From p300 of BJA Donny says "there nothing new under the sun and truth be told it isnt very easy these days to find new areas of research concerning blackjack matters"

reminds me of this old quote
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Charles H. Duell, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, in 1899.

and it's taken out of context.

The actual quote is:

The saying goes, "There's nothing new under the sun," and, truth be told, it isn't easy these days to find new areas of research concerning blackjack matters.

He then goes on to demonstrate the results of new research.

The saying goes, "There's nothing new under the sun," and, truth be told, it isn't easy these days to find new areas of research concerning blackjack matters.

Still rather odd. I would have thought that, even if you disqualify online blackjack altogether which is a continent of unexplored theoretical ground, you would still have plenty room for discovery in the almost infinite conceptual area of shuffle analysis, or perhaps the myriad new blackjack variants being presented. I'm currently engaged in about analysis of seven or eight new developments in blackjack which can conceivably yield significant practical returns. Finding new areas of research is not the problem. Finding time to do it all is my problem.

Perhaps, if you replace "blackjack" with "traditional blackjack card counting" the sentence makes more sense.

is nothing new under the sun." Aristotle
It is not merely 'a saying.' I would have thought Don would know that.

The saying goes, "There's nothing new under the sun," and truth be told, it isn't very easy these days to find new areas for research concerning blackjack matters.

I bolded the "for", because both you and PR used the word "of".

Three questions:

a. Why the condescending "Donny baby's...?
b. Could you elaborate on your contributions to the blackjack community?
b. What's your point?

Perhaps, if you replace "blackjack" with "traditional blackjack card counting" the sentence makes more sense

Because when you mention blackjack to Donny baby all he can think of is traditional square blackjack.I think the dude needs to expand his mind,think ill send a batch of mushrooms to RGE

I said NO TEXT. In case you don't know, any time the subject of a message ends with (nt) that means there's no message or no text. So don't click on the message when you see (nt).

If it looks like a troll, and reads like a troll, then it probably is a troll.

I could be wrong about this but I would not describe Oddball as a troll. There does not seem to be any meanness in what he is saying.

...more sober voices than mine have something to the effect that Schlesinger was a little conservative, a description he'd probably take as a complement.

Don't you guys ever learn? 'NT' means no text!

Of course if you use guestbook listings you get the added benefit of seeing these little 'easter eggs' that Curious has started posting. I think it is a fine tradition.

So if you are using the guestbook listing, it's okay to be reading this. If you are opening each NT listing now to see if there are 'easter eggs,' GET A LIFE, BUDDY!

scobee

displaying that super hip personality that i know is just lurking, waiting to reveal itself, from you're keyboard

......He is certainly well-named.

Regards,
drumz1