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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (1837)	4/23/2000 4:37:00 PM
From: tekboy	Respond to of 22706

<<karma kounts>> I spent many hours in my misspent youth (well, the 1980s)working out the rules of what my friends and I called "fourth dimensional craps." The argument was that seemingly unrelated events in our three-dimensional world were actually connected, because they were merely shadows cast by objects in the fourth dimension. (Think of how three-dimensional objects cast two-dimensional shadows, which look odd and disjointed until you recognize what the original is and how it is moving.) This explained, for example, why the appearance of a waitress at a hot craps table would usually kill a roll; why the odds of a seven-out increased after the dice were changed during a roll; and why--most dependably--that asshole pushing his way in through the crowds to get a piece of the action spelled certain death. on balance the system made us a good bit of change, although skeptics might argue that this was only because it prodded us to take some money off the table occasionally, thus lowering the odds that we would give it back... ctb/A