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Herr Mensch

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  1. <yawns>a question was asked, an answer was given. Nobody asked about the morality or legal ramifications. In the words of dozens, if not hundreds of you, "If you have nothing constructive to say, get the censored out of this thread"<hoists several lackwits on their own petards>Next time I'll have to remember to only be helpful via PM.Mensch

  2. The question, as detailed in Life, the Universe, and Everything, is "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"This, of course, requires that one work in base 13, which is the origin of 13 as an unlucky number. Theoretically, working in base 13 would have resulted in the completion of the program that the earth was designed to run, after which the earth would presumably be switched off. Incidentally, the entire univese would also instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.Mensch

  3. You know, a month ago people were hating on me for not giving a crap about people less fortunate than me who were in a bad situation.Now, someone less fortunate than most of you is in a bad situation. No, it's not a natural disaster, he put himself where he is now by not heeding the advice of those who knew better (actually, that does sound like a recent natural disaster) but to say "You didn't lose anything, it was only $700" is assholerie of the highest order. Seven hundred bucks is two weeks take-home for me. It's about 1.5 times my current bankroll. If I pissed it away in one night, I'd feel like the world had taken a dump on me, too. Imagine that you're a budding fronteirsman who leaves your wealthy Philadelphia family and heads out west with only a few meager tools and weapons. You stake out a plot of land and spend the next months cutting lumber and building yourself a subsistence-class log cabin. It leaks, and it's drafty, because you're not very good at this stuff yet, but you're trying, and besides, look what you started with.One night, just as you're starting to get comfortable in your new home, you leave a candle lit on the table because you're tired of barking your shin on the thing when you head out to the outhouse at 3 in the morning. A wind blows through your drafty room and knocks the candle over. Your house, and in fact nearly everything you came out here with, is lost in the ensuing inferno. Oh, well. Grow up, fronteirsman. Get over it already. What you had was crap, anyway. You haven't really lost anything. It leaked and was drafty. Mine's much nicer. You should have worked harder and been smarter and had more privileges loke me sothat you could share the correct view, MY view, that a ramshackle little lean-to like yours wasn't even worth having in the first place.Asinine.Many of you are at least offering the OP a little symathy. Kudos. As for me, I'll just say, "Man, I can't wait until my bankroll is as big as yours was. Sucks for you, good luck if you're trying to build it back up. If not, may I reccomend adding 250 ml 1N Calcium hypochlorite to a solution of 500 ml 1N Sodium hydrosulfite and 50 ml 1N Potassium ferrocyanide. Inhale deeply."Mensch

  4. The car I drive is a 2001 Daewoo Lanos. 35 mpg.The car I don't drive, except on special occasions, is a 1987 Buick Grand National. Beautiful peice of machinery and faster than a Nevada hooker.Mensch

  5. So I have just completed a ... dalliance with Frau Mensch. She pulls on a robe, picks up her mug, and says "Hey, my coffee got cold." The tone, you might imagine, was mild surprise. She immediately clapped a hand to her mouth, realizing what she had said. "I didn't mean... I mean... No...You... I mean..." I have never felt so insignificant.Mensch

  6. UB recently eliminated the top level of UltimatePoint/rake ratios. The maximum UPoints you can earn per hand are now 0.50. Best Case: in every hand you play the flop is seen and the pot reaches $10. You then need to play 20 hands to earn 10 Upoints and clear $1bonus.More realistically, at $10 NL you will earn about 5 Upointsper hour per table, at $25 about 8 points, at $50 about 12/hour/table, and about 18 at $100 NL. Beyond that, it levels off, as the average pot size is already above $10. UBs only advantage in this area is that you can clear bonus while playing at the $0.01 - $0.02 tables. It takes forfreakinever, but it's possible. Other than that, yeah, gotta admit UB's bonus clearing kinda bites. It took me from Father's Day until 3 weeks ago, around 10000 hands, to clear a total of $100 bonus, playing mostly $10NL. Then I heard about Pokershare.... Currently in the process of clearing $250 more. The over/under is valentine's day.Mensch

  7. I am the last person to recommend against pirating software (even my PokerTracker is cracked), but the open-source program GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) is the equivalent to Photoshop, and free, both free as in beer and free as in speech. Search. DL. enjoy. Mensch

  8. Play if you have at least two good starting Holdem hands. Three is great, two is okay. Play the three card runs, like you said. Be less likely to play 3 suited cards, unless they're connectors.You can afford to play more hands than in Holdem, as long as you're playing crazy Pineappple and not just pineapple. I hope the reason is obvious. If you're playing straight pineapple, you should tighten up, only play hands where you've got 3 legit Holdem hands. I don't know of a chart, but for crazy, try:1) Big pairs with a suited side card2) Middle pairs with a suited connecting side card3) Low pairs with a suited Ace4) AXX (where X is a 10-count, and x would be a small card)5) XXX unpaired6) AXx with the Ace suited to the x.7) Any 3-straight from 4-5-6 up.For a real kick try crazy pineapple 8/b. All of the above hands except the middle 3-straights, (7-8-9 through 9-T-J) plus any A2, A3, or 23, any Ace-low-low, or any 3 to a wheel.HTH.Mensch

  9. He does put on a show.Went to see him with Billy Joel here in Clemson, in the Valley, along with 52000 of my best friends, April 8, 1996. Most awesome 4 1/2 hours of music ever. The two of them started together, for a couple of songs, then Elton took the stage for a set. In the middle of his set Joel came back out and they did one of Billy's songs together, and then Joel left again. He came back out for his set after EJ was done, Elton popped back out when Joel did "Yellow brick Road", and Billy finished his set. The stadium was tired, and feeling peaceful as midnight came and went, but when the two of them cranked up" Whole Lotta' Shakin'" and "Great Balls O' Fire" to close the show, the place was jumpin like the Tiger football team can only dream about.Don't miss either one of them.Mensch

  10. when the show is canceled will be my favorite moment
    DITTO
    Ditto ditto.And we know about the remote control. It's what lets those of us with nonzero IQs avoid slop like Survivor. I had never before considered my mother's intelligence to be less than mine until she started discussing reality TV with me a few Thanksgivings ago.Mensch
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