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3:07 pm on the 29th of July, 2003Presumably you’ve all seen this story by now, but if you haven’t The Pentagon is to start taking bets on future acts of terrorism. Surely this is just going to be exploited by the terrorists. Imagine the odds you’d get on, say, an unknown gang from Shettleston bombing somewhere completely unexpected like the Sydney Opera House. Imagine a boy in a white shell tracksuit placing a huge bet just half an hour before it happenned. They’d have made enough money to cover the cost of the act and made enough to cover the cost of the next bet. They could bankrupt the US in a day!
July 30th, 2003 at 9:08 am on the 30th of July, 2003
Well it’s in debatable taste, and hard to judge how reliable the info they get would be.
But there it’s debatable it would be used in the way you suggest, tho there is a historical subtext. Apparently in the run-up before Sept 11th, a series of substantial short sells (a way of betting the price of a stock will fall), were placed on American Airlines. And they traced a few of these to Al Quaeda, which is one ofthe ways they guessed it was them.
August 8th, 2003 at 8:23 pm on the 8th of August, 2003
So who’e your money on for the new season, north AND south of the border?
I’ve a cheap wee bet on, designed to give me a seasons lowcost entertaiment, raher than high return. An accumulator and 5 four folds across:
Rangers to win, Clyde each way, Newcastle each way; Ipswich each way and Bristol City each way. Whatcha reckon?
August 11th, 2003 at 11:12 am on the 11th of August, 2003
I reckon you’ve spent far too much time in the bookies for normal people to understand anything you say.
August 11th, 2003 at 12:20 pm on the 11th of August, 2003
An accumulator = all five of my predictions have to come up - ie my winnings build up as they come in.
a fourfold - i need four of my five to come in. Effectively 5 accululators over the various combinations of four teams in my bet. So if Ipswich slp up, i still win anyway, just not as much.
each way - lower return, but a pay out for second third and even fourth, depending on the division.
Not hard.
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