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BETTING SHOP CHARACTERS (reprinted by request)
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got to keep it up in case it vanishes with the new forum
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MARVELLOUS STUFF BITO
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The grapevine tells me that 'Crackerjack' has gone to that big betting shop in the sky.
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That a pity, Mr W.
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*That's
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Got an email from a mate this afternoon, Tommy, only just opened it. Reckons he phoned 4 times this morning, I must have been in the garden.
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In memory of Crackerjack:
AM I TOO EARLY Joined: 10 Apr 02 28 Jul 06 21:54 ROBERT 'CRACKERJACK' AGIMBO. About the only african I have any time for, he's now 70, and still makes me laugh today. He came into the shop in the early 70s, stood in the middle of the floor and proudly announced ' I have a dream' Cue the jokes, and when they died down I asked him what his dream was. He pointed to the Jackson and Lowe wall sheet and said quite loudly 'Dis hoss.... will win dis race.' 'Stick your money where your mouth is Robert' I told him. He pulled out a tenner, a big bet back then, and walked to the counter with it between his teeth (his teeth are a story on their own). He had 10 to win, not a fiver each way. The horse was Bolkonski, and it won at 50-1. Three weeks later he came back in and said he had had another dream. Everybody went silent and waited. He pointed out a 16-1 shot on the wall sheet, and slowly but surely most of the people who ridiculed him before Bokonski, backed this nag. After the race, where the horse was nearer last than first, he pulled out a betting slip from L a d d i e s with a 3 bet on the winner at 6/1, and said ' You white people are so stoopid, as if I could dream a winner twice.' And every person in the shop, even those who backed this nag, laughed their heads off. |
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AM I TOO EARLY Joined: 10 Apr 02
28 Jul 06 21:56 CRACKERJACK AGAINST THE CLOCK He went early Saturday morning to Hackney dogs in his old Ford Corsair, but when got there he had no money, he had left it at home. He came into the shop with a daft grin on his face. He had raced home to get his money and try to get back before the first race. In his mad rush he had actually snapped the gearstick off. When he showed it to us some wag said 'Never mind Robert, you always wanted an automatic.' He backed all of Pat Edderys mounts that afternoon in singles, doubles and trebles. He rode 4 winners, and Crackerjack got a new car !!!! |
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Maybe you had to be there.
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There is some mix up about the guy under the flyover.The black guy with the trolley - Chicken George- was around in Brentford but he didn't live under the flyover. The guy who lives under the flyover is one crazy bstard and he has lived there for at least 30 years.Earlier on this thread someone mentions that he was a carrier bag cash punter.Maybe.Maybe not.But he lived and lives a stones throw from Junc 1 of the M4 and is as crazy as they come.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYEMofB6PuQ&feature=related
Would love to see 'im if he lost!!! |
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Bloke my mate & I christened 'Throat Boy' due to his phlegmmy vocal comes out with some corkers. A select few:
'Go on number 12 you b@stard' (while watching the 'virtual cars') 'Go on number 2 you b@stard' (while watching the dogs) 'Go on you b@stard, whip the b@stard' (while watching the horses) 'B@stard' (when his selection inevitably loses) He did once say, however, 'Number 13 - unlucky for some, but not for me' |
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Best thread on here (nap)
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Agreed
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Glimmer, it's very uncool to have to bring your own thread to the top when no-one has bothered with it for days. You are worse on your 'goodnight' thread. Was it 5 consecutive posts you made the other day? You really need to get a life, it's not too late, even at 60.
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I'm reminded this morning of:
ANY LETTERS ? Never had a bet except on the Grand National and the Derby. But every time she got the bus to ASDA ashe had to pass the post box on the way, ao she always poked her head in the door and asked 'Any letters?' no matter what the weather was like. Most of the time I replied 'Not today love.' as she never went shopping until 1-00 p.m. It was only after she died, about 1998 iirc, that I realised I never knew her name. |
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Up for dellman
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best fred on betfair imho
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680 fishy
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Chinaman in Co***ls Colchester just over the Bridge bottom of North Hill, banned from every bookies in the town except this one.
Comes in at opening time hogs the RP for several hours while writing on it in Chinese all over the thing. Never bets, ever. Always has a blazing row with the manager who to his credit always threatens to ban him but never does. |
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Quality thread, worked in a betting shop and was a real laugh in the main.
More recently only last week I was in a betting shop and putting my bets on at the counter - must of been no more than 6 people in the shop. I turned around and plum on the floor was a 20 quid note with a local old timer/pisshead picking it up, he had a quick glance to either side and walked out. At the same time an old boy is checking his pockets and straight away I realised what had happened here and he has dropped this 20 quid - his Mrs comes in and shes going barmy at him (shes obviously wears the trousers), shes going up/down the pavement outside while the geeza who has nicked it is having his **** stood watching her. I didn't know what to do as speaking up would of caused a riot amongst this lot. Anyway my mate was shop manager and working so I told him, a few days later the bloke who had nicked in came in and my mate told him he knew he had nicked and people had seen him - he refused point blank and that was that. Anyway, 2 days later he comes in and says "I apologise I told a lie" and hands over the 20. Later on that very day (only Saturday gone) I was in and the chap who nicked it walked over to me, I goes "alright xxxx, winning?" he goes "no, you never win at this game". lol, what a life. |
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We used to have an old brown envelope with the the torn off corner of a tenner poking out, but glued to the inside.
Used to pi$$ ourselves laughing at people trying to slide it towards the khazi door without being seen. |
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up for ribero
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Just been re-reading a few. Top drawer stuff.
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Fabulous thread!
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cheers mr winkle,very good,will read some more tomorrow.
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For anybody who has never read this thread before, these are not all posts from AM I TOO LATE, they are from betting office managers all over the UK, but they were saved with no posters names, and that's why they were reprinted without them.
Somewhere in this lot are a few tales from tracks in Australia. |