THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY........................................................................

• Astro : the type of car that bridge players of limited financial resources tend to buy
• Directional Asking Bids : these are commonly made by visiting players forever wanting to know the way either to the toilets or the bar
• Unbalanced : refers to either a player or his/her hand, where both share the same characteristics: strange, lop-sided, abnormal, weird
• Touching suits : a term used to describe two well-dressed members, who are standing far too close to each other
• Prepared club : a heavy wooden object chiseled and shaped like a cudgel or baseball bat: occasionally used to punish undisciplined partners
• Playing tricks : something that practical jokers often do upon unsuspecting members. Whoopee cushions carefully hidden inside the upholstery of bar-room chairs is a favourite
• DOPI : a bidding convention that owed its origins to a sleepy-eyed player from Noddington BC, who was at the point of dozing off when an oponent thumped down an alarming bid over his partner's 4NT blackwood enquiry. His subsequent "pass", born out of confusion and disoreintation, caused the opponents to make their own enquiry. And so came back the legendary reply: " By passing this bid, this dopi bastard probably has one Ace...because if he hasn't he's more like to double ! "