Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:44:13 EST

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Re: case Õcoinþ



On case quarters, nickels, etc.: I'm not familiar with that usage, but it

strikes me as somehow evocative of the card (at least poker) player's use of

"case X" (case queen, six, ace, etc.), meaning the last one in the deck. If I

have three deuces I might (although no doubt I shouldn't) stay in the hand with

the hope of drawing the case deuce, or if you're showing a pair of kings in

stud poker and Kim is showing one, I can still hope to draw the case king. I'm

not sure how or why this should be related to your case nickel, but it seems to

me it is.



--Larry