From: m (mt_2@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jun 30 1999 - 23:29:10 MDT
--- Damien Broderick <damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
wrote:
[snip]
> < Two-up - betting on the toss of
> two coins - is
> practically a
national pastime. >
> Perhaps this was written by someone who was last
> here in 1937. We don't
> even *have* coins usable for that purpose any
> longer. (Pennies went out
> back in the '60s, I dimly recall.)
About the only time it's played is on Anzac day (like
Veterans' Day), with a lot of hoopla about it.
I think some of the casinos have special two-up games.
> Now one-armed bandits and Lotto - yes, those forms
> of the moron tax are on
> the galloping increase. Oh, and speaking of
> `galloping'...
Poker machines have been the death of live music, in
Sydney pubs, anyway. Much more money to be made
from pokies than performers, I'm afraid :( .
Mike
Mike
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