, has done. But her path to an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman and the $2 million top prize in the September, 2004 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions was a circuitous one.
In 1992, after graduate studies in psycholinguistics at the University of Pennsylvania (and just a month from defending her Ph.D.), Duke realized that an academic career wasn't for her. Unsure of her next move, she moved to Montana and, on the suggestion of her brother, Howard Lederer (a two-time World Poker Tour champion), began studying Texas Hold'em.
Before she knew it, Duke was playing - and winning - at a local lounge five days a week. The next year, calling herself "just a housewife from Montana," she entered Las Vegas' World Series of Poker, where she placed 13th in the first tournament and third in the second.
After winning more than $70,000 that first year, Duke decided that poker was the career for her. So she moved to Las Vegas, where she began playing high-stakes poker 20-30 hours a week, winning all the way. (From Beating the Odds, People Who've Traded Business for Pleasure by Dina Cheney, p. 61) |
Full House
Annie Duke
How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker
Hardcover
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Real Simple
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How to Win...
At Poker
by Liz Welch
June, 2005
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Janet Jones Gretzky
Cover photo, March, 1987
| Quote: | Yahoo News
Wayne Gretzky denies placing bets with illegal gambling ring
Feb. 10/06
| Quote: | TRENTON, N.J. (CP) - Wayne Gretzky was recorded on a wiretap talking to the alleged financier of a gambling ring, discussing how the hockey great's wife could avoid being connected to the operation, a person with knowledge of the investigation told Associated Press on Thursday.
Gretzky, coach and part-owner of the Phoenix Coyotes, can be heard on wiretaps made within the past month talking about his wife with assistant coach Rick Tocchet, the person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.
After Phoenix's game on Thursday night, Gretzky did not take questions or talk about the wire taps during a brief news conference. He reiterated that he had never bet and said he planned to stay with the Coyotes and attend the Turin Olympics as Team Canada's executive director.
...Gretzky's comments were backed up by his wife, actress Janet Jones, who allegedly bet at least $100,000 US on football games over the course of the investigation by state authorities, the AP source said.
"At no time did I ever place a wager on my husband's behalf, period," Jones said in a statement provided by the Coyotes on Thursday night. "Other than the occasional horse race, my husband does not bet on any sports." |
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Tocchet sentenced on gambling charges
Former National Hockey League player and Phoenix Coyotes associate coach Rick Tocchet received his sentence on Friday morning, as he was convicted on third-degree conspiracy to promote gambling and third-degree promoting gambling.
Aug. 17/07
| Quote: | Former National Hockey League player and Phoenix Coyotes associate coach Rick Tocchet received his sentence on Friday morning, as he was convicted on third-degree conspiracy to promote gambling and third-degree promoting gambling. Tocchet, who appeared in Superior Court on Friday morning in New Jersey as a first-time offender, received two years probation concurrently on each count and will not likely serve jail time.
Tocchet has been on indefinite leave from his job as Wayne Gretzky's top assistant coach with the Coyotes since he was charged in February of 2006.
Under New Jersey law, third-degree crimes carry a maximum sentence of five years in state prison, while third-degree gambling offenses also carry a criminal fine of up to $25,000. Neither Coyotes nor NHL officials have decided whether to allow him to return. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman hired lawyer Robert Cleary to conduct an internal investigation.
Tocchet, 43, is the second person sentenced in the case state authorities dubbed "Operation Slap Shot." New Jersey state trooper James Harney was sentenced to five years in state prison earlier this month after he pled guilty to conspiracy, promoting gambling and official misconduct. A third man, James Ulmer, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and promoting gambling, is scheduled to be sentenced later this month.
According to police, in the month leading up to the charges, more than 1,000 wagers were taken at an estimated worth of $1.7 million. Bets were placed on college football and the NFL but not on hockey, authorities and NHL officials said. Tocchet played in 1,144 regular-season games with the Coyotes, Los Angeles Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers, scoring 440 goals and 952 points and 52 goals and 112 points in in 145 playoff games. |
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The Story of Chicago May
Hardcover
By Nuala O' Faolain
| Quote: | When he [May's husband, Dal Churchill) was away with the gang, she would have had nothing to do but play cards for cents and eat fatty sausage and boiled potatoes in some settlement where thirsty dogs howled and howled because they were kept from the well by a board fence and where men building houses struggled with sheets of tin in the hot wind. Newly settled America must have been full of people waiting. For tools and livestock to come from the East. For wives and children who would climb down onto the platform, wratithlike in the smoke from the engine, and shy. Sometimes, she says, when the boys went off, they'd send her to a village they knew in the Badlands, or they'd send her back to Chicago where one of them had a sister. So when Dal [Churchill] wanted her to work with him, just the two of them together, I was for the plan, full of enthusiasm and anxious to prove myself. It was as his comrade that she learned how to rob men and banks, out there in pioneer America.
...We're hearing her voice in her book now, but when she describes Dal she might as well be every girl who ever fell for a boy. He fearlessly rode the countryside, she wrote, and forded the rivers where fords there were none, dealing out rough justice to oppressors of the common people. He was strong, muscular and quick as a panther. Children and women were safe in his hands. His friends could count on him to the death and so could his enemies. An inveterate gambler, he rarely touched liquor and never indulged in dope of any sort. He was quick on the trigger and a good pistol shot. Add to all this that he had black eyes that fairly bored through you and wavy chestnut hair, with a complexion that was bronzed with exposure, and there is little wonder that I fell desperately in love with him. (From Nebraska to Chicago, 1890-1893 at pgs. 33-34) |
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Harper's
Congo's Daily Blood
Ruminations from a failed state
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By Bryan Mealer
April, 2006
| Quote: | | Bunia had been drastically transformed since I'd seen it last. The UN mission had tripled in size, and there were no longer any teenage soldiers in wigs and painted fingernails, prowling the streets with rocket launchers. Several new restaurants and hotels had opened, including an enterprising Indian joint at the Hotel Ituri that catered to Indian and Bangladeshi troops, plus the massive influx of international press and foreign aid workers. There was a lopsided pool table in the bar of the Indian restaurant, and every night a dozen Italian aid workers would line up to play two hefty Congolese girls who'd established themselves as local sharks. The two girls played for bottles of beer, knocking back one after another, yet they never weaved or staggered, and I never saw them lose. (- p. 57) |
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Ireland in Poetry
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Edited by PokerPulse favorite poetry/art anthology editor,
Charles Sullivan
| Quote: | From A Poem Dedicated to Mrs. Blennerhasset, the Only Female Member of the Limerick Hell Fire Club
Daniel Hayes (18th Century)
But if in endless Drinking you delight
Croker will ply you till you sink outright
Croker for swilling Floods of Wine renowned
Whose matchless Board with various plenty crowned
Eternal Scenes of Riot, Mirth and Noise
With all the thunder of the Nenagh Boys
We laugh we roar, the ceaseless Bumpers fly
Till the sun purples o'er the Morning sky
And if unruly Passions chance to rise
A willing Wench the Firgrove still supplies.
(-- p. 41) |
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Isabelle "No Mercy" Mercier
Canada's star female poker player
Interviewed on CBC Radio One's Sounds Like Canada
| Quote: | Thursday, July 20, 2006, 10:00 a.m. 20/07/2006
Meet Isabelle “No Mercy” Mercier, a professional poker player from Victoriaville Quebec who ranks 12th amongst female players in the world. As though that’s not exciting enough, she’s about to appear in a film with Burt Reynolds, and she’s Jian Ghomeshi’s guest on Sounds Like Canada...She is currently taking part in the Poker World Series in Las Vegas (June 26- Aug. 10/06), and spoke to Jian via telephone from there. (From cbc.ca Program Guidefor July 20/06) |
And she's also a lawyer? Yes, although she walked out of the firm where she did her practicum about 15 minutes after qualifying, according to the interview, Isabelle is qualified to practise law in Quebec, which unlike the rest of the country, is governed by a civil code.
| Quote: | Isabelle's advice to players thinking of going pro: Practise and improve your game at Internet poker sites.
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Home Alone 2
Lost in New York
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| Quote: | (From movie our now 10-year-old protagonist Kevin McAllister watches on TV)
Gangster's moll (who's been caught smoochin' with every one of the boys, including Little Moe with the gimpy leg): You got me all wrong...
Johnny: All right, I believe you...but my tommy gun don't!
Moll: Johnny! You're the only duck in my pond!
Johnny: Get down on your knees and tell me you love me.
Moll: Baby! I'm over the moon for ya!
Johnny: You gotta do better than that.
Moll: If my love was an ocean Lindy'd have to take two airplanes to get across it.
Johnny: Maybe I'm off my hinges but I believe you. That's why I'm gonna let you go. I'm going to give you to the count of three to get your lousy, lying, lowdown, four-flushing carcass out my door!
Kevin (to the waiter adding toppings to his Plaza Hotel room service sundae): She's rat-bat.
Johnny: One....two..... (sound of heavy machine gun fire) ... Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal, and a Happy New Year. |
More about our preferred venue, the Algonquin Hotel, a New York landmark favored by the discriminating Dorothy Parker, its most famous resident and celebrated member of the distinguished Round Table.
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Henry VIII
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| Quote: | (Having quietly and strangely, non-violently, disposed of his astute German wife Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII bellies up to the baise for a quick game of cards).
Hank (admiring an opponent's hand while engaged intermittently in the signing of various death warrants): Hoy! How did he find that card? I thought I was the only man allowed to have four queens!
(Later on, during a meditative moment in the game, indiscreet 17-year-old Catherine Howard is introduced to the now fat, lecherous, obstreperous, oily old yoicks of a king).
Hank, that ruder Tudor (leering): Do you play, Kathryn?
Catherine: I understand the rules, Your Grace, but I do not play. Cards are not proper entertainment for ladies.
Hank: And what is proper entertainment for ladies?
C: Needlework, prayer and painting.
H: Quite right, quite right...(clearly impressed)
Dealer: How many cards?
H: Uhm, I'll take two.
C: No, Your Majesty. Take three. Sir Nicholas changed two, which means he's looking for hearts. Sir Francis wanted just one, which means he's looking for a pair, and the player sitting west --?
Thomas Culpepper (one of Hank's most trusted bodyguards): (shyly) Thomas Culpepper.
C: ...looks so glum, he wishes to fold.
Hank: I'll say three. |
No one leaves empty-handed in this game. The king wins, Cathy gets both the king and Culpepper and British revellers are soon after treated to a double execution.
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Mordecai Richler On Snooker
The Game and the Characters Who Play It
Hardcover
By Mordecai Richler
| Quote: | | Editor's Note: Who's that on the cover? ... |
| Quote: | Pool tables were also available here and there in our neighborhood. However, while we considered such a crude game simply dandy for American ruffians, it was unacceptable to St. Urbain Street sports like us. Pool is for bangers. Played on a ridiculously small table with outsize pockets that beckon rather than reject a less than accurately aimed pot. A pool table measures a risible 4 1/2 feet by 9 feet, while a regulation snooker table is 6 feet by 12 feet. Checkers cannot be compared to chess, nor pool to snooker, a far more subtle game wherein tactical skills count for as much as potting ability.
If I zigzagged between Baron Byng and our cold-water flat after school was out, a seven-block hike even if I avoided the Rachel, I had to run a gauntlet of two other poolrooms: the Mount Royal Billiards Academy, where we could sometimes watch a real pro, "Atomic" Eddy Agha, practise, and the Laurier. So I seldom got home before six p.m.
"Where were you?" my mother would demand, her manner indignant. "I'm sitting here afraid to use the phone in case you've been run over by a car or got into another fight with those French kids, rickets is too good for them, and Bessie is waiting for me to call her with my marble cake recipe, as if she won't ruin it no matter what I tell her."
"Why, that anti-Semite, Mr. Hoover, made me stay in after classes."
"He should be reported to the authorities."
"Things will only get worse if we make trouble."
I went on to enjoy a brief, only fitfully successful stint as a teenage poolroom hustler... (-- pgs. 6-7) |
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Lottie Deno
Meet the People of Fort Griffin and the Flat!
Texas Beyond History
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University of Texas College of Liberal Arts
June 30/03
| Quote: | Lottie Deno was a woman of mystery whose true name may never be known. She was born in Warsaw, Kentucky in 1844. Her father, a wealthy plantation owner, loved to race horses and gamble. He took Lottie, his oldest child, to gambling casinos around the world. After he died in the Civil War, the young woman was sent to Detroit, where her mother hoped she might meet a suitable husband.
Instead, Lottie, along with her nanny, a 7-foot-tall black woman, met up with Johnny Golden, one of her father's former jockeys. The three sailed the Mississippi River, becoming expert in the riverboat gambling parlors. After they split up, Lottie met and fell in love with Frank Thurmond. But Frank took off for West Texas. Some say he killed a man in a card game. Lottie followed him, gambling her way from town to town.
At Fort Griffin, Johnny Golden, the jockey-gambler, came back into Lottie Deno's life—but not for long. He found his former sweetheart dealing cards at the Beehive Saloon. One day later, he was shot dead on the street behind the saloon.
Lottie followed Frank to New Mexico, where they eventually became respected citizens. She gave up gambling and helped establish an Episcopal church in the small town of Deming. She died in 1934 and was buried next to Frank. |
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Monster
Inside the Mind of Aileen Wuornos
With Christopher Berry-Dee
Hardcover
| Quote: | When Richard Mallory didn't show up to open his shop on Monday, 3 December 1989, his staff and clients didn't think much of it. As far as friends went, there was no one close enough to him to notice he was gone. Frankly, no one even cared. It wasn't until the cops turned up at his business saying they had found his abandoned Cadillac outside Daytona that anyone knew anything was amiss. No one 'gave a rat's ass,' as one officer dryly observed.
'The best beach in Florida! A perfect destination for honeymooners and couples! Vacation values that won't bust your budget! So scream the tourist brochures. But Daytona is no different from many cities: along the star-spangled sidewalks, lined with laundromats, strip joints and seedy hotels, Joe Public can get his 'round the world' (everything) for 80 bucks, or a straight 'ho strip' (where the hooker strips for oral sex only) for 20. Richard was a sufficiently regular customer at the topless bars in the Tampa, Clearwater and Daytona areas that the strippers, go-go dancers and hookers mostly knew him by sight, if not by name. When he latched on to them, he was like a rigged fruit machine - guaranteed to pay out nearly every time. (From Chapter Four at pg. 51) |
| Quote: | | Note: Dickensian story of America's first named female serial killer, who confessed to having killed seven men in what she claimed was self-defence, looting from her victims anything she found of value to augment the usually paltry amounts of cash in their wallets. Information withheld at trial, including the record of Mallory, her first victim, a convicted armed sex offender who did 11 years, provides further evidence of the disparities between rich and poor in the U.S. criminal justice system - if more was required. |
Monster
DVD
Far grittier lesbian S&M serial killer film:
Butterfly Kiss
with Honey Bunny - gulp! - in the lead
DVD
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Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels
A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine 1850 to 1972
Hardcover
Edited by Horace Knowles
| Quote: | The famous jester, Joe Miller, probably under the influence of a Restoration banquet, once boasted that, at a moment's notice, he could make a joke on any subject. He was immediately challenged to make a joke about the King. As in those days jests about the monarchy were an unhealthy amusement, Mr. Miller had to think fast.
"The King, gentlemen," he said, "is no subject."
And thereby won his bet and withdrew his neck into safety. (From the opening lines of The Little Woman by I.A. R. Wylie, November, 1945, p. 206) |
Here's what the book has to say about author Wylie:
| Quote: | | Woman must get "down into the dusty arena with her sleeves rolled up," says one who has done just that, or Man is going to blow up the world. Ida Alexa Ross Wylie has been swinging verbal (and real, she reveals here) haymakers all her life - and writing novels and stories for many magazines. She was born in Australia in 1885, and enjoyed a self-regulated childhood in England, becoming an experienced traveler, alone, over her own country and the Continent before she was in her teens. Miss Wylie is *unmarried and lives on a farm at Belle Mead, New Jersey. |
| Quote: | | * Note: Wylie's partner was none other than Sara Josephine Baker, a celebrated doctor who was also the first woman to receive a position in the U.S. federal government. |
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