And cricket, particularly spot (prop) bets which are very easy to fix, even with one crooked invidual in a team sport. To be honest I don’t know why any bookie even takes bets on most of those props.

IIRC he’s hinted a couple of times that it goes on and that everybody on tour knows who the key suspects are, to try to provoke some action from the authorities. But he can’t come out and name names for the same reason you mention for the journos.

My wife thought the ending of that game was great, and she doesn’t even watch football.

Edit: Along the same lines, what happens if you move out of the country?

Over time, this will add up for you as your winnings grow with no tax stipulations.

Ghee is wondeful but it’s a heart attack on a stick. It’s OK if you only cook with it once in a while, but resist the temptation to fry everything in it because it tastes so awesome.

It sounds like she has her head screwed on right. She’s an example of somebody who went from “basically happy” to “basically happy plus financially secure”.

I agree. My son is 11 now, but there is no “hourly rate” somebody could have offered me that was worth more than the time I spent with my son when he was that age.

yes, and: I get a better shave with this than with my regular Fusion razor when I decide to go clean-shaven. I like the way it fits in the hand, and its easy to pack when travelling.

yes, and: I get a better shave with this than with my regular Fusion razor when I decide to go clean-shaven. I like…

I am always leery of the “how much is your time worth?” argument. Your time is worth what you can sell it for. If you are on salary and don’t have an outside gig, it’s worth nothing. If I replace the garbage disposal at 10 o’clock on a Saturday morning, the value of my thirty minutes was... Zero. My next best usage of…

Youtube as well as some of the online parts vendors are amazing resources for “how to” videos - http://www.appliancepartspros.com/ is a personal favorite. I’ve taken on stuff I would not have imagined thanks to them. In several cases an expensive repair became a cheap part and 30 minutes of effort.

My wife follows this rule. She opens the mail, spreads it out on the table, never touches it again.

The strategy also assumes you have an infinite supply of money and no table limit, since there’s no theoretical limit to how many times in a row you might lose and have to keep doubling.

Because for some people it’s not enough that other people be Christian, they need to be the “right kind” of Christian, i.e. not Catholic.

You win all the Internets.

There’s a corresponding Scottish proverb that originally went “Many a little makes a mickle”, where a “mickle” is a large amount. These days it’s usually heard as “Many a mickle makes a muckle”, under the misapprehension that a “mickle” is a small amount and a “muckle” is a large amount, where in fact they are…

Most body language tips fail because you just can’t intentionally fake the subtlety of the signals involved — and when you think about it, if that weren’t the case, body language wouldn’t work at all because we would all have learned to not trust it.

Yes, although the way the first sentence is written kind of obscures that. Another way to think about it is, how long do you plan to live in the current house? If you plan to be there for 10 years, sure, go ahead and do a home office. You’ll get 10 years of daily use out of it and at the end you’ll get 50% of the cost…

True. And they’d also love to have you sell four weeks sooner for $20,000 less than hold out longer for $20,000 more. As far as they are concerned, there is also another property for them to move on to, so faster is better than higher. (Statistics show that when when realtors sell their own houses, they stay on the…

Other than the steel door, all of these projects reduce your home’s ROI. They increase the sale value by less than the cost of the project — the only difference is whether you recoup a large fraction or a small one.