[spade7]

 Roby, on 2016-October-21, 04:53, said:

It might be just a joke from the days when Strong Pass systems were allowed. The bidding went:
Pass-(X)-Pass-Pass
Pass
Director!

A forcing pass auction from a national event many years ago:

East: Pass
South: Pass
West: Pass
North: Pass

The catch: The points were split 13-24-0-3 around the table.

East opened a forcing pass. South made a trap pass holding 24 HCP hoping to double whatever EW bid. Unfortunately he was unable to do this in tempo and West worked out what was going on so ignored his partner's forcing pass and passed. North passed in 4th seat with 3 HCP.

[yadny]

this one started off slowly, but then gained steam:
1♣ - 1♦
1♥ - 3NT
6NT - 7NT

(one off)

another pleasing one was

1♥ - (X) - XX - (1♥)

[PeterAlan]

 yadny, on 2016-October-24, 22:47, said:

this one started off slowly, but then gained steam:
1♣ - 1♦
1♥ - 3NT
6NT - 7NT

Partner once treated me to

1NT (12-14) - 2♣ (Stayman)
2♠ - 7NT

I don't have a record of the hands, but I remember having to pick up 4 ♠s to K 10 in order to make it.

[Cyberyeti]

A couple of other funnies:

Round the table 4♠-5♥-5♠-6♥-6♠-7♥-X +2470

A hand where I don't remember the exact auction, but we bid and made a slam after my RHO had overcalled a perfectly legit 15-17 1N, I had an 841 hand with 8 hearts to the A10, partner had Qx it wasn't difficult to pick up the Kx in the hole on this auction.

[ArtK78]

Two quickies:

From a local round robin team match.

P - (P) - 1♠ - (P)
6♠

At which point the next player, a friend of mine, asked if 6♠ was Drury!

12 tricks.

The second was from a morning matchpoint side game at an ACBL Nationals many years ago.

My LHO passed out of turn. The TD was called and ruled that LHO was barred from the auction. The dealer, my RHO, then opened 1♣.

"Alert!" announced my LHO. Could be short!

[Zelandakh]

 ArtK78, on 2016-October-25, 06:45, said:

My LHO passed out of turn. The TD was called and ruled that LHO was barred from the auction.

Presumably only for one round of it...?

[ArtK78]

 Zelandakh, on 2016-October-25, 07:59, said:

Presumably only for one round of it...?

This was about 40 years ago. The rule then (if I remember correctly) was that a pass out of turn resulted in the player being barred for the entire auction.

In any event, it really doesn't matter for the story.

[ggwhiz]

Two Canadians playing in the Boston NABC's both recent immigrants, one Polish and the other Scottish and they brought their accents with them.

Waiting for the first round to start, they are up against a Polish pair and it's like old home week as three of them are blathering on in Polish and catching up on news from the old country.

First hand, the Polish pair has a long free run auction with almost every bid alerted. Before leading our Polish-Canadian asks for a complete explanation and gets it.

The Scot erupts... I understand you guys are happy to see each other but once play begins you MUST speak English!

The Poles... But sir, we WERE!