slothy

You are right Frances.... I actually went last week-end to the shop to buy a 4 inch drill bit and 2 litres of 'Mohave Desert' silk finish paint. (got 2nd at 30% discount) The service was very cordial and the buxom blonde at the check-out had eyebrows and cheek-bones to die for. She even gave me 10p extra change! If the Homebase Bridge Club service and level of customer care is as proficient as the corresponding chain, i will be very happy to participate :) Regards Alex PS This doesnt mean Ben has to get his eye-brows plucked or his cheeks suctioned.

Yes nice to know he is well and back on BBO.... I played with him about 8 months ago, and he took a finesse and I never understood why!! I am still waiting for him to give me an explanation...

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLL i was told by an unknown stirrer that there is a Shaska living in Washington State (just South of Seattle). May i say this is pure coincidence and i take no responsibility for any identity confusion.

Ahem, Is it possible to adopt the characters in Friends as a means of Ranking players? Fred seemed to quite like the idea with regards to how we visualise our acquaintances/ friends on BBO..i am sure we can come up with a corollary for ranks B). I do have a few suggestions

thx downy

Slothy: Hi Opray. Oprah: Hi Slothy. Welcome to my show. (image of Slothy banging his fist on computer table, as the endplay misfires in Unibridge tourney, pans the screen behind the stage). Before we continue my name is OpraH with an h, and yes i have become very rich through people washing their dirty linen in public....actually peoples sheets arent made of linen anymore more like viscose nylon mixes... Slothy:Thank you for asking me to come on your show. May i say, took me 6 years to realise that your production company is called Harpo coz it is a palindrome of your first name (spelt backwards). Oprah: Well yes Yerfniw doesnt kinda roll of the tongue does it? So before we talk about your acute sexual dysfunction you suffer on Thursday evenings after watching a re-run of BayWatch (The Wilderness Years), i want you to talk to us about FD. Why do you like it so? Does it affect your sex life? Do you feel that it abuses you? (Oprah looks into Camera 2 and shakes one of her chins knowingly) Slothy: Well. Sure Oppy. I started using FD about 5 weeks ago. For the first 3 days i found my use of swear words that are commonly used in the Swedish Realism Film genre increased by a factor of 12 and that i was developing a mild case of self-induced Tourettes Syndrome. This subsided when i actually realised what i was supposed to do. Oprah: OK. Now about your sex prob.. Slothy:But, when i finally grasped the basic principles and started putting in the bids and continuations i found that it really made me think about the system i played, certain sequences i hadnt really thought about, and re-interpreting certain continuations. So i found myself going onto BBO and using BBEdit .... Oprah: (Camera 4 pans to Opray fiddling with her mother-o-pearl buttons on her Versace [not alfredo] blouse) yeah, yeah, so how often do you .... Slothy:... 3 or 4 times a nite, sometimes doing it for a couple of hours.... Oprah: ok so you said you had a problem with not allowing people to interrupt you when you were talki.... Slothy:...and building up a repetoire of convention files. So although it was hard at first... Oprah: ok so it was hard at first...STOPPPP (oprah gets boom boy to wave a red card to the audience) ... lets talk about that... Slothy:...i found that once you understood about putting conventions in separate file and navigating the hierarchy and using copy and paste sub-trees effectively it was not as tekky as people think it is.... Oprah: (Oprah whispers into microphone and asks Show Producer whether Tourettes Syndome is infectious) ..ok Slothy nice... we have David Hasselhoff on the videolink. Hi David....by the way cant make lunch on Friday. So, BayWatch and Slothy's problems. What are your views on FD? David: FD? Whats that. Is in on after Friends Series Four Rerun 3 on CBS? (david unbuttons his top button and flexes his left and right pecs in syncopation). Just want to talk about my new single i have... Slothy:...so i recommend it to everyone to use. Simply because it makes you think about your system and if you build it up with a regular partner it is easy to edit and share. The other can do part of the FD system card whilst you work on another, and you can dress up your system and cross-fertilise.... Oprah: ahaaaaaa...fertility? cross-dressing? lets talk about that? So how has cross-dressing affected your fertility Slothy?.. Slothy:...ideas about how you want your system to develop. (Slothy gets billboard from behind his chair and has it facing Camera 3 Please read my other thread about Lucas and Crowhurst in the forum. I would like them. Its a cool and a very useful tool. Oprah: Well thank you David...will call ya sometime within the next year.Thank you Slothy (oprah's eyes go into an unconscious roll) for enlightening us about FD. After the break i will be talking to Sanska from Oregon about how frustrating she finds it when people who play Polish Club dont alert their 1!C responses and then when you talk to them in Polish because of their flag they say they are Malaysian living in Bolivia...(Oprah smiles to Camera 5 and a twinkle of light glistens off her left molar)

i asked about the full syntax in dis forum coz i was thinking of writing a PHP parser running behind an XML XSLT engine to parse the FD files and display a more visual representation of bidding sequences. I AM HOOKED!! (Got the backbone sorta done but getting stuck on some forks in the tree :blink: ) Just got to finish all the other 324 things i got on the back-burner... hee hee Slothy (FD Freak)

Dear Andy, Obviously the new PC has more memory and has gone through all possible permutations for the continuations over 1 level bids and realises that the CC needs a lot of work and thus refuses to display it. Who says FD wasnt heuristic! Sorry andy, bridge sux.

will a BBO$ do the trick??? [edited by Slothy] recursive quote will 5 BBO$ do the trick???

so for example take this from Bens sticky *00{BridgeBase Advanced}=NYYYYYYStandard Bridge Base Online Bidding System based upon 2/1 GF 001N=NYYYYYY215-17 HCP can include 5 card major 001NP2C=NYYYYYY508STAYMAN 001NP2D=NYYYYYYA08!H 001NP2H=NYYYYYYA08!S 001NP2S=NYYYYYYA08!Cs What is the *00 at beiginning? can it be different? the NYYYYYYY? 001NP2D=NYYYYYYA08<the basic elements constituting this node?> thx in advance

Basically, a request for HRH Fred (or anyone else for that matter) Would it be possible to have a sticky in the forum just explaining the basic formatting and syntax in a FD file (.bss) ??? Would be nice to be able to read a file as a txt file and be able to understand it

It has been too long since i posted here B) Quick question: Anyone got comprehensive sequences & continuations for Lucas 2s? Anyone got comprehensive FD sequences & continuations for Crowhurst? Would like to have them :D Ty Slothy

A. Do they have a current convention card?

isnt that a coincidence.... a friend of mine called Richard at my old work has his birthday today..and just talked to him on the phone 5 mins ago :D such a small world... Happy birthday Frothy Hrothy :( may the inflamed and niggling bite of MOSCITO one day stop irritating you...

dear Amanda, Finally, after all this time, you decided to post in our venerable forums?? All i can say is: you never offered to give me a hug when i helped you :lol: Geez, these guys write one line in a forum and they get a hug...my O my All those nights i sweated and slaved to explain to you what a finesse was and all i got was a measly thx and a disgruntled x ? (perhaps the x was coz you had a sticky x key :D ) Slothy PS as i am sure you know, amanda, all new posters have got to undergo an initiation ceremony. This involves walking naked around your local town square 3 times anti-clockwise, smothered in pistachio-flavoured ice-cream with a Brandenburg cake balanced on your head. Until we have concrete evidence that you have undergone this, you will not be allowed to post in any thread in this forum. Looking forward to the photos in excited anticipation.

Aristotle never taught me at all Mike and my Dad's name aint Philip. He taught the Woodwork And Greek Wrestling classes but unfortunately they clashed with my other classes: Yak Farming Methods and Making the Perfect Brulée (Second Module of 3). FYI, i was taught by a woman called Martha who had a dimple on her left nostril. I was hopelessly in love with until the age of 9. I then discovered Julie Christie. And, in response to Floofy, why is it that the weirdest threads always seem to inspire the most questions?

i prefer the transparent GIF option.... adds another dimension to the game Yours, As always, Alex

flimterremini drivshtruyum kass migor minafro ben!!!

uummm suprised it didnt forward you to www.about(nothing).com

shouldnt this be discussed in the forum at www.whogivesash?taboutdanishlaw.co.dk ? :D PS And BadMonster Uday a HE ;)

Hee Hee, whereeagles perhaps your posts are getting censored IN THE PROCESS OF you posting them :P))))))) ...and thus failing :)

LOL i skimmed through this thread ducks-and-drakes style, jumping from one ludicrous analogy to another.... I cant believe that people are drawing tangible parallels between the democracy of a country, and the maintenance of it, and the administration of a bulletin board!! Either they have little faith in the notion of democracy or have a rather bloated consideration of the importance of a series of posts. I would rather have a forum that was moderated rather than one that was not - and if a moderator - whatever his or her fallibilities - took a subjective assessment of whether a particular post was deemed worthy of deletion - SO WHAT???? Does it really matter?? And to elevate it through rhetoric to give the issue the same concern as a political process governing the everyday lives (and deaths!) of people in Iraq, or wherever else in the world you wish to point at, is absurd and pointless!

I was so taken by the bridge skills of GIB E - GIB W is arrogant! - that i am seriously considering asking her on a virtual date.... ....i got her on web-cam and her mother-board is awesome!!

thought i better say Happy Birthday Phil before your next one comes round again :)

'Bridge is Cool' sounds more like something Huggie Bear would say after Hutch seduced some hot chick in hot pants (she was wearing the hot pants NOT David Soul...) (Ah the nostalgia of real-life 70s cop shows) But i suppose it is better than 'Bridge is Awesome'....a non-descript universal adjective i notice Justin uses a lot hee hee If they really want to curry Street-Cred they gotta have 50 cents (49 cents more than he is worth in my opinion) or Eminem jive some rap and have it broadcast oN MTV and have them slapping their fingers together and rattling their bling-bling..... or even have the Teletubbies (British kids program featuring overweight gibbering pseudo-marsupials running around aimlessly which makes me wonder how British kids ever grow up to spell or string together a sentence with well-formed grammar) play rubber bridge on the lawn and explain Morton's Fork á la Dr Seuss Well just a thought