Re: Australia hilarity
Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Thu, 01 Jul 1999 11:06:45 +0000
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