Trivia #2: The Poker Playing Skill of What Former Hamburger Stand Operator Almost Got Him Killed?

Self | July 14, 2016 | PJ-Comix

[PJ-Comix]

The Poker Playing Skill of What Former Hamburger Stand Operator Almost Got Him Killed?

The only clue I will give today is that you have ALL heard of this person. If nobody gets the correct answer today, I will give a new clue tomorrow and a new clue on each subsequent day that no one guesses the correct answer.

[GreenLanternCorps]

I was thinkig it was Burger Chef...

[MichaelRDanger]

JFK...

[Kommodor]

That is just ... wow.

Pity he didn’t use much of those poker skills in 72-75.

[rockinqsranch]

Interesting. Thanks for the post.

[blueunicorn6]

I was going to guess Barney Frank, but then I remembered that he ran a whorehouse and not a hamburger stand.

[Vaquero]

[Vaquero]

Yeah Barney ‘Frank’ ran a sort of ‘Weiner’ stand.

[IC Ken]

My guess Ronald Reagan.

[Boogieman]

Dave Thomas?

[PJ-Comix]

I did a bit of research and it turns out that Hardee losing his share in the business at poker was not true. HOWEVER, check out the STORY OF HARDEE'S and it is just as fascinating. It turned out that Wilber Hardee lost his interest from the get go with his partners by giving them the majority of the interest in the company. His mistake was not telling them to take, say, 20% each and keeping the majority 60% for himself. The rest of the story about Mr. Hardee is quite interesting.

[xp38]

Smith and Wesson beats Four Acrs in Poker

[Captain Peter Blood]

I have read a good deal on Nixon and for some reason he came immediately to mind when I saw your question. Few people now would know that little trivia answer on Nixon.

I am reading Carlo D’Este’s bio on Eisenhower and of course Ike was a master poker player, supplementing his meager salary with cards.

[PJ-Comix]

Dave Thomas?

No but Dave Thomas lived in Ft. Lauderdale. He used to go to the Swap Shop a lot and my friend, Ken Norton, used to see him there where they became friends. Ken told me that Dave Thomas actually thought up the Amazon book selling idea before Amazon.

[PJ-Comix]

I am reading Carlo D’Este’s bio on Eisenhower and of course Ike was a master poker player, supplementing his meager salary with cards.

Ike was so good at poker that he had to quit because he was taking too much money from his fellow officers. Eisenhower used to play poker with McArthur and the Phillipine president while stationed in the Phillipines. While president, Eisenhower used his poker skills to bluff the Chinese during an incident in the Taiwan straits.

[Rastus]

I don’t remember the details, but Homer Hickam, who wrote Rocket Boys (October Sky), wrote a series of books about a lighthouse operator’s son who winds up in WWII. The second one briefly involved both Nixon and JFK in the South Pacific, with Nixon fully in the role of gambling “guy who can get you anything.”

[PJ-Comix]

Nixon was so deep into poker that he passed up the opportunity to meet Charles Lindberg who was visiting his island in order to play his regularly scheduled poker game.

[Spirit of Liberty]

Ronald McDonald.

[PJ-Comix]

Somebody told me the first Ronald McDonald was the guy who was the Today Show weatherman before the current one.

[oldvirginian]

Boggles the mind, don’t it.

Just shows how corrupt our media is.
The MSM is the illegitimate child of an uncaring democrat baby daddy and an enabling republican baby mama.

There ain’t enough lamp posts and rope to hang’em all.

[Spirit of Liberty]

Willard Scott. At McDonalds in Alexandria, VA.

Per internet. LOL