Since they refuse to adapt a real point scoring system, I say they eliminate the confusion (when my son asks me how many points Venus has, I have to go into this long, only-serious-fans-allowed lecture about how they score the friggin thing) by adapting totally meaningless names for the score levels. Instead of Love-15-30-40-game, we'll call them Dingy-Magma-Toast-Buzzsaw-Cream Puff. Or something. That way when my son asks, "What's the score?" I can say fun things like "Cream Puff-Dingy".
-- globaltourniquet, Apr 17 2002

"Toast" should be zero, that way we could say something like "Seles was toast."
-- mrouse, Apr 18 2002


Croissant>Fishbone would be my pick for win without points against
-- thumbwax, Apr 18 2002


But keep the win-by-2 business. I've always liked that aspect of tennis. It should be used in other sports.

(gt! long temps, aucun voyez.)
-- waugsqueke, Apr 18 2002


How about 'croissant' instead of 'advantage'.
-- stupop, Apr 18 2002


(I couldn't stay away forever, waugsqueke... could I?)
-- globaltourniquet, Apr 19 2002


(Apparently not.)
-- waugsqueke, Apr 19 2002


you just try getting out, swami my lad <g>
-- po, Jun 01 2003


[ravenswood] I love when they do that!

At work the other day, out of idle curiosity (or complete boredom perhaps) I read the introduction to a textbook about commodities trading that started out with an analogy saying that commodities trading *seems* complicated but is actually as simple and strightfowrd as greeting someone on the street before launching into the most utterly abstruse, arcane and downright impenetrable screed I can recall reading.

I liked extreme and unintentional irony.
-- snarfyguy, Jun 01 2003


<lee evans> Fifteen? Sod off!One!! </lee evans>
-- fshhhh, Jun 02 2003



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