GWC Podcast #122

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#41

Yeah. A bookie’s goal is to have enough bets on either side in such a way that your liability exactly matches your asset, per event, and make money only on your commission. But that is not to say a bookie would not notice you winning 5 times in a row. Especially if you keep hitting the long shots.

A bigger problem is, if you bet on a real long shot, and the bookie thinks that could never happen, so he stupidly takes your bet naked. (meaning, without enough bets to cover the other side.) You could theoretically bankrupt a bookie, if you 're unlucky? Not only the bookie probably wouldn’t pay you, the word is gonna spread real quick that you hit on a 64-to-1 shot for $5000, and cleaned out a bookie. They’ll soon know who you are.

So you need to bet small enough to escape detection… it might be impossible to make your billions needed to own the world and rule as the king.

#42

I never really noticed this. It’s very weird.

#43

Speaking of Lea Thompson’s boobs, I remember, dimly, a seeing her on Letterman and she brought the prosthetic(?) bust she wore for part II and she wasn’t wearing 'em. It was a riot. I don’t remember if she held them up to her chest, but you can be sure Letterman did. Might have been Leno. Like I said, dimly. I was probably 13 at the time.

I tried finding it on the internet, but a series of tubes was still for downloading sewage.

#44

BTTF 2 and 3 atchally came hot on the heels of each other, a la Matrix. IMDB says 2 was November '89, and 3 was May 1990. (I coulda swore it was a summer-fall thing like the Matrix, but that was a while ago). Which, I believe, was a record of some kind; sequels were still pretty rare then, not mention trilogies. I think it’s kind of a dud to drop sequels so fast. But hey.

Pizza Hut did have the cross-promotion thing going. They had the funky asymmetrical sunglasses in the restaurants.

#45

For those of you who haven’t noticed yet, Pike has very, very slightly modified his avatar in light of the BttF arc.

And it’s frakkin’ awesome. Seriously. Best. BttF. Avatar. Evar.

#46

Yeah, I noticed. Very, very clever Pike.

#47

I want that statement framed.

#48

  1. Great intro Michaela!

  2. Great to hear Pike’s voice. And, beach23bum, thank you for your service to our nation. You are in our hearts.

  3. Great to hear Emily’s voice. It’s a drug. I need it weekly in order to cope.

  4. Audra, you know I love you, and I’m thrilled that you mentioned me by name (but it wasn’t me who complained about Huey Lewis not being mentioned last week.:wink: )

#49

Yeah, it was Someone Else.

BTW, he wasn’t complaining, just noting… :slight_smile:

#50

Hopefully his Avatar will be uploaded onto the Themed Avatar Archive thread in the general discussion area… I encourage others to share their Avatars too.

#51

But here at GWC we’re totally RetConned, so you did complain about Huey Lewis not being mentioned last week. Try to remember that.

:slight_smile:

#52

My god, you’re right! I totally forgot about the Law of Retroactive Continuity.
I stand corrected…literally.

#53

Sorry Thot! Hey, your siggy! You heard what I said! big grin I thought no one did.

Sorry Phil!

#54

Nobody, but nobody gets a Hitchhikker’s Guide reference past The Thot.
Let that be a challenge to you for future podcasts :rolleyes:

#55

Aluminum siding!

#56

No need to apologize. I just wanted to make sure that Someone Else got the credit he deserved. :wink:

#57

Uh…um…ee…oo…Well, that one got past me.
Sorry, I must have had my S.E.P. field generator running too high.

(S.E.P. = Somebody Else’s Problem. And SEP is a field in which the normal laws of physics are somebody else’s problem. This permits anti-gravity, black holes and all sorts of fun stuff to exist within the field.)

#58

I was being even more obscure. But as did Jonas, I’ll take your challenge – as long as there’s a quarter attached to it. :slight_smile:

#59

Quarter it is. Hands virtually shaken to the seal the bet.
And just so we’re clear, my boast is that I will catch any “Hitchikker’s Guide” references.
I have no claim to knowledge of the movie Leap of Faith.

#60

End to LoF obscurity:

In the movie Leap of Faith, at one point Jonas (a tent evangelist played brilliantly by Steve Martin) takes bets from his crew that he can work any word or phrase – no matter how oddball – into his sermon. After he takes the bet, they cut to him in mid-phrase during the sermon:

“…aluminum siding! Blah, blah, bla.”

Audra always tells me if you have to explain it, your joke/reference isn’t funny.

Maybe she’s right.