Yep, the car crash thing falls under the choice with replacement scenario. Every time you get in a car you get to pick from the bag that contains some marbles that say: exploding car crash! That marble gets put back into the bag for your next pick.

I’ve done a lot of studies on hazard scenarios for explody bits and bobs over the years. Now that will give you some nightmares.

Hey did you hear the one about two overhead crane operators having crane races while they were carrying large rocket motor segments? I shit thee not, damndest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

“If you see me running try to keep up.”

Al Gore 2009: We have to play upon their fears.

{tee hee}

I can spell Sotomayor and Schwarzenegger and Ahmedinejad and Netanyahu and Berlusconi and Yousefzadeh and Volokh and Hinderaker without looking them up.

Rostrom is a nice simple name: seven letters, no silent consonants or non-anglophone pronunciations. People should be able to spell it correctly. Even weasels!
(Especially weasels who have it typed out for them.)

Yes, I am ranting. This is my sore toe: the one thing I will always complain about when someone steps on it.

Aaahhhrrrggghhh!!

(I note again that Al-goracle’s first quoted paragraph was complete gibberish. What’s up with that anyway?)

Ooops. I forgot buses. Now those scare me!

I reckon I’ve died a jillion or so times already. I contend it has to do with a vivid imagination, but I’d make a crap soldier…

In any case, there is one exception to that: An individual’s death generally reduces greatly the chance of a second death occurring to that same individual.

Casinos, btw, take advantage of this with those light-poles at roulette tables showing the last ten or so numbers hit.

I think you have to be a little mad to ‘get’ math.