Sudoku Puzzles

okay another question - does anyone know - as in KNOW, not Google, why tennis players are 'seeded'? Maybe Kathy? No, not the daft one from up north, the tennis-playing one from Fl!

Fiona - Tennis players are seeded so that the top-ranked players don't play against each other in the early rounds of a tournament. The top 4, for instance don't meet up until at least the quarterfinals - usually the semifinals.

okay, but why the word 'seed'????

And I'm not daft!!! I actually run a month tennis tournament locally and founded and ran a tennis league of 188 players singlehandedly for 3 years when we first moved here. So there!!!!

I presume that "to seed" a tournament, means to plant the top players in specific sections of the draw. To tell you the truth, I never thought much about it!

would that I call you daft Jane! No, I was talking about the non-mathematical, obviously non-tennis-playing, Kathy, who only wrote pseudo because she couldn't spell pseudonym!!!

Sorry, Fiona. I seem to have gotten caught in the crossfire!

Duck, Jane!
seed - from the notion of "spreading" certain players names so as to insure they will not meet early in a tournament.
Nah, nah, Fiona!

almost thought I'd fired the last shot there!

bet you googled that!

I'm getting uncomfortable with this talk of "spreading seed" ...

it never rains but it pours...

It takes a ho' to plant seeds.

Thanks for being around, Kathy ... so the Evil Fiona could pick on you rather than me! Watch out, USA ... she's COM-ing!

Judy - love your fertile imagination.

You really know how to dish the dirt.

just a temporary set-back Judy, stay alert!

Let's not even think about plowing.....

Speaking of Fiona coming to the US, we still haven't set a date for the get-together in Orlando. I'll check with Florida Kathy to see if she has any ideas on a good day. Also, she knows the local restaurants since one of her daughters and family live there. I'll talk with her tonight. I believe More...

I've heard Judy self cultivates....

plowing???? another quaint little Americanism??

what, I may ask, was wrong with ploughing??

Kathy - I can smell the greenhouse gas all the way from Georgia, you old sow-and-sow. (that's sow, pronounced like "so"; not sow pronounced like "cow".) Don't want to get you madder than you already are. hehehehe

it's just bits of Judy that self-cultivate, just bits.

Kathyx

you're getting into the swing of things Jane!

That was supposed to be ... Kathy!!!!!!!!! (Spooky!)

Fiona - if we spelled it "plough" like you do, we'd probably be pronouncing it like "cough" - or "though" - or "through". Come to think of it, I wonder why we haven't streamlined those words, too!!!

Yep, Jane is a swinger ... from a long way back!

well, between one bat and another, you'd certainly know.

And quit talking about my bits, Fiona!

cough = should be "coff"
though = hmmm. we already abbreviate it "tho"
through = same here - our abbreviation is "thru"

just as well you didn't do a typo there Judy!

Place nice, children!!!

Oops! I mean "play" nice!

the story goes that when printing began, the printer bloke was paid by letter, which explains the quantity of letters in some words which are, admittedly rather unnecessary.

Yeah, she could have said "tibs". Tsk tsk tsk

indeed, would have got her banned immediately which wouldn't have been a bad thing.

Well ... isn't the pseudo-Frenchie on a tear today!!

rip rip rip!