>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)!!!!!
Pen works for me too!!
Larry Macy
78 Midget
>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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