------------------------------------------------------------------------ Article 135 of 189 Subject: Re: Ro-Cham-Stories From: parinell@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James C Parinella) Date: 1995/05/19 Message-Id: <3pinh5$e8m@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <3pg1mo$bm9@senator-Bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <3piksg$rpi@news.ycc.yale.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Newsgroups: rec.sport.disc OK, OK, OK, stop me if you heard this one. At our first tournament, we had beer in the car waiting for us, and we decided to ro-cham-get the beer. At a previous tournament (MIT at Fools?), people had experimented with fixing the throw by coordinating, so we decided to give it a shot. So eight of us got together and decided to throw scissors, then in the event of a tie, scissors and then rock. Only one of us was left out in the cold. It's almost 50-50 that the one guy is going to lose, leaving 6% or so for each of the rest of us (to calculate actual odds, assuming no predisposition to rock, scissors, or paper, simply...ah, never mind. You guys can't handle probabilities). So, RO--CHAM--BEER! We all throw scissors, the odd man throws rock. There's an uncertain moment, then we all start screaming as if in victory. The poor fellow was so overwhelmed at seeing 8 scissors on the first throw and hearing us scream, that he just assumed he lost and dutifully ran to the car to retrieve our cold, delicious beer. Later that night, even as he was complaining about how we cheated, he still didn't believe that we were guilty of collusion, so we all rochammed three times...scissors....scissors.. rock. His reply: "You guys suck." Jim "Top this one, Mr. Phil Price" Parinella ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Home   Power Search   Post to Usenet   Ask DN Wizard   Help Why use DN?   |   Advertising Info   |   New Features!   |   Policy Stuff Copyright © 1996 Deja News, Inc. All rights reserved.