Euchred!

going through "24" withdrawal the other day, i decide to walk up to the video store and rent the last series. i get all the way up there only to discover it's gone. it's been rented and there'll be no sign of it for two whole days. 

well, you know how it is when an addiction sets in. it's one thing to know you've got a fix just around the corner. a completely different story when your dealer just rented out the last goddamned copy of season six. i'm just about to get medieval on this guy, when my phone rings… it's a friend of mine inviting me over to play Euchre. yes! the perfect distraction to keep me from crawling the walls.

i unchain the clerk and zoom home to get my cards.

we're sitting there at the table, pleasantly distracted, toes, eyes, nostrils, and eyebrows working out our secret codes when i look into my hand and see a bower… Jack... Bauer.
'oh cruel world'
so Robert Cochran and Joel Surnow et al were Euchre players, hmm.

moot or hooey?

the term "bower", in euchre, comes from the German word "bauer". it's also a word for "jack". and the "joker" was invented specially for the game of euchre non existant prior to that in a regular deck of cards

ps: Jack Bauer borrowed my gun for this photo shoot