[blml] Pathos of Paddy, as rendered by Boucicault

[David Burn]

Saint Patrick's Day no more we'll keep, his colour can't be seen, 
For there's a cruel law agin the wearin' o' the Green.

[RH]

Ergo, I would argue that under the 1997 and 2007 Lawbooks it is only a
player's lucky guess after partner's enforced pass which can be defined as
Rub of the Green. If so, Eric's qualms about Law 27D abolishing Rub of the
Green are baseless, since Law 27D itself states that it does not apply when
the partner of the insufficient bidder is compelled to pass.  (But, of
course, Law 23 may apply.)

[DALB]

Well, suppose a pair sits down at the wrong table in a pairs event and is
the only East-West pair to bid a slam that makes. They are hustled away from
the wrong table before they can play the second board of the round, but as I
understand the rules, their opponents are stuck with their bottom for the
board actually played at their table. Rub of the Green? Or something else?

Leech from these elements all that is soluble,
Toss in a lump of the valueless voluble,
Set it to simmer and keep it in kegs,
And the Laws of Two Thousand and Eight are the dregs.

David Burn
London, England