[Trainwreck]

It's that time of the month again. Only this time it's at my house. The mysterious bunco night.

What I've seen of this strange phenomenon is that card tables are set up, there is a large stock of wine and Margaritas and then the kids and I are exiled from the house for some four hours.

That leaves plenty of time to knock down more than a few latte's while hanging out at Barnes and Noble. Or take the entire store inventory of Toys R Us twice. Or the kids will want to go see something like The Shaggy Dog or the equivalent. Well screw that! If I'm spending like three six packs worth of finer microbrew on a movie, we're going to see Dave Chappelle's Block Party and drink beer. And laugh our ass off and drink more beer. And then come home and throw up on the carpet. Okay, maybe not.

What I do know is that I spent all last evening making a ten pound pan of lasagna that I'll never see again. And hot fudge sauce from scratch. I do this graciously and willingly with the ulterior motive of getting points for that new XC hard tail Ti frame that I want to build up.

So fill me in here ladies, what am I missing? And where do the dice fit in? If someone rolls a six do they have to drink a whole pitcher of Margaritas? Does everyone get drunk and naked and start with the table dances? That must be what those card tables are for.

Unfortunately, I'll never know. By the time I arrive home all the evidence is long gone. If a few stragglers are still present, it's doo dee doo, nice to see you and they depart like the plague has descended. Bring out your dead!

I guess all I can ask is to think of me tonight as I sit eating stale popcorn and watch Tim Allen drag his tongue across the floor.

 

[captainpolution]

yea, my uncle jsut had his once a year bunco party. he borrowed all my chairs and made me put them back when he returned them

 

[PatBranch]

What's going on and what happened to the lasagna?

 

[maxyedor]

Hmm you live in Pheonix thats a half day to thre quarters of a days drive from here, you buy the beer I'll buy the tickets and lets go see that Chapelle flick, or make 10 more pounds of lasagna, and get yourself something to eat as well and I'll bring a pony-keg of S.V. and buy the tickets.

 

[Trainwreck]

Hmm you live in Pheonix thats a half day to thre quarters of a days drive from here, you buy the beer I'll buy the tickets and lets go see that Chapelle flick, or make 10 more pounds of lasagna, and get yourself something to eat as well and I'll bring a pony-keg of S.V. and buy the tickets.

That's a deal!

 

[MudGrrl]

I have no idea what bunco is.....


but am interested in the lasagne and fudge sauce.

 

[BuddhaRoadkill]

Bunco is the anti-Mudgrrl. It is ... a parlor game ... for the domesticated working woman. A girls night in if you will. If I say more, I will be killed. I've said to much already. Time for a new username ...

 

[narlus]

awesome post!

i am unaware of the underground movement that is 'bunco', but i do know a Guided By Voices song called "Bunco Men".

 

[SkaredShtles]

yea, my uncle jsut had his once a year bunco party. he borrowed all my chairs and made me put them back when he returned them

From my understanding, men aren't supposed to play bunco.

Is there something you're not telling us about your uncle? ink:

 

[laura]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

my mom used to play bunco, but it was with a church group so the margaritas were left out. I don't know what it is because i was banned from the house too.

 

[brungeman]

awesome post!

i am unaware of the underground movement that is 'bunco', but i do know a Guided By Voices song called "Bunco Men".

BWAHAHAHA GBV... I am a scientist!!! to find out what "Bunco Men" are!!!

 

[Morryjg]

Fortunately my house has not been plagued by the bunco-virus. However, the asian version of that plague, Mah Jongg fever, has invaded the neighborhood. Fortunately, the neighbor and I can get together to eat pizza, drink beer & watch bike porn to avoid gatherings of those with that weird disease.

 

[narlus]

What I do know is that I spent all last evening making a ten pound pan of lasagna that I'll never see again. And hot fudge sauce from scratch.

well i've got the perfect accessory for the next time:

 

[johnbryanpeters]

http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990309

bunco (squad)

Don Willmott wrote:
I've been watching old "Dragnet" reruns on Nick At Nite TVLand (they're very compelling), and I notice that very often, Sargeant Friday finds himself assigned to the "bunco" squad. I have a general sense of what bunco is, but are there hard rules about the types of crimes that fall into the bunco category? And where does the word come from? Just the facts, ma'am.
That's "just the facts, sir" to you, bub.

The bunco squad is those policemen who investigate confidence swindles.

The original bunco was a dishonest gambling game played with dice. Eventually the word evolved the sense 'the playing of a bunco game', and hence 'swindling or fraud of any sort'. As a verb, bunco means 'to swindle or cheat (originally at bunco); (hence) to fool' (example: "Say, young feller, you certainly bunkoed me!"--Rodgers and Hammerstein, Oklahoma!).

There are a number of related senses and compound forms. For bunco itself we have 'deceit or flattery'; 'a swindler'; and 'the bunco squad' ("The Bunko people are really carrying a needle for the Rube"--W.S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch). Some of the compound forms are bunco artist and bunco man 'a swindler'; bunco cop 'a police officer on a bunco squad'; and bunco-steerer 'a person who lures prospective victims to a bunco game'.

Bunco seems to have originally been a variant of banco, from Spanish banca 'a card game similar to monte'. The word first appears in America in the early 1870s, and became quite popular during that decade. Bunco squad is first recorded in the 1940s.

Contemporary account

 

[Trainwreck]

well i've got the perfect accessory for the next time:

And I'll expect to see that in the mail too.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990309

bunco (squad)

Don Willmott wrote:
I've been watching old "Dragnet" reruns on Nick At Nite TVLand (they're very compelling), and I notice that very often, Sargeant Friday finds himself assigned to the "bunco" squad. I have a general sense of what bunco is, but are there hard rules about the types of crimes that fall into the bunco category? And where does the word come from? Just the facts, ma'am.
That's "just the facts, sir" to you, bub.

The bunco squad is those policemen who investigate confidence swindles.

The original bunco was a dishonest gambling game played with dice. Eventually the word evolved the sense 'the playing of a bunco game', and hence 'swindling or fraud of any sort'. As a verb, bunco means 'to swindle or cheat (originally at bunco); (hence) to fool' (example: "Say, young feller, you certainly bunkoed me!"--Rodgers and Hammerstein, Oklahoma!).

There are a number of related senses and compound forms. For bunco itself we have 'deceit or flattery'; 'a swindler'; and 'the bunco squad' ("The Bunko people are really carrying a needle for the Rube"--W.S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch). Some of the compound forms are bunco artist and bunco man 'a swindler'; bunco cop 'a police officer on a bunco squad'; and bunco-steerer 'a person who lures prospective victims to a bunco game'.

Bunco seems to have originally been a variant of banco, from Spanish banca 'a card game similar to monte'. The word first appears in America in the early 1870s, and became quite popular during that decade. Bunco squad is first recorded in the 1940s.

Contemporary account

Damn it...I liked it better when I was under the impression that all the women got naked and table danced....:mumble: