B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for July 02, 2011

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    comicgos  over 13 years ago

    As apposed to “lo-jack” I suppose!

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    EarlWash  over 13 years ago

    Hi, Jack. How ya been?

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    DGWillie  over 13 years ago

    Frequently, a Jackalope gets eaten by a coyote, if he isn’t careful. For one thing, the horns mean he needs a very tall burrow.

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    jewels.4him  over 13 years ago

    I play too, and I never heard it refered to as a high Jack.His Nibs or His Nobs, never High Jack.

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    jewels.4him  over 13 years ago

    two points if you turn over a Jack.

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    GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Wait! what would you call the jack that nets you 13 points?

    Good Morning, Fellow Cave Dwellers.

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    DesultoryPhillipic  over 13 years ago

    I thought it was the first think he heard from friends after his girlfriend told him to “Hit the road”.

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    TexTech  over 13 years ago

    Very nice Phillipic and with a tip of the chapeau to Ray Charles.

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    lewisbower  over 13 years ago

    I associate cribbage with the fishing hut waiting for the rain to stop. There could be no other reason to play that stupid game. “Hell, who’s for getting wet?”

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    Neanderthal  over 13 years ago

    hey jack, the guy on the tractor. simple yet filling.

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    MontanaLady  over 13 years ago

    Since I don’t know about “cribbage”, I’ll pass on the comments today. :((

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    mark63  over 13 years ago

    What I have forgotten about cribbage would fill a book , what I can remember would not start one, or was it 15 for two

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    freeholder1  over 13 years ago

    Uncultured dictionary, Euchre is the true high jack game!!!!

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    freeholder1  over 13 years ago

    Where do you think Jack Bauer (bower) got his name?

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    boldyuma  over 13 years ago

    Hi..Jack..Hi..Johnny..Hi..Jim with my good friend Bud weiser…how does the rest of that George Thorogood song go..1 scotch,1 bourbon, 1 beer?

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    JanLC  over 13 years ago

    Simple rule of cribbage: deal 6 cards, each player discards 2 of those cards into the “crib” which becomes a second hand for the dealer. The non-dealer then cuts the remaining cards and the dealer turns over the resulting top card which is used as a 5th card in all hands for scoring purposes. A jack or “His Nobs” gets the dealer two points if it is turned over. “His Heels” (or the “right” jack – one that matches suit with the turned over card) gets you one point if it is in your hand. I’ve never heard it called “high jack”, although it could be a colloquialism. You’ll have to read Hoyle to get the scoring rules – way too complex… (although I will say it is impossible to get 19 points in a cribbage hand.)

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    ChukLitl Premium Member over 13 years ago

    My guess; the high jack would be colloquial for the one that’s worth 29. Never got that one, but I’ve had 28, with a queen.

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    ChukLitl Premium Member over 13 years ago

    My guess; the high jack would be colloquial for the one that’s worth 29. Never got that one, but I’ve had 28, with a queen.I’ve had 19 point hands, too often.(Because of the impossibility, that’s what nothing is called.)

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    Nakor  over 13 years ago

    To clarify for our non-cribbage players, 29 is the highest hand you can score. It requires you to have three 5’s in your hand and a jack, and the other 5 has to be the top card on the deck. Moreover, your jack has to be the same suit as the flipped over 5 (or you only get 28). Suffice it to say, very rare hand, though I think it’s not quite as rare as the royal straight flush (depending, of course, on the style of poker).

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    ghretighoti  over 13 years ago

    My father once got stopped by a traffic cop in Springfield Mass, only to be told that his license plate was “An almost perfect cribbage hand!” Some people have nothing better to do. 15-2, 15-4, an a pair is six.

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    adubman  over 13 years ago

    Hi Jack, Lo Jack, Black Jack…..keep your hands off my stack…..eeeerrrrrrr…..morphing two metaphors together. Sort of like sampling music!!!

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    Cuddleman  over 13 years ago

    What you absolutely don’t say in an airport.

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    gocomicsmember  over 13 years ago

    It doesn’t really matter that the term “high jack” is not a “proper” cribbage term. The joke involves the role that “His Nobs” plays. Like most jokes, it falls flat if you get TOO analytical.

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