So in the first of several planned blog posts( which have nothing to do with the more pressing matters on my plate,) I decided to answer the question of Why my Blog Has this Name. ( Even though no one actually asked this question, and I am mainly doing this to fill space, cause I doubt people will read this anytime soon. ) Aces And Eights is a long standing fascination of mine, starting with the movie...I want to say Jack& Jill with Morgan Freeman. It was an James Patterson Alex Cross movie adaptation. In the movie, the female love intrest/partner/villian? shows Morgan Freeman a dual barrel, top over bottom Turkish Shotgun. ( Boys and their toys.) Morgan/Cross asks her how she got it and she says her father won it in a game of poker with a hand of aces and eights. He comments that it was a dead man's hand, and I was hooked. It sounded sweet, and conjured up a nice image.
Did some research (Okay, okay, I went on a family trip to South Dakota. So I learned something-It's not a crime!) and found out there is some truth to the whole 'dead man's hand' thing. Turns out, when the outlaw Wild Bill Hicock was shot to death, he was playing poker, and he held five cards. Two black aces, two black eights, and one red card that varies on the story. This became known as the "Deadman's Hand"
So, my intrest in this name was from an outlaw, or Morgan Freeman. Take your pick.
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