[gwnn]

[gwnn]

I <3 Agnieszka

[Aberlour10]

[gwnn]

yes but I'm kind of also happy for Serena for showing everyone again that if she wants to win, she wins.

[Aberlour10]

3cents about sports. Now we know, the FIFA is more corrupt than IOC after all. Tour de France is definitively dead, the only question it remains, is how many raids of police will took place and who will be arrested this year. And Olympic Spirit? Nowhere. The anty-aircraft missiles on the London roofs seems to be the main story this time.

[Winstonm]

Oil painting is therapeutic, and I miss Bob Ross on PBS.

[y66]

The Uncollege

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Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley investor, believes more young people should be chasing breakthrough technologies instead of wasting their time and money in college.

[y66]

From Mark Bittman:

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An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Latvian, a Turk, a German, an Indian, several Americans (including an Hawaiian and an Alaskan), an Argentinean, a Dane, an Australian, a Slovak, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Moroccan, a Frenchman, a New Zealander, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Guatemalan, a Colombian, a Pakistani, a Malaysian, a Croatian, a Uzbek, a Cypriot, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Chinese, a Tibetan, a Sri Lankan, a Lebanese, a Cayman Islander, a Ugandan, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Kenyan, a Uruguayan, a Czech, an Icelander, a Mexican, a Finn, a Honduran, a Panamanian, an Andorran, a Moroccan, an Israeli, a Palestinian, a Venezuelan, an Iranian, a Fijian, a Peruvian, an Estonian, a Syrian, a Brazilian, a Portuguese, a Liechtensteiner, a Mongolian, a Hungarian, a Canadian, a Moldovan, a Haitian, a Norfolk Islander, a Macedonian, a Bolivian, a Cook Islander, a Tajikistani, a Samoan, an Armenian, an Aruban, an Albanian, a Greenlander, a Micronesian, a Virgin Islander, a Georgian, a Bahamian, a Belarusian, a Cuban, a Tongan, a Cambodian, a Manxman, a Qatari, an Azerbaijani, a Romanian, a Chilean, a Jamaican, a Filipino, a Ukrainian, a Dutchman, an Ecuadorian, a Costa Rican, a Swede, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Belgian, a Singaporean, an Italian and a Norwegian all walk into a very fine restaurant.

Spoiler

“I’m sorry,” says the maître d’, after scrutinizing the group. “You can’t come in here without a Thai.”

[helene_t]

How many foreigners does it take to change an English lightbulp?

Spoiler

I think three since my SO and I could have used a nurse also to take care of our damaged hands. First Gosha unscrewed it, breaking one of her finger nails in the process, then I put in the new one, after which I suddenly realized I was bleeding from three fingers.

[Winstonm]

How many New York cabbies does it take to change a light bulb?

Spoiler

None of your *****in' business!

[Aberlour10]

Newest "Curiosity" Status Report >>>> Any signs of bridge playing on Mars have been found until now. Searching will be continued.

[Cyberyeti]

I see litigious stupidity is still in fashion

http://www.nfl.com/n..._headline_stack

[ggwhiz]

 Cyberyeti, on 2012-August-17, 10:05, said:

I see litigious stupidity is still in fashion

http://www.nfl.com/n..._headline_stack

Ooh, that smell
Can't you smell that smell?
Ooh, that smell
The smell of death surrounds you

[gwnn]

Doping is everywhere, even scrabble! http://news.blogs.cn...?iref=allsearch

[Cyberyeti]

 gwnn, on 2012-August-20, 03:02, said:

Doping is everywhere, even scrabble! http://news.blogs.cn...?iref=allsearch

This one has a side point. It probably doesn't matter much in a tournament that long, but the phrase that piqued my interest was the one to the effect that his previous opps were given forfeit wins. There needs to be a better procedure for this. I had this happen to me in a chess tournament in the 80s where I finished second in a 5 or 6 round tournament only dropping half a point without playing the guy who got full marks. The reason was that his first round opponent in an "under whatever grade" section was a very strong foreign player who shouldn't have been in the event, but only got recognised and thrown out during the last round. The winner's first round loss was changed to a win, and he beat easier opps for the rest of the afternoon to get the full score.

Not as much of a problem in bridge as how big a win is important so awarding 12-8, 13-7 or just factoring your score up is not too bad, it's not just win/lose/draw.

[Aberlour10]

Any fans of footballgolf here? I just tried it a on the real 9-hole course a week ago. Doping with Diebels Alt did not work, any birdies have been scored by me

[Cyberyeti]

 Aberlour10, on 2012-August-20, 06:08, said:

Any fans of footballgolf here? I just tried it a on the real 9-hole course a week ago. Doping with Diebels Alt did not work, any birdies have been scored by me

Not tried it, have doped with Diebels Alt and can confirm it's definitely good for recreational use rather than performance. Can give you a problem scoring with the birdies

[Aberlour10]

You may be right in it. A couple of tripple boogies could be avoided by less consume

[JLOGIC]

Hamman-Lall world champs obv.

[Phil]

 JLOGIC, on 2012-August-23, 08:47, said:

Hamman-Lall world champs obv.

Great headline for the Daily Bulletin.