It just so happens I was at a 1984 show (Chicago, Mill Run Theater, Niles, IL to be exact, April 13... check it out on Wayne's site:
http://www.lightfoot.ca/1984.htm
and I agree the absolute best show starter!
and I checked out "dealing shoe" as earlier mentioned and found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_(cards)
pretty much explains it all...
But the flywheel analogy still stumps me... and the "We're" part??? is that all of us or does "we" mean Gord and his band???
Dang, it's too earlier in the morning for such deep thoughts...
just another example of, to use Gords words..."And if you meet him you must be
The victim of his minstrelsy "...