[PoolPlayers] Good things come in threes!

[Tom Stewart]

Caroline- I *was *going to make some snarky comment about last season's
results, but looking back I see you were in 5th place after week 2. So, uh,
never mind :-)

Terry- if today.com
<https://www.today.com/food/how-many-licks-does-it-take-get-center-tootsie-pop-t2356>
is to be trusted, the ad first aired in 1969! Apparently, there was an updated
version <https://youtu.be/xDdf9MIIt2c> in the 1990's. I don't recall having
ever seen that before.

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Terry Rice <terryjrice8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's a classic, Tom.  I'm sure I haven't seen it in 30+ years but I
> remembered EXACTLY how it ends.  Now that is good marketing...
>
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Tom Stewart <tastewar at alum.mit.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> The clock on the wall makes its ticks
>> A tootsie roll pop takes three licks [1]
>> I refuse to be subtle
>> Or await your rebuttal
>> Just go now and enter those picks!!
>>
>> One other piece of administrivia comes to mind this week. You may notice
>> that at the beginning of the week, the pool home page displays the top 10
>> players in the season, whereas later in the week it shows top 10 for the
>> current week. This is because I think that in general, if you visit the
>> site, you're probably wanting to know how it is going this week. So that's
>> what I ordinarily have displayed. However, between Tuesday morning and
>> Thursday night, everybody's score for the week is zero, so it's not very
>> interesting. Hence the display of season standings for those days. But of
>> course as this is a manual process, sometimes I forget...
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> 1.For the youngsters: https://youtu.be/O6rHeD5x2tI
>>
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