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	old maid game \| recipe goldmine children's games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The dealer discards one queen from the pack and deals the remaining cards, one at a time, until all cards are dealt.
		Each player in turn shuffles his hand and offers it face down to the player to his left, who draws one card, and discards a pair if he has drawn one.
		Play continues to the left until eventually one player is left with the odd queen and is the "Old Maid."
	www.recipegoldmine.com /childgames/childgames2.html (128 words)

	Old Maid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Old Maid is a card game for two or more players, closely related to Chase the Ace.
		Although there are retail card decks specifically for playing Old Maid, it is just as easy to play with a regular deck of 52 cards.
		It is played exactly as Old Maid, but instead of removing a Queen or any other card, a Joker is added, and player who is left with it loses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_Maid (619 words)

	Old Maid -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Old Maid is a (A game played with playing cards) card game for two or more players.
		Although there are retail card decks specifically for playing Old Maid, it is just as easy to play with a (Click link for more info and facts about regular deck of 52 cards) regular deck of 52 cards.
		That card is revealed at the end of the game and the person left with its "partner" (the odd card) loses and is called unggoy ((A member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila) Tagalog for (Any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)) monkey).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/ol/old_maid.htm (476 words)

	An Old Maid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		An old maid, forced to employ her vacant days, could alone see to the grass being hoed from between the paving stones, the tops of the walls kept clean, the broom continually going, and the leather curtains of the coach-house always closed.
		Madame Granson had gone the round of a dozen houses while the old maid was deliberating on the things she needed for the journey; and the malicious Chevalier de Valois was playing piquet with Mademoiselle Armande, sister of a distinguished old marquis, and the queen of the salon of the aristocrats.
		The old maid's feeling to the chevalier was that of respectful consideration; and certainly his name, together with the position he occupied among the aristocratic constellations of the department made him the most brilliant ornament of her salon.
	www.blackmask.com /books14c/omaid.htm (21061 words)

	The White Old Maid, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1837, 1851
		She took no place among the kindred or the friends, but stood at the door to hear the funeral prayer, and walked in the rear of the procession, as one whose earthly charge it was to haunt the house of mourning, and be the shadow of affliction, and see that the dead were duly buried.
		The wonder was increased, when the Old Maid passed beneath the porch of the deserted mansion, ascended the moss-covered steps, lifted the iron knocker, and gave three raps.
		The Old Maid looked slowly round, with a slight gesture of one hand, and a finger of the other upon her lip, appearing more shadow-like than ever, in the obscurity of the porch.
	www.eldritchpress.org /nh/white.html (3310 words)

	Old Maid - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Old Maid is a card game for two or more players.
		The player left with the 1 odd queen (that has no matching queen) is stuck with the "Old Maid" and loses.
		Irish wonders: The ghosts, giants, pookas, demons, leprechawns, banshees, fairies, witches, widows, old maids, and other marvels of the Emerald Isle
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /old_maid.htm (323 words)

	The Old Maid
		A telegram in these old movies is never good news and most often gives us information on one of two things: somebody just bought the farm off-screen or someone is finally coming back from a trip abroad to reclaim their old girlfriend back.
		The Spender in The Old Maid is an older-looking dude with a lot of shine in his hair and for some reason thought that when his girlfriend said she would wait for him, while he wandered around off-screen for two years, the little tramp meant it.
		As is usually the case in these old movies that take place in and around the civil war, somebody goes and gets themselves dumped on their head by a horse (see also Gone With The Wind).
	monsterhunter.coldfusionvideo.com /OldMaid.html (2275 words)

	Amazon.com: The Old Maid (1939) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Charlotte's appearance toward the end of the film is a caricature of the proverbial old maid, while Delia remains youthful and vibrant.
		I often think that "The Old Maid" has been unfairly forgotten by film historians and tends to get overshadowed by the other famous Davis vechicles of this time like "Dark Victory", "Now Voyager" and "The Letter".
		Bette Davis has never been better than in the role of Charlotte Lovell a young lady who by one indiscretion is doomed to spend her life as a bitter old maid not being able to be a real mother to her daughter who turns to others for affection and guidance.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6301973313?v=glance (2127 words)

	Rules of Card Games: Old Maid
		Eventually all the cards will have been discarded except one queen (the old maid) and the holder of this queen loses.
		Old Maid is sometimes played with a special pack of cards: all the cards come in matching pairs except for a single Old Maid card, whose holder at the end is the loser.
		Pairs of animals, with buzzard for old maid
	www.pagat.com /passing/oldmaid.html (355 words)

	An Old Maid - Chapter VI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The old abbe, alarmed at the responsibility, entreated his niece to return instantly and help him to receive this guest, and do the honors of the house; for the viscount's letter had been delayed, and he might descend upon his shoulders that very night.
		This decease was doubted in the house of the receiver-general; but at the Prefecture it was authenticated that the poor beast had expired as she turned into the courtyard of the hotel Cormon, with such velocity had the old maid flown to meet her husband.
		The old maid regretted that she couldn't come to an understanding with the nightingales nesting in the trees, in order to obtain their finest trilling.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/debalzac/AnOldMaid/chap7.html (4117 words)

	The Old Maid's Song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Oh, I had a sister Sally, was younger than I am, She had so many sweethearts, she had to deny them; As for my own part, I never had many, If you all knew my heart, I'd be thankful for any.
		Oh, I had a sister Susan, was ugly and misshapen, Before she was sixteen years old she was taken, Before she was eighteen, a son and a daughter, Here am I, six and forty, and nary an offer.
		Oh, I never will be scolding, I never will be jealous, My husband shall have money to go to the alehouse, While he's there a-spending, well, I'll be home a-saving, And I'll leave it to the world if I am worth having.
	mysongbook.de /msb/songs/r_clarke/oldmaid.htm (244 words)

	Old Maid In the Garret
		The Wooing Maid, which was sung to the tune If 'be the dad on't was printed on a broadside which was entered in the Stationers' Register June 18, 1636 by Thomas Lambert.
		The song is known in Ireland as The Black Chimney Sweeper, because in the last verse a chimney sweep marries the old maid "for pity, And ever since he's got her, he vows that he'll keep her, And now she's in the arms of her fl chimney sweeper."*
		Historical note: It was one thing to be an old maid, but after a woman had been an old maid a while she was referred to as a "thornback."
	www.contemplator.com /england/oldmaid.html (240 words)

	USS Clueless - Playing Old Maid
		What we've really been playing is Old Maid.
		In other words, we just gave the Old Maid back to the French.
		And what I think may be about to happen is that we will spend a couple more days on diplomacy, then announce with great regret that there's no point in going on, and announce the attack anyway.
	denbeste.nu /cd_log_entries/2003/03/PlayingOldMaid.shtml (2913 words)

	Product Detail Information
		Traditional "old maid" card game, with French, German, and other variants.
		Old Maid is a great social game that you can share with your family and friends!
		Try the variations such as "Black Peter" (German), "Old Boy" (French), "Society" and "Joker", with their own custom imagery and sounds.
	www.handango.com /brainstore/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=812&productId=92596 (210 words)

	Moviefone: Old Maid's Parrot Movie: MAIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The story proper begins when a stray dog steals the parrot's cage (and its occupant) from the old maid's perch.
		Old Maid's Parrot movie trailer, showtimes, tickets and reader reviews are also available.
		Old Maid's Parrot · Liberty for All · The Escape of the Ape · A Baseball Fan · A Disastrous Flirtation...
	movies.aol.com /movie/main.adp?mid=1195363 (251 words)

	Old Maid's Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This website is for the determined old maid, the sweet spinster, the "unclaimed treasures", and for anyone wanting to get a laugh at us as well.
		One of the trials of woman-kind is the fear of being an old maid.
		To escape this dreadful doom, young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness which astonishes the beholder; never pausing to remember that the loss of liberty, happiness and self-respect is poorly repaid by the barren honor of being called "Mrs" instead of "Miss".
	ylcf.org /old-maids (355 words)

	Folk Music Index - Old Jo to Old Oz
		, Old Homestead OHCS 139, LP (1984), trk# 17a
		, Old Homestead OHCS 155, LP (1984), trk# A.05 [1930/10/08]
		Old Lord by the Northern Sea [Ch 10]
	www.ibiblio.org /folkindex/o06.htm (4309 words)

	A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia.
		He was tall for his age, and thought himself quite old enough to be a solder; but as his father and elder brother were both in Washington's army he realized that he must stay at home and take care of his mother and Winifred.
		This old velvet coat had belonged to Betty's grandfather, and was highly valued by her father.
		An old horse-blanket, suspended from the hay-loft in the rear of the stable, served as a curtain behind which knelt Betty in the scarlet coat.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/curtis/philadelphia/philadelphia.html (22349 words)

	Meet the Old Maid
		Hard to consider myself an Old Maid at 37, but if the luck of my card playing is any indicator, my destiny leaves me single.
		Old Maid has always been one of my darling daughter's favorite games.
		Guess this is just how my Old Maid's mind works.
	journals.aol.com /pixiedustnme/Inmyopinion/entries/514 (353 words)

	Holiday Insights : Old Maid Day
		Old Maid's Day brings awareness to those of us who have not yet found (and caught) our soul mates.
		Old Maid's Day exists to put into the spotlight all of the fair maidens who have yet to find their Prince Charming.
		It is from this occurrence that Old Maid's Day emerged.
	www.holidayinsights.com /other/oldmaidday.htm (161 words)

	There was an old maid of Nantucket Had an asshole as big as a bucket. While bent over the oven A-...
		There was an old maid of Nantucket Had an asshole as big as a bucket.
		While bent over the oven A-dreamin' of lovin', Her goat siezed the moment to fuck it.
		There was an old maid in Van Nuys...
	www.jokes2go.com /poems/19744.html?37 (80 words)

	Meanwhile...: Old Maid
		I had to ask, "How old are you then?"
		Anyone that says "Guess" when asked there age is obviously very young or very proud of the work they've had done.
		I looked hard and realised there had been no work, that wrinkle free skin had not been peeled or pulled.
	what-happened-next.blogspot.com /2005/04/old-maid.html (348 words)

	Old Maid Card Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Packaged in a nostalgic collectible tin, this delightful version of a favorite card game features bright, colorful images of toy icons with it's original product number and the year of introduction on every card.
		Deal out some fun and some memories with this delightful version of Old Maid from Fisher-Price.
		Eventually all the cards will have been discarded except one, the old maid and the holder of this "Old Maid" loses.
	www.opamerica.com /product_info.php/products_id/640 (243 words)

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