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ya 4♠ is crazy.

i just learned about settlers some months ago. its a lot of fun.

inverted majors imo

han's posts are so good

i just learned about settlers some months ago. its a lot of fun.

That pi pie looks a lot like a pi cheesecake imo. If it had maple syrup in it with bacon on top, it would be a glorious sight to behold.

Ya Clee's example hand is just extraneous info and doesn't serve much purpose in the theoretical world. It seems to me to be pretty arbitrary. But getting away from the theoretical world and into the practical world I reciprocate everyone's feelings when they say it's hard to describe this hand in this auction. I think the subset of hands that find a slam after this auction after a 1♦ opening is ridiculously small compared to those that get to slam after a 1NT opening that the gains from 1♦ are definitely negligible in the context of better game bidding, which I think 1NT is better suited for. I think Clee is the first to say I'm old school about 1NT openers in terms of unbalanced/semibalanced hands, but I think this is a clear 1NT opener.

ya gwnn is right. 1♠ p 3♣ natural invite is such a winner. now you have to bid 3♣ and hate doing so.

in after 1000

Page 10 was a good one. I'm going to be sad to see it go.

This must be a trick question. What exactly are you thinking of bidding and what do you hope to accomplish from it?

I'm sorry for not being politically correct, but I took a semester of online classes as a means of maintaining the scholarships I was receiving at a 4-year institution. I was a semester away from graduating early, so I took a semester off to travel. I signed up for a full-time online schedule, and to be quite frank it was a complete joke. The teachers have only a few options on how the students can interact with one another, and my experiences with this were awful. Whereas I was in lots of advanced classes in a f2f setting, the quality of the average student online is much, much lower. Furthermore, cheating in online classes is completely normal. Everyone I've met who took classes online either took quizzes or tests or did homework with their textbooks open or with wikipedia on hand. So here is my experience: teachers expected students to interact in an online message board, much like this, creating dialogue that mimicked a classroom discussion from which everyone was able to learn. These discussions accounted for X% of the grade. The remaining Y% of the grade was determined by tests, which most students took with open books. The same people who were hopeless at writing clear, correct sentences were passing the class with flying colors, because the expectations were so low for everyone. Obviously my experiences aren't necessarily representative of all online classes. They're probably quite the contrary, as all the classes I enrolled in were 100-level general elective classes. I got A's in all of them despite missing over an entire month of work that I simply didn't have a chance to do because I was in China or Poland or at an NABC or whatever. So really, why are we awarding degrees to people who, in my opinion, are doing a minute fraction of the work f2f students do, at a much lower level, with minimal interpersonal contact?

So, just for the sake of completeness, did you try hitting her?

My style of leaping Michaels makes this nearly a grand force opposite a first round ♥ control. I would just bid 4♥ and bid 4NT over 4♠. I haven't discussed this with anyone but I hope it's RKC.

<insert Edison quote about failure>

i agree, i think, but not strongly. would definitely prefer people physically going to class. but education is a business and money is available to the schools if they offer classes online.

what 8 ball said

congrats. keep up the good work. I personally like 6 man teams for the obv reasons.

OP told us 4♦ showed 6♦. Anyway, I suspect the guy bidding grand is counting on 5-6♦ tricks from partner for his bid.

Didn't Nebraska beat us that year? I feel like I remember watching that game from a sectional near Gatlinburg. Anyway, I'm just playing. I ♥ Michigan. If I could get into their business school, I'd go there obv. Edit:

Pass

But we won it in '98 lol. Honestly, do you think Peyton cares about a Heisman now? I'd like to post pictures of retarded kids receiving their medals from the special olympics to contrast Peyton with his Super Bowl gear, but Special Olympics judges tend to be more objective than Heisman committees, so it's not a fair analogy.

Tim Tebow is easily on my list of least favorite people. I won't go so far as to opine about grease fires, but ya. Grease fires.

Ya I don't think 2♦ is extremely bad at all. Seems like a coinflip to me between pass and 2♦. I think everyone agrees this was a 1NT opener.

Michigan. I mean, wait, wat?