Finocchio basically means ‘fag’ in Italian slang, fitting that he’d text a guy telling him to take his panties off.

My guess would be because picture cards originated with the Italian tarot, which was linked to the occult (hence why the word “tarot” now is synonymous with fortunetellers)... but who knows with old religious people. My grandmother wouldn’t let me watch Devils hockey games as a kid.

Didn’t know spades doesn’t have meld. Like I said above, I was asking about differences because I’m not educated about spades.

Tricks here also.

Well yeah, because pinochle has bidding too, but there’s also the added “I need to name trump because if I don’t, he’s going to name a suit I’m short in, and I have seven diamonds, most of which will be worthless if I don’t get to name trump...”

From how I’ve played, granted I’m from NYC so that’s as far as the Midwest as you can get, sometimes, house rules say if you renege you lose automatically, but usually there’s a harsh numerical penalty associated with it.

And when I said hoodrats I’m talking about white girls, not black guys, fwiw.

Yeah, weird eh. Nine is the worst card in the game, and if you get six of them you can declare the entire hand dead, but ten is somehow magical and only loses to an ace.

No, I tell them I play texas hold ‘em in tournaments and have made about $10,000 in Atlantic City. I don’t tell girls I play pinochle, and I wouldn’t tell girls I play spades, either. I don’t hang out with hoodrats anymore.

I’m a millennial tho.

I’m white-ish. I have family members who love Spades but I’ve never learned it. I play Pinochle and Spades sounds very similar, but I don’t like the idea of having one set trump suit. In Pinochle you bid and then name the trump suit. In what ways is Spades better than Pinochle?

Maybe. ZD only made the initial 100 million dollar bid. It’s going to auction, whoever bids the most gets the cheese.

Yeah, Russell Westbrook is almost literally the same person as Cam Newton.