Pair a goric

​When I was a kid, my family would play penny ante poker. I know, I know...but the Monopoly games would turn into wrestling matches. Jigsaw puzzles found us all stealing a piece so we could put the last one in place and claim victory. There was always at least four pieces missing. Days would go by and eventually my Mom would want her dining room table back, so the puzzle was never finished.

Poker was the one game we could all agree upon. There was a cheat sheet for me because I could never remember what hand beat what. The list included my Mom's famous Pair a goric. Paregoric was used back in her youth as an antidiarrheal, among other things, before they made it a controlled substance, I think sometime in the early '70's. Mom would say "I have a pair a goric", she claimed it beat everything else.

Anyway...all this leads to the fact that I finished One Eyed Jack. Unfortunately, I could be holding five of these and I'd still lose to a pair a goric.