Re: Stats Gone Wild! Plus Triple-Play Bonus

Greg Goss wrote:
> 
> Bob Ward <bobward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> >On 15 May 2008 00:29:01 -0500, M C Hamster
> ><davolson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >>Since we're talking random simulations of baseball seasons, here's an
> >>old column that I posted here, that statistically quantified the
> >>amazing futility of the Cubs (and White Sox).  It is now outdated,
> >>since the White Sox won in 2005.  But the Cubs odds still basically
> >>hold, and in fact are even greater now, 5 years hence.
> >>
> >>************
> >
> >Shouldn't that read "five years later"?  To me, five years hence means
> >five years from now, in the future.*See #2
> >
> >
> >Definition of Hence
> >Pronunciation: hens
> >adv. 1. From this place; away.
> >Arise, let us go hence.
> >- John xiv. 31.
> >I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
> >- Acts xxii. 21.
> > 2. From this time; in the future; as, a week hence.
> > 3. From this reason; therefore; - as an inference or deduction.
> >Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the
> >beginning of wisdom.
> >- Tillotson.
> > 4. From this source or origin.
> 
> I would have agreed with you until you tried to cite evidence.  MC
> described a point in time, then described another point in time five
> years "from this time".


'K, but... "Hens"? That'd make it "henz" in my book. To me it
rhymes with "pence".

Bill "I guess I'm just too tents" Turlock, wigwam, tipi