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On Mar 1, 12:35*am, Ryan Cousineau wrote:
-my wholly-concocted "weighted athlete awards" favors Canada with 242 (USA 2nd at 186). You should have also created a "weighted coach" award, in which case Hitchcock gives Canada the title on his own... Joe |
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Big Bobby Clobber wrote:
On Mar 1, 12:35 am, Ryan Cousineau wrote: -my wholly-concocted "weighted athlete awards" favors Canada with 242 (USA 2nd at 186). You should have also created a "weighted coach" award, in which case Hitchcock gives Canada the title on his own... Joe Melody Davidson Would win that one for the women, too. Scott |
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On Mar 1, 8:29*am, Fred wrote:
On Mar 1, 4:45*am, "A. Dumas" wrote: Ryan Cousineau wrote: I wrote up a bunch of stuff. My brief bloggy comments he http://wiredcola.com/content/olympic...stats-fiddling The compiled data he http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...3LVNQWF9GQ01tb... S1pd1JNM0E&hl=en Who has the most medals per life expectancy? You know, when you factor out deaths due to things completely unrelated to health care (e.g. deaths due to car accidents or shootings, where those involved are dead before ever receiving any medical care) the US goes from having a pitifully low life expectancy to having the highest life expectancy in the world. Nice try, though, at turning the conversation to a Probama slant. So, if what you were saying was true, then the US has such a higher rate of death by accident and violence than other developed countries that it drags our overall average life expectancy down significantly. I actually don't find your statistic plausible (the US murder rate is 0.043 per 1000 and the accident rate is 0.41 per 1000, which don't seem large enough to drag life expectancy down alot), but if it were true, you would have to wonder what Americans are doing to run such a high risk of death by accident. Clearly crime isn't the issue since the accident rate is 10x higher than the murder rate.. Forget terrorism. ACCIDENTS are the enemy. Ben |
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for its Portugal-class life expectancy
But they said we needed Nimitz-class-carriers instead. Didn't those help? sa |
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On Mar 1, 11:46*am, "
wrote: Forget terrorism. *Bad beer is the enemy. Ben- :-) |
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On Mar 1, 1:19*pm, Bob Schwartz
wrote: RickyBobby wrote: The only black mark on the whole thing was the rookie bobsleigher from Russia who was overmatched by a world class course and lost control of his little sleigh. Is this what passes for trolling in Canada these days? I didn't know Canada were any good at skiing, just those minority sports like ice hockey and curling. Well done them if they're coming good in the real winter sports as well! Ice hockey. What a crock of **** that is. One bunch of overpaid (and overpadded) thugs clubbing another bunch of overpaid thugs with sticks. It's like something Monty Python would invent at the Ministry of Silly Sports... UD |
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Uncle Dave wrote: On Mar 1, 1:19*pm, Bob Schwartz wrote: RickyBobby wrote: The only black mark on the whole thing was the rookie bobsleigher from Russia who was overmatched by a world class course and lost control of his little sleigh. Is this what passes for trolling in Canada these days? I didn't know Canada were any good at skiing, just those minority sports like ice hockey and curling. Well done them if they're coming good in the real winter sports as well! Ice hockey. What a crock of **** that is. One bunch of overpaid (and overpadded) thugs clubbing another bunch of overpaid thugs with sticks. It's like something Monty Python would invent at the Ministry of Silly Sports... Look at what field hockey players wear for protection (on the field, you bunch of perverts) and compare that to what ice hockey players have on. -- tanx, Howard Caught playing safe It's a bored game remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok? |
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, semi-ambivalent wrote: for its Portugal-class life expectancy But they said we needed Nimitz-class-carriers instead. Didn't those help? sa Depends on how you feel about Portugal, really. Also, lifestyle issues tend to dominate life expectancies. Also, Nimitz-class carriers are AWESOME. -- Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/ "In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls." "In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them." |
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Howard Kveck wrote: In article , Uncle Dave wrote: On Mar 1, 1:19*pm, Bob Schwartz wrote: RickyBobby wrote: The only black mark on the whole thing was the rookie bobsleigher from Russia who was overmatched by a world class course and lost control of his little sleigh. Is this what passes for trolling in Canada these days? I didn't know Canada were any good at skiing, just those minority sports like ice hockey and curling. Well done them if they're coming good in the real winter sports as well! Ice hockey. What a crock of **** that is. One bunch of overpaid (and overpadded) thugs clubbing another bunch of overpaid thugs with sticks. It's like something Monty Python would invent at the Ministry of Silly Sports... Look at what field hockey players wear for protection (on the field, you bunch of perverts) and compare that to what ice hockey players have on. In one case, a Canadian player got a penalty because the IIHF has really weird rules about losing your helmet: if you lose it during your shift, you have to go directly to the bench. He tried to retrieve it first. Innuendos left in to service you better. -- Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/ "In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls." "In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them." |
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Ryan Cousineau wrote:
In article , semi-ambivalent wrote: for its Portugal-class life expectancy But they said we needed Nimitz-class-carriers instead. Didn't those help? sa Depends on how you feel about Portugal, really. Also, lifestyle issues tend to dominate life expectancies. Also, Nimitz-class carriers are AWESOME. Portugal has pretty good wine, don't they? Scott |
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