Crazy People

Here's something interesting. Take a look at Artful Looter. As an Unhinged card, it contains several jokes that aren't always quite discernible. Here's what I've found so far:

• Its ability is the same as that of Merfolk Looter and it is named "Artful Looter"
• The painting it is stealing is the 7th Edition art of Merfolk Looter
• The windows are broken but the door is open.
• There is glass on the outside of the door, implying that the glass on the door was broken from the inside.

In the flavor text:

• The date of the paper is "Thursday April 1". The next time April 1st falls on a Thursday is 2006. The last time was 2000. (The date of the art was '03)
• The main headline "Priceless Pic Pilfered: Painting Found Abandoned in Graveyard" has alliteration (I don't know why), and the second line alludes to the discard portion of the ability.
• A smaller headline "Merfolk Decry Wizards' Treatment". The "Wizards", as in Wizards of the Coast, decided to remove the Merfolk as the blue race in the Core Set starting with 8th Edition. So the Merfolk are upset.
• The other small headline reads "Local Monster Goes AWOL: Police" and the rest is obscured. AWOL is another Unhinged card.

And that's all that I found.

Furthermore, Chess. I finished the "Save" portion of the program. But it's not worth anything if it can't be loaded, so I'm working on that now. Nothing else new.

Well, until next time, remember: Inside jokes are outside logic.

---TDM