In article <6Y4Ai.13294$4w7.309@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net>,
"Edwin Pawlowski" <esp@snet.net> wrote:

> "Melba's Jammin'" <barbschaller@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:barbschaller-56F44B.20343225082007@news.iphouse.com...
> >. . . somebody else. Bummer.
> >
> > Oy, such a horse race it was. We were tied for points (they assign 5
> > points for first, 4 for second, etc., down to fourth place). TIED!
> > Fair Competition department broke the tie by toting up our scores for
> > the individual items (seems fair to me) and she won. Are you ready? By
> > THREE points! ROFL!! THREE points out of more than 1150! What a
> > hoot! I had 1153, she had 1156. Good on her!
>
> Congratulations on taking a gracious second place.

It seemed to me a reasonable way to make a determination. I sure wish I
could have been a fly on the wall when it was all happening, though.
Just to see if there was much drama in the counting.

> Not being the top winner certainly does not make you a loser.

Exactly.

> Wow, you missed by 0.26019 percent. Congrats to both of you.


Oooooh, Ed!! I love you! Thanks for doing the calculation. Now Rob
won't have to. :-) I was thinking it was less than 1% difference, but
I pulled that out of thin air, math not being my best or next to best
subject. Thanks for the good wishes.
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