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by: John Hall - Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:44 UTC

In message <tv7f1t$19jug$1@news.xmission.com>, Kenny McCormack
<gazelle@shell.xmission.com> writes
>You hold:
> Tx,9xxx,Qxxx,KQx
>
>The opponents bid (your side silent): 1C,1D/2S,3S/4C,4D/4H,4S/5D,5H/6S
>
>Before you lead, South announces:
>
> We's playin Jahuzda strong club, announced Chief Jbobo at
> the end of the auction. Dat was epsilon relay sequence.
<snip>

That must be from the David Bird book in which the Abbot and some of his
fellow monks go to do missionary work in Africa. I don't suppose such a
non-PC book could be published nowadays.
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by: Kenny McCormack - Wed, 22 Mar 2023 18:39 UTC

In article <H31Mf7AKCzGkFwox@jhall_nospamxx.co.uk>,
John Hall <john@jhall.co.uk> wrote:
>In message <tv7f1t$19jug$1@news.xmission.com>, Kenny McCormack
><gazelle@shell.xmission.com> writes
>>You hold:
>> Tx,9xxx,Qxxx,KQx
>>
>>The opponents bid (your side silent): 1C,1D/2S,3S/4C,4D/4H,4S/5D,5H/6S
>>
>>Before you lead, South announces:
>>
>> We's playin Jahuzda strong club, announced Chief Jbobo at
>> the end of the auction. Dat was epsilon relay sequence.
><snip>
>
>That must be from the David Bird book in which the Abbot and some of his
>fellow monks go to do missionary work in Africa.

Yes. In fact, I OCR'd the dialog text from the book where I found this
hand. What I found interesting is that the book didn't touch at all upon
the effect the table talk should have had on the defense. In the book,
they just have him continue clubs at trick 2, with disastrous consequences.

I would have expected that everybody (who's anybody) would have read these
books; I consider them classics of bridge literature.

Incidentally, with one solitary exception, the cast of players is entirely
disjoint between the monastery in England and the missionaries in Africa.
There is one story where the Abbot visits the missionaries, but that one
story is pretty much standalone.

>I don't suppose such a
>non-PC book could be published nowadays.

More's the pity.

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Subject	Author
Re: An interesting situation...	John Hall
The monastery books (Was: An interesting situation...)	Kenny McCormack