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Does Redskins Loss Presage A Kerry Win?
Puny Human Nick writes "As mentioned before, the last home game the Redskins play before the election has predicted who will win since 1944. Well, the Redskins v. Green Bay game ended a few hours ago and it looks as though Kerry is going to win on Tuesday."
Of course, Baseball is the definitive method for predicting the outcome of political elections.
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Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
...unless... can they tie in football?
Since the Red Sox won the Series the end of the world must be rapidly approaching.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
This is not really politically related, but I am a huge Packer fan and a Bush support (wait, do I hear hick jokes in the distance ?). What is a poor divided Elephant with a Cheesehead supposed to do ?
oh yah, you must mean like Bush did in 2000. :-)
it doesnt matter who is elected, it will be a loser.
Must've been keeping score on Diebold equipment.
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I think I speak for at least three Slashdotters with mod points - whether they be Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Green, Constitution, or Guns-And-Dope Party - when I pound out the following message in Morse code using my head and the desk:
"What the fuck? What the fucking fuck fuck?!?!"
That just means we're going to need several replays...er recounts to determine the winner.
I'm glad you pointed all that out. There was me thinking there was a serious cause and effect going on here
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politics and sense.. would you like some jumbo shrimp with that? ;-)
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Have the Redskins won a game since 1936?
Signed, former VA resident.
Sig it.
This is a perfect example of "post hoc ergo propter hoc" - a VERY common logical fallicy, also known as a "coincidental correlation".
When you just said that, a monkey flew out of my ass.
Well, there goes their streak.
enough said.
go get it
Imagine the headline: Slashdot polls won by serious option (re: not cowboyneal). World assumed to end soon.
As an anti-Bush Redskins fan, I can't decide whether to be happy or sad. I think my head is about to explode.
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On 6 November 1932 they won at home against the Staten Island Stapletons
Woo, Stapletons rule!!! GO STAPES!!
As a slashdotter, I think we have the responsibility to hack the diebolt boxes to ensure that Kerry wins. Not an Eminem fan, but I liked this video. Eminem's antibush Video
That raises an intesting point, now that I think about it. If Bush wins this year, the statisticians out there can amend this rule to state that the Redskins will determine the outcome of the election except in instances where they lose against teams whose names bear a similarity to one of the candidates.
Bills = obvious
Green Bay = George Bush
Now hold your horses! Scientific method is basically a sophisticated method of ancestor worship. Never underestimate the power of the ancestors.
O Mighty Einstein, use thy divine powers to curse the writer of the parent post; may his equations never ring true, may his chalk break at inopportune times, and may an especially heavy copy of Principia Mathematica fall on his head from a high shelf.
Ah, but only a harsh demonstration of the fallability of these machines will make them get rid of them. I'm thinking a land slide victory for Homer Simpson.
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THERE'S NO SANTA CLAUS?!?!
lameness filter... it really sucks.
It's Slashdot, you don't have to be right to get modded up, you just have to say it like you know what you're talking about. Sort of like all the presidential candidates.
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What was the final score? Packers 28 Redskins 14
What is a Touchdown worth? 6 points + PAT.
Now, the neo-cons are claiming a call on one touchdown prevented them from winning.
Looks like the neo-cons their touchdowns are worth 15 points.
"post hoc ergo propter hoc" - a VERY common logical fallicy, also known as a "coincidental correlation".
What's REALLY interesting is the fact that you spelled the latin words correctly, but still spelled "fallacy" incorrectly.
That's why a third party will never be viable..
You silly... Everybody knows a third party candidate wins whenever the Washington Generals beat the Globetrotters.
No sig
Considering the teams playing, it might be more of a mercy killing.
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Well, the terrorist apparently are big Tom Clancy fans. 9-11 was just a ripoff version of "Debt Of Honor." What your describing is "Sum of All Fears."
Well, there's only one thing to do:
Let's use the PATRIOT Act to throw Clancy in the clink for abetting the enemy! That'll learn him!
monkeys fly out of my ass?
Who does that mean will win? Because it happened to me this monring, I swear it did. While I was watching FOX news, a troop of flying monkeys burst forth from my rectum, wearing bellhop hats and carrying tin cups.. I also heard this strange organ grinder music while it was happening...
Damn, I knew I shouldn't drink Starbucks and watch FOX news at the same time..
I thought football was that game where the ball was only played with the feet. Oh that's right, you think that's called Soccer. So calling them a base ballteam doesn't seem so odd to me. :)
Umpires? Mr. Kerry, please stop playing around on slashdot and go campaign or something.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
What do you think?
I'm John Kerry, and I appove this message. I think.
Just as generals always "plan to win the last war" the polls are showing methods designed to win the last election.
They are only polling the Supreme Court justices?
Let me be the first to say that we here at the Bush camp concede early to Kerry. It seems clear that due to this unfortunate turn of events that Kerry has won the election. As a side note, we should also point out that with the election already all but decided, you shouldn't burden yourself on election day with voting if it is an inconvenient, especially if you happen to be black, gay, poor, a college student, or a woman. So stay home. Nothing to see here.
hey, news flash, you're not going to find the meaning of life encoded in the articles of slashdot ...
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7+1+5*7+3-4 = 42
I think the real question here is, how the hell have the Redskins been rigging the election for the past 60 years?
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Vote on the third?
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Laugh you may, but if the US poll was held in the UK, Homer Simpson would win!
Ironically, diebold also manufactures ATM machines used in major US banks, and so far, we've heard few complains. why can't they duplicate that logic when creating e-voting machines ???
So that the people with the largest bank balances get the most out of the machines
> What your describing is "Sum of All Fears."
And a character in Sum of All Fears, the book, actually refers to a movie that had the same scenario - I think it was "Black Sunday".
Have you ever noticed how you never see George Bush and Clancy in the same place at the same time? It's clear to me that Clancy is really the president, being an expert on all government conspiracy kinds of things, and is only dressing up as a dufus, pretending to the president.
while I admit there is a possiblity that your a real japanese person and saying 'baka' was slipping into your native language.... I highly suspect your mixing up your own real life with the anime you watch.
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Dear USA,
We've decided to step in to fix a problem you seem to be having.
Unfortunately, the election of your President impacts many of us greatly. While it has been a source of considerable amusement to us in the past, recently we have become less tolerant of the outcomes it has produced.
Starting today, here is the amended process whereby a US president gets elected:
- US citizens get together to elect a US Presidential *candidate*. Your current options: Bush, Kerry, various others nobody cares about. Method: Toss a coin, spin a bottle, use the results of a sporting event nobody cares about. We don't care, so knock yourselves out
- candidate is put forward to the rest of the world to decide whether he/she/it is suitable. Their current options: winner of Bush/Kerry, "go find someone else". Method: secured regulated ballot process, as used in nearly all Western countries for many years without problems. Feel free to read up on it some time if you're interested
- results announced: "go find someone else"
- repeat approx 300 million times, or until point is made...
WE REALLY LIKE YOU AMERICANS, BOTH INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY. SURE, YOU DRESS FUNNY AND MAKE US LAUGH WHEN YOU'RE IN INTERNATIONAL VENUES, BUT YOU'RE REALLY NICE PEOPLE REGARDLESS AND WE LOVE HAVING YOU ALONG FOR THE RIDE. ON TOP OF THAT, YOU'VE GOT SOME OF THE REALLY SMART PEOPLE IN THE WORLD LIVING IN YOUR COUNTRY. HOWEVER, WHAT CRAZY SYSTEM LETS YOU IGNORE THE REALLY GOOD PEOPLE AND SPIN OUT SUCH LEADERSHIP CANDIDATES AS YOU MANAGE TO COME UP WITH?
Ahem, sorry about that. Anyway, please understand that these changes take place immediately, no correspondence will be entered into, yada, yada, yada.
Yours truly,
God (no, NOT yours, and not yours either. In fact you were all wrong, and what the hell made you think I'd give a stuff about you tiny little humans anyway?)
Remember to get out and vote for Dubya on Nov. 3rd.
Cowboy Neal for president!
Just for that I'm sticking another needle in your Voodoo doll. And don't think you can hide by posting anonymously. My crystal ball knows who you are.
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I deny it.
A shrimp has more life and I eat those all the time.
Don't you see? It's proof that John Kerry is a definite winner! No need for Kerry supporters to go out and vote now obviously - he's already won.
120 character sigs suck. Make it 250.
If I had a million mod points, I'd mod all the "Kerry will raise taxes on small businesses" and "Bush is an imperialist" posts as off topic. It seems I'm in the minority so mod me to the bucket if you must. Yeah, I know, I must be new here and welcome to /. but doesn't the nerd-atrons, pulsing through your veins, find the /actual/ article at all interesting to comment on?
Let me save the submitters to the Politics topic some time. We can enumerate all the off topic responses and save reading time to thouse that want to read about the actual submission:
Dibold
Bush is an imperialist
Bush administration is incompetent
PATRIOT act
Bush stole the 2000 election
Counter: all recounts had a Bush win
Kerry flip-flops
Kerry has been consistant
Edwards is way under qualified
Kerry has his secret plans for everything
Hiding their heads in shame.
Criminy, its almost as if the Supreme Court were voting on party allegiance rather than the facts! Inconceivable!
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
The Virgina Republican Party has filed a lawsuit contesting the final score of the Washington Redskins game, stating that several of the Green Bay players were illegally enrolled in the NFL
the simple fact is that Bush moved the front lines on the war on terror out of here and over there.
Reminds me of the drunk who dropped his keys in a dark alley but looks for them under the streetlight because it's easier to see there.
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
Any other year I'd say this is true but looks like Bush will win, The RedSox fouled up everything this year.
yeah but the red sox won the world series...
all bets are off this year.
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What is this... "football" you speak of? Perhaps a new distro?
Actually, it means that if you are going to vote for Bush, then you are voting for a loser. (which goes without saying) So you had better change your vote to Kerry, so you can say that you voted for a winner.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
In this case the win isn't foretelling, it's the fact that the win was controversial.
The game was rigged?
Yet another parallel between football and American politics!
Just so long as there's no kneeling. The only person that the President should kneel before is Zod. Superman, where are you?
I'd suggest you don't use Slashdot as your only news source, or you will suffer permanent brain damage.