What happens if you change the deposit to $400 (i.e. increase by $100)? Does it change the result to $3,100, or to $4,000?

This should tell you if the error is in the formula, or elsewhere.

I think Jerry deliberately started this nuclear chain reaction. If we are to answer without looking at anyone else’s choices, how are we to know that on page 9 Jerry revealed his reason for asking us to do this?

Another diabolical scheme from the ukulele player of the Catskills.

Politics is the gentle art of getting
votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich,
by promising to protect each from the other.

_~Oscar Ameringer, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."_


I offered my opponents a deal:
"if they stop telling lies about me,
I will stop telling the truth about them".

_~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952_


A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

_~Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman_


I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

_~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician_


Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

_~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)_


We hang petty thieves
and appoint the bigger thieves to public office.

_~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author_


Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

_~Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher_


Politicians are the same all over.
They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

_~Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Russian politician_


When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president; I'm beginning to believe it.
_~Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defense' by Irving Stone._


Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel,
go out and buy some more tunnels.
_~John Quinton, American actor/writer_

Yes, but the video could have spliced together the people who chose the number 37. Not many UHHers did.

Politics is the gentle art of getting
v**es from the poor and campaign funds from the rich,
by promising to protect each from the other.

_~Oscar Ameringer, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."_


I offered my opponents a deal:
"if they stop telling lies about me,
I will stop telling the t***h about them".

_~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952_


A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

_~Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman_


I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

_~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician_


Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

_~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)_


We hang petty thieves
and appoint the bigger thieves to public office.

_~Aesop, Greek s***e & fable author_


Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

_~Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher_


Politicians are the same all over.
They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

_~Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Russian politician_


When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president; I'm beginning to believe it.
_~Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defense' by Irving Stone._


Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel,
go out and buy some more tunnels.
_~John Quinton, American actor/writer_

I think your survey just disproved this. Looks like only 3 people chose the number 37. ☹️

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18% gray

Could be, but I don’t remember seeing any brand names. Mostly actors would take out cigarettes from fancy cigarette cases. It could just be that many more people smoked back then.

Sometimes you need a wide angle lens when the animals are too close.

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The name escapes me . . .


Adding insult to injury?


Yes, they are genuine fakes.


Fess up. The sadist in you wants to try number 7.

. . . or is it?

If you don't get it, call your nearest British embassy ;)

You were warned.

If your home or office overlooks the Hudson, this is what you would have seen if you looked out the window last Wednesday.

Here is a British Airways Concorde being returned by barge to its home at the Intrepid museum after a refurbishment.

(Screengrab from Fox News)

Alas!