Card-game names

Thu Mar 9 07:57:23 UTC 2006

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 00:54:45 -0500, you wrote:

>Nor I, but I know at least two nicknames in Hearts for the Queen of Spades,
>which is the card you least want to get:
>        Dirty Dora
>        the Black Bitch

I know her as the Black Maria.

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