Thursday 24 February 2011

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

Top : something a player blows when his/her partner gifts one to the opponents

Misdirection : a term used to describe a situation when

( a) players at the start of a tournament are assigned to the wrong seats

(b) when TDs fail to explain to an aggrieved player, who has fallen victim to an opponent's irregularity, all the options he/she has available, or recites a whole load of incorrect ones

(c) when money, after being generously bequeathed to a bridge governing body, say for instance the ACBL, to finance a project in the deceased's name, ends up either being spent on different things, or not spent at all

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