>G'day Observers,
>I'm sure you've all been enduring sleepless nights over this seemingly
>endless week. Sweat-painted brows furrowing and tired minds churning ...
>the very consciousness tyrannised by the questions that would just not go
>away. Was Daniel right? Would Wales beat Australia?
Apparently not (grr grr bloody hell). As Rob says, the distressing national tendency to play a 40 minute game reasserted itself. However, losing 17-9 (I quite simply refuse to count the final try) to an on form Australia, is not as disastrous as it could have been. For:
>There was, alas, no bet. But what is an expensive bottle of single-malt
>compared to a free giggle at another's squirming discomfort, eh?
But, as the bard saith, "nothing, but nothing, is ever as bad as it seems, so long as England lose". And the vile Saxons got gubbed on 42-24 by an out-of-condition South Africa. So I've got decent crowing rights over the rest of the dealing room, a few of my hedge bets have come in, and I'm a bit flush with booze at the moment. Anyone on lbo-talk or elsewhere wanting to gamble, please do get in touch (at the moment I'm offering odds on Naseem Hamed never fighting again, a 20% fall in the S&P500 before Christmas and British railways being nationalised).
>>So if I don't get back to you tout suite, it's probably because I'm
>>jetlagged, rather than "welshing" on the bet.
Since I actually had a bottle of Laphroaig when I wrote that, on my desk (it was a reward for a particularly spiffy bit of stockborking), and I don't like the stuff, I'm happy to regard this as a debt of honour. Send the shipping details and it's yours.
twll din pob Sais
dd
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