Or, your competitor beat everyone in the class; you beat no one in the
class!
KeS
BTW, heard this snippet on the radio here in PC San Francisco. One of the
local school systems has begun not keeping score for children's league
soccer games, in an effort to reduce the perceived problem with labelling
winners/losers. I cracked up - so this helps the problem for all kids and
parents too dumb to count to what, FOUR?! It's SOCCER, for god's sake!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mari L. Clements [SMTP:mlc4@psu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 8:45 AM
> To: autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: finishing order
>
> >P.S. If you're second place in a class of two, are you still DFL? If
> so,
> >chalk one more up for Team DFL!
>
> You came in second. Your competitor was in next to last place. (At
> least,
> that's the way we always talk about the annual faculty vs. students
> softball
> game.)
>
> mlc
> Mari L. Clements, Ph.D.
> Department of Psychology
> Penn State University
> 442 Moore or 160 USB 1
> University Park, PA 16802-3104
> (814)863-5664
> fax (814)863-7002
>
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