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Old 04-26-2012, 12:11 PM
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Hey MMSC!!!! I just noticed your avatar is gone. Are you having a blackout??? Do you need a candle??? I'd offer a flashlight but that's on the "cannot be used list" of handicapping tools.
There is just no way to answer this without being vicious about certain whiney little bitches who obviously suffer from the dual diagnosis of delusions of mediocrity and micropenis.
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Old 04-26-2012, 01:37 PM
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Perhaps, but I'm betting it would be a great story to hear.


Delusions of mediocrity... Does that mean that they are bottom dwellers who dream of moving up to being merely average? That's a pretty wicked undercut ya got there.
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Old 04-26-2012, 02:20 PM
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Old 04-26-2012, 08:33 PM
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Perhaps, but I'm betting it would be a great story to hear.


Delusions of mediocrity... Does that mean that they are bottom dwellers who dream of moving up to being merely average? That's a pretty wicked undercut ya got there.
Yes that's the meaning.

Oh and thank you. No one has ever said that to me before.

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Old 04-29-2012, 10:50 AM
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There is just no way to answer this without being vicious about certain whiney little bitches who obviously suffer from the dual diagnosis of delusions of mediocrity and micropenis.
You know what they say "Tiny Penis, tiny mind".
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Old 04-29-2012, 10:58 AM
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Final race in contest-The Kentucky (unless they move it to Wisconsin) Derby:

New rules for this race:

1. All previous rules are null.
2. Alternative picks required.



Kentucky Derby:

Your Pick-WPS (alt.)

3 other picks (1 alt.)

your WPS pick and the other 3 will be counted in exactas, tris, and supers. The exotics do not have to include your WPS horse.
Your WPS horse alt. can be 1 of your other 3 picks.



BONUS PLAY:

Oaks/ Derby exacta-(alt. for each race)




Have fun and no cheating (Clyde).
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Old 05-01-2012, 07:27 PM
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Additional rules for Oaks/ Derby double:

You can post your oaks pick before the oaks on Friday and your Derby pick before the derby on Saturday. (Not after the races Clyde ).
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Old 05-01-2012, 07:30 PM
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Clyde's very early Derby picks:

Hansen-WPS (alt. Went The Day Well)

1. Well Went The Day
2. Union Rags
3. Take Charge Indy
(alt. Creative Cause)


Oaks/ Derby Double:

Believe You Can/ Hansen
(alt. Summer Applause and Went The Day Well)
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This can be Clydes prize if he wins


hansen toy.jpg
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Final race in contest-The Kentucky (unless they move it to Wisconsin) Derby:

New rules for this race:

1. All previous rules are null.
2. Alternative picks required.



Kentucky Derby:

Your Pick-WPS (alt.)

3 other picks (1 alt.)

your WPS pick and the other 3 will be counted in exactas, tris, and supers. The exotics do not have to include your WPS horse.
Your WPS horse alt. can be 1 of your other 3 picks.



BONUS PLAY:

Oaks/ Derby exacta-(alt. for each race)




Have fun and no cheating (Clyde).
I refuse to play alternates.
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Old 05-03-2012, 03:26 PM
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I refuse to play alternates.
Are you being difficult, Herkie?

Oaks / Derby Double...

Jemima's Pearl / Rousing Sermon
(alts... On Fire Baby and Liaison)
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Old 05-03-2012, 05:22 PM
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I refuse to play alternates.
Then play your picks with 2nd choices.
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Old 05-03-2012, 05:24 PM
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My picks:

Oaks-Grace Hall (alt. Eden's Moon)/Derby-Gemologist (alt. Take Charge Indy)


Derby:
Gemologist-WPS (alt. Take Charge Indy)
Take Charge Indy
Daddy Nose best
Prospective
(alt. Union Rags)


Good luck everyone!!!
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The Derby has too many horses

Jemima's Pearl for the Oaks
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Old 05-04-2012, 07:47 AM
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Oaks / Derby Double:

Summer Applause / to be determined after an excruciatingly long, and often changed, analysis of the Derby field or a draw out of a hat
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Old 05-04-2012, 08:46 AM
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Oaks / Derby Double:

Believe You Can / Take Charge Indy

Alts: Grace Hall / Union Rags
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WPS: Gemologist (alt. Take Charge Indy)
Dullahan
Bodemeister
Daddy Nose Best
(alt. Hansen)

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Old 05-04-2012, 09:02 AM
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WPS fine horsie - Rousing Sermon (alt. Liaison)

Rousing Sermon
Liaison
I'll Have Another
(alt. Gemologist)

Good luck, guys!
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Old 05-04-2012, 11:31 AM
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Someone better alert Jill Byrne - a hot pink and black bird has landed on her head!
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Old 05-04-2012, 01:56 PM
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Oaks/Derby

On Fiyah Baybeh/Awesome Gemologist

(alts: Summer Applause/Bodemeister)

and that's all I have to say about that.
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