[SOC] The world is so SOC ...

[Paul Bartlett]

This is about as sensitive as the 'entertainment' practised a few
years ago in a certain pub in Hove, Sussex, UK that shall remain
nameless. (Anybody from the 'Robin Hood' in the list?).

A number of elderly notables were selected and names put into
the hat. Each participant draws a name.

The idea is that so long as all the notables were alive, each of the
players contributes one pound per week into a pot.

When somebody on the list pegs it, the pot goes to the holder of
the name.

For reasons of taste(!) (and probability perhaps), Mother Teresa
and the Queen Mother were excluded from the game. Ronald Reagan
was withdrawn after being diagnosed with Altzheimer's.

T'was called 'The Stiff Stakes'

Paul SOC #529

p.s.

I saw no response to my 'Barnado's' contribution. Perhaps it was
too British/obscure.

Anyhow, the point was that Dr Barnado's is a respected charitable
institution in the UK that cares for 'destitute' children.

After the England/Argentina triumph :-)) a couple of the Argentinian
players were witnessed gesticulating at the England team as they
left the ground calling them, 'Bastardos'. Ok. Bad pun...

Gracious in defeat or what? Who cares?

P ;-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Claude TERRIER - F5PBL" <f5pbl@qsl.net>
To: "SOC Mailing List" <SOC@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 6:02 PM
Subject: [SOC] The world is so SOC ...


> <<
> Illicit betting in Israel on the next attacks [ 13/06/2002 12:20 ]
> JERUSALEM (AP) -- the Israeli police actively seeks a circle of players
who bet
> clandestinely on the place of the next attack-suicide.The daily newspaper
> "Maariv" and the radio Israeli specified Thursday that this circle located
> at Kiryat Malachi distributed sheets of bets with the odds of various
possible
> places. To bet on Eilat, seaside resort on
> the Red Sea which did not know any violence since the second intifada,
> represents a hazardous blow with 1 against 17,
> whereas Jerusalem, regularly taken for target, is to 1 against 1,5
according to
> a sheet of bets. The setting starts to 10
> shekels (approximately two euros), specifies this sheet.
> The bets take only into account the Arab attacks "against Jews and not the
> opposite". The police opened an investigation,
> confirmed the police spokesman David Saadon. The money games are
prohibited in
> Israel but the games of chance are
> very popular and there are many clandestine circles. Before the resumption
of
> violences in September 2000, the Israelis
> were massively going to the Oasis casino, located at J�richo, in the West
> Bank/Cisjordanie.
>  The establishment has closed since. AP
> >>
>
> Just one word to make it clear : all the Press releases I am posting on
this ML
> are _real_ ones ... Even the funniest ones.
> Today, it is not funny at all ...
>
> 73!
> Claude
>
>
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