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Shell Game

Lottie played Luigi’s game,
Paid in queer and split for Maine.

Brady was Luigi’s shill.
Took ’is pay in phony bills.

When ’e saw the bread was phony,
’E sent it off for alimony

To ’is old lady,
Lottie Brady.

By Michael Swaine

Michael Swaine was part of the launch team for the first personal computer newsweekly, InfoWorld. He co-authored Fire in the Valley, the seminal computer history book on which the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley was based. He was the long-time editor of Dr. Dobb’s Journal and of PragPub and has launched, written for, and edited numerous other magazines.

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