Dead Man's Hand-poker

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:54:03PM -0500, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
> At a glance, ancestry.com shows the idea of the dead man's hand from 1885,
> the actual phrase "dead man's hand" from 1888 (for aces and eights) and
> from 1905 (for jacks and eights). I searched with "jacks/eights",
> "aces/eights". The idiot search engine can't handle "dead man's hand" for
> whatever reason.

Do post the details! Once you've navigated the idiot search engine,
it would be a shame to make the rest of us do so again.

JTS