OK.  The rule is, if you turn over a card, you also have to turn over all the
cards in the same column and the same row, unless the card is red, in which
case you only turn over the other red cards in the same column and the black
cards in the same row.  Of course, at any given time some of the cards are
likely to be face down, so you can't tell if they are red or black.  So if
the card is face down, just assume the worst and don't turn it over.  If you
do turn it over, then you should just turn it right back over, or if you
prefer, keep turning it over and over again like a new leaf that turns out
to be the same old leaf you turned over the last time you turned a new leaf.
Now, you and your partner should take turns turning over cards or, better
still, leave the cards be and turn leaves instead.  Yes.  Let's turn over
leaves instead of turning cards.  If the leaf turns out to be a maple leaf,
you should also turn all the leaves in the same row and the same column, or,
better still, you and your partner could take turns turning over all the
leaves on the same branch or the same twig, until it turns out to be time to
turn in, or until the sun shines surprisingly through the branches and makes
you think of other things.

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Sounds like fun to me. What if your card is purple, though?

Then the Purple People Eater will get you, rendering the issue
moot.

Hey, I always wanted to know, what is the purple people eater anyway? Is it
something that  eats purple people, or is it a people eater that happpens to
be purple? I could never figure that out.

You weren't meant to figure it out. It's an ambiguous phrase,
just like "Time flies like an arrow."

Ah. Got ya. Sort of like a power shortage in an outhouse, eh?

It's a classic bad joke by Bennet Cerf...

The purple people eater has one eye, one horn, and flies.

So it's sorta like a 747 then?

Maybe, unless it isn't. In which case, we will all stare at the moon until
our hair is green. Unless it already is. In which case we will run around in
circles until we faint. Unless we already have...

I already did all that, and moved on.

wow, you're ahead of me. I'm still staring at the waning moon, waiting for
a change in my hair colour. What comes after fainting, though?

Jimi Hendrix's rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner".

Oh. Yeah, that would work.

Of course, the patriots in the audience might prefer Hendrix, then fainting.

But that would ruin the natural order of it all! 

Ok. We can switch it. But only if the finalle is the Water Buffalo Song.

What about swooning?  When does that come in?

When you least expect it, mon ami!

"Oh, don't say fainted, Miles. Say swooned. It sounds so much more satisfying.
Better yet, say O.D.'d. It sound so much more truthful" (GETS UP, DANCES
AROUND GREG)..."

It's all LYnn's fault.

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