Miscellaneous Discussion Thread
For an amateur trying to maximize his score, I would say it's about "18 yo's in a row" possible. For a pro trying to throw 9 strikes in a game while minimizing his score, I would say it is about "1 yo in a row" possible. Under very favorable lane conditions, probably about a coin-flip.Quote: DRichNot possible.
Miplet's scoresheet shows what it would look like.
Quote: miplet
Frame 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pins x x 0 x x 0 x x 0 xxx Score 20 10 0 20 10 0 20 10 0 30
I guess I am mistaken. I was always under the assumption that the tenth frame was only considered one strike because a strike gets 10 points plus the next two balls. Obviously only the first ball in the tenth gets two additional balls.
If I am not mistaken, you are in the Midwest so I will defer to you.
| Frame | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pins | 6 3 | 3 4 | x | 8 1 | x | 3 3 | 6 2 | 9 - | 8 - | 5 4 |
| Score | 9 | 7 | 19 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 9 |
| Frame | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pins | 7 2 | x | 3 5 | 7 - | 9 - | 7 / | 9 - | 4 - | 7 / | 9 - |
| Score | 9 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 19 | 9 |
Quote: RSHow do you get 3 strikes on the 10'th frame?
Nothing like a 300 perfect game in your home state in an arena.
https://youtu.be/u1hylGRTPZg
Seems like you and Tom got more in common than just feathers?Quote: TwoFeathersATLI don't bowl either, was just messin' wid ya. 40 years or so ago, actually closer to 50, I bowled every Sunday night at the only all night bowling place in the city of Atlanta. Everyone else but me had just shut down their pizza parlors, Gigi's Pizza it was, and we went bowling. We got there 'bout midnight, bowled for awhile, and then went to (damn, trying to remember here), we went to (jhit still can't remember), actually remembered while typing. Remembered just between the last 'we went to' and the (jhit I can't remember), we went to the Magestic. There we ate breakfast. The whole night wasn't really 'bout the bowling, was about a larger thing. I miss those days sometimes.
I have been bowling with my sons more than a few times in just the last few years. Just daddy thing. I still can bowl 200+, or 100-, the years haven't changed a thing, in terms of the score, I tried not to mention the 'scoring', some dem gals still send me email ;-!
Told you we could talk Turkey.
However I'm from New England I was bowling candlepin.I have only bowled ten pin 3 times.
Quote: DRichWhen you bowl three strikes in a row, why is it called a turkey?
That was the prize you'd be given. A big deal back in the day.
I used to bowl in a league when I was a child, think it ended around age 12. I picked up a ball this last winter for the first time in a decade+. 1st game back was 18X. Came back the next week and banged out a 218.
My childhood average was in the 120s, so not sure where it came from. Guess I'll take a decade off of golf now =p
Quote: FaceThat was the prize you'd be given. A big deal back in the day.
I used to bowl in a league when I was a child, think it ended around age 12. I picked up a ball this last winter for the first time in a decade+. 1st game back was 18X. Came back the next week and banged out a 218.
My childhood average was in the 120s, so not sure where it came from. Guess I'll take a decade off of golf now =p
Why? So you can come back and shoot a 218 in 10 years?
Hmmmm...., on second thought, I guess even a little improvement is better than nothing.
Quote: FaceThat was the prize you'd be given. A big deal back in the day.
I used to bowl in a league when I was a child, think it ended around age 12. I picked up a ball this last winter for the first time in a decade+. 1st game back was 18X. Came back the next week and banged out a 218.
My childhood average was in the 120s, so not sure where it came from. Guess I'll take a decade off of golf now =p
That is correct, but only during thanksgiving week.
I have bowled for the last 25 years. Current average is 204. I blew out my bicept 2 years ago and learned how to bowl left handed with a 170 average.
Quote: RSWhy? So you can come back and shoot a 218 in 10 years?
Hmmmm...., on second thought, I guess even a little improvement is better than nothing.
lol'd =)
Quote: GWAEThat is correct, but only during thanksgiving week.
I have bowled for the last 25 years. Current average is 204. I blew out my bicept 2 years ago and learned how to bowl left handed with a 170 average.
I've used a 5 step approach my whole life. This holiday season when I was working 100hrs a week and reffing and playing hockey, I didn't have the gas for it. I started doing a step and a half, basically a slightly advanced "kid approach". 5 strikes in a row. I then faltered because I was just that tired, but I think there might be something there. Perhaps it erased a bunch of variables leading up to the release, making it more consistent. I dunno. But if you're into it, maybe give it a shot on a free night
Quote: Facelol'd =)
I've used a 5 step approach my whole life. This holiday season when I was working 100hrs a week and reffing and playing hockey, I didn't have the gas for it. I started doing a step and a half, basically a slightly advanced "kid approach". 5 strikes in a row. I then faltered because I was just that tired, but I think there might be something there. Perhaps it erased a bunch of variables leading up to the release, making it more consistent. I dunno. But if you're into it, maybe give it a shot on a free night
I throw about 20mph, I don't think I could do so with 2 steps.
However, when the lanes are really dry and I don't have a ball that will handle it I do have a 2 step that I will use. If on the right lane I will stand about a foot in front of the ball return and take a baby step and a big step and have a huge hook. Only problem with it is that line is good for leaving a lot of 10 pins.
I read the post, thought WTF, then read DRich.Quote: DRichNot possible.
Going with DRich.
<edit> maybe the poster was keeping/calculating his own scorecard. Maybe he should stick to bowling....
Whoa, this thread got a little busy while I wasn't watching/reading.Quote: GWAEI throw about 20mph, I don't think I could do so with 2 steps.
However, when the lanes are really dry and I don't have a ball that will handle it I do have a 2 step that I will use. If on the right lane I will stand about a foot in front of the ball return and take a baby step and a big step and have a huge hook. Only problem with it is that line is good for leaving a lot of 10 pins.
Now I'm not sure where to start.
Maybe just, GWAE should be posting on the charting a table thread....
Quote: TwoFeathersATLWhoa, this thread got a little busy while I wasn't watching/reading.
Now I'm not sure where to start.
Maybe just, GWAE should be posting on the charting a table thread....
I am way too lazy to chart s table.
Good read, great pics. I love Yellowstone.
I had worried a bit 'bout the mag since the big changeover last year.
Less worried now.
I may keep this one rather than donating to the public library....
<edit> And my Cottenwood tree is putting on its annual show. Looks like it's snowing outside.
Miserable summer heat and humidity is on its way......
Let me tell you that these had to be the most disgusting pieces of candy I have ever eaten.
Quote: TwoFeathersATL
<edit> And my Cottenwood tree is putting on its annual show. Looks like it's snowing outside.
S#$%!!!! The bass run! I gotta get out tomorrow before I miss it ><
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Quote: GWAEA friend of mine went to Japan. She knows I have a love affair for kit kats. She brought me these.
Let me tell you that these had to be the most disgusting pieces of candy I have ever eaten.
I was just about to reply before I read that you thought they were disgusting. My sister brought me back the green Kit Kat back from one of her travels. I spit it out it was so bad.
Quote: GWAEI can't believe they put beans in chocolate. I had the taste in my mouth for 3 hours.
Chocolate basically comes from a bean.
True, but it's a chocolate bean. Cocoa bean. Not a red beans and rice type bean.Quote: DRichChocolate basically comes from a bean.
1st eat red beans and rice.
Then chocolate Kit-Kat for desert.
Don't mix together at once.....this cannot be a good thing ;--)
Not sure exactly which beverage to recommend with each.
Don't know how well Tequila goes with Kit-Kat.
Quote: TwoFeathersATLDon't know how well Tequila goes with Kit-Kat.
May you never find out.
When it comes to the morning after the night before, I find that if I've had Tequila I have to be told what happened after that.
It is Japanese efficiency .Quote: TwoFeathersATLDon't mix together at once.....this cannot be a good thing ;--)
IIRC, Tequila goes with everything?Quote:Not sure exactly which beverage to recommend with each.
Don't know how well Tequila goes with Kit-Kat.
Quote: GWAEA friend of mine went to Japan. She knows I have a love affair for kit kats. She brought me these.
Let me tell you that these had to be the most disgusting pieces of candy I have ever eaten.
The next WOV challenge?
(Actually the Wiz did not want another food challenge).
Do these come in durian flavor by any chance?
I scanned the entries, several looked interesting, most rather dubious.
Suspect I'm just old fashioned.
Give me American Kit-Kat, with a glass of milk.
Chocolate prevents the absorbtion of calcium and is therefore contraindicated if milk is to be consumed.Quote: TwoFeathersATLAmerican Kit-Kat, with a glass of milk.
Are you messin' w/me ;-?
Looked it up, valid. May be useful in several of the common thread themes hereabouts....
Nuttin' to do with railroad cars full of convicted felons playing with each other ;-)
BY A CHEMISTRY STUDENT
The following is an actual question given on a University ofArizona chemistry mid term, and an actual answer turned in by a student.
The answer by this student was so 'profound' that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well :
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.
One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving, which is unlikely. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. There fore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.
Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.
This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Sally during my Freshman year that, 'It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,' and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct..... ...leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Sally kept shouting 'Oh my God.'
THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+
Quote: odiousgambitthe 'toms' get mighty arrogant
most wildlife suffers instead of benefits from being fed by humans, especially if the process acclimates them to humans. It's nonetheless a strong instinct with humans to do this, just observe how delighted kids are when they can feed whatever.
I've tried to tell 2F this before to no avail. *sigh*
Sigh, Odious may have been correct all along.
Snowflake just emerged from the trail that leads down to the creek.
Emerged leading of a flock of turkeys, like Moses leading the Children of Israel into the promised land!
This might get interesting....;-)
Quote: TwoFeathersATLContraindicated
Nuttin' to do with railroad cars full of convicted felons playing with each other ;-)
No, but you sure do have some interesting insights. You have to forgive me sometimes, when I was in elementary school my vocabulary tested at the college sophomore level.
Pls remember all this was in the Deep South....
So you are forgiven.
I started with contradict, and I am very familiar with contradiction, but that wasn't right.
But it threw me off ;-)
Which led to con train dicted, and then con train dic ated, and I gave up, looked up and found;
contra indicated, which solves the puzzle. Made perfect sense when you sort it out properly ;-)
<edit> surprised I didn't go a 'cont addict ed' route, but my mind works in mysterious ways ;-)
<2nd edit> I will try to remember in the future;
Contraindicated = Bad Plan
Come to think of it, these forums may be a bad influence on a simple minded southern Indian/boy ;-)
Bad avatar. Wearing garlic now, cross nearby ;-)Quote: SamhainTheoretical question. Player is sitting at a VP machine and is DEALT a jackpot (royal, 4oak, whatever) before hitting deal and collecting, some punk from behind "unholds" his jackpot and hits deal which now voids the jackpot all together. What happens to the player? Will the casino review the tape and see that he would've hit the jackpot and pay him? Is there a way for managementt to check the computer in the machine to verify that indeed the player would've had a jackpot had this guy not tampered with it? Maybe no one knows? With all the crazy things that have or could happen in a casino, this had to of happened at least once right? /end random thought
Suggest you reach out to Dodsferd for assistance....
Btw, why does it have to be a jackpot. If I am dealt trips and some a hole unholds them on me, there is gonna be a problem.
Quote: GWAEWhen you are dealt a jackpot it automatically locks up so there is no way to unhold them.
Btw, why does it have to be a jackpot. If I am dealt trips and some a hole unholds them on me, there is gonna be a problem.
Not true. Most poker games only hold the top jackpot but many jackpots could be dealt and thrown away.
All regulated video poker machines offer the operator the ability to go back and see what hand was dealt as long as they do it before playing 10 or more hands,
Quote: GWAEWhen you are dealt a jackpot it automatically locks up so there is no way to unhold them.
Btw, why does it have to be a jackpot. If I am dealt trips and some a hole unholds them on me, there is gonna be a problem.
Ah, I didn't realize you couldn't unhold a jackpot. I was just going for worst case scenario where thousands would be on the line, and wondering if the casino would still shell out the cash. But hell yeah there'd be a problem regardless of the amount.
Quote: DRichNot true. Most poker games only hold the top jackpot but many jackpots could be dealt and thrown away.
All regulated video poker machines offer the operator the ability to go back and see what hand was dealt as long as they do it before playing 10 or more hands,
I guess there are always the exceptions. Everything I have ever played held any dealt hand pay. However I have only had 3 handpays dealt that weren't royals so my sample size is small.
Quote: GWAEI guess there are always the exceptions. Everything I have ever played held any dealt hand pay. However I have only had 3 handpays dealt that weren't royals so my sample size is small.
So if you were playing $2 DDB and dealt AAAAK, it would not let you draw for a kicker?
Edit, I see some posts near the end did get removed.
Quote: FleaStiffNo, but you sure do have some interesting insights. You have to forgive me sometimes, when I was in elementary school my vocabulary tested at the college sophomore level.
No, dear, we don't forgive you. Stay smart and erudite. :)
Quote: IbeatyouracesBBB is having computer issues. That thread looks fine to me.
Edit, I see some posts near the end did get removed.
Yes, exactly. Re your edit.
Quote: IbeatyouracesSo if you were playing $2 DDB and dealt AAAAK, it would not let you draw for a kicker?
Lol at me playing $2
I cannot watch this thing 24/7.
Anyone want to tell me what I missed?
At least tell me it wasn't my fault this time?
Did I break the damn thing again?
Should I hide under the fridge, again?
2F
<edit> Headed for the fridge just as a test of the emergency broadcast system.
Just a test, I hope...?.?
