<t>"Congratulations you on your powers of observation, i mentioned the fact i am not a native speaker only about five hundred times and you noticed."Thanks. Two congratulations in one week from Zerdna is really something. I feel tremendous right about now. The observation that you're not a native En...

<t>Zerdna, are you in a bad mood today (I've learned to assume people are from your friends on this forum). Are you really going to brain me with a piece of uranium ore? Since I'm clearly wrong, I'll give up on the whole radium argument. I agree people weren't actively harnessing the power of radioa...

<t>DCFCSub atomic physics in 1865 was of course a vague and confused thing, but people had already realised that things weren't quite right with the old model. Radium was of course murderously hard to separate, but you can use an element without it being isloated. The point is that eventhough people...

<t>PoleSlopperAre you suggesting this bet is a deep out of the money option ?Or is this another of your fascinating-but-irrelevant-fact posts, like the history of whatever metal it wasAre you suggesting it isn't? Or are you in agreement, because you're calling it a fact post and you just feel snippy...

<t>"Well, no, but clearly the time window and the number of candidates is one factor in evaluating the probability of Jennings's feat being surpassed. If you're suggesting that it isn't, feel free to shorten the 4 to 5 year window that MikeBell so generously offered you to say a year or even 6 month...

<t>"In 1898, after laboriously isolating various substances by successive chemical reactions and crystallizations of the products, which they then tested for their ability to ionize air, the Curies announced the discovery of polonium, and then of radium salts weighing about 0.1 gram that had been de...

<t>I said over $150K. AFAIK, 165 is over 150. We can wait, no problem.... I think we can hammer out an agreement ahead of time, get everything ironed out and then pencil in the final number of games when his run officially ends. Mike you really are a forest for the trees kind of guy. The point was n...

<t>"You're just looking for a way out. I've read your comments about this on that other site and they were very telling. There's no concrete bet?! LOL... I've placed over $150K (heck, we can round it up to 200K if you want) on the line and asked of you to place 50% of that amount and suggested a ter...

<t>"MikeBell offered you a 5 year period, assuming 200 games a year (5 a week but they have things like college week and the tournament of champions), so 1000 games. Someone needs to win 75, so lets leave the last 75 off as anyone starting in that period wouldn't win 75 games by the end.Assuming win...

<t>"The pattern is very interesting though. RRP call Mikebell stupid numerously, goes talks on two board what a cretin he is with his idiotic bet and how he will rip him, etc. Then he doesn't take a bet."Zerdna, I think you pointed out how Bell's bet structure could have left him open to being strun...

<t>"MikeBell thinks he's amazing, so do I, but Rod differs: "I think that it's not nearly as impressive as it sounds, once you have all the facts""Again, the statement was made when he had 28 wins. I'll go on record as saying that 75 wins is totally freakish. Let's do a little math PSloppper:Assumin...

<t>I've been busy, you know start of Q4 and all. Anyway, if the number is 75, I'm not going to bet against it. Over 5 years there are not that many opportunities for a contestant to win 75 games. Out of curiosity, which law firm are you planning on having administer the contract? There are quite a f...

<t>"No, he was implying that people who have girl-on-girl relations become less likely to get HIV." Okay, I apologize for starting down this path, I'm not going to speak for DCFC. I should have said "What I understand from reading the following"Given that lesbian sex is the least likely to transmit ...

<t>"I have screwed plenty of lesbians, but never a married girl. "Could you clear this up please? Do you mean to say you've screwed plenty of bi-sexual women? Are you in fact yourself a woman, so you can in fact screw a lesbian and she can remain a lesbian? Was the woman not a lesbian at the time yo...

Anyone have bets on the correlation between Bonds hitting number 715 by the end of the year and the Giants making the playoffs?