So while convalescing here in my study, I went on MTGO to play a couple games of cards, when this stupid discussion happened.

2:54 Tobleron: hmm I was 16 when that came out anyone want to take a gander at my age? hehe
2:54 pdragon616: a "gander"? Gander does not equal "guess".
2:54 Dork: lol @ pdragon for not knowing what gander means
2:55 pdragon616: gander == "look" or "the mate of a goose", but not "a guess"
2:56 pdragon616: Look it up before you laugh at me, Dork, and learn the language. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gander

At this point, I received a private message from the MTGO adept (basically, a room moderator, who's sad existence largely consists of telling people to stop talking.).  He told me I was not allowed to post links to anything other than Wizard's website, it's a violation of MTGO policy.  This policy was established to prevent people from posting links to competing sites, or inappropriate sites.  I informed the moderator of that fact and went on to say that the policy was never intended to be enforced in a knee-jerk fashion... a link to the dictionary should be pretty safe.  I'm just pissing off everyone today, I guess.  Anyway I figured the conversation was over, but Tobleron and Dork were not through with me:

2:56 Tobleron: you can take a gander however
2:56 Dork: 2.Slang. a look: Take a gander at his new shoes.
2:56 Dork: You look it up, moron

Are you as mystified as I? Tobleron clearly used it to mean "take a guess" and here Dork calling me a moron because it can be used to mean "take a look" which is, unless I'm mistaken, what I just said.  But you know me, I'll say it again:

2:56 pdragon616: No duh you can "take a gander", but that means "TAKE A LOOK", silly!
2:57 Boyardee: take a gander= take a look or have a look-see!
2:57 pdragon616: thank you
2:57 Tobleron: I was the one that used it lol. scroll up
2:57 pdragon616: yes, you are the one who used it WRONG
2:57 Dork: were in america, people use words in slang forms, we use words in other ways than they are meant

So a person chimes in to agree with me, Tobleron seems to think I'm confused about who said what, and Dork thinks the entire internet is in America, and that I don't know what "slang" is.  I expected that at this point, other people might start jumping on Dork.  I was right. It was also time for more chiming in of relevant and irrelevant commentary:

2:57 Tobleron: we're where?
2:58 Campton: Dork talk for yourself
2:58 OceanBreeze: a gander is a male goose
2:58 Boyardee: Dork you're an idiot, but when i say that i mean "idiot" as in "cool guy"
2:58 pdragon616: Dork, in american slang "take a gander" does not mean "take a guess" no matter how bad you want it to mean that, foo
2:58 Campton: take a gander means have a look
2:58 OceanBreeze: its means retrieve a male goose
2:59 pdragon616: 'take a gander at' - Look at, glance at, as in 'Will you take a gander at that woman's red hair!' This slangy idiom, dating from the early 1900s, presumably came from the verb gander, meaning "stretch one's neck to see," possibly alluding to the long neck of the male goose. For a synonym, see 'take a look at'.
2:59 Tobleron: k I am glad I made you all debate and look in the dictionary I am off to the lake!!
2:59 Boyardee: whats good for the goose is good for the guess?
2:59 Durante: All right now, who's stealing geese?

Durante wants to know who's taking all the ganders.    Conversation over, right?  Nope.  First comes more PM's from the moderator.  I'm having a discussion again, and that's not permitted, and apparently I'm harassing Dork.  As you can tell, my patience for the MTGO moderators is pretty thin.  Let me describe for you the MTGO casual room window.  At the top of the screen is a list of all the active "tables" (games), you can sort this list in any manner you like, although the most sensible way to sort it is by "Status" as this puts games that are waiting to start at the top where you can easily see them and decide what game you'd like to play.  Beneath this is a list of completed games, and beneath that is the chat window, where all the players can post chat messages.  However from the moderator's perspective this is what that window should look like:

Joe: std
Barney: ext
Alice: std
Fred: classic
Dork: std
Peanuts: ext
Jank: prismatic
Bored: ext
Kablooie: singleton

This exciting conversation is players posting a note to say that they just opened up a new table (game) and the format of game they've started... std=standard, ext=extended, etc.  This is, however, inherently stupid, since all open games can be sorted in the game list window, so there really is no need to advertise games in the chat window.  And therefore players tend to ignore the moderator and have discussions until he threatens to ban someone, and it's a good thing too, because otherwise hanging out in the casual room would be pretty dull.  According to the moderators, discussing MTG is acceptable, but any discussion that lasts for more than a minute, even one about MTG, will result in the moderator telling people to be quiet or take it to another room.  Anyway while I'm getting harangued by the moderator, the conversation continues, Dork isn't going to give up, and he's got iron-clad proof:

2:59 Dork: 5. gander 4 up, 6 down a guess based on only assumptions, www.urbandictionary.com
2:59 Dork: look for your self Gander - a guess based on only assumptions
3:00 Durante: pdragon is right
3:00 OceanBreeze: best conversation ever
3:00 Dork: urbandictionary is a user submitted dictionary, word submitted on December 18th, proving that OTHER people use it as a form of "guess"
3:00 Dork: therefore, you're WRONG
3:00 Durante: other people are idiots...
3:01 Abrogate: nobody says gander anymore cause we are too urban to think about geese
3:01 LoinGirder: Newsflash: Just because you can find other idiots who use a phrase incorrectly does not make it correct
3:01 Durante: I would go with standard usage over one person
3:01 Dork: 2:58 pdragon616: Dork, in american slang "take a gander" does not mean "take a guess" no matter how bad you want it to mean that, foo ---- you wanna say that again? make your self look like more of an idiot, you got really quiet really fast

Apparently during this two minutes while I was dealing with the moderator, I didn't post anything, and Dork took this as some sort of triumph.  In the meantime another couple people have chimed in to tell him he's wrong, and Abrogate's post still makes me laugh.  We are too urban to think about geese.  It's kind of hard to take 'urbandictionary' seriously since all the defnitions are user submitted, and there is even less oversight there than at wikipedia.  It certainly isn't like a real dictionary of slang.

3:02 pdragon616: urbandictionary is created by popular submission you twit, it isn't an authoritative source!!! YOU could submit your ignorant definition there. Big deal, proves nothing.
3:02 Abrogate: lol take a look and take a guess are obviously different in meaning
3:02 OneRingToRuleThemAll: of course
3:02 Orbital: probably did submit his own definition while you were all chatting, lol
3:02 Dork: exactly, you said no one uses it as guess, I proved you wrong, people do use it as a form of "guess"
3:03 OneRingToRuleThemAll: Dork,no one uses the words guess and look interchangably
3:03 pdragon616: urbandictionary also says that "Gander = Dander", as in "gets my gander up", obviously submitted by a halfwit who doesn't know what he's talking about and misheard the phrase... urbandictionary is the toilet-bug of dictionaries... Don't waste my time.
3:04 Orbital: urbandictionary = joke
3:04 Orbital: this argument is really getting my gander up
3:04 PutzModerator: Please stop this discussion now

At this point Dork finally went away.  Probably because he too was getting harangued by the moderator.  And I pondered this conversation for a bit and decided to share it here.  I hate trying to have discussions on the 'net anyway.  Nobody ever understands anyone and it usually devolves into pointless quibbling.  So anyone here think I was wrong to disparage UrbanDictionary.com?

Many years ago, when I first started playing MTG (which was probably around 1996 or thereabouts), the basic set in print was Fifth Edition.  At that time, WotC had already begun reprinting older cards to include in the basic set and one of the cards in this, the largest of all basic sets, was Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore reprinted from the Legends set with new and tragically shittier artwork, as shown at right.  Original artwork is shown at left.

As creatures go, the Evil Eye was an oinker.  We've discussed MTG before so you probably can tell by looking at the top-right of this card, it costs 5 mana to play: 1 black mana, and 4 of any color.  That's pretty expensive.  Down at the bottom right is the power and toughness of the evil eye.  As you can see the eye has a power of 3 and a toughness of 6.  The power is how much damage the eye deals if it hits your opponent or one of your opponent's creatures.  The toughness is how much damage it takes to destroy the evil eye, and six is pretty steep.  It makes the eye hard to kill.

And the best thing about the eye is its ability to slip past all blocking creatures except those of type "Wall".  Now to be fair, at the time the eye was printed (and reprinted) there were many wall-creatures.  They didn't see a lot of play, but it wouldn't be completely outrageous for a deck to pack a couple.  Unfortunately the eye's big drawback was that if you had an evil eye in play, the only creatures you could attack with would be evil eyes.  Any other creatures you had could only be used as blockers or for whatever other activated abilities those creatures might have.

Still, not too bad right?  All you had to do was play with a lot of evil eyes.  Yeah well, that was the problem.  There were no other evil eyes.  It was Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore or nothing, and in a deck of 60 cards, you were only allowed 4 copies of the evil eye.  And thus, Evil Eye went largely unplayed.  Any deck built around it would have to go to great lengths to dig it out and get it into play, and if you were going to go to those lengths, there were far better creatures you could get.  Any deck not built around it, was not going to play it since it would lock down all the other creatures in the deck.

When I first spotted Evil Eye, I immediately wanted to build a deck for it, simply because it was such a hokey creature, but given that there was only one Evil Eye, it just wasn't feasible.  At the time there was one other card which could potentially attack with an Evil Eye, and that card was Clone.  Clone hadn't been reprinted and was therefore, old, rare, and expensive to purchase.  But since Clone became a copy of another creature when it came into play, you could play it and turn it into another Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore if you already had one out.  That meant you had potentially 8 eyes in your deck.  Still not really enough.

So despite my desire to build an Eye deck, I didn't see an easy way to do it, so I played other decks instead.  After many years Clone was reprinted, making it more accessible, but it still wasn't enough.  Then when the set Legions came out (2003?), a card was included called Mistform Ultimus.  Ultimus was a 3/3 creature for 4 mana, not bad, and his rules text said that he was every creature type.  Which meant that Ultimus, the legendary illusion, could be whatever you wanted him to be... including an Evil Eye.  That put a player at 12 eyes, which is beginning to be playable.  Except for one minor hitch... Ultimus is Legendary, and there can only be one copy of any given Legend in play at any time.  Therefore if your opening hand contained, say, two Ultimi, one of them is a dead card.  So in reality, you only have 9 eyes, not 12, and that still is agonizingly low to build a deck around.

But with the release of the latest set, Time Spiral, the last set to be released in 2006, Evil Eye decks have finally become feasible.  Both Mistform Ultimus, and Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore (with the original artwork) were reprinted in Time Spiral, and Clone was reprinted in the latest basic set (9th Edition).  And in addition to this, there are two new cards in Time Spiral that also can be played in an eye deck... Evil Eye of Urborg and Vesuvan Shapeshifter:

Now there is another fullblown evil eye!  Adding 4 Eyes of Urborg brings my total to 13 eyes.  Then there's Vesuvan Shapeshifter which has an ability very similar to that of Clone, in that it can copy an existing creature, and therefore that is another 4 eyeballs to play with.  So if your deck runs, say 4 Clone, 4 Vesuvan Shapeshifter, 4 Evil Eyes of Urborg, 4 Evil Eyes of Orms-by-Gore, and oh, maybe 2 Mistform Ultimus, then you've got a total of 18 critters that follow the theme.  You've also got an obscenely slow deck since everything costs 4 or more.  But you have at least gotten to the point where a reasonable eyeball deck can be built.

So I built one (two in fact), and every now and then I play one online and have a laugh.  Here's one game that went very well for me and for my opponent, not so much:

In that game I used the enchantment Followed Footsteps to make copies of one of my eyeballs and stomp my opponent with a tide of eyes.  After 10 years of wanting to see something just like this, it was very fun.