Yes, folks, it is Melbourne Cup Day. Don't ring Australia at 3.20pm, no-one will answer the phone.
Before the day is out, you must make the eternal, and difficult, choice between a fascinator and a hat.
Oh, and the horses. The beautiful horses.
So good luck to us all today in our voting, er I mean, betting. I like a hat, but this year I'm all for the Fascinator.
update: 45-1 roughie Viewed has won the Melbourne Cup, the twelfth for magic trainer Bart Cummings.
22 comments:
Well I was going to call you, but I guess there is no point now.
I didn't have much to say really. I was just going to breathe into the phone.
oh mike, I'll always take a call from you.
And have you decided who you are betting on? the favourite is Mad Rush.
Will you take a Skype?
We got an interest rate cut from the Reserve Bank too, so wheeeeeeee !!!
Just remember what happens to the horses that DON'T win...
Do they get a lollypop?
We're feeling pretty good about our own horse race today, but we'll have to wait to be sure. Of course, you being 12 hours ahead of us and all, could let us know when you know.
colonel: Oh we already know, but we have all been sworn to secrecy.
Er... you know, for the first time in... oh... I dunno, I entirely forgot it was on (and so did VT).
Maybe if I'd moved somewhere more in the midst of things. Oh, wait...
anaglyph: Very un-Australian of you not to observe a public holiday. Shame job.
YAYYYY!!!!!! GREAT RACE!!
but you coulda told me aforehand, i'd have kept the secret...
Evr notice how aftr some races theres a bunch o horseshit that needs t be cleand up?
Luckily what's left of Dick Cheney will fit into a pail.
Yeah, I know. But it's the suburbs. I'm packing to go to LA. We're having renovations. Someone sent me Goon Show CDs and they distracted me. There has to be an excuse...
colonel: I didn't want to spoil the fun.
joey: You bring the shovel.
colonel: You bring the pail (or bucket as we say here).
anaglyph: How bloody dare ... whoever it was.
it's good to know that there's at least one country in the world that didn't watch the other race in the US...
treespotter: There was another race? Who knew?
I am just glued to this post for some reason.
Atlas: Rein yourself in.
Why do you have to be such a neigh sayer?
I'll take a fascinator!
sara sue: snap
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