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Example:Origins: Although recent events have inspired an e-mail-circulated version featuring a soldier serving in Afghanistan, the tale about a serviceman using a deck of ordinary playing cards as an aid to prayer and meditation dates at least to at least 1788. The popular song “Deck of Cards“ (sometimes known as “A Soldier’s Prayer Book”) was written in 1948 by “T.” Texas Tyler and was recorded by (among others) Tex Ritter in 1948, Wink Martindale in 1959, and Bill Anderson in

1991.

In that 1948 musical offering, the story is set during World War II and stars a soldier whose outfit, which has been fighting in North Africa, is newly arrived at Casino. One Sunday morning, some of the soldiers in that unit go to church; those who have prayer books read them during the service, but one soldier pulls out a deck of cards, prompting his sergeant to haul this apparent blasphemer before the provost marshal. In the e-mailed version of fifty-five years later, certain details about this prologue to the cards’ meanings have been updated to better fit the current climate: the soldier sits alone in a bunkhouse rather than with his buddies in church because he’s in a non-Christian country, and he turns to his deck of playing cards not because of a shortage of prayer books for the congregation but because Bibles are supposedly banned in Afghanistan. Once those scene-setting details are out of the way, the two versions dovetail, with the meanings of each of the cards agreeing from one version to the other.

Differences between the two versions aside, is it an account of an actual event? The 1948 song concludes with “Friends, I know this story is true, because I knew that soldier,” a statement that on the surface would seem to confirm the veracity of the narrative. However, tellers of tales do sometimes add flourishes of such nature to their offerings, especially those of an inspirational or tear-jerking nature.

Moreover, a broadsheet titled “The Soldier’s Prayer-Book” which recounts the same story as the 1948 song “Deck of Cards” appears in an 1865 book about the history of playing cards. French versions of the tale were printed in 1778 and 1809. Throughout the years the story about the soldier, his playing cards, and his explanation of their meanings to a superior he’s been brought before has gone by many names: Deck of Cards, The Soldier’s Prayer Book, Cards Spiritualized. Some of the meanings assigned to the pasteboards have changed too: the queen symbolized the Queen of Sheba instead of Mary, and the jack was a knave. The older versions also mention the deck being divided into thirteen ranks, one for each (lunar) month, a detail dropped from more contemporary versions in recognition of modern society having moved away from the lunar calendar.

Some point out that if you count up all the spots on the cards, you come up with only 364, not the 365 claimed. The 1865 version contained an explanation for that, which has also been dropped from newer accounts:

When I count how many spots there are in a pack of cards, I find there are three hundred and sixty-five, there are so many days in the year.

Stop, said the mayor that is a mistake. I grant it, said the soldier, but as I have never yet seen an Almanack that was teoroughly [sic] correct in all points it would have been impossible for me to have imitated an Almanack exactly without a mistake. Your observations are very correct said the mayor. Go on.

Given that the tale has been in print since 1778, if the author of the 1948 song “knew that soldier,” as he claimed in the final line of the song, he was very long-lived indeed.

Other catechism-type songs have been around for centuries. One such musical delight many (erroneously) think falls into this category is “The 12 Days of Christmas,” but a genuine example of the genre is “A New Dial,” a question-and-answer song dating to at least 1625, which assigns religious meanings to each of the twelve days of Christmas:

What are they that are but one?
We have one God alone
In heaven above sits on His throne.

What are they which are by two?
Two testaments, the old and new,
We do acknowledge to be true.

What are they which are but three?
Three persons in the Trinity
Which make one God in unity.

What are they which are but four
Four sweet Evangelists there are,
Christ’s birth, life, death which do declare.

What are they which are but five?
Five senses, like five kings, maintain
In every man a several reign.

What are they which are but six?
Six days to labor is not wrong,
For God himself did work so long.

What are they which are but seven?
Seven liberal arts hath God sent down
With divine skill man’s soul to crown.

What are they which are but eight?
Eight Beatitudes are there given
Use them right and go to heaven.

What are they which are but nine?
Nine Muses, like the heaven’s nine spheres,
With sacred tunes entice our ears.

What are they which are but ten?
Ten statutes God to Moses gave
Which, kept or broke, do spill or save.

What are they which are but eleven?
Eleven thousand virgins did partake
And suffered death for Jesus’ sake.

What are they which are but twelve?
Twelve are attending on God’s son;
Twelve make our creed. The Dial’s done.

Barbara “guest who’s coming to sinner?” Mikkelson

Glabb, Charles. “His Prayer Answered.”

The Toronto Star. 26 November 1995 (p E4).

Jones, Rebecca. “God Deals Deck of Cards.”

Denver Rocky Mountain News. 9 May 1999 (p. D12).

Osborne, Jerry. “Country Hit’s Faith is in the Cards.”

Chicago Sun-Times. 26 July 1996 (Weekend Plus; p. 22).

'In this house we' ASCII house posts

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I've just randomly come across this trending on Twitter, and while it started at least months ago on Tumblr, it seems to have only really taken off in the last few days.

The earliest I've found is this Tumblr post from November 15, 2016, which says this:

┏┓
┃┃╱╲ In this
┃╱╱╲╲ house
╱╱╭╮╲╲ we love
▔▏┗┛▕▔ & appreciate
╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲
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╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲
▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔

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This is the general format most of the early Tumblr posts followed, more of which can be found on the in-this-house-we account, which has been running since February 28.

However, its recent surge on Twitter usually follows a shortened form of just 'in this house we…' seen below:

┏┓
┃┃╱╲ in
┃╱╱╲╲ this
╱╱╭╮╲╲house
▔▏┗┛▕▔ we
╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲
[your text here]
╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲
▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔

You can find plenty of examples by searching in this house we on Twitter, and more are being posted all the time.

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