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From: shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: Re: NFL picks, Week 7
Message-ID: <673@h-sc1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 18:47:46 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 30 18:47:46 1985
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Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center
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Keywords: Get with the program, Robert Ekblaw!

> 
> If you look at the score after the spread, you will see that the '!' does
> not mean factorial.  It does, instead, mean a much higher spread than normal
> for a football game pick (I do this as the professional pickers seem to get
> really conservative, and go no higher than 10 or so points).  I figured that
> this would be easy to figure out.  I apologize if my system is not dimwit-
> proof.  Being a logical engineer, I am not normally analyzing a situation
> based on how an idiot might examine it.  I will try to do better next time.
> 
> Robert A. Ekblaw

	Robert.  Robert, Robert, Robert.  Didn't you notice
the little smiley faces next to the factorial values?

			:-)
			 ^This is a smiley face.

Aren't you aware that the smiley face is a convention
meaning that the author is speaking tongue in cheek?
I was under the impression that this convention was
"dimwitproof".

			-Steve Shiue

"Ah like that boy.  He's about as sharp as a bowlin' ball."
	-Foghorn Leghorn