Some day, somewhere … a guy is going to come to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is never broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that the jack of spades will jump out of this deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son … do not bet him, for as sure as you do you are going to get an ear full of cider. (From the short story , Collier's Weekly, January 28, 1933. Used with slightly different wording in the musical -- both the 1950 stage and the 1955 film versions.)
Damon Runyon