[Phil]

Very sorry to hear Winston. Best wishes.

[jjbrr]

+1 best wishes

nice to see us hijackers looking after one another

[mike777]

Best wishes Winston....God Bless you and your family.

[blackshoe]

Sorry your wife is ill, Winston. Best wishes to her and to you.

[Aberlour10]

cross my fingers for you both.

[Aberlour10]

I won 10 € in a tricky bet yesterday while talking with friends about the current Snooker WC. What is the maximal score the snooker player can reach in one frame?
What would you say? heh

[gwnn]

Aberlour10, on 2012-May-03, 06:37, said:

I won 10 € in a tricky bet yesterday while talking with friends about the current Snooker WC. What is the maximal score the snooker player can reach in one frame?
What would you say? heh

153 isn't it? Something related to a free ball.

edit: looked it up and it's 155, of course, 147+8(pocketing a black as free ball, or what the expression is). math fail by gwnn

[Aberlour10]

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gwnn, on 2012-May-03, 06:41, said:

153 isn't it? Something related to a free ball.

edit: looked it up and it's 155, of course, 147+8(pocketing a black as free ball, or what the expression is). math fail by gwnn

correct, its the max score that a player can reach in one break, but he may score theoretically more in one frame and this was the question here.

PS, This 10€ note disappeared immediately in the black hole = waiter's pocket

[gwnn]

Well what if I snooker my opponent and he keeps missing, don't I keep getting 4 points forever? I'm lazy to look it up (in fact, maybe it's not even 4 points but some other amount I can't remember).

[WellSpyder]

Aberlour10, on 2012-May-03, 06:56, said:

its the max score that a player can reach in one break, but he may score theoretically more in one frame and this was the question here.

Surely there isn't a theoretical maximum, given unlimited scope for penalties from snookers, etc, without any balls being potted.

[WellSpyder]

gwnn, on 2012-May-03, 07:23, said:

Well what if I snooker my opponent and he keeps missing, don't I keep getting 4 points forever? I'm lazy to look it up (in fact, maybe it's not even 4 points but some other amount I can't remember).

Great minds think alike....

[gwnn]

I guess there might be a practical maximum of 999, or maybe 65535.

[Cyberyeti]

gwnn, on 2012-May-03, 06:41, said:

153 isn't it? Something related to a free ball.

edit: looked it up and it's 155, of course, 147+8(pocketing a black as free ball, or what the expression is). math fail by gwnn

It's actually pocketing a random colour as an extra red due to the free ball, then a black as the colour with the extra red then a standard 147.

IIRC the "16 red" clearance has been done but it wasn't more than 147 when it occurred in tournament play.

A similar teaser, with no fouls and with you only making one break, what's the smallest break you can make to leave your opponent needing snookers ?

[Aberlour10]

Anyway, Ronnie rocks Crucible Theater

[y66]

Food is the new rock and roll.

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If John Lennon and Sinead O’Connor once stirred cultural ferment, it’s now meat-loving knife-slingers (as in David Chang, Gabrielle Hamilton, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo) who are seen as having that “anti-establishment, sticking-it-to-the-man mentality,” said Graham Elliot, the Chicago chef who has been culinary director for Lollapalooza since 2010.

“They’re the ones saying, ‘I’m going to butcher a whole pig and serve you its face, and if you don’t like it, too bad.’ ”

(As a matter of fact, one of the top draws at GoogaMooga will be Ms. Bloomfield, giving the audience a nose-to-tail tour of a 200-pound pig that she plans to cut apart, onstage, before a lesson on making sausage and bacon.)

Did someone say bacon?

[Winstonm]

y66, on 2012-May-16, 07:31, said:

Food is the new rock and roll.

Does that mean Bread is making a comeback?

[Aberlour10]

y66, on 2012-May-16, 07:31, said:

Did someone say bacon?

All England celebrates the 250th anniversary these days >>> In 1762 the Earl of Sandwich put bacon between two pieces of bread >>> The bacon sandwich was born.

[jjbrr]

Yeah, nothing is trendier in food right now than eating things that no one else wants to eat. Chocolate covered bacon? You devil! Sauteed goat spleens? Keep going! Stir fried camel testicles and grasshoppers with lemon grass and kaffir lime? Sold!

Also, that image is photoshopped.

[y66]

A day in the life of financial blogger and bacon lover Joe Weisenthal:

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It’s not just the content of his posts that draws an audience; it’s his persona as the Stalwart, someone so absurdly passionate about the latest economic data that he forgoes sleep, night life and the company of his wife. “The weekend’s for reading about gas and cars,” he tweeted on a recent Saturday. And eight days earlier, “#FridayNightAloneAtHomeReadingWallStreetResearch.”

One morning he tweeted a picture of himself working in the dark. Another morning, after sleeping in and missing two new items of economic data, he opened by tweeting: “Please. Nobody tell me the Claims or GDP number. I have between 8:28 and 8:32 on CNBC DVR’d.”

Weisenthal and those who know him agree that this is not an act. He has always been intense, and he has always enjoyed performing for an audience. “I like having the reputation as the person who is going to get something first, who knows what’s going on, who’s tireless,” he said.

[y66]

Robert Reich to new college grads: no bacon for you (paraphrasing). Via Mr. Wiesenthal.