Re: Calimero = Coleman re-incarnated?

• From: Whisper <beaver999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:41:46 +1100

john wolfe wrote:

Calimero wrote:

I have an average of 1.17 posts a day this year, Dumbo.

 My posting isn't important enough to start a long thread. But I'm not a man to
talk nonsense.
My provider doesn't enable me to go back more than a few days. But on Thursday
there were 17 Cali postings, on Wednesday 12. And yet I'm not going to call you
a liar. Maybe your figure is right, but only due to the fact that you had
stopped posting for quite a while. What's your average since you started posting
again?
 Decide for yourself whether this kind of tricky 'truthfulness' is really
honest. I hope it's not typical of you. (Seriously, I had never thought of you
as a liar)

[snip]

Obviously you didn't quite stomach that you embarrassed yourself by
being to stupid to understand
a) the Monty Hall problem and its solution and
b) the similarity between that problem and Graf's and Seles's chances
of winning FO/USO 93 without The Stabbing.

 Most people here will not know what you're talking about. But I knew you would
write that. That's the way your brain works. I can only advise you to ask some
other mathematicians. Or even better, just people with the ability of thinking
clearly. I did both in the meantime. Not that it mattered, but I was interested
to know whether my brain had started rotting. And everybody confirmed that you
explained the MHP quite well (the deck of cards), but that your analogy is
nonsense. Which I said right from the start. (It's like one of the counting
tricks for children - on a higher level, of course - where you know the result
is absurd, but you can't see where the mistake is at first glance; 3 x 6 = 19,
that sort of thing) They even told me that my arguments against your parallel
hold water.

  But that's neither here nor there. I've learnt it's pointless to go on
arguing with you.

And for anybody else reading this: I think that Steffi Graf was a great tennis
player, maybe even the greatest (Navratilova?). I like Monica Seles, but I'm not
a Selesian. Some of them can only be considered insane. I think it's disgusting
what some people here say about Steffi because of that insane Parche. She can't
be blamed for anything in this case. I also think the sneering note that Max
sometimes uses when talking about Monica is hard to bear. But above all I think
it were about time to stop repeating the things that have been repeated again
and again and much too often.

j.w.

Martina Navratilova is the greatest female tennis in history. No amount
of propaganda in cyberspace from her Graf's looney fans can ever
changed that.

As to the Seles-Graf issue...

Due to the stabbing being such a unique, one off tragedy that skewed
the course of tennis history, Graf fans cant simply say 'Steffi won 22
slams and all 4 slams at least 4 times' without the stabbing coming
into the discussion.

Because the simple fact, for any reasonable, NON Graf fan, is that Graf
benefitted immensely of Seles forced abscence.

Thats the effect the stabbing will always have on Graf's career. Its
not Steffi's fault, but she has to live with that just like Monica has
to live with the years at her peak that were stolen from her.

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