{"id":854,"date":"2019-01-20T20:27:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T00:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=854"},"modified":"2019-01-20T20:27:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T00:27:56","slug":"the-colorful-tennis-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"The Colorful Tennis Doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Happy Valley Tennis Doubles Tournament was being sponsored by the Bronson\nMulti T-shirt Company, Inc. which was supplying free T-shirts in three colors,\nred, gold and blue, that were dispensed free at random by a machine in the\nlobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having been informed of this, Calvin and Jude were discussing the various\ncombinations of T-shirt colors the players could appear with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll bet you 100 dollars that there will be at least two players among\nthe four players with a red T-shirt on the court within three double team changes,\u201d\nsaid Calvin, taking a large bite out of his hot dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell, I say that two players will show up with one T-shirt color and\ntwo players with a different T-shirt color within five double team changes,\u201d\nsaid Jude, fishing out another potato chip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOk,\u201d said Calvin, \u201cwhichever of these occurs first, wins 100 dollars,\nplus pays the bill at the restaurant celebration later.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHmm\u2026 Ok, deal,\u201d said Jude and shook on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Who would you say is most likely\nto be paying the restaurant bill later?<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-854\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=854&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-854\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=854&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-854\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=854&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=854&amp;share=jetpack-whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on WhatsApp\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Happy Valley Tennis Doubles Tournament was being sponsored by the Bronson Multi T-shirt Company, Inc. which was supplying free T-shirts in three colors, red, gold and blue, that were dispensed free at random by a machine in the lobby. 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