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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.

He's down in NYC so the guy was probably a Giants fan. OF COURSE he would have still ratted the guy out even if some booze was offered.

That wouldn't make SnR's comment "completely wrong" though, would it? Typically, off year elections get ~40% voter turnout, which is significantly higher than 24%. Elderly voters typically have ~60% turnout rate in off year elections and ~20MM voters. That is, even with 20 year highs in off-year turnout for under 30 voters, voters in general turn out in higher propotion than under 30's and elderly voters turn out in significantly higher #'s and %ages than young voters.