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H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, May 13, 2008 10:59 AM UTC:
Once upon a time I had a friend in a country far, far away, who had
obtained a coin from the bank. I was sure this coin was counterfeit, as it
had a far larger probability of producing tails. I even PROVED it to him: I
threw the coin twice, and both times tails came up. But do you think the
fool believed me? No, he DIDN'T! 

He had the AUDACITY to claim there was nothing wrong with the coin,
because he had tossed it a thouand times, and 523 times heads had come up!
While it was clear to everyone that he was cheating: he threw the coin only
10 feet up into the air, on each try. While I brought my coin up to 30,000
feet in an airplane, before I threw it out of the window, BOTH times! And,
mind you, both times it landed tails! And it was not just an ordinary
plane, like a Boeing 747. No sir, it was a ROCKET plane!

And still this foolish friend of mine insisted that his measly 10 feet
throws made him more confident that the coin was OK then my IRONCLAD PROOF
with the rocket plane. Ridicuoulous! Anyone knows that you can't test a
coin by only tossing it 10 feet. If you do that, it might land on any
side, rather than the side it always lands on. He might as well have
flipped a coin! No wonder they send him to this far, far away country: no
one would want to live in the same country as such an idiot. He even went
as far as to buy an ICECREAM for that coin, and even ENJOYED eating that!
Scandalous! I can tell you, he ain't my friend anymore! Using coins that
always land on one side as if it were real money.

For more fairy tales and bed-time stories, read Derek's postings on piece
values...
:-) :-) :-)

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