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#4545911 - 11/24/20 03:27 PM meaning of a deck of playing cards  
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original meaning of a deck of playing cards:
52 cards for 52 weeks in the year.
2 colors for day and night
4 suits for the 4 seasons and 13 weeks per season.
Twelve court cards representing the 12 months.
If we add each of the cards (ace + ace + ace + ace + two + two + three + seven + eight ... and etc) of the game we will get 364.
The card game is an agricultural calendar that told us about the weeks and the seasons.
With each new season, it was King's week, followed by Queen's week, Jack's and so on until AS week changed seasons and we started over with a new color.
Jokers were used in leap years.
And you, did you know it?


There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB.
The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed.
There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
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#4545913 - 11/24/20 03:32 PM Re: meaning of a deck of playing cards [Re: KraziKanuK]  
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Fascinating trivia there. I really had no idea until I read your post. I'll take a guess and say that what we know of now as a deck of playing cards originated in the UK?


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#4545916 - 11/24/20 04:03 PM Re: meaning of a deck of playing cards [Re: KraziKanuK]  
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I actually did not know this, and, well, most excellent Keanu probably speaks for a few of us:


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#4546002 - 11/25/20 10:20 AM Re: meaning of a deck of playing cards [Re: KraziKanuK]  
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Oh1 I thought you were referring to this mawkish sentimentality KK:



#4546030 - 11/25/20 04:34 PM Re: meaning of a deck of playing cards [Re: KraziKanuK]  
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Tex Ritter and Red Sovine also both did versions of this. I don't know if the premise of the song is true, but it makes a great story.

Thanks for posting this. I'll bet most here never heard it.


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#4546050 - 11/25/20 06:38 PM Re: meaning of a deck of playing cards [Re: KraziKanuK]  
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Also there is some story about Suicide Kings...I can't remember it but there was a reason why he's the only king with a sword, represents someone and something...

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If you take a look at the king of hearts of playing cards, you may notice that he is quite unique. He is the only one without a moustache. In 15th century French manufacturers assigned actual historical figures to each of the king card. King of hearts became Charles the Great, who most likely had moustache. In fact, the drawing had moustache too at first – they disappeared over time due to manufacturing imperfections.At that time playing cards were stamped using wooden stamps. They were carved by hand, copying the previous design. Over time these wooden blocks would be worn down, making the drawing less and less vivid. When copying these cards, manufacturers started skipping the moustache, because it wasn’t visible anymore. This is also the reason why king of hearts looks like he is stabbing himself in the head. Originally he had an axe, but at some point the axe head disappeared and the handle turned into a dagger, which kind of looks like he is killing himself.


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#4546051 - 11/25/20 06:40 PM Re: meaning of a deck of playing cards [Re: KraziKanuK]  
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Fascinating post bones. So I guess the modern set of playing cards actually originated in France.


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#4546123 - 11/26/20 12:10 PM Re: meaning of a deck of playing cards [Re: KraziKanuK]  
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thumbsup bones.


There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB.
The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed.
There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
#4602107 - 06/20/22 07:36 PM Re: meaning of a deck of playing cards [Re: KraziKanuK]  
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I’ve never heard about it, and, if you put it this way, it looks so logical and clear that I don’t understand how I hadn’t figured it out earlier.

#4602110 - 06/20/22 07:55 PM Re: meaning of a deck of playing cards [Re: Ovidiumark]  
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And the scammer strikes again.


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#4602112 - 06/20/22 08:51 PM Re: meaning of a deck of playing cards [Re: Chucky]  
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Originally Posted by Chucky
And the scammer strikes again.



As soon as I saw this old thread bumped up I knew it was due to a scammer.


“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
#4602116 - 06/20/22 10:52 PM Re: meaning of a deck of playing cards [Re: KraziKanuK]  
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He's done.

#4602212 - 06/22/22 11:30 AM Re: meaning of a deck of playing cards [Re: KraziKanuK]  
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There are approximately 80 Undecillion possible combinations in a shuffled deck. I might be off by a zero placement, might be 80 Decillion.

It makes a Rubik's Cube (with 43 Quintillion possible combinations) look pale.

You shuffle a deck of cards, that combination has never existed in the history of humanity.

For the uninitiated I'll outline what an Undecillion is....

It is 1000x a Decillion, which is 1000x a Nonillion, and listing it out in descending order from the Nonillion:

Octillion
Septillion
Sextillion
Quintillion
Quadrillion
Trillion
Billion
Million.

It would take you 40,000 years to count to a trillion.

Or, it would take you 8000 years to count a Bicentibillionaire's money (someone worth 200 billion) in ones - or 400 years in twenty dollar bills.

Get to work. The Bicentibillionaires are not happy. You aren't working hard enough, and you're affecting their bottom line.


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