Latest Challenges to the Teaching of Evolution

You don't bet effemm. You don't trust your judgment enough to lay out any cash on it. All you have staked is lukewarm air which probable smells of rotting beef from bits of burger residue stuck in the holes in your teeth. And that's the lowest cost form of betting known to mankind which is why it is so common. Really cheap.

I'm in joint 1st place in the rjb's NFL sportsman's game.

That's ridiculous Wiz. It really is.

You obviously know nothing about women.

It's not allowed Ed. Somebody tried it once and got thrown out.

And that was you! LOL

Someone alert the media

I have a strong suspicion that the other holder of joint 1st place is a lady. I'm not sure though. But it is of interest, if it is indeed a lady, that 1st place in an NFL competition on an American site is held jointly by a lady and a limey.

I am coming to the view that American men don't watch football games for the football but in order to watch themselves associating with asserted machismo.

All that shows is that "pools" are statistically weighted toward dumb luck. Ive seen pool cards being converted into cash by people who pick the winning teams out of a sock

spendi doesn't understand statistical probability; he also lacks common sense.

What? For 8 weeks? Don't be so bloody silly.

People use the sock method because the dividends paid out are low when form is used as a guide and results run true to form and they only enter the game to win large amounts from low probabilities.


In fact, the deductions made by the organisers from pools are such that using form as a guide is thought foolish by betting experts such as myself. So the sock method makes sense.

One backs favourites with the bookies and outsiders on the tote as a general rule which doesn't always work.

I think ci was addressing his last post to you effemm. Why don't you take him to task for dealing out bald assertions. He does little else.

This was just posted on the NFL game thread-



See what I mean? It's a fancy dress party with destruction involved.

If memory serves the poster is an anti-IDer and he is languishing down the field.

I'm on the Packers.

why not excuse yourself and head over to that thread where Im sure your presence is sought

spendius is regarded as one of the top professional bookies in England

How did you come by that?

he told me that himself many years ago (he recently said he is retired from bookmaking)

Oh, that's the "book" club he keeps referring to. His pathetic attempt to derail the thread with his betting adventures is very literary -- that is, literally dumb.

Och, he's well on his way to winning meaningless competition. A football pool, N . Freakin' F . L . Did you hear me? He's winning an internet NFL football pool. On A2K. OMFreakin'god!! He's amazing. And, he's not even from here. He's from away. God, he's brilliant.
Once he's actually won the internet contest, I'm sure they'll present him with a glitzy trophy. On anniversaries he can bring it out and polish it, have it ready for when guests come over or... say , at the ready if somebody dare questions his sheer genius. He can regale all with the remembered moment of glory... Geez the winner could roll out this chestnut for years and remind his audience just how much time our hero has spent sitting in front of a TV. The hours he spent memorizing trivia, discussing it with the boys, pouring over the useless minutiae, consuming copious ales and grease laden snacks all in preparation for this, his moment, when he could say he was on top, the leader. (I know he hasn't actually won anything yet, but)... I say we grant him this moment of pomposity ... without these little internet battles, he'd never get lucky!...

As long as he picks Eagles and picks em to win, I care not what orifice he draws his ticket. A real pooler will attempt to do the spread as well.

spendi, You believe that when you can outguess a2kers on football, you have some skill in something?

It's all based on "guess." That doesn't provide you with any skills.

Try going to Vegas and bet on your teams; bet you lose big time! There's no other possible outcome.

Very good Ceili.

What you don't seem to know is that I'm a shagged out old has been. I have played sport all my life and do have a few trophies which I never polish nor bring out and the only photograph I have of myself is up on my office wall and was taken at six months as a prize in the Beautiful Baby competition for which Mama had boldy entered me. I won a local snooker competition at 16 and I'm up in gold letters on the golf club honours board. I once took 4 for 3 bowling. I have played our football from short pants to managing a team. A greyhound I owned won a decent race once but got warned off for fighting later. And I had a 10% share in a horse which landed a massive gamble in a 26 runner handicap at York.

My exploits with the female sex are too embarrassing to go into but suffice to say they have nothing new to show me.

My interest in the NFL game thread was motivated entirely by my feeling it a gap in my knowledge that I didn't understand American football and I know that to get a proper understanding of any game it is necessary to put something on the line. And it has paid off. I watched the Dolphins/Jets game on Sky Sports tonight. I appreciate the game more every week and expect to "have it off pat" by the end of the season. Baseball is next.

I'll bet on raindrops running down window panes. Betting is in my blood. I'll bet you were a raver in your prime and I'm pleased that I could inspire those memory lane sentiments in you now you're a bit past it and penned up.

If I do win rjb's game these guys on here will never hear the last of it. I'll milk it and milk it and I'm an expert at that as well. I have the celebration video all lined up. But there's a long way to go. And I'm hoping to get you lot rooting for me to get beat.

Lucky was my nickname in the military. They used to say that if I fell in a shithole I would come up with a shilling.

Oh--I nearly forgot. I have a certificate for the Three Peaks run. That's 26 miles and three small English mountains. At 36 I did that. And I once swam all the way across Limassol Bay and back with flippers on. My science certificates are not worth discussing.

Sport is civilising the world. Sport has done more to stop torture and tyranny than any other single thing. Long may it continue and anybody who knocks it is a silly old goose.

Count the photographs you have of yourself Ceili.