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goodfielder
 
Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 08:36 pm
But only for a couple of hours. It's the Melbourne Cup this afternoon. Please don't call on us - we're not answering the door or the phone. If you're planning an invasion can you please hold it over for a couple of hours and we'll be right with you. Very Happy
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littlek
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 08:39 pm
The cup - would that be football or cricket....?
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 08:48 pm
Horses.
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littlek
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 08:49 pm
of course! I was going with fotball because the players might actually wear cups.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 09:00 pm
What the hell is fotball?


Sounds disgusting....
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littlek
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 09:01 pm
foOtball! FOOTball! Ew, football sounds gross too. Ok, how about rugby?
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dadpad
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 09:59 pm
Will somebody get me a gun there's a feral dog in the top paddock.

extract from A dream of the Melbourne Cup
1886 A.B. Patterson

Under the whip! with ears flat back
under the whip! though sinews crack
No sign of base white feather
Stick to it now for your breedings sake
stick to it now though your hearts should break
While the yells and roars make the grandstand shake
They come down the straight together.
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msolga
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 10:10 pm
Hooray for the Melbourne Cup! I have no idea of whose running (apart from MD, of course! How could escape all the media hype?... & she just won, this very minute, as I type! Laughing ) Anyway, the reason I'm so enamoured of the Cup?: It's a public holiday, that's why! (Yes, that's right. For a horse race! Yahoo!Laughing Razz )
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littlek
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 10:11 pm
Really! That's amusing.
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msolga
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 10:17 pm
Yes, isn't it, k!
A ravishing, sunny day, too! Yahoo!Razz
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littlek
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 10:23 pm
Well, that is good!
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msolga
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 10:31 pm
Yeah, not to be sneezed at, k! Of course, being a highly principled person, I considered boycotting this holiday & going to work instead .... :wink:
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msolga
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 10:38 pm
All over Oz right now, someone is busily working out who won 1st, 2nd & third prizes in the office sweeps. (those folk who don't live in Melbourne, that is.) Back to work soon for most, though.
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littlek
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 10:43 pm
Considered boycotting, eh?

So, you literally get a couple hours off and then it's back to work for the rest of the day?
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msolga
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 10:58 pm
No, not me, k. I'm in Melbourne. We have a public holiday! All day! Very Happy Much of the rest of the country has a "Cup sweep" break then returns to work. I feel so badly for them! Razz
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dadpad
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 11:03 pm
All day here littlek its a public holiday in Victoria (yahoo) The rest of Australia will stop for the duration of the race then after suitable hooraying and swearing depending on the result of your particular office sweep it will be nose to the grindstone again, some places close for a half day some a full day some make it an extra long weekend (sat sun mon and tue.)
Good horse Maykabe diva possibly as good as Pharlap maybe even better.
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msolga
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 11:09 pm
Those words spoken by a "horse person", k! Very Happy
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 11:13 pm
Wow! Took a break to watch here, so happy that lovely mare won!!!!!

I find racing to be a yucky world around those wonderful horses, but to see a champion like her win was great.

heehee - and I liked how besotted with her the jockey was, and how thrilled he was!!!!
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msolga
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 11:15 pm
Very Happy Yes, Deb, lovely!
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Piffka
 
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Reply Mon 31 Oct, 2005 11:18 pm
How cool... a vacation day for a horse race. I always thought those Ozzies had their heads on straight.

Wish we could see this race here, but I haven't seen it on any channels. (Maybe tomorrow on the BBC early news?)
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