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DECIDING WHEN TO BLUFF
One or two bluffs per poker game are enough. Overindulgence can produce a bluffaholic.
Dale Armstrong, card player
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Current Rating: 5.1 out of 10 based on 17 reviews
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TIMING A BULLFIGHT
The average bull lasts 20 minutes in a bullfight.
L. M. Boyd, The San Francisco Chronicle
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Current Rating: 5.1 out of 10 based on 14 reviews
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TELLING SHEEP FROM GOATS
Some breeds of sheep look like goats and some breeds of goats look like sheep. In general, sheep's tails hang down and goats' tails stand up.
Mary Ellen Parker, retired teacher, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Current Rating: 5.7 out of 10 based on 24 reviews
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TRACKING ATVS
Ownership of all-terrain vehicles is inversely proportional to the acreage owned.
David T. Russell, retired high school teacher, Dilltown, Pennsylvania
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Current Rating: 4.8 out of 10 based on 17 reviews
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PANNING A SCENE
You should scan, or "pan," a scene with a moving camera no faster than one frame-width per five seconds. In other words, you need to allow at least five seconds for an object entering one side of the screen to pass out the other side.
Christopher Wordsworth, film maker
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Current Rating: 5.2 out of 10 based on 18 reviews
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MAKING FRIENDS WITH A DOG
If you want to be friends with somebody else's dog, let the dog make the first move, and don't be too quick to respond.
Walter Pitkin, literary agent, Weston, Connecticut
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Current Rating: 5.6 out of 10 based on 17 reviews
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INVESTING WISELY
Take your losses when your investment value has dropped by 12 to 15 percent.
Isadore Nicholson, San Diego, California
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Current Rating: 4.2 out of 10 based on 15 reviews
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UPSTAGING SOMEONE
The more another performer is upstaging you, the fewer moves you should make. The audience is more fascinated with the leaning palm tree than the hurricane.
Dean Sheridan, electronics technician and deaf actor, Torrance, California
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Current Rating: 4.7 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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LIMING A LAKE
It takes about 2 1/2 tons of limestone per acre of lake to neutralize the effects of acid rain.
K. Hammond, Wilmington, Delaware
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Current Rating: 4.5 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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YO-YOING
The yo-yo makes music. A very good yo-yo thrower can actually make the string hum so loud that it is audible in a quiet environment. The rim of the yo-yo is probably traveling over 40 MPH if it makes any audible note. If the note it makes is low C the rim is traveling at nearly 60 MPH.
Bill Alton, Yoyo Newsletter Editor, Portsmouth, NH, USA
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Current Rating: 6.7 out of 10 based on 15 reviews
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THE "CHEER" REVIEW
Never trust a movie review (Or the critic who wrote it) that includes "You/Audiences will stand up and cheer."
Andrew Robson, Illinois, USA
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Current Rating: 5.7 out of 10 based on 17 reviews
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