Card game columns?

Prefer hearts, myself . . . but not the jack-of-diamonds version.

 

Is that a variation on the queen being the bitch card?

I spent the second semester of my freshman year of college getting hooked on hearts. We used to skip class and play it in the cafeteria. I remember one epic game that lasted two-plus hours on a Friday afternoon and ended with one guy in the high 90s and everyone else just over 100. We were exhausted. It was awesome. I would kill to find a quartet (the wife plays so I really only need two more players).

 

And as for The Family Circus--I know this has been linked here before, but it's the sickest, funniest thing on the Internet:

http://www.theotherfamily.com/

 

Each heart -- 1 bad point.
Queen of Spatz -- 13 bad points.
Diamond Jack -- 10 GOOD points.
Very tricky . . . and a wrinkle beneficial to good players, of which I am not one.

 

Group 8 is one of the foulest collections I've ever had the pleasure to read.

 

I may be misremembering, but in the classic National Lampoon newspaper spoof (The Dacron Republican-Democrat, or something like that), one of the jokes was how the bridge/chess/something like that columnist wrote whatever popped into his head because he knew no one was reading it.