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And, most importantly, if people *don't* fall for it, you've still got a perfectly playable position. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5 6.Bb5+ is fine for white.

And then you get modern interpretations of 3.Bc4, with lines like 3...Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d3, and what you've got is a line rather similar to the lines after 3.Bb5.

One of the problems with *any* adaptation of Poirot is that David Suchet really nailed the character, and any subsequent Poirot is competing with his interpretation.

I like to call it the Spiral Line.

#OneOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOthers

I've seen Wicked twice in the West End, and also watched the films.

The best ones are where the actresses are clearly aware that's what's happening and trying to see how half they can arse their portrayal of heterosexuality. (Aquamarine (2006), I'm looking at you.)

Gerrymandering starts doing screwy things round about there, and could actually end up *costing* the Republicans seats. (If the generic ballot is that far against you, seats you tried to turn into reliable narrow victories can now all be narrow defeats instead.)

Yes, seconding this. The big thing to notice about early-game in Civ 4 is that cities can only meaningfully grow to the limit of their happiness, so sacrificing population beyond that point doesn't cost you anything.

The pool area sounds like this, only rather worse: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8S...

OK, this might be the canonical Jack pic.

They might rule that the film itself is ineligible for the award, but nevertheless find it in themselves to give Musk the award for Worst Producer.

Well, quite. Scalpers are not here to make a film/concert/whatever look popular, they're here to exploit the fact that it is *so* popular that the market clearing price is higher than the price the venue sets. You don't get scalpers in a market that isn't getting genuine sales.

Chess federations are doing the same thing. Yosha Iglesias remains eligible to win the French women's championship despite what FIDE might want.

No. (When pluralizing an English noun-adjective phrase, you pluralize the noun but not the adjective.)

We're live! See ya there!

Those are excellent trousers, by the way.

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When #Twatball was running, there was a special bonus for players on teams that blew 2-goal leads.