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THREE BOOZERS
Worsted Verse by Shoe.
Three boozers being blotto
And sick to death of Keno
Took on themselves entire change
Of course out of their baggies
Into kit less dog-eared
But their prospects were the first to rearrange.
Said the first I am a loser
I have never backed a winner
Not a horse, a game or dog on this life’s track
The second said I’m surer
For my hair’s just like fencing wire
And my teeth are all quite stained from drinking rye
The third said I’m a fibber
The biggest ever hired
I am a proper spinner
I never et my dinner.
It seemed from where they lent
Their trinity bespoken
That could they get some other besots
Lead all to heaven
The chains upon all mortal souls
Theirs, ours, yours, broken
God above, Best On High The Holy
Would smile on their affray
And grant World Sanctimony
Hence back and forth and forth and back
They gathered each to other.
Boomed a voice…
“TOO LATE YOU CAN’T COME IN!”
“Wait on! Most Lord God On High Your Honour
We are a protest movement
Bit wobbly, but full of moment
And you all look like DONKIES with the mange!!!”
(It could of ended better).
I have backed horses. My best results was fifty bucks that netted $650. Most years I lose about $50 on the Melbourne cup. Year before last I picked second and third and won $60. Last year – nothing. Zip, rien.
I think that all gambling is for people who either do not grasp mathematics or who believe in luck as a thing – or both.
FM and I ate and drank the $650 – after all, it was free money and the champagne was almost as good a pink drink – but far easier to procure.
‘Shoe, you say it could have ended better – yes – or less well 🙂
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Ha ha, oh dear. I’ve backed a few winners but only at the course with a real bookie. Last time was six years ago. I don’t overdo it. Quit while ahead – $36 for a $5 bet. Big time.
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Haha. That might well scrape by, Viv, as modest in relationship with bookies and you and me’d be neck and neck except …thank goodness for my conscience … I have never won any money by throwing it at horseys. 🙂
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I never backed a horse that made it all the way around the track, either.
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Big M, from my own experience of placing a bet on a winning horse, I myself have long wondered how this challenged the other horses to beat the horse I backed, but it did. I saw it with my own eyes.
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Yes, it’s unfathomable.
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