At 1:22 PM -0600 1/16/03, Shawn King wrote: >That's the "beauty" of the rumor sites. People don't pay attention to the >dozens of wrong calls but laud them for their occasional correct ones. Does anybody remember Jimmy "The Greek" Schneider? He got his start running a subscription football pool advising service. Jimmy had a _great_ gimmick: He'd give you your money back if his pick of the week wasn't right. He got lots and lots of subscribers, before it surfaced that he actually had _two_ picks: half his subscribers got one team to win, and the other half got the opponent to win. Sure, he had to return half the money every week, but he did get to keep half. And he had a huge number of happy customers! Bob -- -------------- Bob Jacobsen (Bob_Jacobsen at lbl.gov, 510-486-7355, fax 510-495-2957)