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Posted On: 2008-05-07 12:07:25
Edited On: 2008-05-07 11:09:43

1. Monster Collection [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
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To determine the approximate amount of time to double your money in an investment, divide 72 by the percent interest rate. For example, at 8% interest, your money will double in approximately 9 years (72/8 = 9).

To determine the approximate amount of time to double your games collection, divide 72 by your wife's interest in games. For example, at 8% interest, your collection will double in approximately 9 years (72/8 = 9).
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Posted On: 2008-05-07 11:19:28
Edited on: 2008-05-07 12:02:30
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Andy B
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This rule breaks down if you don't have a wife (or GF or SO)... ;)
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Darrell Hanning
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In my case (and I suspect in that of others), it has more to do with my wife's amenability to the hobby, rather than her own interest. It is a hobby to which my wife is much more amenable than those involving, say:

1) Large marine craft
2) Vehicles the occupation of the cabs of which involve nosebleeds
3) Gambling next week's paycheck
4) Rampant alcoholism
5) Other, extracurricular activities where I might avoid disclosing the location or nature thereof.

My wife is not just a woman of pragmatic perspective, but it is one of her strong points.
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William Wood
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Grimwold wrote:
This rule breaks down if you don't have a wife (or GF or SO)... ;)


What, you can't divide by 0? :p
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Rick Holzgrafe
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Wow. That neatly explains the exponential growth of our game collection! (And when is Agricola gonna get here, anyway?
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Jim Berry
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rholzgrafe wrote:
Wow. That neatly explains the exponential growth of our game collection!


And my lack thereof.
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Skip Franklin
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I doubled my collection once when a guy in Alaska sold me almost a hundred games very cheaply.
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mst3k4ever wrote:
Grimwold wrote:
This rule breaks down if you don't have a wife (or GF or SO)... ;)


What, you can't divide by 0? :p


I would argue that any non-existent wife, GF, or SO, as an inherently optimistic figment of a gamer's imagination, has an interest approaching 100%.

That pretty much brings the formula back in line too, if my single friends are any indication. ;)
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It'd be more appropriate to divide by the percentage chance that your wife will not notice that you've purchased yet another game.

If you'd like the "pain index" for that, divide that number by the percentage chance that you've forgotten your anniversary/her birthday/mother's day/to pay the rent within one week of making your purchase.
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Moshe Callen
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mst3k4ever wrote:
Grimwold wrote:
This rule breaks down if you don't have a wife (or GF or SO)... ;)


What, you can't divide by 0? :p


Only if you can get the result to converge to a finite quantity when you apply L'Hopital's Rule to it.

How quick are you to change wives?
2. Kellogg's World's Champions Cereal League [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
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You have enough milk in your cereal bowl when the cereal starts to rise.

You have enough armies in your territory when another player's temper starts to rise.
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You can tell I'm not a wargamer. I like very little milk in my cereal. If it starts to rise, I've got three times the needed amount of milk.
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nic dieterle
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Aha!

You see, I'm one of those guys who holds down the cereal with one hand and pours the milk with the other. It's probably why I have a very hard time getting people to play wargames with me as well.

I don't think I can change, though... milk needs cereal, and Ukraine is clearly still too weak...
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Jim Cote
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I put the milk in first so the cereal doesn't get as wet right off.
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Eric Buhr