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Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I continue to be fairly zen about the whole thing, although when I called HSBC back and the guy right away asked for my social security number and mother's maiden name, I was like HELL NO. I did give him the SSN, but still.
I am not understanding the point system in the Group rounds of the World Cup and I can't find an explanation anywhere.
You get 3 pts for a win, 1 for a tie, 0 for a loss. If there is a tie among teams in a particular group, it goes to goal differential (the total you scored in all three matches minus how many were scored against you), then total goals scored in all three matches.
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Thanks, megan. That's what I thought, but then the announcers confused me by saying "That should get them the whole 3 pts" for a second goal, making me think the goal differential came in earlier or something.
Yeah, that threw me too, and then I realized they were just talking about the impossibility of a draw at that point.
That makes sense. If I actually listened to the announcers rather than just catching a sentence out of context every once in a while, I probably would have figured that out.
Announcement: M&Ms aren't stackable.
Analysis: I'm very, very bored.
ah ... years ago the World Cup matches were being played in the DC area and I remember something about how the Mexican team hadn't won but were going on to the next level, which didn't make much sense to me at the time. I do remember, vividly, what seemed like hundreds of very happy Mexicans all over town.
Announcement: M&Ms aren't stackable.
Try cats.