How will the result from this game shape the race for the Premiership?

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Clarification of Question by vazobu-ga on 11 Dec 2004 12:39 PST

How will the result from this game shape the race for the Premiership

Did you say:

'How will the result from this game shape the race for the Premiership?'

By "Premiership" you mean that big European football competition.

By "this game" you are referring to your posting of this cryptic
question and our attempt to figure out its meaning, right?

According to chaos theory's notion of 'sensitive dependence on initial
conditions', "small variations in the initial conditions of a
dynamical system can produce large variations in the long term
behavior of the system".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect

So based on this, it is entirely possible that this little game that
you've initiated _will_ have an effect. However I think it is
impossible to predict exaclty what that effect might be.

Here's a possible scenario that demonstrates this principle:
- a key footballers gets into legal trouble
- the call goes out for legal help by e-mail
- because he is otherwise occupied reading and commenting on this
question, probonopublico-ga notices the e-mail 5 minutes later than he
otherwise would have
- another lawyer responds and takes up the case
- that other lawyer loses the case that probonopublico-ga may have won
- the key footballer is unable to compete because the case was lost
- The race for the Premiership is thus shaped by this game

Interesting theory, Augusta .... BUT ...

You have confused 'this game' with football when actually 'this game'
is all about opening THAT safe that's been locked away for lo 50
years.

When THAT safe disgorges its secrets then watch out!

It is now believed to contain Joanna Southcott's missing manuscript.

Another arcane UK reference. I need to read up on her before I can
come up with a witty repartee.

http://www.btinternet.com/~joannasouthcott/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Southcott