Re: Australia hilarity

From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jul 01 1999 - 05:06:45 MDT


At 05:30 PM 30/06/99 -0400, Brian wrote:

>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/your_money/newsid_381000/381815.stm

where I learned that

< 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.)

Now one-armed bandits and Lotto - yes, those forms of the moron tax are on
the galloping increase. Oh, and speaking of `galloping'...

Damien Broderick



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