Charlie,
Larry and I were noticing that half of the door prizes went to tickets with
low numbers. We figured these were all the "LANCO" preregistered club
members. I calculated the statistically probability of all of this and it
turns out, when you split the numbers right in half in a random drawing, low
numbers had a whopping 50% chance of being selected while high numbers only
had a 50% chance of being selected. Furthermore, both Larry and I possessed
tickets that were part of the 50% of high numbers that, in fact, did not get
selected. We hardly think this is fair and demand a recount (or a free
pen)!!!!!
Dr. Doug
A unruly crowd of 3 MGs in my garage drinking beer and listening to Frank
Zappa
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net On Behalf Of Charlie Baldwin
Sent: Monday, August 25, 1997 7:32 PM
To: Larry Macy
Cc: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: TOB - LBC Caravan adventure, a synopsis and some musings
Larry Macy wrote:
>
> Good story Dr. Doug. I am glad you got home safely. I have a fan and a
> pulley for the same alternator, although I am not sure if the pulley will
> work.
> I have to agree that kudos to the LANCO MG club are in order (even if
> they were the only ones to win any door prizes). About the trip to and
> the meet itself I will add only that I enjoyed it as well. I'll follow up
> with the tail of my cruise home.
Larry, Doug, Kai and others,
Thanks for your kind comments about Taste of Britain. I gave out the
door prizes and didn't know most of the recipients, so they weren't
Lanco people. In fact, a good friend of mine did win one, but got an MG
T-shirt, an MG key fob and MG pen and he has a Healey! The only rigging
that went on was to try to match up items that were marque specific with
owners of that marque, however it went too quickly to do much of that.
An MGA owner did get the MGA print, but I have no idea who he was. A few
years ago we had someone trade a colortune that he won for a key fob
that someone else won - I think he was driving a Triumph.
Sorry I didn't get to meet any of you except Doug - things were pretty
hectic until we gave out the door prizes, then everybody left.
Hope to see you all next year when I won't be co-chair and can actually
check out the people and cars.
Charlie
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