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I did it in 1 min 10 seconds, rules of count down are 30 seconds ONLY and pen and paper no calculators, try you tube for loads more examples, if you can't do it in 30 seconds you have to give the nearest numbers you can get and who ever gets it or scores nearest wins

Saturday morning I got up early, dressed quietly, made my lunch, grabbed the dog, slipped quietly into the garage to hook the boat up to the truck, and proceeded to back out into a torrential down pour. The wind was blowing 50 mph. I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad throughout the day I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped back into bed. There I cuddled up to my wife's back, now with a different anticipation, and whispered, 'The weather out there is terrible.' My loving wife of 25 yrs replied, 'Can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that ?' I still don't know if she was joking...

In the heyday of sailing ships, all war ships and many freighters carried iron cannons. Those cannons fired round iron cannon balls. It was necessary to keep a good supply near the cannon. However, how to prevent them from rolling about the deck? The best storage method devised was a square-based pyramid with one ball on top, resting on four resting on nine, which rested on sixteen. Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon. There was only one problem...how to prevent the bottom layer from sliding or rolling from under the others. The solution was a metal plate called a 'Monkey' with 16 round indentations. However, if this plate were made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it. The solution to the rusting problem was to make 'Brass Monkeys.' Few land lubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled. Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannonballs would come right off the monkey. Thus, it was quite literally, 'Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.'

I am curious , at what point will BBO flash be the only version available to us all (or even if that is even on the cards) and will it be the only available through msn, as I personally find msn games a pain in the backside to log onto and since it has been moved to msn, the log in time is quite slow for me?

I think you are being unfair to the yellow, that may well have had, private conversations with players at the table........ that you are not aware of nor will anyone else be call me a jerk, I think I have every right to call you an unpleasant bitch (it was not me btw) but I think that is fair, if you call someone a jerk that only states this is fun (assuming the worse abbreviation at the table for fg was unprintable in the forums) a more tactful response was thanks very much all, time for me to leave the table, I do not like the language nor the company good bye and start a new table elsewhere I see nothing in your post that comes under the general bridge heading, you have been on BBO long enough to know that you can raise the issue with abuse yourself, rather than making it public on the forums and yes we can now see who the other three people will be at the table by looking up in myhands

I will run the mechanics of it if it is a goer, I suggest midnight on a friday or saturday night, might be the time we can get the highest attendance Let me know what format you want, time constraints and how many boards you want I will also, keep all mobiles, handbags, rattles and general signalling devices under lock and key until the tournamnet is over, I will not allow psyches and run the tourney under the auspices of our local bridge club (see below) 1/. Old people can be rude at the table 1a/. Old people can dribble 2/. young people can try and turn up sober (Justin, you may strugggle here) 2a/. Young people are not allowed to dribble, unless the players at the table are cute 3/. No conventions that a beginner does not have a defence to 4/. All experts or anyone with more than 50 masterpoints has to start with a 50 imp handicap 5/. All hands will favour north south 6/. Any Welsh players are not allowed to sign at the table 7/. Americans are not allowed to try and take over (using sanctions or military force, though they are allowed to try and bore us into submission) 8/. Black tie dress code 9/. Everyone has to wear a UN Flag for the event 10/. Bring your own sandwiches DISCLAIMER (the rules of suggested tourney are intended for a bit of fun, they are not too be taken to literally and the author does not intend any offence to anyone or any race in particular)

I am sure that has some merit B)

not that much money, which is the oddest thing, he is 100% sure there is no other explanation, neither his boss or collegue appears to be short of money, but I have found people do not always appear what they are on the face of things, so one could not be financially stable, who knows

I believe the sum we are talking about is in the four figures, he would not say exactly how much, I never aksed, but I am aware that he usually carries a fair bit of money at all times in cash, this is well known amongst his work collegues, that is part of the nature of what he does, it was there at the start of the evening and he is adamant no one but him and his wife and the two guests were there. the amount whilst, I consider it a lot and would be very angry, he is more annoyed about the fact it is gone and who could have taken it, rather than the loss of the missing money. I told him to put it down to experience, I do not think it is worth the hassle, that that can come from, people at work finding out he has involved the police, I also told him next time he has to entertain these two, use a restaraunt. also, the money was apparently in a drawer out of site, both guests during the evening were alone in the room The issue my friend has, is one of trust with his boss or his work collegue, how do you resolve this issue, who do you trust after this

hi two work collegues come to dinner, one is your boss, after a pleasant night everyone goes home, the next day a lot of money is missing, what advice would you give to the host whos money has gone missing and he does not know how to approach the issue

I think it has to be worth trying, sounds like it could work

BBO has defined all the various skill levels, and although the definitions are not perfect and merely guidelines, they are much, much more delineated than what you're yapping about http://www.bridgebase.com/help/english/top...text/intro.html I dont need the link, I have seen them, but the point is, no rating system seems to satisfy everyone, why do you keep commenting on my posts, you cleary are just being antagonistic, towards me. ho hum, good job I have a thick skin :angry:

the truth is out there, but just what is an expert, clearly the easiest of level to define, is undefinable, because it is based on opinon, be that self opinion or that of others. You will never get agreement The hardest level to define,(intermediate) what makes someone intermedaite, an experienced beginner or a bad advanced player, with probably millions falling into this catagory I doubt there will ever be a way to do this properly, that satisfies everyone

Hi Justin, what do I owe the honour of this question? just to let you know, yes I do, not to your standard, but then I just play for a bit of fun, nothing to serious

as I said we are quite similar

actually mat, I doubt we appear much different to each other, we are quite similar in a way, sad as it may seem and this is really a very shity thing to say, you are showing lack of respect for a lot of people, something you really should try and look in a mirror and try and realise

That won't happen, most of the perfectionists here are armchair critics. try and understand a lot of the posters here have different ideals from normal people, some of them can't be with out a cell phone for more than 2 seconds and cant get home from tournaments without daddys help and some of them could not direct a tourney online if they tried, they just think they can and they just like putting other people down, to make themselves look good in front of thier friends

I think it is because people have no idea how to play against it, also, I don't understand why there is not a ban by the same people on precision for the same reason

wayne, you're an idiot. coming from you matmat, I take that as a compliment :)

WOW! looks like you are not alone

<hahahahah> A decent guy looking for answers asks a question and you answer like that. what a jerk you are Tyler </hahahahah>

Die hards is not how I would like to describe them, BUT, yes

sorry, Jilly, but I think you run your tourneys quite well and I respect your opinions as you are one of the few that practice what you preach, BUT, at the end of the day, there is a market for these tourneys and I feel, you and some others do not respect other peoples view "on this matter" I would choose different standards rather than equating it to volume

well obviously not the opening poster here, has strong opinions about that, just a shame he can not do anything but critisie, he would get futher in life if he was to be more constructive I think, live and let live, why do you perfectionists, not leave the people in the fun tourneys alone, do you have to try and bully everyone with you rather blatant views on perfectionism NEXT, you will critise people for allowing CHAT in a tourney......... Heaven forbid

A reasonable approach. If someone counters, a non playing TD, can only handle ??? tables, and he should therefore NOT raise the tournament limit, well that would mean options to play in a free tournament would be the hugely dimished. With kind regards Marlowe That is a totally different discussion, and I actually agree with that comment