Babesleaga Group W : Week 4 : Joan Jett vs Olivia Newton-John

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Joan Jett vs Olivia Newton-John

Joan Jett (2-1-0 Pts. 202 Avg. 67.33)

  • Lost to Samantha Fox 22-104
  • Defeated Madonna 110-14
  • Defeated Pat Benatar 70-64

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Olivia Newton-John (3-0-0 Pts. 329 Avg. 109.67)

  • Defeated Pat Benatar 125-30
  • Defeated Tanya Tucker 105-18
  • Defeted Paula Abdul 99-43

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Babesleaga Group W : Week 4 : Pat Benatar vs Carly Simon

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Pat Benatar vs Carly Simon

Pat Benatar (0-3-0 Pts. 119 Avg. 39.67)

  • Lost to Olivia Newton-John 30-125
  • Lost to Samantha Fox 25-97
  • Lost to Joan Jett 64-70

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Carly Simon (1-2-0 Pts. 180 Avg. 60.00)

  • Defeated Madonna 108-20
  • Lost to Paula Abdul 49-74
  • Lost to Samantha Fox 23-110

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Wokesters Claim Right To Choose Their Own Verb Tense

“I identify as a present-tense person; please don’t use the past tense in reference to me.”

Reporters: OK.

“Wokey McWokeface is born in 1990, is graduating in 2011, and is interviewed last month sitting on a stool . . . .”

Babesleaga Group W : Week 4 : Madonna vs Paula Abdul

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Madonna vs Paula Abdul

Madonna (0-3-0 Pts. 50 Avg. 16.67)

  • Lost to Carly Simon 20-108
  • Lost to Joan Jett 14-110
  • Lost to Tanya Tucker 16-121

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Paula Abdul (2-1-0 Pts. 201 Avg. 67.00)

  • DefeatedTanya Tucker 84-43
  • Defeated Carly Simon 74-49
  • Lost to Olivia Newton-John 43-99

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Did Mark Twain Foresee President 44?

The final version of the story NO. 44, THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER was released in a popular edition by University of California Press in 1982.

The name No. 44 for young Satan was one Twain had first used in the unfinished “Schoolhouse Hill” version:

“My wonderful scholar, tell me your name.”

The school crowded forward in a body to devour the stranger at close quarters with their envying eyes; all except Bascom, who remained apart and sulked.

“Quarante-quatre, sir. Forty-four.”

“Why–why–that is only a number, you know, not a name.”

In his explanatory notes for the book, editor William Gibson conceded that Twain’s number name was challenging and “it ought to mean something.” But what? Over the past decades, several noted Mark Twain scholars have presented their theories as to what may have been the inspiration or meaning of Twain’s number 44.

HENRY B. WONHAM’S THEORY, 2008
Minstrel Imagery

In his article “Mark Twain’s Last Cakewalk: Racialized Performance in No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger,” in American Literary Realism, Spring 2008, pp. 262-271, Henry Wonham commented on the multiple identities represented by No. 44. “44 punctuates the novel with appearances as a break-dancer, a cakewalker, and a minstrel type” and thereby “upsets our own assumptions about the simple differentiability of an essential self from its manifold representations … the original self and its burlesque representation have become entangled, conjoined.”

DAVID F. NOLAN’S THEORY, 2010
The Gaussian Bell Curve Distribution

David F. Nolan, an alumni of Massachusetts Institute of Technology writes that in some cultures, calling a person “number 44” is an insult, based on the belief that one person in 44 falls outside the norm. This corresponds to the fact that in a normal Gaussian (bell curve) distribution, 1/44 of a population falls outside the two-sigma point on the curve. The Gaussian theory of distribution was developed by Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 – 1855), a German mathematician who applied it to theories of astronomy, a field in which Mark Twain was deelply interested. Nolan writes, “I first heard the phrase ‘you number 44’ in my student days at MIT; I don’t think it referred to Twain’s story in any way.”

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Straight Line of the Day: Advantages of a Government-Run Grocery Store: …

Just What Chicago Needs, Government-Owned Grocery Stores
NRO | 18 Sep 2023 | Jim Geraghty

The city of Chicago — already doing such a terrific job on handling crime, poverty, homelessness, and unemployment — is exploring the possibility of establishing municipally owned grocery stores.

City officials contend that a city-run grocery store would be better because they wouldn’t have to worry about making money. And Mayor Brandon Johnson is enthusiastically embracing the idea…

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Babesleaga Group W : Week 4 : Tanya Tucker vs Samantha Fox

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Tanya Tucker vs Samantha Fox

Tanya Tucker (1-2-0 Pts. 182 Avg. 60.67)

  • Lost to Paula Abdul 43-84
  • Lost to Olivia Newton-John 18-105
  • Defeated Madonna 121-16

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Samantha Fox (3-0-0 Pts. 311 ASvg. 103.67)

  • Defeated Joan Jett 104-22
  • Defeated Pat Benatar 97-25
  • Defeated Carly Simon 110-23

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Babesleaga Group W : Week 3 Results and Standings.

Week 3 is done.

Results

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Standings

ContestantsRecordPointsAveragePoints AgainstAverage Score
Olivia Newton-John3 – 0 – 0329109.6791109.67-30.33
Samantha Fox3 – 0 – 0311103.6770103.67-23.33
Joan Jett2 – 1 – 020267.3318267.33-60.67
Paula Abdul2 – 1 – 020167.0019167.00-63.67
Tanya Tucker1 – 2 – 018260.6720560.67-68.33
Carly Simon1 – 2 – 018060.0020460.00-68.00
Pat Benatar0 – 3 – 011939.6729239.67-97.33
Madonna0 – 3 – 05016.6733916.67-113.00

Week 4 matches.

  • 10:00 am Tanya Tucker vs Samantha Fox
  • 2:00 pm Madonna vs Paula Abdul
  • 6:00 pm Pat Benatar vs Carly Simon
  • 8:00 pm Joan Jett vs Olviva Newton-John