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Is that what they're calling it these days?

Apus, show me ONE poster (other than John Slabyk) that has even IMPLIED that the abominable snot smear has "disrupt(ed)" his life. I truly doubt you can. The extreme rhetoric coming from the slug hater haters goes a long way toward keeping this "debate" running. Most of us that find the abominable snot smear abominable have spoken our peace long ago. No one is "crying" except maybe the people that hate the slug haters. I haven't cheered any less for the Sabres simply because they are wearing one of the, if not the, most ridiculous logos in pro sports history. That doesn't change the fact that they are wearing one of the, if not the, most ridiculous logo in pro sports history. It also doesn't change the fact that the Sabres WOULD sell a LOT more merchandise if they would, in fact, sell 3rd jersey merchandise. Nor does it change the fact that the Sabres would have sold a lot more merchandise had the primary sweaters not had an abominable snot smear on it. There are many reasons why this merchandise is selling. Very few of them include the abominable snot smear NOT being a ridiculous logo that stands for nothing. I hope they do win the SC this year (and the next, and the next, etc., etc.). Hopefully, when the banner goes up they use the logo they've stated they would wear if given the chance to win it on home ice. (Hint, it isn't the abominable snot smear that you feel just needs some tweaking.)

I thought about adding the phrase "or lack thereof" but figured it was understood (by nearly everyone).

IF the Sabres ever start selling the 3rds, I will get one. Until that day, they'll just have to live with my beer purchases (which will probably end up the equivalent of a couple of sweaters by the time the season is through). It strikes me as being FAR sillier to buy something I don't want just so I can feel smug about saving the team (or whatever).

Of course if you're sober enough to remember to drink water before you passout, er, fall asleep; then you probably wouldn't have had the hangover anyway.

So, does this officially put the number of threads regarding HA's math skills into double digits, or were we already there?

Wouldn't the actual true value be July 1-1/2? (Or July 1-3/4, counting Leap Days?)

Well, since it's been pretty much empirically proven that you CAN'T prove that to him, it's good that you don't have to prove it to him. (Something tells me that he will misinterpret that comment as well. ) HBD, btw.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. For our Canadian friends, HTG 10-1/2 months early. For the rest from around the globe, Happy November 23.

Beer and ballet dancers.

But will the Franklin mint issue commemorative President Franklin plates that may or may not appreciate in value like the lovely Gone With The Wind plates?

Don't forget the idiot White Sox wore shorts on occasion in '76. Baseball players wearing socks pulled up to their knees like soccer players and basketball shorts look REALLY ridiculous.

How did the Blue Jackets make it onto the list? How did the Preds make it for the wrong uni? How did only 1 basketball team make the list? And finally, how did the Sabres' new white uni not make the list?

Well Bruce Cockburn did say "you kill the best and buy the rest".

Prob'ly not. I think Davy Crickett would have won the Mexkin killin' vote. Darn rental car stands. Why'd he ever think that hangin' out at a Tex'n rental car stand would get him votes outside of Tennessee is still a mystery.

Magic Power - Triumph.

Meazza, that is, by far, the funniest thing you have ever intentionally written. Thankfully, I wasn't drinking coffee when I read it.

As the article mentioned, Charlie's been pushing for this for several years. It seems the thinking behind it being, if people can get drafted into the armed services against their will (rather than the all volunteer military we currently have), there would be greater protest against US military involvements.

Maybe that would look good on a shirt. "We're less wrong than most teams. (Except when we try to pick a new friggin' logo.)" It would definitely look better than the new logo. I'm not sure what crayons should be used to color the shirt though.

Politics, Polls, and Pundits. You are missing one of the all-time greats right now. Look for the 22 pager near the top.

You are definitely correct that the 3.5 has no predictive use. Nor can the state of the die ever be 3.5.

Yes, you can get a mean value for discrete variables. If you have a 20 year old person and a 30 year old, their average (mean) age is 25. You are correct however in stating that on any particular roll with a fair die you would expect any value from 1-6 with equal probability. You are also correct in stating that you do not expect to roll a 3.5, although if you rolled 1,000 dice the average of all the rolls would be very close to 3.5. You wouldn't expect to have a mode as none of the values should come up significantly more often than any other value. You are also correct in that the outcomes from rolling a single die are not normally distributed.

As Opus famously said "never trust anyone under $30k".

Why would you use the 1st die roll to estimate what your average roll would be? Why do you assume error is normally distrubuted in your IQ examples? Why couldn't (or more accurately, wouldn't) there be a different error distribution (or combination of error distributions)? What do the last 15 pages of this discussion have to do with your position that eugenics are not only desirable but politically feasible? And finally, why has this thread lasted past my prediction of 18 pages? There are several other questions about this discussion, but many of them have already been asked.