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You'll be delighted to know Melbourne Cup Day is on this Tuesday, or Monday night if you're on the dark side. Now there's another great tradition around Cup Day...and it's called "The Sweep". Basically you pick a horse's name out of the hat and if it wins, you've got yourself a free beer or two. So you're not left out just because you're 7,000 miles away...here's your chance for a piece of the action. Just pick a horse and post your choice. Winner takes all. I'm not sure what the winner actually takes yet...maybe a percentage of all the Sorabji.com profit...or maybe a stuffed koala, a sample of drain hair from Mark's shower, or some equally valuable artifact. The horses are... 1. Enzeli 2. Far Cry 3. Arctic Owl 4. Diatribe 5. Free Mason 6. Lightning Arrow (the only US horse) 7. Second coming 8. Coco Cobanna 9. Kaapstad Way 10. Mardipour 11. The Hind 12. Yippyio 13. Bohemiath 14. Our Unicorn 15. Pasta Express 16. Skybeau 17. Hill of Grace 18. Citra's Prince 19. Majestic Avenue 20. Mr Nelson 21. Pravda 22. Celestial Show 23. Maguire 24. Brew |
Is this the gate order they're starting from? I choose Diatribe. |
Number nine... Number nine... |
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New Zealand also stops for this race. |
Should be a shoe-in. I'll donate hair from my shower drain too. Dark side. Huh. |
Excellent choices. But I thought "Brew" would go earlier because you're a mob of bloody drunks. |
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Send it. |
but why? usually, the hindmost are the least motivated, or the ones with less-than-wholesome intent, say you not? So why would the devil take the souls of his supporters? of those that agree with his values? right. eep. sorry, antigone. its a bit late, but i'll try to get it to you anyway. |
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Didn't see the movie. Ned's a hermaphrodite jockey who wears his Hanes on his head. No telling what Gore and Bush are. Nor what they wear. Horse races are so much more honest than American politics. |
Mavis - Coco Cabanna, because it's the only horse trained by a woman, and she (the woman, not the horse) wears absolutely divine hats. Sem - Lightning Arrow, because he's probably always digging up arrow heads. I know it's a bloody stretch, shut up. Nate - Brew. I would have gone for Hind, but that was taken. I figure this would be his second favourite thing. Patrick - Enzeli. I can't think of a reason. Sorabji - Skybeau. I don't need a reason. Tom - Free Mason. Cause Tom's an anarchist and is always supposed to be trying to free something or anything. Rhi - Hill of Grace. I always imagine Rhi to be quiet and graceful and very sweet. J - Mardipour. Cause I know she likes a drink. Czarina - Citra's Prince. Both quite regal names. Dougie - Far Cry. Um...Dougie lives a long far way away from me and I was running out of horses. Gee - Arctic Owl. She lives near the Arctic and works in a library (I think) and is supposed to have that owl-like look. Easy peasy. Droopy - Bohemiath. Again, no big correlation and I need to go drink so I can't make any more up. |
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1. Nate 2. Moonit 3. Agatha and dave. Here's the link if you want to relive the thrill: http://abc.net.au/news/2000/11/item20001107072625_1.htm |
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"and out of the jungle of liquored bodies come the lucky lady and her entourage, like horses and jockeys themselves, humaned by the fullness of fresh ice cold shrimp deveined and ready, and of too much expensive red wine, all laboring to see the final sweaty panting of creaking leather and lathered hide, all running together in the darkness, uncontrollably, as if one excess led into another the paddock refreshed and giddy from the experience. and so it was with her once he left, her hand grazing such a late night memory..." |
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And sorry Gee, I'm very sure you don't look at all like any form of poultry. It was just the library thing. It made sense at the time, but that's what cheap champagne does to you. |
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For example: "The cat sat on the mat" could become "The poultry sat on the mat". Or "a tubful of buttfucking grandmothers" could become "a tubful of buttfucking poultry". It's hard to fully explain unless you understand the writings of W.L. Manure who maintained that poultry was the universal truth. |
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i'm crying over here. |
I feel better now it's out. (Mark, I'll give you my firstborn child if you'll delete this thread before I have to grovel anymore. Please.) |
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like i said, with my trip to nyc, the parental visit over the weekend, my birthday (im 26 danke schon) i've been unable to read everything...but thanks for the consolation agatha... |
http://www.torturechamber.com/agatha/blossom.html http://www.torturechamber.com/agatha/blossom2.html it was a dorky costume, but the mask came out pretty cool. |
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