From: vicky on 21 May 2010 12:59 Joe Horowitz <my_name(a)youblunder.co.youghey> wrote: >> Hmm. I definitely want that bet with you. > Err..... who are you talking to and to which bet do you refer? It's one > thing keeping your quote percentage down but a little here and there is > nice, you know, just for context. Oh, that's odd, I intended to keep the attribution line in, but it seems to have been eaten. *munches very subtley behind her hand* It was Nigelous. Apparently he doesn't take bets with non-bookie-persons. Which is very mean, I think I should be just as entitled to take his money off him as any bookie!
From: Osbourne Ruddock on 23 May 2010 19:27 Mister M <news(a)mandab.co.uk> wrote in news:84pfn9FssrU1(a)mid.individual.net: > So, here we have it. The rules are very simple. The scoring system > isn't, mainly coz I haven't dreamed it up yet. For each of the teams > (listed below in the their first-round groups), please state what > their final result will be, using the following mind-bendingly complex > code: I don't know what I'm doing. > 1 - Teh Winnerzzzzz!!1111 Brazil > 2 - Runners-up (aka Teh Looserz) Spain > 3 - Winners of the Turd Place playoff Germany > 4 - Looserz of the Turd Place playoff England > QF - Losing quarter-finalist (you should have 4 of these) Argentina Netherlands Mexico Italy > 16 - Losers in the Round Of Teh Sweet Sixteen (you should have 8 of > these) France Algeria Australia Cameroon USA Paraguay Portugal Chile > FR - Muppets who didn't progress beyond teh Group Stage (you > should have 16 of these) South Africa, Uruguay, Slovenia, Serbia, Denmark, Japan, New Zealand, Slovakia, Ivory Coast, North Korea, Honduras, Switzerland, South Korea, Nigeria, Greece, Ghana -- Cheers, Os
From: Mister M on 24 May 2010 01:23 Mister M wrote: And here are my predictions, without looking at anyone else''s: > 1 - Teh Winnerzzzzz!!1111 Spain > 2 - Runners-up (aka Teh Looserz) Brazil > 3 - Winners of the Turd Place playoff England > 4 - Looserz of the Turd Place playoff Argentina > QF - Losing quarter-finalist (you should have 4 of these) France Australia Netherlands Italy > 16 - Losers in the Round Of Teh Sweet Sixteen (you should have 8 of these) Mexico Nigeria USA Germany Cameroon Slovakia Ivory Coast Chile > FR - Muppets who didn't progress beyond teh Group Stage (you should have > 16 of these) South Africa Uruguay Greece South Korea Algeria Slovenia Ghana Serbia Denmark Japan New Zealand Paraguay North Korea Portugal Honduras Switzerland > > Get busy. > Damn right. M
From: Mister M on 24 May 2010 16:20 Mister M wrote: > Mister M wrote: > [snip] >> QF - Losing quarter-finalist (you should have 4 of these) > Australia > [snip] >> FR - Muppets who didn't progress beyond teh Group Stage (you should >> have 16 of these) > New Zealand Having watched the Sheilaroos v All Whites game last night I wish I could change at least one of these predictions. M
From: Cornelius on 25 May 2010 10:11
On May 10, 5:17 am, Mister M <n...(a)mandab.co.uk> wrote: > 1 - Teh Winnerzzzzz!!1111 Italy > 2 - Runners-up (aka Teh Looserz) Brazil > 3 - Winners of the Turd Place playoff England > 4 - Looserz of the Turd Place playoff Argentina > QF - Losing quarter-finalist (you should have 4 of these) Netherlands France USA Ivory Coast > 16 - Losers in the Round Of Teh Sweet Sixteen (you should have 8 of these) Greece Australia Germany Uruguay Slovakia Switzerland Cameroon Spain > FR - Muppets who didn't progress beyond teh Group Stage (you should have > 16 of these) Mexico South Africa Nigeria South Korea Algeria Slovenia Ghana Serbia Denmark Japan New Zealand Paraguay Portugal North Korea Honduras Chile -- Cornelius |