Uzbek Proverbs, Drinks

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:18 AM -0400 5/11/01, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>UZBEK PROVERBS (continued)
>
>    My tour guide gave me these before I left the country:
>
>House with children is a bazaar; childless house is mazar (cemetery).
>
>Gold will remain gold forever.
>
>Measure seven times, then cut.
>
This must be the source of the tradition followed by my fellow poker
players:  shuffle seven times (after that, you're theoretically
unshuffling), then cut.

larry