RE: Could someone correct me if ............14 Jun 2019 18:55
Hmmmm.... more of a Gatling gun than a knife - Boris won't trust Gove's advice again, unless he is a fool, so he could well do just that!
I did not get involved through political motives, it just seemed obious that the odds offered when there was 114 potential PM's to pick, just had to collapse when there was only a handful left, no matter which one!
Thought Raab would reach the final 4 at least, so I took 48/1 and 70/1 and with only 6 left he is a mere 80/1 :O(
Should give up trying to be clever , Rory McIlroy cost me £60 (huge money for me at the bookies) when I broke the habit of a lifetime and took odds on the year he was miles ahead in the US. And then there was Strictly , Aston Merrygold , whom I bought to sell for a profit , and this happened!
" Who left Strictly Come Dancing? Aston Merrygold becomes the sixth celebrity to leave in potentially biggest shock in show's history".
I did tip Ben Nevis in the 1980 Grand National (won 40/1) when I was computer manager for a Police Force and put in "Ben","Nevis","Grand","National" , which any of 48 vdus could have seen if they played hangman. 64 words and the status of 48 games in one disk block!! Was pleased with that, anybody could enter new words on a RIRO basis and I logged the inputs. I'll never forget a constable's face when I told his Sergeant he had just entered a swear word :O) a few seconds earlier. My reputation after that soared! The programwas a few commands long using the MOVTC assembler instruction. Move string a to string b, using a 256 byte translation table. 256 x * in the table changed any string to ******* , if they entered "A" then its * was replaced with "A" so ***A*A*, say, could appear. Won a proverbial mars bar for coming up with a use for the instruction at my Digital (DEC) assembler training course.
I was a civilian not a copper.