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On the other hand, some movies are simply too intense to be enjoyable for me. So I often pull up Wikipedia first to make sure that the payoff is going to be worth it.

An example that falls into both categories is "The Fugitive" (Harrison Ford movie based on the TV show). I already know who the villain is and who dies at the end, but I can still enjoy Harrison Ford piecing it together and Tommy Lee Jones trying to stop him. And the last part of the movie is more intense and action-heavy than I really like, but I can take it because I know how it turns out.

I sometimes joke that I'm a member of the "Wikipedia Film Club" because I read about more movies than I actually end up watching.

Team A scores a touchdown (6 points) and attempts to kick an extra point. It is blocked. Under the old rules, the play is over; under the new rules, either team can pick it up and run. Team B does so, picking it up and running downfield. Before reaching the goal, the Team B player fumbles the ball and a chasing Team A player picks it up. The Team A player is surrounded by Team B players and attempts to evade them, but only succeeds in accidentally backtracking into his own end zone, where he is tackled.

The result of the play is a safety, which is usually worth two points - but since this is a two-point conversion attempt (after the kick is blocked), the safety is only worth one. So the score is 6-1 in favor of Team A.

The odds of such a crazy play are infinitesimal. One-point safeties have happened a few times in college, where it's been legal for decades, but have always been scored by the offense. I am eagerly awaiting the first one-point defensive safety.

Relatively speaking, your odds of scoring after catching a ball inside your own 10 yard line are much higher if the ball was thrown by your opponent.

    CHIP:
    My father told me, "Chip, my boy,
    There'll come a time when you leave home;
    If you should ever hit New York,
    Be sure to see the Hippodrome."

    HILDY:
    The Hippodrome?

    CHIP:
    The Hippodrome.

    HILDY:
    Did I hear right?
    Did you say the Hippodrome?

    CHIP:
    Yes, you heard right.
    Yes, I said the Hip-

    (Hildy brakes.)

    Hey what did you stop for?

    HILDY:
    It ain't there anymore.
    Aida sang an "A"
    And blew the place away!

Build a Better Life is composed mostly of pages divided into quadrants, in which Dogbert introduces the page's theme in the upper left and the next three sections illustrate it.

Of course this doesn't account for business addresses or multi-unit buildings, but 2-3000 addresses seems to be a reasonable estimate.

This just doesn't happen. The last time anyone dominated such a high-level tournament was in 1994 (Anatoly Karpov at Linares).

Wikipedia touches briefly on this problem in "Reliability of Wikipedia": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia#Infor...

Perhaps you could instead consider that not everyone shares your beliefs or principles.

Drilling a bunch of similar questions helps keep the concept in my head. And it's not that many, anyway.

An archaeologist in the year 4022 walking through the ancient land of "Usa" stumbles across an ancient U-shaped structure with dozens of individual or double-sized tombs. He uses these to piece together the burial customs of that long-lost civilization of Yanks and deduce the meanings and usage of items such as the ceremonial Sacred Urn - found in the Inner Chamber - and the Great Altar towards which the body on the Ceremonial Platform was clearly intended to face in the afterlife (holding the Sacred Communicator in its right hand).

Was that with three-card flip or one-card?

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