poker calendar quote (semi-OT)

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My girlfriend got me a poker page-a-day calendar as a semi-joke gift. As she suspected, it's pretty high on the comedy scale, mostly the unintentional variety. This is my favorite entry so far:

In 1909, two Missouri assemblyment introduced a bill to the state legislature to control and license poker players to prevent "millions of dollars lost annually by incompetent and foolish persons who do not know the value of a poker hand"