[blml] Obviously this is the prime duty

[David Burn]

[HD]

What happens if Herman makes David Burn's suggestion that we not hear
partner's explanations a literal reality? People who believe that they
cannot awaken Partner with UI simply carry around pads of paper, and write
their explanations on it.

[DALB]

By coincidence, this morning I picked up an old Bridge World magazine
(February 2004). In the Editorial, Jeff Rubens suggested exactly such a
procedure. Indeed, he proposed the use of a "communication card" on which
were written the numbers from 1 to 40, the suit symbols, and terms such as
"hcp", "non-forcing", "no agreement" and so on. Playing with screens the
procedure as Hirsch describes it is exactly what happens. Were such a
proposal actually to be introduced, of course, everyone would complain like
fury. Just as they did about bidding boxes.

In my student days, a group of us created a "post-mortem" card with
expressions such as "sorry", "you cretin", "partner", "I should have
played", "a diamond", "with the next-door neighbour's cat instead of you",
and the like. They became quite popular.

David Burn
London, England