[DrC]

Thanks for the explanation of an inside straight, which I’ve heard repeatedly, but never actually understood until your explanation (I obviously spend too much time on FR and too little time playing poker).

The actual title of the post was: “Tea Party Nation has the inside straight on Egypt” It then says “Kathleen Gose at Tea Party Nation writes:” and proceeds to provide all this “insider” information about what’s going on.

I’m wondering whether the blogger didn’t simply mean that TPN (meaning Kathleen Gose at TPN) has the “inside dope” or “inside information” on what’s really going on. I don’t see how the blogger could have really intended to say “inside straight” unless she didn’t know the meaning of the term, i.e., that it meant the opposite of what she thought it did.

[Upstate NY Guy]

I’m wondering whether the blogger didn’t simply mean that TPN (meaning Kathleen Gose at TPN) has the “inside dope” or “inside information” on what’s really going on.

Thanks. That must be it.

I don't think too many people today know what an Inside Straight is. And there are several Poker terms that have found their way into the vernacular and lost some of their original meaning. For instance "passing the buck". And Poker itself is changing all the time. I have no idea what the terms "The River" and "The Turn" mean in Texas Holdem because I have pretty much lost interest in Poker.