Like attempting to implement the metric system in the US, JSO is dead. They've tried to start another forum to replace it, but it isn't as good as PR.Originally Posted by Guiness
Like attempting to implement the metric system in the US, JSO is dead. They've tried to start another forum to replace it, but it isn't as good as PR.Originally Posted by Guiness
Welcome Sheepshead; Glad you decided to join. You'll find a lot of very solid posters in here and around draft time and during the season this place is nuts busy.
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Really? That's why a big mac sucks...I guess!?Originally Posted by Deputy Nutz
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you aren't kidding about it being a small community here....Originally Posted by mmmdk
joemailman delivers my mail
i see esoxx getting gas at kwik trip once in awhile
and i had to give fosco's dad a jump when his battery died in the middle of the wilderness.....
now thats a small community, IMHO
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I remember that....freaky when you two discovered that..that was cool!Originally Posted by falco
Welcome Sheepshead!!
Exactly.Originally Posted by Zool
Welcome to the forum Sheepshead. Dont pay any attention to Tarlam, his balls where emotionally removed along with his spine a few months ago.
Ah, I remember those cold winter Wisconsin mornings when the only way to start my Ford Pinto was to give it "A Jump."
When my wife and I saw the movie Fargo, we laughed uproariously when the female sheriff kisses her husband while he reads the paper at the kitchen table. She leaves for the garage, comes back in 10 seconds later, and announces, "I need a jump!"
That scene happened to us so many times in Rice Lake that we broke up laughing to the point of tears.
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So what you're saying is if you call the Ace of clubs partner and I open the game by leading it, I'm gonna hear about it ...Originally Posted by sheepshead
Welcome to the forum.
Thanks for all the laughs guys. This should be fun!Originally Posted by MadtownPacker
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Call an Ae?Originally Posted by the_idle_threat
Real men play JD and the picker exclusively, IT.
Apparently not the "real men" in my family.
But then again, Sheeps was not the game the real men in my family played at all. When the whole family played, including the ladies and kids, it was sheeps. When the men played, it was skät.
There lies the problem, my friendOriginally Posted by oregonpackfan
(Warning: this is a thread jack. If you didn't grow up in WI and hang around a bunch of crazy WI Germans, none of this will make any sense.)Originally Posted by the_idle_threat
I know what ya mean. My distant uncle had a farm in central WI. His wife (my aunt) would teach the kids card games in the other room. I was taught schafkopf (German for Sheepshead) in that room. All the old German farmers would play skat in the main room. Any children entering the Skat room would be shot or sold as slaves. Old German farmers are a crabby bunch.
I learned Sheeps and still try to play it when I get around Cheeseheads whenever I can. I tried to, but never learned skat. Someone could teach me how to build an atomic bomb from scratch quicker than they could teach how to do Reizen.
In our house, the kids played simple sheeps or Euchre. The men all played Sheeps, 5 handed, JD and the Picker. The same prohibition applied on children entering the adult men card room.
I actually forgot how to play Sheepshead. I learned Ucher and have never looked back outside of Poker it is the only card game I play, well I play dirty clubs but thats the same as Ucher.Originally Posted by KYPack
I love card games. They're more interactive and exciting than TV, yet you can still drink while participating. :P
Between my mom's side and my dad's side, I learned the old German games---sheeps (3, 4, and 5-handed) and skät---plus the rummy games, cribbage, poker, and numerous others. I've picked up euchre, hearts, spades, pitch and even pinochle over the years. Some Latvian friends taught our family the Latvian card game "cuka," and a friend of mine in college who was from Hawaii taught me a Filipino card game called Pusoy Dos, which we taught other people and played a lot. It's a lot more fun than euchre, which a lot of other people at school played.
My Dad and his old buddies have played skät all through the years. I think he taught some of them the game. My dad taught my brother and me to play when we were "old enough." Now I play skät with my Dad and brother and one of my dad's old friends when we go on fishing trips up north.
I've played sheeps mostly with my family or with a group of people I met through a friend at work, and they all play 5-handed Call an Ace. But this is all mixed company---men, women, teenage kids---playing for nickels. I played a couple times with just some guys from work, and it was 5-handed JD. So I guess I see where "real men's" sheepshead is played JD. I like the strategy of Call an Ace, though. JD seems inelegant to me.
Funny thing: Hoyle makes a PC game with a bunch of card games, and skät is one of the games offered. No sign of sheeps. I thought that was strange, since sheeps is the more popular game.
I can identify with this.Originally Posted by KYPack
It's kinda regional, too.
Milwaukee seems to call an Ace territory, but north of FonduLac, it's JD & the picker.
Western WI is more euchre than Sheeps.
Skat is in the hard core German areas, whereever they are.
Played some Polish suited games in S. Milwaukee. It was fun, but I didn't know what I was doing. In college we all had to add hearts & spades to our repetoire so the outta state kids could play. when most of 'em learned Sheeps, they loved it.
Some really fun times in my life were in Mexico, Hawaii, & Colorado. I blundered across some ex-patriate WI people and we got up a solid game of Sheeps. In each case, sausage, cheese and beer appear as if by magic during the hands. Lot's a beer of course.
In those situations, it's funny to watch the on-lookers. They all want to play, but don't trry to teach 'em. Sheeps cannot be taught in a single sitting.
Sounds right to me. My sheeps experience is Milwaukee and Waukesha counties.Originally Posted by KYPack
I love it.Originally Posted by KYPack
Reminds me a bit of some time ago when I was in Hawaii visiting friends. Here I am on the deck of the guy's sailboat in the harbor, grilling brats on the charcoal grill and drinking Korbel brandy. Gotta love that---a little bit of Wisconsin in paradise. No sheepshead though.
Funny thing about how regional sheeps is---it really is limited mostly to Wisconsin (and Germany, of course). I used to play sheeps online at Yahoo games, and it seemed everyone on there was either from Wisconsin or from Germany. People were on there chatting about when they were gonna meet for the next get-together or local sheeps tourney in Sheboygan or Milwaukee or upstate somewhere.
Meanwhile, you switch over to another game and there are people on there from everywhere in the world, and there's none of the community like in the sheeps room.
Absolutely. It takes a while to learn, and then more time to actually get good at it.Originally Posted by KYPack
Hey! I can see the book now.Originally Posted by the_idle_threat
Toss in Whist (a Bridge variation), 45's and 69's (two Maritime favourites) as well. All three games solid fun!
Welcome sheepshead.
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