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Mountainman takes Week Zero / Week One, scoring 24 of 30 correct; edging out Spence by 2.


Week Zero / Week One Participant Scores:

Mountainman: +24 = 80%
Spence: +22 = 73.3%
Dossenator: +18 [of 26] = 69.2%
Cane: +20 = 66%
Derek: +13 [of 26] = 50%

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Nice MM. 80% is a huge number.

Spence wrote:Nice MM. 80% is a huge number.

Especially at 30 games

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Not so fast, I caution my fellow Picker Colleagues here on the board that my 3rd grade teacher thought I was a mathematical genius because I repeated a mathematical theorem during class that I heard while watching The Wizard of Oz.



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Mountainman wrote:Not so fast, I caution my fellow Picker Colleagues here on the board that my 3rd grade teacher thought I was a mathematical genius because I repeated a mathematical theorem during class that I heard while watching The Wizard of Oz.



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But you remembered it . I couldn't even rememeber that there was a theorem quoted on The Wizard of OZ. I do remember scarecrow spouting of some sort of math stuff when he got his brain, but my brain shuts down at the mere mention of math.

Spence wrote:

Mountainman wrote:Not so fast, I caution my fellow Picker Colleagues here on the board that my 3rd grade teacher thought I was a mathematical genius because I repeated a mathematical theorem during class that I heard while watching The Wizard of Oz.



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But you remembered it . I couldn't even rememeber that there was a theorem quoted on The Wizard of OZ. I do remember scarecrow spouting of some sort of math stuff when he got his brain, but my brain shuts down at the mere mention of math.

………I remembered it only because my older sister, who loved and made a career with mathematics, made me repeat it over and over and over when I asked “What did he say?” during that scene because I didn’t know what a hypotenuse or anything else he said was.

It’s not my memory the phrase is ingrained in, it’s a phobia that my big sister will return from California and call me names and question if I even have a brain again, like she did back then!!!!!



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I am the oldest so I guess I am the feared one in my family.

Spence wrote:I am the oldest so I guess I am the feared one in my family.

I was the youngest, interesting how it works…….. I was the feared one, my sister took piano lessons. She would practice about every day playing various songs and doing her scales. One day I put a thumbtack on her piano bench. She hit a high note with her shreek.

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I grew up on a farm. I am six years older than my sister. When she was 6 and I was 12 I talked her into racing me to the fence and back. You had to touch the fence and run back to make sure you went all the way to the fence. I fell right before I got to the fence. She beat me to the fence. It was an electric fence. I received such a beating for it. She, to this day, has never let me live it down.