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Yep one has to considered the odds when rolling the dice. Is it real or is it memorix? Then there is the bet to consider on the line. One has to figure that the bettee has set the stakes for time, effort and a decent return if the bettor wins. To feel good about the decision to have made the bet in the first place if he loses. Yet the bet isn't so high that it isn't soooo tempting to the bettor to take the chanch. Now if the bettor declines the bet, then the next time the dice are rolled the bet is going to be much much higher. So high that the bettor can't justify playing in the big boys game. Dice in the bettors hands, does he roll them or does he decline the bet. This is a test of faith on what the bettor thinks he believes.

And they say I don't exist...and am not a man of wealth and taste...Just ask the bettor what he thinks while he agonizes over this one.

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Old 01-31-2008, 12:54 PM
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Did you just read "The Secrete"?

The WHAT? Daddy this is the way a man of wealth and taste thinks..otherwise he wouldn't be a man of wealth and taste.
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That painting is still bothering you isn't it?
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That painting is still bothering you isn't it?
Nope...Mother maybe laughing at me on that one, but I am used to it...this is something a little different. The bettor is agonizing over a decison that has to be made. He has got his thinking cap on. He has to make a decsion one way or the other about the courage of his convictions. He may roll the dice right or he may roll them wrong.
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Nope...Mother maybe laughing at me on that one, but I am used to it...this is something a little different. The bettor is agonizing over a decison that has to be made. He has got his thinking cap on. He has to make a decsion one way or the other about the courage of his convictions. He may roll the dice right or he may roll them wrong.
You just keep living that life on the edge.
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Nope...Mother maybe laughing at me on that one, but I am used to it...this is something a little different. The bettor is agonizing over a decison that has to be made. He has got his thinking cap on. He has to make a decsion one way or the other about the courage of his convictions. He may roll the dice right or he may roll them wrong.
If a bettor has rolled 22 passes in a row, what are the odds that he will roll another pass on the next throw?
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just roll the dam things.

You only have time and effort on line
Be diferent to decide between 1mil that could pump up your company and employees or a chance of 50-50 for 10mil (all or nothing)

I don't get the big deal here???!!? dumpster diving takes time and effort for $1.35 at a loss of 15cents ... jeez, I get at least minimum wage.

lolo, but I agree! The painting is killing you
roll it and light your fireplace with it ... much more satisfing

lolo, I know of some good Nigerians that are in need of help
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Even after the bettor replys the retards still don't get it.
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Even after the bettor replys the retards still don't get it.
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He liked that painting so much.....he just had to have it.

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