Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

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Originally Posted by 4bee

I went to school with a couple of them. They were well on their way even then...

One of them maybe have been made DUX?

Originally Posted by 4bee

One of them maybe have been made DUX?

Would have been Dunce if I'd had my way.

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Originally Posted by 4bee

Would have been Dunce if I'd had my way.

The one i went to school with was a great friend,they lived just down the road in a Fibro shack.Same year all through school,same classes.
He was in the Army for a while,before venturing into politics,then moved on from that as well.

Although there was a bit of a bump in the road for a couple of years, as his old man owned the local Bike Shop

His old man lost the use of his legs later on,some disease,poor guy.

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Originally Posted by Tins

The one i went to school with was a great friend,they lived just down the road in a Fibro shack.Same year all through school,same classes.
He was in the Army for a while,before venturing into politics,then moved on from that as well.

Although there was a bit of a bump in the road for a couple of years, as his old man owned the local Bike Shop

His old man lost the use of his legs later on,some disease,poor guy.

One I went to school with was a former Premier of Victoria. I was great mates with his brother. The Latin teacher referred to them both as Equus, if that gives you a clue.

Ee aw, ee aw, ee always calls me that.

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

"After keeping rates on hold for the past four meetings, the Reserve Bank has resumed hiking its cash rate target, with a quarter of a percentage point increase taking the benchmark interest rate to 4.35 per cent."

Triva- how long before that is passed on in full to people with loans? Not long promise. Not Trivia perhaps is how long banks reduce interest rates when rates fall perhaps

Other Trivia. Melbourne cup started at ??? Silly me found LIVE AND FREE racing on Chanel 7! Issue was the cup was shown live on C10 I saw the last few hundred metres

Well let that be a lesson to you sonny Jim if you want to run with horses you gotta Reserve a Starting Box well before hand.
If you had managed that you would have an improvement on your present form rather than watching horses arses disappearing over the horizon.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Well let that be a lesson to you sonny Jim if you want to run with horses you gotta Reserve a Starting Box well before hand.
If you had managed that you would have an improvement on your present form rather than watching horses arses disappearing over the horizon.

Learnt that lesson well. I do not bet or gamble which I do not except a few silly times a long time ago. Hobart Casino gave me $6k plus in the 80s after a Night shift on a Ship named Hobart. Waiting for several mates during the day, I sat at a $2 black Jack Table. I will not give it back The 6K was what was in my pocket the next day as I did spend some of the winnings on a few things I was told by my mates with sore heads the next morning

Horses on the other hand - If I picked it to win It will run LAST

Horses arse was J Elliots catch phrase wasn't it? Whoops it may have been Pigs Backside

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Learnt that lesson well. I do not bet or gamble which I do not except a few silly times a long time ago. Hobart Casino gave me $6k plus in the 80s after a Night shift on a Ship named Hobart. Waiting for several mates during the day, I sat at a $2 black Jack Table. I will not give it back The 6K was what was in my pocket the next day as I did spend some of the winnings on a few things I was told by my mates with sore heads the next morning

Horses on the other hand - If I picked it to win It will run LAST

Horses arse was J Elliots catch phrase wasn't it? Whoops it may have been Pigs Backside

Six Grand! You must have been at the same school as my Sister in LAW (Sounds like that olde UK " Fillum "School for Scoundrels"


Goes to her Club the other week & comes home with 2 grand. She bought her Hubby a new electric scooter.

A **** driver at the best of times being the bloke waiting at the head of a traffic que that always moves off as the lights turn red. She had her left eye removed about 4 weeks ago as she had lost the sight in that eye due to Cancer. I guess she deserves A Pokie win now & then, as she often has winnings of a Grand or rmore.