"Bad Luck Blues", alt "Gambler's Lament" (hoopiejohn 0riginal)
Channel: hoopiejohn
Date: 2015-02-08

"Bad Luck Blues" (hoopiejohn original) 
alt title: "Gambler's Lament"

I wrote this song after losing 500+ dollars at Harrah's Cherokee Resort Casino, across the mountains on the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina.

I had Bad Luck.

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About "Mavis", my pedigreed Turkish Angora ("Wonder") cat:

The Turkish Angora is thought, through genetic testing, to be the original long-haired domesticated cat, and an ancient and rare breed that almost went extinct by breeding them to create the long-haired, flat-faced Persian cat breed. 

The Ankara, Turkey zoo now has a program to preserve this breed and genotype (just the all-white ones like "Mavis" though - no colors) for posterity, and to insure that breed extinction can never happen. 

One ancient story is that the Prophet Mohammed had a Turkish Angora that he dearly loved. The cat ("Muezza") was sleeping on the sleeve of his prayer robe when it was time for him to go 
to prayers (Adhan). Rather than disturb her, he cut that sleeve off and went to prayers wearing a prayer robe with only one sleeve.

And if you've seen enough James Bond films, the cat on arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld's lap is a white Turkish Angora: http://i2.cdnds.net/11/41/618_movies_bond_villians_ernst_05.jpg

And Heathcliff's girlfriend, Sonja is a white Turkish Angora: http://fishlover.deviantart.com/art/Heathcliff-Loves-Sonja-122862819

Turkish Angora facts:

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Angora
Cats 101: http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/cats-101/videos/turkish-angora/
Cat Fanciers Association: http://www.cfa.org/breeds/breedssthrut/turkishangora.aspx
 
When I purchased my cat - "Mavis" - the guy selling her told me that she was out of that line of Grand Champion cats that began with "King Gilgamesh" and "Lady Beyza". So I was going to show her the next time that there was big cat show in either Knoxville, Tennessee, or in Asheville, North Carolina. 

But the Cat Fanciers Association secretary told me that I needed some paper work concerning her pedigree. So I called the guy up who sold her to me, AND NOW THE ASSHOLE tells me that her papers got sold in a storage locker auction and were unavailable! 

I guess I lost that $700.00 too.

I had Bad Luck.
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I wear the ski mask because I'm otherwise famous, and don't want this to "get out".