Re: If

In message <19990522021659.17196.qmail@...>, Adam Walker
<dreamertwo@...> writes
>>From: FFlores <fflores@...>
>>Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 22:05:31 -0300
>
><huge snip>
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>>I don't have time to do right now, but in the
>>meantime I'd like to know what is pitch-and-toss,
>
>Pitch-and-toss sounds like gambling with dice or some such.
Shorter Oxford Dictionary says:

A game of combined skill and chance.  Each player pitches a coin at a
mark; the one whose coin lies nearest to the mark then tosses all the
coins and keeps those that turn up "head";  the one whose coin lay next
in order does the same with the remaining ones, and so on, until none
are left.

I don't suppose Kipling is advocating gambling as such, btw; just that
you should be prepared to risk everything if it's important enough.

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John Fisher   john@drummond.demon.co.uk   johnf@epcc.ed.ac.uk