Packs have been shuffled together before. It wouldn't be the craziest thing ever to happen at the bridge table to hold something like:
♠ J10987665432
♥ 5
♦ ---
♣ 8
North should pass 2♣ with that hand. 2♣ tends to show 6 clubs and about 7-10 points. Sure you might hit a heart fit but if you don't hit you're probably best off in 2♣.
Ed, appeals without merit for director rulings don't really map well onto criminal prosecution because of the high stakes of criminal law. A bridge equivalent might be suspension/expulsion (imprisonment = time banned from bridge), where if someone gets suspended for 5 years and appeals, the tributary is probably not ...
That's a fair point but imo a much narrower one that your original comment suggests, which read to me that there is some impropriety in referring to one's marital status in a public forum.
Mike, even if that were true (and while it might be for some personal relationships, I hardly think it would be the case for marriage), it certainly isn't the case here, where [i]three[/i] of the commenters' profiles [i]in this subthread[/i] refer to Michael and Debbie ...
That's a step in the wrong direction, imo. "Young ladies" sounds like the sort of thing a high school principal would say. Just call them women, which is what they are.
It's fine if women want to refer to themselves as girls, but it strikes me as infantalizing for an organization to make the official name of a competition a "girls'" competition, when many of the competitors are over 20 and hold or are working for advanced degrees.
And Mike ...
The WBF naming scheme is absurd. The tournament is the World Youth Teams Championships, which is a pretty mediocre name, but the category names get worse.
U16 = "Kids," OK that's not so bad. 15-year olds are definitely kids
U21 = "Youngsters," OK, well to my ear youngsters are younger than ...