415
edits
| Willipedia is now back online as of 5/5/2019 |
| It has been several years since Willipedia closed. Please help get it updated! |
| Go to the Willipedia 2.0 Project to learn more. |
Changes
m
no edit summary
==The 2001 - 2002 Season==
In the [[Fall 2001|Fall of 2001]], Jonathan Landsman '05 and Zachary McArthur '05 were freshmen living together in [[East#East_3|East 3]]. In the first week of school, Jonathan noticed a cribbage board laying lying on the top shelf of Zach's bookshelf. "You play?" he asked. "Yes," replied Zach. "I'm looking for an opponent." So it began.
Though the spectator base was still fairly small, and confined mostly to the current residents of East 3, the first year of cribbage was considered by some to be most exciting. Of all four years, the 2001-2 season featured the greatest number of changes to the frontrunner. Analysts have since speculated that this was due to the players' slow acclamation to each others' style of play, and some house rules. For example, Zach taught Jonathan the rule that five flushes are the only kind that score in the crib. He also engaged in some head games, claiming that King-7 was the most dangerous throw to your opponent's crib. Jonathan believed this garbage, until Zach's father visited and accidentally disillusioned his son's opponent.
Occassions of great moment need great events, and so the publicity for the second hundredth game of cribbage (#200) took on a wider scope. Emails were sent to the [[Bridge]] and [[Deviants]] [[listservers]]; the Deviants version, sent 10 April 2003, is reprinted below:
<blockquote>Pop quiz, hotshots: Â you you're sitting at a table across from the smartest, most attractive specimen of your desired sex you have ever dreamed of. Â What What do you do? Â Normally Normally, an invitation to play bridge would be in order, but there are only two of you. Â So So what, my friend, DO YOU DO?
Whip out that cribbage board, my friend, the one you carry with you everywhere you go. Â That That, a deck of cards, and another human with a modicum of intelligence, as Zach and I demonstrate, is all you need to play.
Zach? Â Who Who's that?
Zach McArthur has come to bridge a few times. Â He He lives in Prospect, and is a lover of Deviance; Â some some of you may see him around in Driscoll, and certainly never in class. Â I I know him better as my first real friend freshman year, in my entry of East 3. Â We We met, actually, when I saw he had a cribbage board. Â Last Last year we played 100 games, and he won in May with a final score of 57 to 55. Â This This year, we finished our 99th game last Monday.
It is time . . . for <b>***Zach and Jonathan's Big 100, 2003***</b>
Zach and I will be playing our 100th match in the East 3 common room TONIGHT AT 9:00, for tradition's sake. Â The The frosh there have no idea. Â We We hope they won't beat us up. Â The The score now is Me 58, Zach 55, so Zach can put himself very close with a skunk (win by 31), or take the first 100 with a double skunk (win by 61). Â This This promises to be an exciting match. Â We We are looking for a commentator (only someone with a deep knowledge of the game, please, this is world class stuff here. Â Yes Yes, I'm kidding) and a pregame and maybe halftime show. Â Zach Zach and I are a show in ourselves, though. Â It It's going to be lots of fun, everything is in jest. . . except the game, which is for all the marbles, the honor, the glory, the affirmation of our manhoods. Â If If you can't make it at 9, show up as soon as you can. Â We We'll likely be there until 9:30.
And Bridge night will start this week at 9:30 in the usual place, Currier North 3rd floor common room, unless Cribbage spectators, like hungry children asked to wait for the pie to cool on the windowsill before digging in, just cannot bear any delay and break down to get down and dirty, bridge style, right there in the East 3 common room.
