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  • Interesting historical post

    From Timothy Chow@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 17 09:34:59 2022
    Bkgm.com has archived an old r.g.b. post with an interesting
    historical discussion of "whopper" and related terms.

    https://bkgm.com/rgb/rgb.cgi?view+1273

    Interesting to note at the time (2005), bkgm.com apparently
    defined a "blunder" to be synonymous with "whopper." Nowadays,
    as Stick pointed out, it is more common to follow XG's terminology
    and define a blunder to be > 0.08. However, bkgm.com currently
    does not give a numerical definition of a blunder.

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    Tim Chow

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  • From Axel Reichert@21:1/5 to Timothy Chow on Mon Jan 17 21:05:29 2022
    Timothy Chow <[email protected]> writes:

    Bkgm.com has archived an old r.g.b. post with an interesting
    historical discussion of "whopper" and related terms.

    https://bkgm.com/rgb/rgb.cgi?view+1273

    ... which is why I referred to "semi-whoppers" in my article on reply
    moves. With GNU Backgammon by default using "doubtful" > 0.04 and "bad"
    0.08, XG using "mistake" > 0.00, "error" > 0.02 and "blunder" > 0.08,
    and Nack Ballard/Paul Weaver use "mistake" > 0.03, "blunder" > 0.06, but "whopper" > 0.1, the whopper seems to be the least disputed value.

    Best regards

    Axel

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  • From MK@21:1/5 to Axel Reichert on Mon Jan 31 01:15:57 2022
    On January 17, 2022 at 1:05:31 PM UTC-7, Axel Reichert wrote:

    ... which is why I referred to "semi-whoppers" in my article

    I think "whopper junior" would be more appropriate.

    I'm sure you all know that at Burger King you can ask for
    half-and-half frech fries and onion rings(?). So, for a real
    close call, you can mix half decimal PR's as a side order...

    BTW: It's good to see Axel participatig in various subjects
    but can I ask if the jury is likely to deliver a verdict on the
    "Murat mutant" experiment anytime soon?? If you sit on
    it for too long, you may hatch much uglier ducklings...

    MK

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 31 12:04:12 2022
    On Monday, January 31, 2022 at 9:15:58 AM UTC, MK wrote:
    ...
    I'm sure you all know that at Burger King you can ask for
    half-and-half frech fries and onion rings(?). So, for a real
    close call, you can mix half decimal PR's as a side order...
    ....

    I certainly knew that you can ask for this.
    (You can also ask for fried alligator.) I had no idea though, that this item was on the menu.

    Paul

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  • From MK@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Jan 31 13:36:01 2022
    On January 31, 2022 at 1:04:14 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:

    On Monday, January 31, 2022 at 9:15:58 AM UTC, MK wrote:

    I'm sure you all know that at Burger King you can ask for
    half-and-half frech fries and onion rings(?). So, for a real
    close call, you can mix half decimal PR's as a side order...

    I certainly knew that you can ask for this.
    (You can also ask for fried alligator.) I had no idea though,
    that this item was on the menu.

    Yeah, man, my first reaction though was "Whoa! You'd need
    an aluminum bayou boat to fry one of them puppies." but I
    quicly realized that you can, of course, chop them up first.

    And I found out that they indeed call them "gator nuggets"
    in the South but you need to go to MacDonald's for those.

    Then the images of baby alligators hatching from eggs in
    documentaries flashed in my head. Yup, there are a ton of
    alligator egg receipes out there. I wonder if MacDonald's
    serve "gator egg-mac-muffins"..?

    And those gator babies appropriately called "hatchlings"
    are apparently the size of large shrimp (before the head
    is cut off).

    Now, if I were an indian elder, I would name you "Alligator
    Dundee from Up Over" and tell you throw one of them on
    the barbie for me... ;)

    MK

    PS: I hope Axel doesn't hatch those instead of ducklings
    and get bitten in the ass, as they are said to have quite a
    bite even just after hatching... :)

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