Uben
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Sat Jan-12-08 05:59 PM
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John Edwards...100 to one odds |
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Bookmakers in Vegas are setting the odds for Edwards becoming president at 100 to one....per CNN
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:01 PM
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1. This is great news.Vegas has nearly always been wrong! |
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:13 PM
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11. Just the opposite is true,,,,professional gamblers make a living |
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by being right more than wrong.
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:21 PM
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12. Can't find it but I read somewhere they haven't picked nominees well. |
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Edited on Sat Jan-12-08 06:21 PM by saracat
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:24 PM
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13. Speaking of being wrong more than right... |
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Why did you use commas in an ellipsis? Were you trying to make some sort of comment about being wrong?
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Sat Jan-12-08 07:49 PM
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19. You are my worst nightmare!!!!!!!! |
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Are you my grammar teacher from middle school??????
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:59 PM
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17. my, that's pretty ignorant |
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they make billions by being right.
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Sat Jan-12-08 07:18 PM
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18. Like being right about this??????? |
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From Time Magazine, June 11, 1973:
Will President Nixon be impeached or forced to resign because of Watergate? Don't bet on it. That's the current advice of Las Vegas Oddsmaker Jimmy the Greek Snyder. He estimates that the odds are 1,000 to 1 against impeachment and a somewhat less staggering 200 to 1 against resignation. Jimmy also says that the odds against convicting former Attorney General John Mitchell are 5 to 1.
Still, times—and odds—change. In the winter of 1971-72, Jimmy was giving 2-to-5 odds that Edmund Muskie would win the Democratic nomination. George McGovern? A 50-to-1 shot.
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Sat Jan-12-08 07:51 PM
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20. Well then Jimmy was right, Nixon never got impeached LOL |
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Edited on Sat Jan-12-08 07:51 PM by dugggy
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Sat Jan-12-08 09:34 PM
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wasn't a Las Vegas bookmaker.
And finding an example of one guy being wrong 36 years ago doesn't mean that Las Vegas bookmakers are in the habit of being wrong.
You understand how gambling works, right?
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:03 PM
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Pretty sad if some people base their choice on that kind of information.
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:05 PM
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4. There's always, always a goon somewhere! |
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:04 PM
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The money guys will do anything to sht him up,it's disgusting. |
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:04 PM
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Edited on Sat Jan-12-08 06:05 PM by girl gone mad
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:05 PM
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Edited on Sat Jan-12-08 06:08 PM by Uben
NT
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:07 PM
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6. America LOVES A Long Shot... I'll Take The Bet... |
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Of Course The Clinton Nominating Network Would Annouce Such Trivial Drivel.. :puke:
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:10 PM
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JE is my second choice, but I would still like to see him get some momentum going
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:09 PM
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7. My friend Carol played the CA lottery at MUCH longer odds than that |
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:10 PM
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:12 PM
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I beat 209,000,000 to one odds and won a thousand dollars in a Long John Silvers scratch-off game
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:34 PM
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14. Somebody will get very rich taking the bet. |
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Johnny Edwards the Good Apologies to Chuck Berry
Deep down South Carolina close to Clemson U. Way back up in the woods among the textile mills There stood a little house made of earth and wood Where lived a country boy named Johnny Edwards the Good. Who learned to read or write very well And he could sue corporations just like a ringing a bell
Go go Go Johnny go Go Go Johnny go Go Go Johnny go Go Go Johnny go Go Johnny Edwards the Good
His briefcase used to be a gunny sack Go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track Oh, the engineers would see him sitting in the shade Reading with the rhythm that the drivers made People passing by they would stop and say That little Edwards boy will be famous some day
Go go Go Johnny go Go Go Johnny go Go Go Johnny go Go Go Johnny go Go Johnny Edwards the Good
His mother told him "Someday you will be a man, And you will be the leader of this big old land Many people coming from miles around To hear you make your speeches when the sun go down Maybe someday your name will be in lights Saying, “Johnny Edwards the Good tonight."
Go go Go Johnny go Go go go Johnny go Go go go Johnny go Go go go Johnny go Go Johnny Edwards the Good :dem:
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:56 PM
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15. But the payoff will be sweet! n/t |
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Sat Jan-12-08 06:58 PM
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16. Edwards' odds to become a senator when he was born: 100 billion to one |
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Sat Jan-12-08 09:37 PM
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Are there are a hundred billion people in the U.S.? No? I thought not, and his odds were better than millions and millions of minorities and women.
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