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Jan-26-08
 | | Domdaniel: <euripides> Mi wantem, okay, but me actually travel anywhere, doesn't seem to work. Bagarap, in fact. My passport's lapsed, and apart from one trip to Denmark I haven't been *anywhere* in over five years. Melanesia seems long way way. Kava blong Vanuatu = numba wan numba? |
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| Jan-26-08 | | euripides: Ah we ! Oli should kilim ol passport finis.
Yes, numba tumas. Taem man i drinkim kave i no got sensation long legs mo man i save fall down long road. Taem man i draev after se hem i bin drinkim kava ol polis save stopem him from hem i go slow tumas. Mo man i no save beatim waef - mo progressive se Fosters. |
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Jan-26-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Hi <Dom>!!
you'll be pleased to know that voting for <THE COOLEST MAN IN THE 20th CENTURY> closes after the winner of <Corus> is declared. I have tabulated the voting so far in my forum.
Some (including yourself) have voted for more than one candidate, so feel free to vote again. |
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Jan-27-08
| | Domdaniel: <euripides> Hah ... great advertising line that -- "mo progressiv se Fosters". Any suggestion that there is any connection whatsoever between Mr Foster's fine alcoholic beverages and the practice of wife-beating was never intended, of course. |
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Jan-27-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> What do mean by "of" the 20th century. I may have been born there, but I left it behind quite some time ago. |
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Jan-27-08
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> So you watched the Battle of the Schakspetters in person, eh? |
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| Jan-27-08 | | achieve: Hey. I see my name up on the forum board!
Yeah, just came home from the Tourney-- it was SO crowded that I was hardly able to get to the front through some 10 packed rows of peuple... You may have been better shaped to "move through and in between" there... The most fun I had with good old crazy Korchnoi and Sosonko and Portish in the commentary/explanation room... That was a BLAST but I didn't sit out the games by a long shot... The trip took a lot of time and someone was so kind to run her bike into my "good" leg, which almost got me in rough and ugly fight-- but "railway-personnel" stepped in... I'm exhausted
"Podda pint o guinness there, will ya pal !?" (in Dublinese) |
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| Jan-27-08 | | achieve: <Dom> PS -- Korchnoi kept picking up those plastic pieces that Sosonko kept throwing on the floor deliberately, while Korchnoi kept yelling winning lines alla time with his high pitched "voice", probably already having downed 5 or 6 gins... It was chess heaven... |
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Jan-27-08
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> I'd love to have seen/heard that ... the only time I saw Korchnoi in action he was playing chess and (mostly) silent ... Guinness coming up. |
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Jan-28-08
| | Domdaniel: Dear Mr Google,
As I have an interest in large mammals, I entered the words "Hippos mating" in your famous search "engine" -- but the result horrified me:1. Weird chess games, mostly played by somebody called Suttles. 2. A poem by TS Eliot
3. A news story about a scientist in a hippo costume being rescued by a park ranger. What kind of filth do you call this? I'll go no more a-googling ... |
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| Jan-28-08 | | chessnet: Yes its full of filth just like dirty mind. You @#$%*@!! |
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| Jan-28-08 | | chessnet: Don't you have anything better to do in life ? You bloody old fart bastard. |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom..>
er... is <chessnut> one of your sock puppets? Or an old mate?
If not, I counsel caution...
"nice fellow, it seems. Colorful vocabulary.
But now, to business:
Here are the <calculating tools> I'm currently using to help me tabulate the votes for <COOLEST MAN OF THE 20th CENTURY>: Any and all help would be crucial.
<Sonneborn-Berger is a method to determine a tournament result if two players have an equal number of <<<wins>>>. It takes the opponents' wins into account. Example: Each player has played two games against each other player. 1 indicates a win, 0 a loss.  -------- -------- ----------------- ------------ 
| 1st | 2nd | won games | Sonneborn- |
| round | round | | Berger |
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| A B C D | A B C D | wins | opponent | wins |
-- -------- -------- ------ --------- -------------|
| A | - 1 1 1 | - 0 1 0 | 4 | B C C D | 4+3+3+1 = 11 |
| B | 0 - 1 1 | 1 - 0 1 | 4 | A C D D | 4+3+1+1 = 9 |
| C | 0 0 - 1 | 0 1 - 1 | 3 | B D D | 4+1+1 = 6 |
| D | 0 0 0 - | 1 0 0 - | 1 | A | 4 = 4 |
-- -------- -------- ------ --------- ------------ Player A and B both have 4 wins, thus the Sonneborn-Berger method is used to determine the tournament winner: For each won game the opponent's final primary score is added to the winner's Sonneborn-Berger score. For example, A won against B, C, C and D, his Sonneborn-Berger score is 4+3+3+1 = 11. B has a Sonneborn-Berger score of 9, thus A is the tournament winner.> Get back to me as soon as you can-- your <Professor Calculus> skills are needed. In the meantime, I'll be working on the problem in my forum. "A Little to the West, I think."
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Jan-28-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> I haven't a clue as to the identity or indeed the sockitude of our latest, ah, friend ... but caution, as you suggest, is a wise course. How does it go again? Did Sonneborn ever actually *play* Berger? And what fun they must have had tabulating their results. My great moment of tiebreak unfairness came when I 'won' a tournament with 5/6 -- 4 wins, 2 draws. Two other guys also had 5/6, but each had lost one game - to me. Naturally I assumed that streetfighting rules apply: I knocked 'em down, I win. Alas, it was not to be... according to some arcane bloody formula one of the other guys took the silverware. Which I didn't want anyway. I'd probably have lost it, and been barred for chess for years. Hang on, is *that* why I didn't play between 1990 and 2005? It's all starting to come back... Hit me on the head again please, doctor. |
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Jan-28-08
| | Domdaniel: <chessnet> Er, hello. *approaches with caution* ... Do you mind if I shoot you with a tranquilizer dart and make the result known to science? |
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Jan-28-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> PS. Whoever you-know-who is, I seem to have been on the receiving end of 25% of his ejaculations. In real life this signifies either commitment or stalking. Or both. |
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Jan-28-08
| | Domdaniel: <numbers> As Euripides and I were saying (in tok pidgin), if you want to get numb and number then the kava in Vanuatu can't be beat as a numbifier. Although, in general, any drug traditionally prepared with other people's saliva is not my cup of warm spittle. Meanwhile, another <number> discovery, from ancient India: Samkhya, the 'numbers school'. According to Samkhya philosophy, there is no creator, nothing divine, all matter is eternal and un-caused. But all matter has three qualities in varying degrees -- it is either more or less truthful, more or less passionate, more or less dark. Quarks in the dark. |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Hi <Dom>!!!
Yes, you're still "alive," but I'm afraid all contestants are at the Whim of the <Sonny Barger> algorithm, which I actually figured out how to use. NOT
heh |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Sugar Ray Robinson> Fought over 100 times-- lost only twice-- killed a man in the ring-- became a famous tap dancer while taking a break from boxing-- beaten by "jake la Motta" (portrayed by Robert deNiro) |
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Jan-28-08
| | Domdaniel: <famous tap dancer> ... *springing* from faucet to faucet, that's plumb loco. What about lead poisoning? What about <Mr Bojangles>? Iulius Plumbum, Imperator Domini |
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Jan-28-08
| | Domdaniel: <S-B> Didn't Hunter S Thompson write a book about Sonneborn Berger and the Hell's Angels? They whupped him like a red-haired stepchild, even though he was the coolest 20th century man. Invalid late vote. |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: tHANKS <Dom>...
Although this <sonny Barger> system is whacky. John Cale is supposed to be third, but look where he is according to the forumula!!! BTW, please alert <mack> to the publishing of the list as his numerous arcane nominations took a lot of research. Plus he has good taste, as it turns out. "Major Clem" is not only real, as it turns out, he's wicked good as well. Who knew?
Well I guess you did.
OK back to work.... your help has been invavleable so far... |
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Jan-28-08
| | Domdaniel: <Hippos> Just to prove I wasn't joking about the scientist in the hippo costume: <"I shall return."
(Paraphrasing the "scientist" who attempted to secure hippo "sweat" from inside a hippo costume that could survive a bite three times more powerful than that of a great white shark, which is a good idea because hippos kill more humans than any African mammal...and Africa has many big, capable mammals.) Trying to find the secret of the best, waterproof sunscreen, the good doctor got stuck in the mud and failed. He plans to return to try again. Why not use a zoo hippo? Seems he expects better secreted oils from other hippos. (Don't really follow why.) "Does my rump look big in this? A scientist has gone undercover in a 14-stone armoured hippopotamus suit in Zambia..." (John Harlow, TimesOnline)> http://russlings.blogspot.com/
"And the hippos were boiled in their tanks ... "
-- William S Burroughs |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: heh well dug up <dominus> that's hilarious and wierd too.
You'll be pleased to know i'm up to LUCKY THIRTEEN and both <you> and <Bill Burro> are still in the running, according to the <Barger algorithm>. |
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Jan-28-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Yeah, Mr mack, he don't just make people up, like what I do. He *never* jokes, in fact. It's the secret to his humour. Admittedly, I also thought Major Clem was one of those imaginary Brutish Army officer types, hobbies "rogering subalterns" and "collecting daguerrotypes of privates' privates". The usual type, in other words. How wrong can I be? |
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