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7 minutes ago, Rolling Stone said:
all the cones etc were setup and there looked to be an electronic scoreboard/screen setup - probably about 3m x 2m as a really rough guess."
FINALLY our upgraded facilities came through! Thank you MFC and thank you Vic govt!
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1 hour ago, BDA said:
Excerpt from the club financial statements. Still a long way from an announcement by the sounds of it
The Club continued discussions regarding ...
"Good morning, Minister."
"Morning. You new here? A nice cuppa, thanks love. One lump. And a biscuit too."
"Er, minister, we are the delegation from Melbourne."
"From ..... ?"
"Melbourne."
" ......... Melbourne?"
"Melbourne Football Club."
"Right. Right. Melbourne Football Club. Erm ... siddown. What can I do for you?"
"Thank you for meeting us, Minister. We'd like to discuss and advance our mutual plans for the Gosch's Paddock redevelopment."
"The Gosch's ...... oh, right! NOW I know who you are! Nup."
".... 'nup'?"
"Yeah. Nup. CAROL! See in my next appointment."
"I ... we ... thank you Minis-- THANK YOU MIN--"
*Later*
"What a disaster. How are we going to spin that?"
"Let say something like, 'The Club continued discussions regarding', etc etc."
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It's to confuse his enemies.
"I told you to tag Langdon!"
"Duh ... gee coach."
"You know who is he is, don't you?"
"Nah ... yeah .... nah. I dunno."
"The one with the long hair!"
"Duh ... okay coach." *thinks* "I fought he went to Freo? Better book me plane ticket now."
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Rolling Stones in some shape or form seem to pop up as putative answers in every D'land quiz.
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4 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:
All I've got is that two are named after Prime Ministers and two after US Academy Award winners...and two are named after each other.
Can't think of anything else.
Oh, come on. Think "Rolling Stones guitar players".
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What do these players have in common? Be effusive.
B: L.Birch T.Gillard
HB: S.Heath M.Gay S.Goldrick
C: S.Lampard T.Hanks B.Mackin
HF: A.Bannan K.Paxman K.Hore
F: D.Pearce T.Harris
Foll: L.Pearce O.Purcell E.West
I/C: M.Chaplin C.Sherriff L.Mithen E.Zanker M.Fitzsimon -
OMG!!!!! How remiss of me.
The winners. Gold @La Dee-vina Comedia Silver @Demonstone Bronze@tilly18 Pitted aluminium @Timothy Reddan-A'Blew
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Ye grand reveal. Here is what LINKS these players:
Sale(M)a(Y)ze
Ellingwort(H)ardema(N)ewport
etc
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There is a hint in the first post. "What links these players".
Also the forward lines proposed by LdVC, demonstone and tilly18 comply.
Why would good old Vinnie Cattoggio be given a key position, surrounded by guys with names like Maric and Owen?
TRnB provided an entire compliant sentence.
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Elon Musk has not been able to solve the quiz and is using his internet robots to prevent messages to me. That's the most likely explanation. Either that or (long shot) something has gone wrong with the d'land site.
Two correct answers so far.
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Reckon my message box must be full. Try now.
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Toumpas is famous for not eating vegemite. Might explain a few things.
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A team of olden dayes Demons with a few current players thrown in.
What links these players, etc ...
(Answers in PMs in case that needs to be stated.)
B: C. Salem S. May A. Yze
HB: R. Ellingworth G. Hardeman S. Newport
C: J. Toumpas C. Sylvia S. Armstrong
HTF: J. Garlett K. Templeton C. Nettlebeck
F: D. Kowal J. Lewis C. Spargo
Foll: S. O'Dwyer P. Rohde S. Eishold
Int: C. Dawes J. Smith B. Holland B. Dixon -
Very good! Damn, how did I miss Jeff White. Throw out the pretender and reinstate White as first ruck!
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5 hours ago, Demonstone said:
Oddly, there is both a Tarni Brown and a Tarni White!
Even more odd: the following team!
B: J. Bowey M. Scarlett L. Dunn
HB: K. Rose D. White R. Dunne
C: N. Brown N. Black N. Brown
HF: B. Green D. Schwarz T. Greene
F: R. Gray B. Brown J. Brown
Foll: T. Goldstein A. Weiss B. Rose- 1
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4 hours ago, jnrmac said:
But its like Warney giving pitch information. You don't know what is of importance to the Bookies
Or, as in the Warnie/Waugh thing, you're being lured in by providing harmless, everyone-knows-this, wouldn't-hurt-a-fly information. It's all just a laugh until you realise you're on the hook and being directed to give 0 votes to Ace Brilliant and his 45 possie/5 goal game, or to give 1 vote to Alf Flubb who was the sub and played 10 minutes.
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If gambling was removed from horse racing, it would overnight shrink to the size of competitive dressage.
(Note to the horse lovers: I am not advocating that. But I do think that the horse results should be in the papers next to the Tattslotto numbers, and not in the sports section.)
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17 minutes ago, sue said:
Agree. But I go a step further. Why do they need to be advertised? Have you ever seen a beer ad that actually gives you any evidence as to why brand A is better than the rest other than suggesting you'll have more mates or sexy girlfriends if you drink A.
There is an ad for some non-alcoholic drink that you can drink so you'll still be "one of the boys". Hard to dunk on a non-alcoholic drink though. It's hardly a "gateway" drink; more of the opposite.
A lot of ads infer being part of the group ...camping with the boys (and girl) ... as part of the beer drinking experience, but I can't recall any (maybe I am just too inured to the whole ad business) that link "mates" and "alcohol" as explicitly as the gambling companies do "mates" and "betting".
17 minutes ago, sue said:At least the gambling companies offer slightly different products whose differences can be explained in an ad (though they still largely rely on the mates/girlfriends motivation. Perhaps a better word is manipulation).
It's insidious. "You can't be part of a group of mates if you're not gambling with them" is the barely-disguised subtext. It's borderline social engineering.
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The problem is not that the recipients of the votes were unexpected.
It's that people got to learn who got the 3 votes.
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11 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:
"...one betting agency was alerted to a punter or punters placing bets on players’ votes in different matches and winning every time...
They fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The first, of course, is never get into a land war in Asia. The other is, never win against a betting agency.
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11 hours ago, IRW said:
A tangent..the maggots meet for half an hour post game to discuss who they will vote for...how many beers they can drink more Iikely, but apparently none of them say stuff like.." gee I thought Steven May had a three vote game; he basically won it for the Dees"
"Awright boys, time for the votes. Whaddya reckon?"
(silence)
"Matt? Leigh?"
"E. Yeo 3 votes."
"Dean, the Eagles weren't even playing. And you weren't on the ground. How did you get in here? The door's supposed to be locked! Go on, [censored] off. Matt, who do you think played well?"
"I dunno. Most of the game was down the other end from me."
"Leigh, what about you?"
"I dunno. They players all look the same to me. What do you reckon?"
"I dunno either. It moves so fast, I dunno what's going on most of the time."
(silence)
"Well, we can't sit here all night. What are we gunna do?"
"We could look at the stats sheet."
"Great idea ... lemme see ... Tom Mitchell 40 possies! Well that's your 3 right there."
"Did Cripps play?"
"Nah, he played last night ... good idea, but ... hey, it says here someone kicked 6 goals."
"A mid?"
"No, a ... um ... what's the word? Four ... fore ... foreman ..."
"So not a mid?"
"You're right. One vote only."
"Who played on Mitchell?"
"Christ. Was it ... Pendlebury?"
"I dunno. Come on, give him the 2 and let's get out of here."
"S. Pendlebury 2 votes. Jeez, that was easier than I thought. Crack open the beers."
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2 minutes ago, Ollie fan said:
The next question will be to look at the votes that that umpire has cast and see if there is any thing that was at all surprising.
A key defender got a vote. Probably what touched off the investigation.
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53 minutes ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:
A very well connected person told me in the early '80 that the whole sealed envelopes thing was BS. It's why Jack Hamilton had a smirk on his face when PWC wheeled the votes onto the stage at the SCBR.
Isn't it funny how every year, it seems the last few rounds of reading out the votes have the games ordered to provide maximum drama. Almost like someone already knew what the votes were.
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3 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:
Arnold Rothstein isn't still alive, is he?
Arnold Rothstein will forever live on as "Nathan Detroit" in the musical "Guys and Dolls".
Now if you really want to google something, try Titanic Thompson, who was the basis for the character "Sky Masterson".
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Best 44 for Port Adelaide
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Kossie can't even crack their seconds?