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March 01, 2005
Gambling on virtual horses
I spent last Saturday evening at a fundraiser in the Clonsilla RFC clubhouse. This was my first time in such an establishment, and my first time gambling, but it’s okay, mum, the gambling was in support of the rugby team’s upcoming tour of Hong Kong, see? As a good friend of mine and his brother are on the team, see?
They had a film segment showing the - pardon me, I’m new to this - ‘form’ of the horses, and then another segment showing the actual ‘race’. You’d place your bets, in my case based on what number I hadn’t bet on so far. I won four euro on the last race! I’m a winner!
Rugby clubs are full of very burly men. And their parents. I’ve never really played team sports, owing to a shy childhood, but I think I missed out.
Afterwards we went back to my friend’s house for more beer and the chance to emit disturbed laughter in front of the sex education scene from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. That’s as far as we got before falling into a drunken slumber. And the next morning I stumbled bleary-eyed into town to meet my girlfriend’s mum. Eeep!
Posted by Oliver at March 1, 2005 02:33 PM
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