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Elephants Never
Forget
You all know the timeless adage: Elephants never forget. We use it when we let people know that some event or comment will always be remembered. But do you know the roots of that saying? Its actually based in fact. Apparently elephants never forget their exact
place of birth! No matter how old they become
and no matter how many life experiences theyve had and places theyve trudged
to and thru, they never forget where they were born. The only sad part about this is that
elephant makes the pilgrimage back to his birthplace when he is about to die! He ends his life where life was first given to
him. Sad, but true! When youre done commiserating for the noble mammal, I pose this question to you: Have you ever been at a craps table dying to get your hands on the bones but the dice are light years away from you? What a dilemma! Hurry up, Make your four throws, seven out and lets get those dice moving. I want to shoot. But wait, if everybody does that, when the dice
finally get to me the table will be ice cold! Or
how about when granny, playing to your immediate right has been throwing inside numbers
for 20 minutes! Jeez, grandma save something for
me, will ya! In both cases you
foresee disaster. Either the dice come to
your doorstep with the chill of a mid-winter Chicago morning or youre handed a
sponge with every molecule of H2O squeezed out of it. And, by the way, that turn at the
dice that you so eagerly anticipated
..Its
SHOW TIME! If youre faced with this situation and you get that clammy feeling coupled with the nasty little knot in the pit of your stomach, you need not worry and this is why. The dice, those wonderful little, inanimate, celluloid cubes, unlike the elephant, have no memory! (Have you ever heard that before?) They dont know where theyve come from or where theyre about to be sent. They dont know if theyve come to you from off the casino floor or out of a freshly opened foil packet Fed-Exd to you from downtown Las Vegas. They dont know if granny threw them 1800 times without tossing a seven and they certainly cant recall if 42 people in a row have failed to make a pass. Theyre PLASTIC! They cant think, smell, smile, or be spiteful. They dont know who you are, and could care less! They just exist! And that, boys and girls, is the
best news of the day, because no matter what has transpired before those five little
darlings are pushed in front of you, you and you alone get the opportunity to have them
begin a new journey! The dice will only
spin, bounce and come to rest based on what you physically do to them. Make a sloppy toss and six out of thirty-six times
youll more than likely see a seven pop up when the dice finally expend all of their
energy. But, if you take the time to set your friends correctly and give them a
meaningful, heartfelt send off, you shouldnt be surprised if youre rewarded
with a favorable result. I have two personal instances that stand out where this has happened. One afternoon I joined a table at the inside hook position, and although you access my articles in Mickey D. From the Hook, this is not my favorite shooting position by any means. Its as far away from the back wall as you can get! And thats normally not a good place to be. The dice are four or five shooters away from me and no one has made a pass. There is one lone dont player to my immediate right who is raking in a fair amount of profit. When its his turn he passes the dice to me. Oh great! I say to myself, Ive got to throw in the middle of this arctic chill! Well I prepped myself with the notion that, Elephants never forget, and the dice have no memory! These babies will only do what you allow them to do! Make a good throw! Twenty some odd tosses later I finally sevened
out, much to the chagrin of the darksider but to the exuberant delight of the battered
right bettors. This scenario played out two
or three more times. No one could make a pass
in between my shoots. I would get the dice on the heels of a very cold trend yet be able
to put together money hands for everyone on the table. In another instance, I was at a table where the previously alluded to granny, held the dice for over 20 minutes. She threw a slew of numbers and made a boatload of passes. She sevened out and I was the unlucky soul that had to follow her act. Get ready for a
point-seven, I originally thought to myself! Grandma has used up every number
on the board and then some! Well I
started to throw the dice and a little over an hour later the devil showed and ended a
surprising (at least to me!) monster roll. The point to be
made here is simple: it doesnt matter whether youre shooting with a trend or
against it. You can make it
happen if you remind yourself that, ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET, AND THE DICE HAVE NO MEMORY! May the Dice Always
Bounce in Your Favor, Mickey D. |
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