This is why!

[Blodrast]

Wrong thread, sorry, it's in the family photos one I think.

I do look hawt, mind.

you sure do - no arguments there. but you might wanna check post #197 on page 7 though. It may be in the family photos too, but it's in there like I said as well.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Louis, we need an explanation

[Somebody Else]

Explanation: Louis is French.

[John86]

Explanation: Louis is French.

Couldnt have said it better myself.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Oh gosh, what a horrible prize for those poor people, spending hours upon hours looking at half-naked women...

Lucky Poor sods...

Interesting fact #1 about the Babe Thread - 1,600+ replies, yet 52,000+ views!

[Geoffrey S]

Yeah, it was a tough job.

[Rodion Romanovich]

For a moment, when I saw Louis' post in the babe thread "I get to pick one" before seeing this thread, I for a moment thought the prize was to IRL meet one of the babes soly has posted in the babe thread

[Moros]

Just a note but 4 was picked twice. First by Mithandir (or what's his name) and after that Beirut edited his post MAster of puppets (or was it someone else) posted 4 again and got picked too.

[Dutch_guy]

Just a note but 4 was picked twice. First by Mithrandir (or what's his name) and after that Beirut edited his post MAster of puppets (or was it someone else) posted 4 again and got picked too.

Staff members weren't allowed to participate, let alone win.

[King Henry V]

So de we post the picture in the Babes Thread? And does the babe already have to be posted before?

[Avicenna]

Yes, has to be posted there.

[Divinus Arma]

Oh. So that's why. huh.

[Somebody Else]

It's time...

[Louis VI the Fat]

Louis, we need an explanation

Teh pattern is: the human minding trying to come up with ten numbers from 1 to 50 that appear random.

Now, there is an extensive psychology to that. The numbers people come up with, are in fact not random at all. They are chosen to avoid structure or repetition.

Few would come up with 1,2,3,4,5, etc. It appears unnatural, unrandom. Of course, the odds of ten really random numbers being a nice consecutive sequence are mathematically speaking as likely as any other sequence.
The same holds true for any other structure. Few would chose 10 numbers that all end with the same number, 2, 12, 22, 32 etc. Or double numbers only, or prime numbers, repetition or any other series that appears to have an underlying structure.

What you therefore have to look for, is for all possible traces of structure and then choose a number that doesn’t fit in.

I picked 33 after 50, 42, 17 where named correct. They feature the digits 0 1 2 5 7. Notice the absense of 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9. Notice that there are no double numbers yet either (11, 22, 33, 44). 66, 88 and 99 are not possible, numbers 1 and 2 are in already. Leaving 33. The odds for 33 unconsiously having come to Beirut's mind while he had one finger up his nose and the other tap-tap-tapping on the desk were thus very high.

I am that clever.

(side note: I do not know the order in which they were picked. But that doesn’t matter. If 33 was the first number to have been picked, 17-42-50 would have been more likely to have been picked next)

[Rodion Romanovich]

That's clever. I've heard of that kind of stuff before, especially 7 being a popular "random" number. Though I've never tried it in practise, especially not with 2 digit numbers, and I had no idea it actually worked that well.

Anyway, damaged by knowledge about generating random numbers by using time, I never thought these numbers would be randomized by a human mind. The way to generate random numbers by using time is to take the rest from a division by the number of numbers you want the interval to be, i.e., if you want numbers from 1 to 50, you keep taking times in milliseconds generated by a stop watch and divide them by 50, then take the rest. I.e.:

99 / 50 = 1 rest 49, so the random number is 1
43 / 50 = 0 rest 43, so the random number is 43
12 / 50 = 0 rest 12, so the random number is 12
67 / 50 = 1 rest 17, so the random number is 17
etc.

Anyway, great work Louis

[Moros]

Staff members weren't allowed to participate, let alone win.

yes but under the name beirut had added that he was in before the other guy posted. So he just could use that one being sure it was the right number. Ofcourse he could also have been as clever as Louis.

[Beirut]

Still waiting for a few PMs from the judges. Hope to have this soup in the pot by Tuesday night. Sorry about the delay.

Master of the Puppets *
Somebody Else *
Zalmoxis *
Vladimir *
Blodrast *
Louis VI the Fat *
Geoffrey S *
Discovery1
Gertgregoor *
Byzantine Prince

If there's no star by your name, please send in your choice tonight or early tomorrow. Thanks.

[Byzantine Prince]

And now I have also performed my duty.

[Beirut]

Discovery1, it's all up to you.

You've got 12 hours from now to submit a choice, otherwise we'll need to chose someone else. Sorry.

[Vladimir]

Discovery1, it's all up to you.

You've got 12 hours from now to submit a choice, otherwise we'll need to chose someone else. Sorry.

Give the man some time to recover, he could have a bad heart after all. Then again, he could still be, ummm, debating, over his favorite.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Anybody wants a Sicillian joke?
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[Rodion Romanovich]

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Anybody wants a Sicillian joke?
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Not sure what a Sicilian joke is, so I'm curious to find out what it is. In other words - let's hear that Sicilian joke!

[Beirut]

Very sorry about the delay. It's all being put together. Very soon.

[Vladimir]

We need to put Discovery1 in stocks so we can pelt him with tomatoes in the town square.

[master of the puppets]

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Anybody wants a Sicillian joke?
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i once tried to tell a proud sicilian a joke, the joke went somewhere along the lines of "hey are you proud your people used to be romans, OF course not, your ancestors were carthaginian, bow to the real italian you elephant rider", for some reason it almost ended in a fight, mabey he's just high strung.

[Csargo]

So whens this going down Beirut I'm getting anxious.

[Zalmoxis]

Yeah, has the new judge made his decision?

[Beirut]

Yep, all is final. Give it about ten hours. Real life, you know...

[Mouzafphaerre]

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And you still don't ban real life! At least give out some warning points.
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[Avicenna]

Aren't Sicilians more a mix of Romans, Greeks, Carthaginians, Normans, Muslims (Arabs?) and native Sicilians? They're not just Carthaginian.