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    Quote Originally Posted by BJFan View Post
    I would include TKO.
    Hadn't thought of that. Thanks.

    Don

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    Quote Originally Posted by dogman_1234 View Post
    Don, pray tell...

    What do you have in mind for this "ambitious project"? Any spoilers? BJA4?!
    I knew, eventually, someone would ask, even though I said no questions, please.

    So, what I have in mind can't fit as an appendix for BJA4, because it would be over 1,000 pages! So, am exploring other options. Will either have to be online, which I'm not so keen on, or be 12 separate booklets of, maybe, 100 pages or so each. I'm working on this with Gronbog, and have had the idea in my head forever. Just don't want to discuss further at this time, as we're still fleshing out the scope and design of the whole thing. But, I can promise you this much: no one will be disappointed.

    Don

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    Quote Originally Posted by DSchles View Post
    Yeah, don't remember his name, but remember whom you mean.

    Don
    It was Doctor Blackjack.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BoSox View Post
    It was Doctor Blackjack.
    Doctorbj, more precisely. I didn't know if he'd want his handle posted, which why I didn't do it initially. However, for the sake of accuracy...

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    Quote Originally Posted by 21forme View Post
    Doctorbj, more precisely. I didn't know if he'd want his handle posted, which why I didn't do it initially. However, for the sake of accuracy...
    At times it became confusing as two people posted with the same handle. The standard quote at the end of every post by one of them was the only way I could tell the difference. I knew the same one as you mentioned.

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    Well that's two votes FELT!

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    Quote Originally Posted by DSchles View Post
    I knew, eventually, someone would ask, even though I said no questions, please.
    Whoops, sorry! Guess I need to improve my reading comprehension.

    So, what I have in mind can't fit as an appendix for BJA4, because it would be over 1,000 pages! So, am exploring other options. Will either have to be online, which I'm not so keen on, or be 12 separate booklets of, maybe, 100 pages or so each. I'm working on this with Gronbog, and have had the idea in my head forever. Just don't want to discuss further at this time, as we're still fleshing out the scope and design of the whole thing. But, I can promise you this much: no one will be disappointed.

    Don
    1000 pages is not to bad for a stand-alone book! The Art of Computer Programming anthology is almost 10,000. So, you have some major work to do to beat Donald Knuth! LOL!

    Anyway, depending on what you are working on depends on how you wish to segment data. If I think I know what you are working on is, that means a single encyclopedia would suffice.

    Whatever you guys are working on, really looking forward to the finished product!

    As per your question, here is what I would like to see:

    • High Low
    • HIOPT I or Gordon
    • HIOPT II
    • KO
    • RPC
    • UBZ 2
    • Halves
    • Zen
    • Mentor
    • UAPC


    I think keeping it down to 10 would be sufficient enough. If you really need/want 12 : the Ten/Insurance Count (Ace-Neutral) plus Omega II.

    I kept FELT and REKO out as RPC and KO are already included.

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    Appreciate the feedback. Thank you very much.

    Don

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    Quote Originally Posted by DSchles View Post
    Norm will resent your calling him as old as me
    Don
    Don, is that proper English? I thought it was supposed to be as old as I. Honestly not trying to be a jerk, I appreciate your attention to detail when it comes to proper English. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SammyBoy View Post
    Don, is that proper English? I thought it was supposed to be as old as I. Honestly not trying to be a jerk, I appreciate your attention to detail when it comes to proper English. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
    https://www.quora.com/Which-is-corre...-which?share=1

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    Like the idea of booklets or a book for the non full time pros. For me, I just need conclusions and recommendations and not where stats came from, how they were calculated, number of sins, etc. For example, I was again reading the “floating advantage” chapters, the interesting back stories of back and forth between Don S and the bishop and others. However, at the end I still was not sure if and how much I should differentiate the amount I should bet when TC is Plus 2 in the second round of a DD game and its Plus 2 after 1.5 decks have been played.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SammyBoy View Post
    Don, is that proper English? I thought it was supposed to be as old as I. Honestly not trying to be a jerk, I appreciate your attention to detail when it comes to proper English. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
    Thanks. In formal writing, I would say you are correct. There are a great many posts on this topic on the internet, and most recommend I in this construction. But, less formal everyday speech seems to have made concessions for using the objective case, rather than the nominative. Not equivocating, but "as old as I" sounds stilted to me.

    Don

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    I believe the term 'elliptical clause' is appropriate here: https://www.google.com/search?q=elli...obile&ie=UTF-8

    I believe the way to think about it is by adding, in this case, the word "am" to the end of both choices temporarily in your mind to see how each sounds:

    1) Norm will resent you calling him as old as I (am).
    2) Norm will resent you calling him as old as me (am).

    I think that because the first one, and not the second one, makes sense, then "Norm will resent you calling him as old as I" is the correct choice.

    Over 30 years ago, my high school literature teacher Mrs. Allen and I had some kind of disagreement about elliptical clauses (or maybe it was about predicate nominatives?). (For those who care, I believe the last sentence of my final paragraph (below) contains a predicate nominative example: Although most people would write or say, "Of course, perhaps it was 'me' who was mistaken," I believe "Of course, perhaps it was 'I' who was mistaken" is correct. I think the reasoning is because when shortened, "I was mistaken" makes sense while "Me was mistaken" does not.).

    I thought she was mistaken, and I remember being really surprised at the time that an English teacher could be wrong about such a thing. (Of course, perhaps it was I who was mistaken.).

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