Bridge & Humor II

Bridge & Humor: A Zia Mahmood Anecdote

Source: WHAT A LIFE! by Sam Leckie. Tuesday, 17 June 1997

Bridge & Humor: Shakespeare Bridge

In the JACOBY MODERN version of Shakespeare, we find that Romeo and Juliet had met at a bridge club.

Bridge & Humor: A Message

Thirteen I kibitzers surrounded the players in a slam-bound bridge game at the Kansas City Athletic club.

Bridge & Humor: Gene & Jack By Jack Dempsey

Not so long ago I sat behind a friend of mine who was playing a game of bridge. He's rated as one of the stars; plays brilliantly and ...

Bridge & Humor: Expert Skill, Amateur Luck By Oswald Jacoby

Usually even the unluckiest of experts comes out all right against a very bad bridge player. This time the bad bridge player's ineptness let to defeat for the expert.

Bridge & Humor: Common-sense? NO, It’s Kibitzer Now! …19 Oct 1929,

They've Renamed that "Little Old Man" Who Sits Back and Tells You How and Why, and It's a Good Name, too.

Bridge & Humor: You Must Bid By Ely Culbertson

1933: Up in a Boston suburb, a contract club is holding a pair tournament for men, so eight of the wives of the players engaged in the tournament decided to have their own games on tournament-nights with...

Bridge & Humor: Culbertson Divorce Hearing

Judge: You wish a divorce. Mrs. Culbertson?

Bridge & Humor: Cupid Has Grand Slam on Jacoby

Bridge Expert Engaged To Wed Texas Tennis Star After 5-Day Courtship.

Bridge & Humor: In general, and in particular By Oren Lidor

Moses is 95 years old and still functioning! He goes to the swimming pool every morning, he shops by himself, still drives his car and... plays bridge once a week with

Bridge & Humor: One sees some funny things in Bridge By Dan Howe

The moral: don't think you're the only one in the world that can do weird things at the bridge table.

Bridge & Humor: Murder at the Bridge Table

Tell me, Professor, have you ever solved a crime?" asked Wright Cardinal. "With your powers of deduction and analysis, I bet that you would make an excellent detective."

Bridge & Humor: The hand of a lifetime

If you were vulnerable and dealt yourself the following hand in a game of rubber bridge

Bridge & Humor: Every Man a Bridge Master By Ray Cave

Duplicate abounds in what may be called pointsmanship. This is a psychological—if not necessarily ethical or sporting—attack designed specifically to....