XFausto: -- and even if I win, the payout is peanuts! What kind of idiot you take me for?
Blaine: Them's the odds I got, old man. You don't like it, take it up with Sanderson. He the one throwing a jack in.
Sal: You don't hurry up, Fausto, we gonna miss the damn race you're betting on.
Fausto: Saints-forsaken bloodsucking bookies --
Sal: Did that kid say Sanderson was racing?
Fausto: Oui. Half car himself this year, but he gonna run.
Sal: You're kidding.
Fausto: Not in the least, my man. Can't see what for, myself. If he wins, they'll say it was the implants, and if he loses he's useless metalhead trash. Either way, I reckon the bookies ought t'be layin' odds on him livin' the night.
Sal: I meant more that racing the track that stole your arm, your eyes, and most of your face takes a very special kind of crazy.
Fausto: Ah well. That too.
Blaine: Them's the odds I got, old man. You don't like it, take it up with Sanderson. He the one throwing a jack in.
Sal: You don't hurry up, Fausto, we gonna miss the damn race you're betting on.
Fausto: Saints-forsaken bloodsucking bookies --
Sal: Did that kid say Sanderson was racing?
Fausto: Oui. Half car himself this year, but he gonna run.
Sal: You're kidding.
Fausto: Not in the least, my man. Can't see what for, myself. If he wins, they'll say it was the implants, and if he loses he's useless metalhead trash. Either way, I reckon the bookies ought t'be layin' odds on him livin' the night.
Sal: I meant more that racing the track that stole your arm, your eyes, and most of your face takes a very special kind of crazy.
Fausto: Ah well. That too.
When last we saw.... Fausto - Sal - Blaine
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June 15, 2009
Wow, we haven't seen Fausto for a while.
'Throwing a jack in' : the full expression is 'throwing a jack into the ladies,' referring to two popular gambling games, the old standby of blackjack and a game called Fair Ladies which uses very different rules and a different deck. To put a jack in, therefore, is to cause a particularly meaningless (and unprofitable) bit of confusion.
'Metalhead': one of several uncomplimentary terms, by no means the worst, for a cyborg. Cyborg implants are cheaper and faster than growing new limbs, but implants are generally irreversible, extremely visible, and loaded down with any number of unpleasant potential side effects. This -- alongside some complicated cultural and class issues -- have kept cyborg implants from becoming socially acceptable, much less popular.
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