To all competitive tournament players — and most particularly world-class players like these women — there is ZERO chance involved.

That is because of how competitive bridge results are scored – entirely differently than some parlor version of bridge.

Have you ever watched or participated in a competitive bridge tournament? How you play each hand is scored in comparison with how other teams play the same hand.

Like an episode out of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has announced the discovery of a mass of crystallized carbon formerly known as star BPM 37093, now known as the biggest diamond in the galaxy, fifty light years away from Earth in the constellation Centaurus.

The star, named “Lucy” after the Beatles song, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” is estimated to be 2,500 miles across and weighs approximately 10 billion-trillion-trillion-carats – a one, followed by 34 zeros. Travis Metcalfe, an astronomer from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and leader of the team who discovered the gem, says “You would need a jeweler’s loupe the size of the sun to grade this diamond..

yep..that’s hard to believe..True or not I cannot say..but in the unofficial Hoopsters poll with a + or – 3% variation among respondants.. 98.99% of all surveyed claimed that chess is the much harder game. ( and no, you can’t see my survey..cause it doesn’t really exist. )
The problem with bridge or poker or any other game is that there is an element of chance involved.. the turn of a card, the roll of the dice.. the element of just pure luck..all that exists in all other games but chess..
You can counter and tell me that hoopster..you couldn’t learn bridge if your life depended on it..and you’d be right..
Hope all is well with you Susan..

Frazer came in as caretaker from the opposition and this allowed Hawke “the hack” entry when the people spoke. Hawke was certainly no intellectual unlike Gough Whittlam, whose famous exit as Prime Minister echos around most Uni halls even today, “God may well save the Queen, but nothing will save the Governor General”

Howard’s exit is significant. First, he was a Bush poodle who pandered to his every whim, ignoring the people all the while. The defeat was significant in as much as the Australian ecconomy is strong and why change something that ain’t broken. It is heartening that the people saw beyond that. Howard took every opportunity through his stooge ’shock jocks’ to inform his people how great and important and wonderful he was. He was rewarded admirably. He is the first Australia Prime Minister since 1926 to fail to get re-ellected as a member of Parliament.

As we say, in our local town, “make sure the door doesn’t hit you in the ass on the way out”.

Blair’s gone, Howard’s gone and then there was……

He plays very well in the western corporate media, which of course, is his purpose.

The Yeltsin pillage days are gone forever.

j/k

More important questions remain.

Ask him about NSA warrantless spying BEFORE 9/11.

That’s of major importance.
If he’s willing to say his decision to stop flying commercial planes before 9-11 was a matter of convenience, he’d certainly forego any disclosure concerns. He’s certainly allow the entirety of his notes and comments surrounding the time that decision tookplace to clear FOIA, no?