Well they have legalised gay marriage…
Barry Potter’s team is up by 140, and he’s on a Firebolt. Mittco Romfoy is on a Cleansweep 260, and he has a bad habit of running straight into the bludgers…
This…is the best thread ever.
The match is in Sudden Death, Romney’s playmaker just flipped the ref the bird and Obama’s keeper is a calm man who smiles all the time. (And his name is Schmeichel.)
Team Obama up by 11, they’ve got the feed to a scrum on Romney’s 5 yard line, 5 minutes to play.
Because of penalties and injuries, Romney’s squamish team is down to 38 men.
Ba-rock Oh Mamma just became lead jammer and Bitch Romney is still coming through the pack, but Bitch Romney only needs fifteen points and there’s time for one more jam. If Ba-rock Oh Mamma gets a penalty, Bitch Romney can make it up with one power jam.
It’s the last end, and the Obama rink is up by two with the hammer.
Obama’s ahead by 40, he’s at the table and all the colours are on their spots.
Mitt is riding with Jeremy, who went a bit into the grass around the Hammerhead and they are now just passing the tirewall. Barack is riding with the Stig, just coming up to Gambon.
Why are you so nice to Mitt? Wouldn’t Captain slow be a better option for him?
It’s the start of the last over of the Romney innings, Last Man Jack is in, Obama is up by 24 runs and he’s brought in the Chinaman.
The thing I didn’t like about Nate’s analogy is that I can dig being up a field goal with three minutes left but what I don’t know is who has the ball and where.
Bring up by a FG with the opposing team facing a third and 22 on their own 6 yard line is way preferable to being up by the same amount with the other team already in field goal range.
Obama and Romney are playing checkers; Romney is slightly distracted by something on the TV.
Huh. I guess checkers doesn’t lend itself to this kind of analysis.
Obama uses FEMA!
It’s super effective!
Romney is paralysed!
Romney uses CHARITY!
It’s not very effective…
By the way, as a poker player, I prefer poker analogies (plus they fit in with percentages that Nate likes… AND Nate spent some time as an internet poker pro)…
Right now, Obama is an 80.9% favorite. This would be like, in a game of Hold 'Em, getting it all in with pocket Kings against pocket deuces with both players having different suits. Even the chances of a tie are not horribly off: 0.3% according to Nate, 0.5% for the poker hand (although the results of a tie are very different - in the event of an EV tie, Romney will almost certainly become president whereas on a poker table, both players split the pot evenly.)
As a poker professional, I would love getting it in with all of my money on the line in this circumstance. However, as a poker player who is not a pro but an amateur who plays recreationally, I would be be fine if my entire buy-in for that day was in the middle of the pot with those odds. But it would really suck if everything I owned was in that pot since 20% of the time I lose everything… I don’t play for everything, but the election kinda is for everything…
This is why I’m still nervous!
Romney is lying on his back on the Colosseum floor, his sword lies several feet away. Obama stands over him, his sword tip on Romney’s throat. He looks up at the emperor’s box…
Obama has got a Lesser Onion, however it’s Mitt’s turn to draw, and he already has 6 8s and a wild onion and is looking to Cripple Obama’s onion.
I’m just worried about the fact that Diebold made the scoreboard.
Clearly Obama should play TNETENNBA.
Obama is free, Romney doesn’t read xkcd.
Also, Hounslow Manor - I used to go to school in Hounslow. Which I suppose puts me in Nidd.