From: vicky on
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
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
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
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
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