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married children military... bets ..depending on situation made it through byk in home study... want to be like bbb when i grow up.......
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02-19-2007, 09:31 PM
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Based on the generalizations, our typical poster should look something like this.
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02-19-2007, 09:33 PM
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1. I like analyzing athletic performances, and athletically nothing seems quite as pure as running.
2. I like numbers which hope to somehow describe a physical event and enjoy breaking down the numbers into significant and insignificant information. I enjoy watching a race and then looking at the numbers and the different ways people try to portray the event that I have witnessed. 3. I use to run a whole lot myself and tried to run very hard in races, so I feel a bit of a bond with an animal that tries to do the same without knowing exactly what he/she is supposed to do. I liked training for an event in a way in which I hoped to get maximal performance out of myself. Running distance competitively is an exercise in courage and learning how to cope with chronic pain associated with a big effort. And the horses do it for free... This paragraph would probably put me in the weirdo group with the exception of a few on this board who know what it is like to endure significant pain while trying to perform to the best of ones physical capabilities. 4. I think it is interesting how betting money seems to give people some added reason to become interested in an athletic event. My brother and cousin are the best examples for me. I find people who wager money on athletic events much more interesting than people who wager on almost anything, including slots and cards. I like to read about how people like to put money on the outcome of certain events because they feel they have a handle on the probability involved, rather than just throwing money down and praying. 5. Most importantly... I have very few friends that actually have any interest in horse racing, so I feel somewhat an outcast. I can go to a simulcast facility, and after having read about some of the more significant races, just have a ball watching the races. For this I am considered strange. The few friends I have that will watch racing, also play the lottery, etc... which just baffles the crud out of me. So where else to go because of my bizarre nature... And the fact I was trained in the sciences really puts me out of bounds with many people I know well. I have an aquaintance that is a statistician for a very large scientific group here (she basically helps people analyze data for research papers) and I know she finds it sort of deviant that I would put effort into thinking about racing. She will still help me with probability questions. I had to dump this out. Sorry I did not stay with the original profile given. This is like going to confession where I know I will be forgiven. Everything I have posted above would indicate I should look exactly like Randall's picture but I dont.
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It's funny reading all of the guys that say they are single...yet it does seem that horseracing draws a large percentage of pretty girls. Just look at the crowds at Keeneland, Saratoga & California...
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