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| Had a dream I was playing a game involving three dice. When three ones came up at once I called out, "Snake eyes to asshole!" as if that were a common term for it. Two ones really is snake eyes, and the third seemed an apt enough anatomical correlation. But the person I was playing with didn't get it because he thought I'd said, "Snake eyes to aglypha," which meant nothing to me but in my dream was a scientific term for a kind of snake tooth. I clarified what I'd said and he got the picture. When I woke up I wondered if that word really did mean anything so I searched. I was surprised to learn that it actually does refer to snake teeth; aglyphous means plain-toothed as opposed to fanged. Whoa. Where did I get that knowledge and how long and deep had it been hiding in my subconscious? As Bob Nelson remarked, "The mind is a terrible thing." Do you know any three-dice games? If so, please do drop me a note. In the meantime, see how many clicks it takes to get 3 ones. The odds are 1 in 216. I did it in 203 tries. Vegas here I come! |
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